Annual Dinner - November 8, 2025

By Gina Pannunzio, Kelly Laforest and Ian Naisbitt Woke up today and checked the foreboding weather forecast: “Frost advisory in effect for: Windsor - Leamington - Essex County and Special weather statement in effect for: Windsor - Leamington - Essex County.” More details included: increasing cloudiness. Rain beginning this afternoon. Amount 5 mm. Wind becoming southeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 13. UV index 2 or low. Regardless of the advisory and [...]

By Jennifer Nantais Windsor joined over 400 other jurisdictions across Canada in declaring a climate change emergency through a unanimous city council vote on November 18th. Several delegates spoke out in support of the declaration including environmental specialists from the Essex Region Conservation Authority and Citizens Environmental Alliance, representatives from the Windsor Law Cities and Climate Action Forum, and residents. While this declaration is largely symbolic, it shows that the city is serious about tackling [...]

By Jennifer Nantais On November 29th 2019, experts and stakeholders gathered at the Windsor-Essex Climate Action Symposium held at the University of Windsor. A wide range of speakers included Claire Sanders from the Essex Region Conservation Authority, Karina Richters from the City of Windsor, Dr. Anneke Smit and the University of Windsor Cities & Climate Action Forum, energy specialist Peter Garforth, former Guelph Mayor Karen Farbridge, University of Windsor professors Paul Henshaw and Edwin Tam, [...]

By Chris Hart Even turtles need to stick their neck out to get things moving. Rick Levick, president of the Long Point World Biosphere Reserve Foundation, used this line in response to concerns of potential community reluctance when proposing road mitigation to protect wildlife. Rick was part of an expert panel on Mitigating Species at Risk Road Mortality, that was called together to discuss the state of reptile and amphibian decline around the Ojibway complex. [...]

By Jennifer Nantais The City of Windsor scored high marks after a 2019 questionnaire conducted by CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), a non-profit charity that releases environmental impacts for corporations, cities and regions. The city received an A grade for adaptation efforts, which respond to the impacts of climate change, and a B for mitigation initiatives, which aim more at prevention than reaction. A few of the adaptation actions that helped the city obtain this high [...]