Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Vaccines won’t be mandatory for all Ontarians — but in a step in the right direction health and education workers will have to be vaccinated by Sept. 7 or else …. This as the health unit reports 14 cases in Simcoe and 1 in Muskoka — a Georgian Bay […]
MUSKOKA — A local labour dispute threatens health services for children with rehabilitative needs including occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and autism. A strike mandate for the 73 professional workers represented by OPSEU/SEFPO at One Kids Place (OKP) has been issued by members to its bargaining team. In all 97 per cent voted […]
MUSKOKA LAKES — A Bracebridge man was airlifted to hospital in Toronto late this morning after a head-on collision. Provincial police says officers along with Muskoka EMS and Muskoka Lakes Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle collision on Muskoka Road 118 near Milford Bay just before 11:00 a.m. The head-on collision left one driver trapped […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Three of the 44 cases reported today by the health unit were in Muskoka — and they continue a local trend that last week saw a 165 per cent jump in cases since the first week of August. The new cases are the latest weekend update since Friday by […]
Well, I’m about to celebrate my seventh anniversary as a tea drinker. Not just a run of the mill tea drinker, but rather a green tea sipper to the max. Someone told me that drinking green tea is a healthy habit and will cause you to live forever. Of course, being a Christian I was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com Natalia Hawthorn is back on track today after a near disaster almost befell her at the Olympics. The Bracebridge-born, North Vancouver resident is in Memphis with a new goal to meet the 1,500m world championships qualifying time for next July in Eugene, Oregon. That will be almost a year after Tokyo, […]
TARA COLLUM | Contributing columnist Sometimes the subway needs to shut down at rush hour and it can take a long time to get people back on their way. And long lines form as people wait for shuttle buses. A few years ago a dog somehow got on the tracks and the TTC shut down […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — Call her COVID #19. A Muskoka Lakes girl who tested positive for the coronavirus is among 19 regional residents with the dreaded Delta variant. The health unit says the under-18 child is under investigation after being reported yesterday with a first episode Tuesday. She is among 510 cases the […]