Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario,Canada,on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit,Michigan,United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County,it is the southernmost city in Canada and marks the southwestern end of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city's population was 229,660 at the 2021 census,making it the third-most populated city in Southwestern Ontario,after London and Kitchener. This represents a 5.7 percent increase from Windsor's 2016 population census of 217,188. The Detroit–Windsor urban area is North America's most populous trans-border conurbation. Linking the Great Lakes Megalopolis,the Ambassador Bridge border crossing is the busiest commercial crossing on the Canada–United States border.
Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is an American former politician who served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously represented the 9th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002. Kilpatrick resigned as mayor in September 2008 after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to four months in jail and was released on probation after serving 99 days.
Glen Ronald Murray is a Canadian politician and urban issues advocate who served as the 41st Mayor of Winnipeg,Manitoba from 1998 to 2004,and was the first openly gay mayor of a large North American city. He subsequently moved to Toronto,Ontario,and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Toronto Centre in 2010,serving until 2017.
The Detroit–Windsor tunnel,also known as the Detroit–Canada tunnel, is an international highway tunnel connecting the cities of Detroit,Michigan,United States and Windsor,Ontario,Canada. It is the second-busiest crossing between the United States and Canada,the first being the Ambassador Bridge,which also connects the two cities,which are situated on the Detroit River.
Arthur John Reaume was a Canadian politician.
Dave Cooke is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was an NDP member of the provincial legislature from 1977 to 1997,and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.
Freman Hendrix is an American politician from the state of Michigan. A Democrat,Hendrix served as Deputy Mayor for former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer from 1997 to 2001. He ran twice,unsuccessfully,as a mayoral candidate in the city of Detroit:in 2005 against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick,and for the 2009 special election called to replace the ousted Kilpatrick.
Albert Howard Weeks was the 28th mayor of the city of Windsor,Ontario,Canada,from 1975 to 1982 and considered by many to be its best in recent memory. Previously,he had been a perennial candidate in the Windsor area for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and its successor,the New Democratic Party (NDP). He ran 22 times between the 1950s and 1980s,winning 12 times at the municipal level. It was during a 1974 November blizzard that stretched the voting into a second day and night that Weeks upset then mayor Frank Wansbrough to win his first term as mayor. He went on to serve two more terms. During Weeks's first term,he successfully advocated to change the term length from two to three years as he felt mayors would be more productive with three-year terms. When he retired from the mayor's office in 1982,he left the city of Windsor with a balanced budget.
The government of Detroit,Michigan is run by a mayor,the nine-member Detroit City Council,the eleven-member Board of Police Commissioners,and a clerk. All of these officers are elected on a nonpartisan ballot,with the exception of four of the police commissioners,who are appointed by the mayor. Detroit has a "strong mayoral" system,with the mayor approving departmental appointments. The council approves budgets,but the mayor is not obligated to adhere to any earmarking. The city clerk supervises elections and is formally charged with the maintenance of municipal records. City ordinances and substantially large contracts must be approved by the council.
The 2000 Windsor municipal election was held in the City of Windsor,Ontario to elect a mayor,councillors and school trustees.
The Detroit–Windsor region is an international transborder agglomeration named for the American city of Detroit,Michigan,the Canadian city of Windsor,Ontario,and the Detroit River,which separates them. The Detroit–Windsor area acts as a critical commercial link straddling the Canada–United States border and has a total population of 5,976,595. It is North America's largest cross-border conurbation.
Michael D. Hurst is a municipal politician in Windsor,Ontario,Canada. He served as 32nd Mayor of the city of Windsor from 1991 to 2003,and oversaw several major changes in the city's development.
Monica Ann Conyers is an American politician in Detroit,Michigan. Elected to the Detroit City Council in 2005,she was elected by its members to serve as president pro tempore of the council for the four-year term.
Kenneth Vern Cockrel Jr. is an American journalist,nonprofit executive,businessman,and former politician who served as the 73rd mayor of Detroit,Michigan from September 2008 to May 2009. A member of the Democratic Party,Cockrel served as a member of the Detroit City Council from 1997 to 2008,and again from 2009 to 2013,and as the Council's president from 2005 to 2008 and May to December 2009.
Gary A. Brown is an American municipal politician and former police officer. He is currently serving as the Chief Operations Officer for the City of Detroit. Brown was elected as the Detroit City Council President Pro-Tem on November 4,2009 after receiving the second most votes. He was appointed to the non-elected position of Chief Compliance Officer in June 2013 under the state-appointed Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr. Following the election of Mike Duggan as Mayor of the City of Detroit in November 2013,Brown was appointed as the Chief Operations Officer under the Mayor,a position he currently serves. The former Deputy Chief of the Detroit Police Department was born in Detroit,Michigan in 1953 and remains a Detroit resident with his wife.
Thomas R. Brophey was a journalist,lawyer and politician in Ontario,Canada. He served as mayor of Windsor briefly in 1951.
Andrew "Drew" Dilkens is a Canadian politician,who is the 34th and current mayor of Windsor,Ontario. He was elected mayor in the city's 2014 municipal election. Dilkens is married to Jane Deneau,and has two children.
The Detroit mayoral special election of 2009 took place on May 5,2009. It was a special election to fill the remainder of the term of Kwame Kilpatrick who had resigned as mayor.
Irek Kusmierczyk is a Polish-Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Windsor—Tecumseh in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Prior to his election in the House of Commons,he was a city councillor for the Windsor City Council representing Ward 7.
