The Excel file below holds a record of all recorded votes by Windsor City Council from January 1 2015 to September 17, 2018. All of this data was mined from City Council Minutes that are posted on the City of Windsor website. The file is sorted into sheets by year and tracks Yay, Nay, Abstain … Continue reading How your Councillor Voted 2015-18

The Town of Essex is first of the communities that I am working on that has a ward system. As you can see from the map above, there is not a exact alignment between the Census boundaries and the municipal wards. The difference although visually large, from a population basis they tend to extend one … Continue reading #Knowyourward- County Edition: Essex

The Town of Amherstburg doesn't have Wards, so I divided the community into 3 areas of close to equal population based on Census Dissemination geographies. The following table "Wards" show the Amherstburg total plus the socio-economic breakdown of the 3 areas. Town Total Rural Amherstburg/ South Shore Downtown Amherstburg River Canard Total Population 2016 21,936 … Continue reading #knowyourward – County Edition: Amherstburg

The Town of Lasalle doesn't have Wards, so I divided the community into 4 areas based on Census Dissemination geographies. The following table "Wards" show the LaSalle total plus the socio-economic breakdown of the 4 areas. Town Total Near Windsor Matchette to Malden + Todd Lane Matchette to the River "Rural" LaSalle Total Population 2016 … Continue reading #Knowyourward – County Edition: LaSalle

In a previous post on Sprawl I mentioned how what took 50+ years to build, couldn't be undone easily or cheaply. So I figured that I would dive into that discussion a little bit. Which brings me back to a quote from 2016: Forget about the fact the streets are all four lanes, they’re too … Continue reading The Windsor Research Project: Clogged Arteries

The Trouble Defining Sprawl  A fundamental issue with the debate around urban sprawl in our community  is that it emerges from the nebulous term of sprawl itself. When academics speak/write on the subject of urban sprawl are publishing definitions: “Sprawl means different things to different people” and accepting such vague terms as a basis for a position it … Continue reading The Windsor Research Project – Sprawling

As previously mentioned there is very little in-depth research on mid-sized communities in Canada (some emerging research here and a great blog here) or the challenges that they face. To small to receive the limelight, media attention and resources of large urban centres; yet they are too big to be highly nimble in a short period of time … Continue reading The Windsor Project – Mid-Sized Cities Gambling on the Future

Comparative Challenges  Given the context of the "post-fact world", the challenges of presenting data on the challenges that Windsor and Essex County face become clear. Finding comparable and appropriate data is vitally important to not only compare apples to apples but to also set appropriate contexts for discussions in subsequent posts. For many people, the … Continue reading The Windsor Research Project – Comparative Challenges

I previously shared a map  twitter (see below)  What this map shows is the ratio of the After Tax Median Household Income of each Dissemination Area as a ratio to the same measure in Essex County. For clarity, it was $62,122 which means ares showing up in black have a median income 0-30% of the … Continue reading Hollowing of the Middle

Back in Feb. I was interviewed by Dave Battegello of the Windsor Star on the City's unemployment rate. At the time our City's unemployment had fallen from 6% in December to 4.6% in January. In the interview although I agreed that the drop in unemployment was good news, I cast some healthy skepticism on the … Continue reading Windsor’s Unemployment Rate is SOFT