Submit us your photos of Windsor and Essex County for an opportunity
to appear in the 2015 Vital Signs report.

Guidelines to submit:

Photos must be taken in the Windsor-Essex region
The photos must correspond to at least one of the quality of life issue areas outlined in the 2015 Vital Signs report (listed below)
You may submit up to five photos per person
Email your photos to info@wecf.ca with the subject line Vital Signs Photo Submission. Please include your full name, where you live in Windsor-Essex when each photo was taken, where each photo was taken, and then tell us which quality of life issue area each photo corresponds to

*** By submitting your photos to the Foundation, you are consenting to the Foundation using your photos in the 2015 Vital Signs report. The Foundation will not use your photos for any other purposes. You will be contacted by the Foundation if your photos have been chosen ***

Vital Signs 2015 Quality of Life Issue Areas

Environment
Safety
Getting Around
Health, Wellness & Activity
Learning
Housing
Arts & Culture
Belonging & Leadership
Work
Getting Started
Food Security

Pictures will be selected based on their originality, quality, and relevancy to the quality of life issue areas. Those that are chosen will appear in the 2015 Vital Signs report published by the Windsor Star on October 6, 2015.

Link: www.wecf.ca/

Take a FREE test-drive and Ford Canada will donate up to $6000!

The more people to take a test drive at our "Drive 4 The Kids" event on August 15th; the more money we can earn for local children in need! Absolutely NO COST to you but your time to take a test-drive - it's that easy to make a difference in a child's life! We hope to see everyone come out for this great cause!

Event Details:
Date: August 15, 2015
Time: 10:30am-3:00pm
Location: Rose City Ford
6333 Tecumseh Rd East, Windsor ON

To pre-register for a test-drive at this event please visit the below link:
www.drive4ur.com/ en/ rosecityfordthewindsorpolicefoodandtoydrive4kids

Link: www.drive4ur.com/en/rosecityfordthewindsorpolicefoodandtoydrive4kids

People of Windsor, if you can take a moment to sign this petition in order to access anyone entrance to the courts for sports activities. I believe it is unfair to lock people out of the tennis/ basketball courts after all these years of playing basketball there. This is not good to the community because it causes inconvenience to people that want to enjoy extracurricular actives during their busy lives.

Please read the petition and find it in your heart to sign it for the better of the community.

Link: www.change.org/p/windsor-essex-catholic-district-school-board-wecdsb-re-open-basketball-courts-at-st-joseph-s-hs?just_created=true

We are trying to break the world record! Let's make history people! If you own a Mini Cooper consider registering today for a weekend of fun and come out and meet some new friends!

Central all-stars car wash @ Nantais Sports on Tecumseh Rd. Partington. $5 for wash bbq water hot dogs. Come on out.

I'm from Vancouver.....went to the Stones concert using the tunnel bus. All the transit employees we encountered were super helpful from the supervisor at the bus station to the driver who dropped us off in Detroit and wishes us well. Thanks for making it so easy and stress free to go to the concert. :0)

Fresh produce, dirty scabbing: The Loblaws model

Posted on July 6, 2015 in New Brunswick, Ontario, scabs, UFCW
Loblaws is pressuring its New Brunswick workers to scab in Ontario



The following is a message from Patrick Colford, New Brunswick Federation of Labour president. Colford reports that Loblaws is pressuring its non-union Atlantic Superstores employees in New Brunswick to scab on striking Loblaws workers in Ontario. It is reported that Loblaws is threatening retaliation if the request is refused. Unionized workers with UFCW are on strike at nine stores in Ontario, spanning Windsor, Chatham and Sarnia. An additional 60 Loblaws-owned stores in Ontario are voting on a contract until July 8 with a strike deadline of July 11. Rankandfile.ca editors

The New Brunswick Federation of Labour office has been contacted by employees working at Atlantic Superstores in New Brunswick. These workers are being asked to travel to work at other Loblaws-owned stores in Ontario where workers are currently on strike. If the workers refuse, we have been told that the company is threatening retaliation, including possibly reducing their work hours. Says Patrick Colford, NBFL President.

UFCW picket line at a Windsor Zehrs, a Loblaws-owned store.
UFCW picket line at a Windsor Zehrs, a Loblaws-owned store (source: Windsor Star)
1,600 workers unionized with United and Commercial Food Workers (UFCW) local 175 & 633, working at nine Loblaws-owned stores in southeastern Ontario have been on strike since July 2nd. Another 12,000 workers, unionized with UFCW 1000A who work at an additional 60 Loblaws-owned stores in Ontario, are in a strike position since July 5th [strike deadline is now delayed until July 11th RF.ca].

A labour union could protect New Brunswick workers from the tactics being used by Atlantic Superstore to pressure their workers to cross Ontario picket lines to work, concludes President Colford. If Atlantic Superstore workers in New Brunswick want to learn more about how to protect themselves, they can contact our office.

The New Brunswick Federation of Labour office can be reached at (506) 857-2125.

Patrick Colford, NBFL President
(506) 857-9153 / (506) 381-8969 (cell)

The New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the central voice of organized labour in the province. We represent over 40,000 workers from every sector of the economy and from every community in the province.

On July 8th 2015 – next Wednesday – pre-trial will begin for the accused murderer of Cassandra Kaake. We will be across the street from the Ontario Court of Justice at 11:00 am (200 Chatham St. E.), on the north side of Charles Clark Square, We will be there in protest of the fact that Molly's life is not represented in the charges against the accused. If you have not already signed the written petition we will have copies of them available. Or, if you too would like to voice your disgust for the utter lack of justice our country has to offer to its most violent and twisted criminals make your presence felt, please feel free to come out to support us and join us in helping little Mollys voice be heard. We will be there either way. Do you recognize this injustice? This is your country and your laws. Are they sufficient?
Watch for us we will be wearing Molly Matters T shirts.