Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKKOA — As the prime minister ended the Emergencies Act today — two day after Parliament passed it — local COVID cases rose by a quarter to a third regionally — depending on whose numbers you rely on. Trudeau said Wednesday that the first time special powers are no longer needed […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com TORONTO — Norm Miller who served at your voting pleasure hopes to go out at your boating pleasure. The Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP — who began his final legislative run this week as he is not running again June 2 — had his private member’s Bill 76, the Lifejackets for Life Act, pass its […]
HUNTSVILLE — Muskoka’s second district-run LTC will become official June 30. Fairvern Nursing Home operations, which have been run by a private board, will come under District of Muskoka management in four months. Fairvern’s board and the district have been working on the deal for several years to support its redevelopment into a new 160-bed […]
PORT SYDNEY — Hwy. 11 was closed here in both directions in to late this morning as police investigated a collision involving two transports and cube van. Police said this morning that they are investigating what they call a “serious motor vehicle collision.” They say that at 1:115 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, officers from […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist My Aunt Pearl left New Brunswick for Toronto in search of better job opportunities. She found factory work and a job bagging sugar at the Red Path refinery. My dad followed in her footsteps, leaving his home province for adventures in Montreal and Scarborough before eventually settling in Muskoka. The […]
GRAVENHURST — Restrictions liftings means enjoying the great …. Forget the apple a day; a healthy lifestyle after two years of lockdowns means walk, run, skate or snowmobile. Whatever you choose you don’t lose Motion is the potion this winter — no matter the weather. Rain or shine Canadians are making the best of the February […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Amid the fallout in courts, Parliament and the Senate from Ottawa protests, local public health reports 67 COVID cases today. That’s more than twice the 32 Public Health Ontario (PHO) reported on its website Tuesday morning — including 43 Monday, 85 Sunday, 129 Saturday and 164 as we reported […]
MUSKOKA — Another overnight snowmobile accident has led to a death in Georgian Bay Township Sunday. Provincial police say that early yesterday morning two men were snowmobiling in Georgian Bay Township. The OPP received a 911 call shortly before 2 a.m., Feb. 20, after the single-vehicle collision on Six Mile Lake at the west shoreline […]