Chris Ensing

CBC News

Chris Ensing has worked as a producer, reporter and host in Windsor since 2017. He's also reported in British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. His e-mail is [email protected].

Latest from Chris Ensing

Caesars Windsor workers could strike as soon as next week, OLG continues work to select next operator

Union leadership says Caesars Windsor told him they want to continue operating the casino during contract negotiations.

Windsor's key strategy to reduce emissions 'too costly' without financial help

A report to city council now finds that completing the goal of retrofitting 57,200 homes through the program would take 100 years based on uptake in other retrofit programs.

More than a dozen vacant homes are being demolished in Sandwich Town

More than a dozen abandoned and boarded up homes are being torn to the ground on Indian Road and Rosedale Avenue after the Canadian Transit Company (CTC) had demolition permits approved by the city. 

Rex the dog was trapped on icy Lake St. Clair — but the Lakeshore, Ont., community rallied to save him

It took dozens of people using binoculars, telescopes, drones and snowmobiles to get Rex back to his Lakeshore, Ont., home on Thursday. 

'A sad day for democracy,' councillor says as effort to override tunnel bus veto fails

The City of Windsor will no longer offer the Transit Windsor tunnel bus route connecting the city to Detroit.
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How a Canadian trucker used a refrigerated produce trailer to smuggle people into the U.S.

A Canadian man has been sentenced to three years in an American prison after pleading guilty to using the refrigerated trailer of his semi-truck to smuggle people into the U.S., using the Ambassador bridge linking Ontario and Michigan, in exchange for money.

Landlords lose court appeal against Windsor's pilot program to licence rental units

A group of landlords have lost their appeal in a court battle against a City of Windsor Residential Rental Licensing (RRL) pilot project that requires units in certain parts of the city to pass inspections. 

Council approves major changes to Windsor's deadly Sandpoint Beach but work is years away

Windsor's city council is endorsing a plan to re-arrange the community's only beach to keep swimmers away from a deadly current at the mouth of the Detroit River. 

Windsor school boards ask council to pause cancelling school extras, consider alternatives

Administrators at Windsor's largest school boards want city council to stop a plan to eliminate and redeploy Transit Windsor buses that high school students pay for to get to school.

Windsor's police board has a new leader as Dilkens steps aside

Windsor's mayor is leaving the role a year before new legislation would force him to resign the position.