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. […]
HUNTSVILLE — A pair of impaired driving charges this weekend has two Muskoka 27-year-old Muskoka drivers facing charges here.On Saturday, February 22, at 1:07 a.m., police were conducting patrols on King William Street and stopped a driver. As a result Tim Knight, 27, of Huntsville, was charged with: Operation while impaired – alcohol/drugs; and Operation […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The local music scene in Muskoka is not all country, rock, Broadway, folk and Big Bands in Muskoka. For more discerning musical palette, which requires a little more cerebral understanding of rhythmics beyond basic 4/4, booming bass, back beats and rap you can’t understand half the time, there’s the […]
Letter to editor: By Mark Grimstead, Special to MuskokaTODAY.com Who has earned my vote in this election? This is a question we should all ask ourselves in every election at any level. It should not be a matter of personal or family tradition, who knows whom or any other criteria that is not directly connected […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A season filled with so much hope and promise ended this afternoon as it began on the ice five months ago for the Muskoka Bears. With so much youth and unbridled enthusiasm they met their match that Friday Sept. 13 in an 11-0 loss to the mighty Alliston Hornets. […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — We’re asking: “Who will you vote for Feb. 27?” And how did you like Monday’s night’s provincial election debate — if you watched it? No. 4 — Feb. 22: … Across Muskoka Saturday people weren’t at all hesitant and in raw terms told MuskokaTODAY.com the following and shared some of their feelings […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was and wasn’t the Coldest Night of the Year — close. But it was the ‘Happiest Night of the Year’ yesterday as hundreds of supporters and teams walked to close the gap for GAP. Especially if you followed directions and marshals at the corners. Dianne Harrop and Marsha […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com COLLINGWOOD — The little school that did and still could. That’s the GHS Junior and Senior boys’ basketball teams. After sweeping the Muskoka-Parry finals last week in Gravenhurst against larger local schools, both advanced to the Georgian Bay championships here Friday in Collingwood in their school division. And the defending champions […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — In a cinema on a Saturday morning it was a re-run of last spring’s rally next door at Memorial Park. The billboard below the marquee bore two ominous — possibly portent — posters for this week’s Norwood Theatre movies: ‘Last Breath’ and ‘Captain America.’ Only this time the crowd […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Fame is fleeting. Robin Clipsham knows that. The popular local actress, producer, director and retired BML school teacher knows that having been on, off and behind the stage all her life. So any one of her legion of Muskoka fans — and there are so many — watching Canada’s […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — We’re asking: “Who will you vote for Feb. 27?” And how did you like Monday’s night’s provincial election debate — if you watched it. No. 3 — Feb. 21: Across Muskoka Thursday night people weren’t at all hesitant and in raw terms told MuskokaTODAY.com the following and about their feelings … “I’m […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — If you go Into The Woods tonight you’re in of a big surprise. Gorgeous dresses, magnificent trees, stunning singers, wicked witch and howlin’ wolf. An enchanting eye-popping, ear-splitting compilation of some of your favourite forgotten fairy tales of yours and your kids’ childhoods. Remember Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Freedom’s just another word for fleeting success a pair of Beaver Creek prison escapees discovered last night. Their 32-hour overnight flight ended when the Muskoka Crime Unit — with the assistance of the Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (ROPE) Squad and Toronto Police Service — located the two inmates in […]