TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist In China and Uzbekistan the government forces people into the back-breaking labour of cotton picking. That is what government repression looks like. Was the government overstepping when it banned indoor smoking? Remember when Tim Hortons in Gravenhurst had the glass walled-off smoking room? Guess how fun it was as a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Doug Ford declared a state of emergency today. For Muskoka’s most famous cottager it might as well have been about political damage control, after the publicly AWOL premier was spotted snowmobiling here Saturday as anti-vaxx protests rocked the province and country. Today in a firm, but politically calculated, message […]
GRAVENHURST — A traffic stop last night led police on a two-hour chase that ended just after midnight today with drug charges against two York Region men. Police also seized a loaded pistol. Both men are in custody and appeared in the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge today for a bail hearing. This was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Muskoka has had 1,195 confirmed COVID cases since Dec. 12. Since the beginning of the fifth wave 7 per cent of Simcoe-Muskoka’s cases have been Omicron, says the health unit in new statistics requested yesterday by MuskokaTODAY.com and released to us today. They say the total for the latest […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s curtains up and new doors are open on the Opera House as the box office reopened today with tickets on sale for the first show in almost two years March 26. And 305 newly upholstered seats await you upstairs in the theatre, where extensive renovations the past 18 […]
HUNTSVILLE — A burning candle is being blamed for a fire that caused $50,000 damage to rural home here in Huntsville yesterday. “With working smoke alarms and the occupants closing the doors as they evacuated the home, fire damage was limited to the room of origin and spared the home from heavy damage,” said interim […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Dr. Charles Gardner “feels for the people impacted” by trucker protests and says continuation of the vaccine passports while not generally providing that much protection to the public will still “help reduce transmission to those who are unvaccinated.” The region’s medical officer of health said today: “I do note […]
LOIS COOPER | MuskokaTODAY.com These are troubling times in the world, but the trouble in Canada is of grave concern to me. This wonderful country of ours seems to be in a winter of great discontent to a vocal segment of the country’s population. I ask myself over and over, what I can do to […]