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 […]

GRAVENHURST — A 46-year-old Gravenhurst man was transported to hospital and further flown to a Toronto area hospital with life-threatening injuries after a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian in Gravenhurst today. On July 21, at 7:10 a.m., police and Muskoka EMS responded to the Gravenhurst Parkway at the north end of the Muskoka Airport […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA LAKES TOWNSHIP — A 22-year-old Georgia man was airlifted to Toronto yesterday with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a boater on Skeleton Lake late in the afternoon. And a Niagara Falls man, 39, was in bail court today charged Impaired Operation Causing Bodily Harm, Fail to Stop at an […]

LETTER to Editor: Re: Lois Cooper’s health care survey column here. Many thanks for the summary of the many short comings in the current local health care system. It is utterly confusing to deal with easily unless you have a day or two to stay on your telephone before you pass away. You also point […]