Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Here’s the first step to how you can see if you may have the corona virus. Ontario has launched an online checklist. The enhanced and interactive self-assessment tool asks some simple questions. It will help determine if people are negative or it will provide them with guidance on where to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The new norm in Parry Sound-Muskoka is “Noman Miller.” Your veteran Tory MPP — who is the son of former premier and health minister Frank Miller — is on the job at the heart of the Ford government’s coronavirus fight. The folksy politician formerly known as nice guy “Norm […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A tweet by the mayor about people flocking to Muskoka to escape the COVID-19 threat has him in hot water. Sunday he had to apologize for his flippant, careless and insensitive remarks. Saturday on Twitter, he said: “I think we’ve got a lot of people heading up here to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Families should check with their child care centres Monday after the province said Sunday it will allow some to reopen to support health care and frontline workers during this COVID-19 outbreak. And the province is also providing online courses for students stuck at home, as well as using its […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Hospital workers got a great shout-out from someone who knows the pandemic pressures they’re under first hand. The king of local beer and spirits sales heaped high praise on them after the leukemia survivor suffered a severe setback decades after putting it in the remission penalty box. Tony King […]
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Nova Scotians face $1,000 fines for not social distancing under health protection act as premier Stephen McNeil announced a state of emergency Sunday morning. And he said people can report offenders, as the country looks to be moving toward more emergency orders that will restrict rights. This after 28 cases of the cornavirus have been […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Odd — all the worry about the U.S. border closing yesterday, when so many have been condemning America vowing never to go there because of Trump. … Canada is doing all the right things according to a list of WHO protocols. … And Trudeau is reaping high praise for the federal […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE MUSKOKA — A second patient at RVH has died with COVID-19, and a woman in her 30s is being treated for the virus infection that she appears to have acquired in the community. She is the ninth reported case in Simcoe-Muskoka said the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). On […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — You gotta have heart. Lots and lots of hearts. Residents and businesses are showing their love for others at this trying time with “Window Hearts.” In gesture of solidarity with the world and their community, the universal symbol is popping up large and small, red and blue. In one […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A Good Samaritan has emerged today to help those self-isolating. Adam Crockatt is spearheading a small group effort to run errands for those who may be housebound by the coronavirus. Gravenhurst Caretagion 2020, which began Friday, is “a zero-contact” initiative that came out of a conversation Dr. Adam MacLennan. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Gravenhurst’s mayor is “keeping in the loop” while under self-isolation this week. Paul Kelly and his wife, Sue, returned to their Morrison Lake home March 10 and he expects to be back on the job next Wednesday, March 25. The couple were 10 days in Saint Martin and flew […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — People are coming together to stay apart. Slowly … if surely. Families are even walking in staggered lines. And it’s easier to do. District streets are open — if quieter. Many hours are being limited across the board — though YIG grocery stores are restricting their first hour at […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Patients and visitors to Muskoka’s two hospitals who may have symptoms of the coronavirus are being segregated in separate waiting spaces as they wait further full assessment. While Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare waits provincial approval to partner in a COVID-19 screening centre, its two sites at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHRST — Advance work Thursday and Friday at Brock Street and Bethune Drive in Gravenhurst is underway as CN Rail plans to move the safety rail arms (wigwags) about a dozen feet closer to the tracks Monday. Dan Dodd, a track supervisor, said on site today, March 19, that it’s part […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Ontario has reported its second death related to COVID-19 — a man in his 50s who died in Oakville. And why is that important? And why is social distancing so critical? Because — officials say it may be a community spread case. Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer […]
GRAVENHURST — Drivers and pedestrians are reminded that the intersection of Bethune Drive and Brock Street will be closed Monday, March 23, for CN Rail repairs. Work will be taking place on the safety traffic arms. Anyone wishing to cross Bethune are advised to use either Phillip Street to the south or Winewood Avenue to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — A public drive-through assessment clinic to test for COVID-19 opened here this morning. At 11 a.m. a centre located in the Kiwanis building on Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital’s campus started screening visitors. Everyone — including walk-ins — will be screened, and those who meet all criteria will be swabbed. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A Huntsville woman and man from Mississauga will be bail court Thursday morning after a loaded handgun, drugs and cash were seized in a police stop here early this afternoon. Provincial police say that on Wednesday, March 18, the Muskoka Community Street Crime Unit conducted an investigation that resulted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com ORILLIA — Orillia’s CAO is under fire for being on the job Monday a day after flying home from the Cayman Islands and on the same day a man in his 60s went into Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital with confirmed case of the cornavirus. Social media is full of criticism after Gayle […]