TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist In April 2021 in Kamloops a CBC news van was vandalized with “fake news” scrawled across the door in clumsy black spray-paint. My previous column about the truck convoy was called “ignorant,” “propaganda,” “misrepresentation” and on Twitter I was called, “a moron.” My article dubbed “garbage” and a tweet by […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s about as wide as his house and almost as tall. Andrey Petrov’s latest, largest and most difficult snow sculpture of Canada’s Parliament Building 17 feet tall — plus a Canadian flag on top — and 34 feet wide. It’s 8,000 pounds and took 136 blue boxes worth of […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With COVID hitting the highest office in the land, local public health reports 355 weekend cases. As of yesterday 61 were in hospital and 7 in ICU, says the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. They also report 4 new deaths since their last update Friday, including 1 more in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A second person is dead today after also hitting a tree. Police are on scene Monday investigating a single-vehicle accident east of Bracebridge late this morning. The OPP say this afternoon that they were called to the collision on Fraserburg Road in Bracebridge, Jan. 31, at 10 a.m. The […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BALA — A snowmobiler who crawled out of the water Saturday afternoon after going through the ice in Lake Muskoka has been safely located. Police say they received a call at 2:18 p.m. Saturday reporting a sledder escaping an icy plunge. Bystanders watched the man get out of the water and […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist We got a big old trucking convoy headed toward Ottawa … a convoy! I have been to protests and demonstrations, but only peaceful ones. I’ve never been to one where the crowd was beat on by batons or arrested. I’ve heard of such protests, from a professor with a doctorate […]
GEORGIAN BAY – Police charged a Caledon trucker with impaired driving yesterday after a single vehicle collision on Hwy. 400. They say that on Thursday Jan. 27, at 7:17 p.m., officers received a call from a driver who was involved in the accident. The transport had jack-knifed on Hwy. 400 NB in Georgian Bay Township. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — As Canada’s top doc says Omicron has “peaked,” 8 new COVID deaths in the region today were all aged 80+. They include 3 from outbreaks in Muskoka. Male 80+, community, Jan. 24, Simcoe Female 80+, community, Jan. 22, Simcoe Male 80+, outbreak, Jan. 22, Simcoe Female 80+, community, Jan. […]