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 christopher.ensing@cbc.ca.

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Windsor-Essex home prices are up 60% since 2019. Can an election make homes affordable?

People say they've been priced out of the area they grew up in as the region's population booms while the pace of housing construction fluctuates and struggles to keep up. 

5 speed cameras are coming to Windsor. Here's how to find out where they'll go

Five cameras have been approved that will be moved six times a year through school and community safety zones. 

Global tariffs gave Canada unexpected advantage. How Trump's pause narrows Windsor's silver lining

For seven days, companies in countries all over the globe scrambling to find somewhere to build products that avoided U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs were looking at Windsor-Essex. 

Windsor, Ont., will likely approve speed cameras this month. Do they work?

If the program is approved by council, the city says after it's paid off any profit will go toward traffic calming measures.  

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.