Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Day 3 of the latest Ontario COVID shutdown sees 68 new cases today in Simcoe-Muskoka. Add Sunday’s 76 and it equals a two-day total of 144. (No numbers were reported Sunday.) They bring the accumulated total for the first days of the shutdown to 216, which includes 72 Saturday. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The province’s emergency shutdown begins today with 153 new cases Friday and Saturday across the region. And a two-day Ontario total of 6,098 — with 39 deaths. Health officials did not report numbers Good Friday. But today’s regional totals include 81 Friday and 72 Saturday. Thursday there were 75. […]
ORILLIA — How have unions positively contributed to your community, your family, or yourself? If you’re a student who can answer that in 250 words you’re in the running for the first North Simcoe Muskoka & District Labour Council (NSMDLC) post-secondary grant program. With the affects of COVID weighing heavily on workers and students, the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — MPP Norman Miller said late this afternoon that four pharmacies in the riding will start to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine this weekend. He said the announcement was made possible by Health Canada’s approval of the U.S.-produced batch of AstraZeneca vaccine this morning. Residents are asked to phone ahead […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As COVID hits more young people and forces the province to move back to lockdown tomorrow night, two Muskokans aged 18-34 are among 75 regional cases today. The Gravenhurst man is under investigation and the Muskoka Lakes woman had close contact. Both were reported to the health unit Wednesday […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three Muskoka pharmacies were ‘Inundated” with “hundreds of calls” today as the province announced they would be distributing the AstraZeneca vaccine to those aged 55 and older. By appointment only. But none of them have the vaccine. In Gravenhurst the province said it would be at the IDA, in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Ontario’s failing COVID strategy is forcing the province back in to lockdown as of midnight Friday. This as Simcoe-Muskoka cases jumped to 73 today, according to Public Health Ontario, which reports more than 2,557 cases province-wide — up more than 200 since yesterday. Despite previous best advice of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As an Easter lockdown looms, a young Bracebridge man is among 46 regional COVID cases the health unit is reporting today. He is 18-34 and his cause is under investigation, after being first reported yesterday and detected the day before. His case is the most recent one in Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Even as regional cases dropped to 32 — all in Simcoe today — Dr. Charles Gardner agrees vaccines are losing out in the race against variants. “I believe we are, at this point.” He said “there may have been more of a reliance on the ability to vaccine people.” […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — While arms in the air over vaccines, the eyes of the storm are centred on noses at the Assessments Centres. The Bracebridge and Huntsville sites continue to do the brisk business of evaluating potential pandemic patients. Just as maybe millions Canadians have experienced the past year. It’s an important […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With 59 regional cases today in Simcoe, the big news is a hold on AstraZeneca for those under age 55. Nearly 4,350 doses of AstraZeneca have been administered to adults 60-64 years by four Family Health Teams. No COVID cases over the weekend were in Muskoka. There were 308 […]
HUNTSVILLE — If you smell a man a mile away, he may be wanted for theft. Police are investigating a caper that stinks. They are looking for a shoplifting suspect who went to the Shoppers Drug Mart on King William Street yesterday, Sunday March 28, where $300 in men’s cologne was stolen. They say he […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With at least 45 Simcoe cases Friday, Canada’s top doc says variants are outpacing the national vaccine rollout. Dr. Theresa Tam says supply is not keeping up vis-à-vis demand — while promised Moderna doses have been delayed again to next week. This afternoon Ontario Premier Doug Ford called the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An explosion of 2,380 Ontario COVID cases today includes 43 regionally, says the health unit this afternoon. The province reported 48 earlier today. Two of them are Muskoka males from Gravenhurst and Huntsville. The man from Gravenhurst, aged 35-44, was part of an outbreak and was first reported back […]
SIMCOE MUSKOKA — If you were born in 1951 or before it’s your turn to get vaccinated. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit said today adults 70 and older (born in 1951 or earlier), as well as all remaining (moderate priority) healthcare workers as identified in the Ministry of Health’s Guidance on Health Care Worker Prioritization can now […]
CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES — A couple thousand pot plants may seem like small potatoes for provincial police who announced a $1.8 million raid in southwestern Ontario. But a cottage country cannabis bust is a big deal in the Kawarthas. The OPP executed a Cannabis Act (CA) warrant Tuesday they say interrupted the illegal production […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Messages of condolence papered the front window of DTA this week. The heartfelt sentiments — and etched memories — were inside big red and white hearts tucked beneath dangling snowflakes and all expressed similar sympathies. Each was a personal connection with the DTA accountant who died March 15 of […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — A forecast of 25-35mm of rain through Friday has the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) issuing a Watershed Conditions Statement – Water Safety. It is in place until Wednesday and affects residents in the MNRF’s Parry Sound District, which includes Muskoka, Parry Sound and a north-west Haliburton. They say higher […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The buck(s) doesn’t stop at Queen’s Park. Nor should it now. Ontario’s budget this afternoon put billions of dollars in to play to stimulate the spring and summer economies, while promising to “protect lives and livelihoods.” All of it as Simcoe saw 44 more cases today and Muskoka none. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — “It’s bit confusing …,” but if you can’t wait for a vaccine — or the one you want — feel free to shop around for the first available appointment you can get to, says Dr. Charles Gardner. Simcoe-Muskoka’s medical officer of health says he’s OK with so-called “vaccine tourism” […]