Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Gord Miller says the purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline is a “sucker play” by the Liberals for a country that won’t soon need it as the world goes green. He wants Canada to shift gears away from dirty, non-sustainable energy. No new fracking, no more oil wells or […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SEGUIN TOWNSHIP — The driver of a boat in which two people died last month in a collision with another boat on Lake Joe has been fined for not having navigation light. The other driver involved has been charged with careless careless operation and faces a jail term of 18 months […]
. Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — Two people have been charged in a fatal boating accident near here this summer on Lake Joe. Provincial police said on Tuesday, Sept. 24, that they have charged boat driver Linda O’Leary, 56, with careless operation of a vessel. She is to appear in Parry Sound court […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Fridays are heating up as protest du jour to save the planet. And you’ll hear about it loud and clear as many Muskoka churches sound the alarm by ringing their bells. It’s part of a “Week for Future” events. Protesters say the ringing of bells is an ancient […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com | Opinion PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Election Day may be a month away, but the vote was Thursday. Canadians decided the next prime minister — one way or the other — after seeing multiple pictures of a young racist Justin Trudeau in black- and brown-face. Then hearing his apologies. “I’m sorry!” It’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Donald and Barbra Desmond didn’t pick the winner at the Kentucky Derby, but they came away with some great hats and bow ties. And they were the big winners Saturday night at the Rotary Races. The Gravenhurst Lakeshore Road residents ran away with top prize, a week’s vacation in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Do old photos tell the whole story? While the country reels over racist school photos by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a group of 60-year-old GHS grads were sharing their past and present on the weekend at a birthday reunion around town. Photos from more than 40 years ago were […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A young Huntsville woman’s story about family upheaval amid a move is one of five finalists for a CBC nonfiction writing contest. Kathleen May’s story, “The Long Driveway,” is up for a major prize with the winner to receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — If Elizabeth May wants “all hands on deck” to fight climate change, she had a boatful here last night in a sea of green-shirted volunteers. A crowd of 200 crammed the Muskoka Discovery Centre to hear the Green Party leader talk about the environment. “We’ve entered a period of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Signs, signs, everywhere elections signs — except in Bracebridge. Party reports of signs in ditches and town works staff pulling them up are proving true in Bracebridge. Greens and Liberals say their signs have been ditched days after the federal election was officially called. Apparently everywhere but in Bracebridge […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Elizabeth May breezed into Gravenhurst this afternoon with little fanfare and less of a carbon footprint. The Green Party leader, who will speak at 7 p.m. tonight at a town meeting at the Muskoka Discovery Centre, was on hand to help candidate Gord Miller open his office in the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Pharmacare head-to-toe for everyone.” That’s the NDP promise “if you vote for the right party,” says their Parry Sound-Muskoka candidate. In an interview Saturday with MuskokaTODAY.com, Tom Young says it would be “wonderful for everyone.” He says businesses could save money if the government paid for dental, medical, mental […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Tom Young is beating the drum for the NDP — to fight climate change and “the crisis we’re facing right now.” The Bracebridge resident and Legion Pipes and Drums snare drummer is the New Democratic Party candidate in the federal election. He’s vying to be the next Parry Sound-Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Curious about our final numbers?” That’s organizers of the 39th annual Terry Fox Run in Gravenhurst yesterday. “Well, here they are as of 6:30 p.m.” Sept. 15m , just over eight hours after the first of almost 100 runners and walkers trekked 10K out along Muskoka Beach Road to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Anyone who thought rural Canada isn’t in play in the federal election — or that the local riding race isn’t a tight one — will be interested to know that Green Party Leader Elizabeth May will be in Gravenhurst on Tuesday afternoon and evening for about a five-hour stop. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — About 100 Terry Fox supporter are pounding the pavement in raincoats and walking/running with umbrellas this morning (Sunday, Sept. 15) for the annual cancer run. They were reminded that Terry Fox, who ran through Gravenhurst in 1981 and celebrated his birthday here at huge public celebration, weathered the same […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PORT CARLING — The Ontario coroner’s office has called an inquest into the death of a 42-year-old Bracebridge construction worker who died on a job site in Port Carling two years ago this past spring. On Friday, Dr. Kenneth Peckham, Regional Supervising Coroner for Central Region, Central West Office, announced that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND — Green is gold these days. Everyone is jumping on the environmental bandwagon as the federal election ramps up with 38 days to go now and a wave of Green enthusiasm sweeps across the country. Green Party of Ontario Leader and MPP Mike Schreiner is coming to Parry Sound on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — ‘In It For You’ — and ‘On Your Side.’ Whether it’s the national or local race, federal New Democrats are coming to the side of Canadians this election with campaign slogans that appeal to every Canadian. Leader Jagmeet Singh and Parry Sound-Muskoka candidate Tom Young are saying the same […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Psst. Want a tip in the sixth? How about the No. 1 post position, Jam Sandwich. That sounds like a local favourite, for all you young kiddy music fans. That’s the post horse in Saturday night’s Rotary Race night at the Terry Fox Auditorium at the Gravenhurst Centennial Centre. […]