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  Backers defend controversial sign
Members of Windsor's Lebanese community, Ghina Maawie, left, Aida Mrove, Ayat Choukier and H. Dabaja show their support for the message of the billboard, which is on display at Wyandotte Street and Marion Avenue.
He said several of Windsor's Lebanese citizens will do what it takes to keep the sign up, short of violence.
Canada needs to fix the mistake it made and take Hezbollah off the terrorist list.
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  Windsor, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Windsor was first settled in 1748 as a French agricultural settlement, making it the oldest continually inhabited city in Canada west of the Quebec border.
Windsor was established as a village in 1854 (the same year the village was connected to the rest of Canada, by the Grand Trunk Railway/CN Rail), then a town in 1858, and ultimately gained city status in 1892.
Windsor's Department of Parks and Recreation maintains 3,000 acres of green space, 180 parks, 40 miles (64 km) of trails, 22 miles (35 km) of sidewalk, 60 parking lots, vacant lands, natural areas and forest cover within the City of Windsor, as well as the bike trails, bike lanes, and bike-friendly streets.
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 University of Windsor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Windsor is a non-denominational, provincially-supported, coeducational, public comprehensive university located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
On December 19, 1962, the University of Windsor was incorporated by the Ontario Legislature, accepting Assumption University as a federated institution.
Located in Canada's traditional "automotive capital" across the border from Detroit, the campus is framed by the Ambassador Bridge to the west and the Detroit River to the north.
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 Windsor, Ontario - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Windsor was first settled in 1749 after farms started getting too far from the protection of a fort in Detroit making it the oldest continually inhabited European city in Canada, west of the Quebec border.
Windsor was established as a village in 1854, then a town in 1858, and ultimately gained city status in 1892.
Windsor is the western terminus of Ontario Highway 401, Canada's busiest highway, and of VIA Rail's Quebec City-Windsor Corridor.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Windsor,_Ontario   (2097 words)

  
 Community Health Profile of Windsor, Ontario, Canada: Anatomy of a Great Lakes Area of Concern
The 17 reports were prepared by Health Canada to provide quantitative data as a resource to professionals to begin to investigate the health status of populations within and around the Areas of Concern and to compare rates of human disease with the rates in the population in the rest of the Province of Ontario.
The number of cases of people in the Windsor Area of Concern being hospitalized for all causes during the 7-year period between 1986 and 1992 was 122,776 cases, or 21% higher in males (20,987 excess cases of morbidity), and 165,344 cases, or 15% higher for females (21,567 excess cases of morbidity).
For Windsor males 25-44 years of age, the rate of hospitalization for diabetes was 51% higher than the rest of the province and 59% higher for females, and the respective rates for those 45-74 years of age were 49 and 40% higher.
www.ehponline.org /members/2001/suppl-6/827-843gilbertson/gilbertson-full.html   (15145 words)

  
 Windsor, Canada
The industrial city of Windsor is situated on the south (Canadian) side of the Detroit River, linked to the U.S. city of Detroit by bridge and tunnel.
Strategically positioned on the Great Lakes waterway Windsor's port comes second only to its car industry which, like Detroit's, is the main pillar of the local economy.
Windsor (founded in the 1830s) and Detroit lie in an area first settled by the French at the turn of the 18th c.
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 Windsor, Canada Destination Guide - City Information | PerfectPlaces.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Windsor Airport, the convenient advantage for tourist, business and convention travelers, is located just minutes from downtown Windsor/Detroit and capable of handling aircraft of all sizes.
Located directly across the U.S. border from Windsor, the airport is served by many of the recognizable worldwide airlines as well as many local and regional carriers.
Windsor's VIA Rail station is a five-minute drive from the border, just off of Riverside Drive East.
www.perfectplaces.com /destination_guide.cfm?id=10765&type=info   (658 words)

  
 World Wetlands Day 2005: Canada
Canada is among the 144 contracting parties to the Ramsar conservation on wetlands, an intergovernmental treaty adopted on February 2, 1971.
Canada is having 'National Wetland Policy of Canada' for indirect protection of wetlands.
Canada is fortunate to be home to more than 1,270,000 square kilometers (127 million hectares) of wetlands.
www.ramsar.org /wwd/5/wwd2005_rpt_canada3.htm   (2397 words)

  
 WINDSOR & AREA BASEBALL NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This evening, the Windsor Stars trailed 4-0 after two innings and rallied back with 3 runs in the bottom of the third and two in the bottom of the sixth to eliminate Etobicoke 5-4 in a very exciting ball game.
Troy was a perfect 5-0 for the tournament, defeating Windsor A.A. in the semi-finals, plateing 8 runs in the bottom of the 6th to overcome a 2-1 deficit in posting a 9-2 win.
The Windsor Junior Selects defeated the Tecumseh Thunder by a score of 1-0, posting a single run in the bottom of the 6th inning on an RBI double by Jason Greening.
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 Windsor, cities, Canada. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Windsor was settled by Acadians (1703) and called Pisiquid.
King’s College, the first English university in Canada, was founded in Windsor in 1789 but moved in 1923 to Halifax as part of Dalhousie Univ. Windsor claims to be the cradle of Canadian hockey, on the basis of evidence in T. Haliburton’s The Attaché.
In the early 20th cent., when Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, and other automobile companies built plants in the area, Windsor was known as the “Auto Capital of the British Empire.” The former suburb of Sandwich was merged with Windsor in 1935.
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 Windsor Ontario Canada
Windsor’s Coat of Arms, proudly displayed in the Council Chambers of City Hall, carries the motto, “The River and the Land Sustain Us” as a reminder that the city’s well-being is dependent on appreciation and conservation of these valuable natural resources.
Point Pelee National Park, 35 miles southeast of Windsor, is a large stretch of sand and marsh extending into Lake Erie at the southernmost point in all of Canada.
Windsor has four distinct seasons, ensuring a different visit at any time of the year.
www.strathlorntravel.co.uk /travel-windsor.asp   (758 words)

  
 Windsor, Canada Destination Guide - Attractions | PerfectPlacesTravel.com
Fugitive slaves who fled to Canada from the United States built the first fl church in the area.
Canada South Science City is one of the most exciting and challenging family and tourist attractions in Southwest Ontario, featuring over 100 hands-on interactive science and technology exhibits, an exotic café, a state of the art computer science lab, "bean bag theatre" and a host of other exhibits for visitors of all ages to enjoy!
Hyper Space is an exciting family indoor playland where children 12 months to 12 years and their parents can leap, crawl, climb, and play on equipment that has been designed with safety in mind.
www.perfectplacestravel.com /destination_guide_ppt.cfm?id=10765&type=attractions   (594 words)

  
 Windsor Nightlife Guide and Adult Directory
Windsor at Night is a premier portal for everything about Windsor Nightlife.
Whether you're looking for a limousine ride in through downtown or something more exotic and wild with Windsor escorts, the Windsor at Night directory and Guide is the right place to start and end your search.
Escort Agencies, VIP Agencies, VIP Escorts, Windsor Independent escorts
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 Windsor, Canada Awaits Super Bowl Stir
But ask the people who actually live in Windsor what they like most about their town — the Canadian border city that sits across the river, actually south of Detroit —; and the answers aren't as salacious as one might expect.
But lost beneath that this week is what some locals called the "real" Windsor, a "nice, peaceful, blue-collar kind of town where you want to raise a family," according to Vince Aiello, a waiter at the popular Spago Trattoria E Pizzeria in Little Italy on Erie Street.
Near the water, Windsor has done a nice job with its riverfront, lining it with trees and sidewalks and making it friendly for joggers, even in January with temperatures hovering in the 30s.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/03/sports/s132410S63.DTL   (952 words)

  
 Vision Correction: PRK & LASIK in Windsor, Canada, Also Serving Detroit, Michigan
During your consultation at our LASIK clinic in Windsor, Canada (just across the border from Detroit, Michigan) the procedure of choice will be discussed with you in detail.
Photorefractive keratectomy, or PRK, is a variation of LASIK offered at our Windsor, Canada practice, differing in that the surgeon does not create a corneal flap.
Instead, the surface skin cells of the cornea (the epithelium) are gently removed, and the same excimer laser treatment is applied to the cornea.
www.lasikvisionwindsor.com /html/vision_correction.html   (605 words)

  
 Windsor West
For anyone interested in listening to the play by play of the SENIORS LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES, slated for August 13th to 19th from Mansfield Stadium in Bangor, Maine, it can be heard through the internet on www.zoneradio.com.
We are a non-profit organization in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Windsor West Little League would like to thank all our corporate sponsers.
eteamz.active.com /windsorwest/index.cfm   (607 words)

  
 The 2000 Windsor,Canada  Public Safety Hockey Tournament
On Jan. 25, 2000 seventeen players from the Central Florida Fire Fighters Hockey Club traveled to Windsor, Canada to play in the Public Safety Hockey Tournament.
This tournament is held annually by the Windsor Fire Dept. This year 25 teams in 5 divisions competed for top honors.
The opponents were: the Trenton NJ FD.; the Windsor, Canada FD.; the London, Canada FD.; and the Central Fl.
members.tripod.com /cfffh/win2000.htm   (215 words)

  
 Windsor, Canada - LoveToKnow 1911
WINDSOR, a city and port of entry of Essex county, Ontario, Canada, on the left bank of the Detroit river, opposite the city of Detroit.
It is on the Grand Trunk, Canadian Pacific, Pere Marquette and Michigan Central railways, which connect at this point with the railways of the United States by means of large and powerful car-ferries.
This page was last modified 13:10, 10 Aug 2006.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Windsor,_Canada   (118 words)

  
 Bankruptcy Windsor Ontario, Personal Bankruptcy Services In Windsor Ontario Canada.
As a resident of Windsor Ontario, Canada, if you are unable to pay your bills as they come due and you are unable to file a proposal to creditors, it may be necessary to file an assignment in bankruptcy.
Since you file bankruptcy in your province of residence, if you are a resident of Windsor Ontario, you would file your assignment in bankruptcy in Ontario.
If you're having financial difficulties and live in the Windsor area, call (519) 250-8060 today to meet with one of our experts, or complete the ask a question form to send us a message and we'll get in contact with you.
www.bankruptcy-windsor.com /bankruptcy-windsor.htm   (527 words)

  
 Hilton Hotel Windsor Ontario Canada, ON Canada Hotel
The guestrooms at our Hilton Windsor hotel in Ontario, Canada include amenities such as dual-line telephones with voice mail and data ports, high-speed Internet, executive level accommodation located on the top three floors of the hotel with exclusive access to private lounge featuring breakfast and evening reception.
Hilton Windsor hotel in Ontario, Canada also offers The River Runner Bar or the Park Terrace Restaurant for guests looking for a fun snack by the big screen TV or full service dining with spectacular views of the Detroit River and skyline.
Hilton Windsor hotel is a beautiful hotel to spend your time while you visit Ontario, Canada.
www1.hilton.com /en_US/hi/hotel/WINHIHF-Hilton-Windsor-Ontario/index.do   (473 words)

  
 University of Windsor - Windsor, Canada
The University of Windsor accommodation is provided in five buildings which offer such a broad range of rooms from hostel style with communal washrooms to hotel and apartment style suits complete with a kitchen area and private bath.
Nestled between downtown Windsor and the city of Detroit, the University of Windsor offers the best of both worlds.
The entire campus is available to you and residences in which you can rest comfortably at the end of each productive day.
www.hostelz.com /hostel/17093-University-of-Windsor   (442 words)

  
 Windsor Hotels :: Windsor Motels :: Windsor Hotel Discounts
Windsor Hotels - Windsor, Ontario Hotels - Canada
Ramada Windsor is an all solid block building...more
Casino Windsor 5 miles or approximately 15 minutes.
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 Windsor Kiosk - Your Guide to Windsor, Ontario
It may be part of the small-town, hometown atmosphere that causes that reaction.
Maybe it’s because Windsor likes to show off the many sights and attractions in the city!
Because of its waterfront location, the city of Windsor has developed a taste for water sports and activities along the waterfront.
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 The Easy Way For Windsor Canada Casino
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 The City of Windsor
Architecture: Albert Kahn, Art Gallery of Windsor, Sept 14 - Nov 18.
The Lanspeary Lions Outdoor Rink is now open for free public skating.
The City of Windsor has announced a plan to get cross-border truck traffic off our streets.
www.citywindsor.ca   (162 words)

  
 Going to Windsor on Saturday | Windsor, Canada Travel Blog
We are driving to Windsor and staying the night.
It is obvious that everyone involved with the party is excited that it is happening finally, I think I wrote the date on my calendar months ago and we have not been able to hangout since Bayfest in Sarnia last summer.
If you like this entry, search for other entries from Ontario, Canada or try a new search.
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 Casino Windsor
If you're planning a Windsor, Ontario Vacation, Casino Windsor can open the door to a world of entertainment.
If you're seeking the best in dining, entertainment, and casino gambling for your Windsor, Ontario trip, look no further than Casino Windsor.
Harrah's welcomes those of legal age to gamble in a casino to our website.
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 Windsor Star
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 Windsor Canada hotel, Windsor Ontario hotels, Motel Windsor
Windsor Canada hotel, Windsor Ontario hotels, Motel Windsor
You are connected in realtime to the main reservation center.
You’ll receive an e-mail confirmation and sent to reservation page where you can print your copy of the confirmed reservation.
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