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Windsor's spring horoscope is grim for Transit Windsor riders

Your Spring Equinox horoscope for Windsor might surprise you

Good morning from the border — where Canada meets America and neither one blinks. This is Windsor.

So, everyone's buzzing about the spring equinox, right? March 20th, the official start of spring 2026, and all the horoscopes and new beginnings that come with it. People are looking for fresh starts, checking their zodiacs, hoping for better things. But here in Windsor, the equinox, this particular one, hits a little different, especially when you think about the conversation around Transit Windsor and student ridership. The CBC's Chris Ensing was just reporting on how the federal cap on international students is hitting our bus routes hard, with trips down almost 20 percent. For a city that's always been about flow – people, goods, ideas – this feels like a chill wind just when we're supposed to be warming up.

When you're hoping the stars align for your financial future, and then you hear that a policy change is directly impacting the livelihoods of students and the city's transit system, it makes you wonder if spring really *is* in the air. We've got UWindsor students trying to figure out where to live for under $1700, and this news just adds another layer of stress. You want to believe in new beginnings, in the energy of spring. But when the economic heartbeat of our city, those auto plants, are watching student numbers and bus routes as indicators, it grounds you. It reminds you that no matter what the horoscope says, real life on this side of the river always comes back to jobs, community, and how we move people around.

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