Bob Becken

Journalist

Bob Becken is with CBC's digital team. Previously, he was an executive producer with CBC Windsor, and held broadcast and digital news director duties with Bell Media and Blackburn Media. You can reach him at bob.becken@cbc.ca.

Latest from Bob Becken

Windsor school food providers hope to expand service after Ontario strikes deal with Ottawa

VON and United Way are two agencies that currently run school food programs in Windsor.

After 26 years in Lake St. Clair, this message in a bottle has been reunited with its writer

Imagine finding out the elementary school project you completed — and purposely launched into a lake — was found by a student at the same school your daughter now attends, 26 years later. 

'Hug your loved ones': Windsor and Detroit watch and wait as the U.S. votes for a new president

Auto industry and cross-border trade - important for both sides of the river - are issues in this election.

These Windsor, Ont., natives in Florida are nervous but prepared as Hurricane Milton sweeps toward Gulf Coast

Karon Kaminski and Cindy Teamer, both with ties to Windsor, Ont., and now living in Florida, are in inland communities that aren't expected to experience the worst of Hurricane Milton, but they're still taking plenty of precautions as it's expected to strike with force by as early as Wednesday.
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Tentative deal reached for Canada's border workers, averting possible job action

A tentative agreement has been reached for over 9,000 workers at Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), averting potential job action later this week.
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Ontario youth detention centres at overcapacity, creating concerns as another is set to close

Last week, publicly run youth jails in Sudbury, Simcoe and Brampton were either at or over capacity, according to CBC News sources. Ontario closed roughly half of its youth detention centres three years ago, and now there are concerns overcapacity issues are having a negative impact on staff and youth.

'Bruh': Umpire ejects baseball PA announcer from game for use of sound drops

The public address announcer works for the Chatham-Kent Barnstormers, an expansion team with the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL).

Feds put $15M into pathogen tracking, health-care supply chain research to prep for next pandemic

A new $15-million cross-border research project is underway to monitor the movement of pathogens in Canada and the U.S. in the event of future pandemics. The federal government put up the money that will cover four years of equipment and research.

Is Windsor becoming a 'small Toronto'? Some Windsorites think so — over a townhouse plan

An online neighbourhood group known as the Northwood Lakes Neighbours is opposed to a proposed 86-unit townhouse development in an area of south Windsor.
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Aamjiwnaang First Nation members say industrial benzene emissions in Sarnia, Ont., area made them ill

A provincial environmental team is measuring air quality in an industrial area in southwestern Ontario after data indicated high levels of benzene and Aamjiwnaang First Nation urged the shutdown of a facility. Members of the Sarnia-area community describe their symptoms and how air quality fears are impacting them.