Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — A two-day celebration of life and hockey last weekend began with a few tears and ended with a few more beers. The Bracebrige Bears Jr. C Alumni group (1970-’83) got together Friday and Saturday at the South Muskoka Curling and Golf Club to mark the end of “Coach” Danny […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It was a bit like an old home week for Greg and Colleen Knapp Saturday as they held an end of business social and sale. After 76 years Knapp’s Furniture and Appliances is closing at the end of the month. And the store was busy all day with “a […]
MUSKOKA — Police have made a couple more charges after an accident in Bracebridge and traffic infraction in Gravenhurst. They charged a man with impaired operation early Sunday this week. On July 20, at 2 a.m., an officer conducting patrols on Muskoka Road South near Phillip Street in Gravenhurst observed a traffic infraction. The officer conducted […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — International anxieties aside today — if ever — premiers tackled other pressing national domestic issues on Day 3 of Council of Federation talks with immigration top of political minds. While Doug Ford’s bail reforms fizzled beyond the provincial and territorial table . A day after Prime Minister Mark Carney […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — If Lucy Maud Montgomery were still alive, she’d have written a touching love story about Anne (with an E) meeting the owners of Bala’s Museum. Jack Hutton and Linda Jackson would star as themselves in the TV and stage musical. They might even have appeared somewhere in Stephen Leacock’s […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Who in Muskoka hasn’t sat around the fireplace in to the wee early hours “solving all the problems of the world?” Doug Ford and Mark Carney did that last night at the premier’s Port Sydney “shack.” The fate of the country’s trade, tariffs and Trump conundrum may well have […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — In a town made famous by Tom Thomson’s views of Canada, a meeting room here bearing his name is where a new vision of the country will be drawn today and tomorrow with new Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting at the head of the talks table. It starts this […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Canada’s premiers arrived in Muskoka today united and hungry for peace with Donald Trump. And tonight on the menu at Doug Ford’s Port Sydney cottage BBQ with first ministers — and possibly the prime minister — are tough talks on trade and tariffs by the end of July. Ontario’s […]