Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Mark Carney has a local running mate. MuskokaTODAY.com has learned that Geordie Sabbagh, a Huntsville filmmaker and father has been named the Liberal candidate for Parry Sound-Muskoka. Local federal party president Bill Condy tells us this afternoon that the party has named their man to challenge Conservative and former […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — For the next “year” all babies born in Muskoka will have their place of birth noted as Huntsville. Effective immediately. Citing “urgent staffing challenges and ensure patient safety,” MAHC tells MuskokaTODAY.com it is “temporarily” re-locating all services to Huntsville for 12 months pending reviews at six and nine months as […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION Justin’ time. … They found him just in time. That’s local Liberals who yesterday along with party members country-wide elected Mark Carney as their leader and Canada’s next prime minister later this week. With elbows up all 343 Big Red ridings voted in his favour — including Parry Sound-Muskoka. Setting […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Last week’s provincial election appears to have been won mostly in the riding’s burbs with surprising exceptions. Polling results show the two front-runners battling it out in closer races in the urban centres of Parry Sound-Muskoka. Before Graydon Smith won eventual re-election over Matt Richter by 2,371 votes. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — David Phillips still gets up in the morning to check the weather. Like most he’s excited to see what the wind blew in or if he needs ear muffs. But unlike us — and some agriculturalists — he’s most likely to know what we’re going to get. And also […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A home owner called 911 early yesterday after spotting a thief carrying two axes outside their home not long after midnight. Police are investigating the break and enter Wednesday March 5. They say officers responded to a call from a resident on Xavier Street after the home owner resident realized […]
HUNTSVILLE – A fundraising effort for the Red Cross this week is legitimate, say police. The OPP want to inform residents that during the week of March 3-9 a company called TNi will be conducting door-to-door canvassing on behalf of the Canadian Red Cross. It has been confirmed that there will be no requests for […]
HUNTSVILLE — Two people face charges after being arrested a second time the same day. Police say that on Thursday February 27 officers stopped a vehicle on Forbes Hill Drive in Huntsville to check for a suspected impaired driver. The investigation revealed a prohibited weapon and the occupants on conditions not be around each other after a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION You can’t fight in here, this is the White House. OMG! If it wasn’t so serious it would be “Dr. Strangelove.” Trump said his showdown with ballsy Zelenskyy made great TV. And headlines, commentary and outrage — and SNL comedy. “Isn’t this crazy,” Trump said when elected. Captivating, insightful, enthralling, gripping, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — No wonder today’s second weekend Muskoka Philharmonic concert is sold out. “The Muskoka Philharmonic has arrived,” boasted its director Alana Nuedling during a special permission piece. Notably after yesterday’s opening treat at Trinity United Church in Gravenhurst, their 4 p.m. performance at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church will be another […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Three people from south Muskoka were in bail court yesterday after a “violent” attack early Thursday evening at the south end of Gravenhurst. Police arrested and charged the trio with multiple “serious” crimes in an incident they described in a release late yesterday afternoon as a “violent.” They say […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Three months ago today the Gateway to Muskoka was plugged with snow. People were trapped in their homes, traffic was stopped on Hwy. 11 and good Samaritans did their best to help out. Somehow with the help of plows and plow drivers, volunteers and governments’ aid we survived the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — T&T blew up Ontario last night. Trump and tariffs turned a Tory win in to a Green loss here in this riding even in a tiny way. Reached this morning Matt Richter for a post-election interview, he MuskokaTODAY.com that “disappointment and frustration was a better way to put […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Graydon Smith defied defeat tonight as local PCs came out in more numbers to hold off the improved Greens for a second time in 36 months. In the end it wasn’t even close as many locally and provincewide thought it would. The returning MPP’s loyal Conservative faithful went […]
MUSKOKA — A short hospital emergency back-up power outage from 8 p.m. to midnight in Huntsville will mean longer ER wait times at MAHC’s south Muskoka site. The four-hour planned outage is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. and end by midnight. MAHC says the shutdown is necessary to connect the under construction MRI suite […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Time to definitively vote — one way or t’other. First, why would anyone in Gravenhurst vote PC after yet another government failure to secure the fates of the former Ontario Fire College and Muskoka Centre? And why vote for the Greens when they talk about helping small […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — In a tighter-than-expected race, local candidates are scrambling in the final days to push them over the top Thursday. With some surprising curve balls centred squarely on the election’s defining issue of the Muskoka hospitals redevelopment. The 2,200 vote gap in June 2022 between PC Graydon Smith and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — With a rush election and barely 12 per cent of residents casting their ballots in the three days of advance polling late last week, there are still more than 70,000 votes and counting to go on the provincial election day Thursday. Kim Bordeleau, the Elections Ontario returning officer […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — The Greens are gearing up for a major endorsement tomorrow in Huntsville from some local Muskoka doctors. This as party and public polls show a tightening race that is closely being watch. And with more than 10,000 people having already voted in last Thursday, Friday and Saturday’s advanced, says […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — We’re asking: “Who are you voting for Feb. 27?” And how did you like the recent provincial election debate last week — if you watched it? No. 5 – Feb. 24: … “Who am I voting for? It won’t be this guy. I can only hope people smarten up about the Conservatives. […]