Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — With at least 45 Simcoe cases Friday, Canada’s top doc says variants are outpacing the national vaccine rollout. Dr. Theresa Tam says supply is not keeping up vis-à-vis demand — while promised Moderna doses have been delayed again to next week. This afternoon Ontario Premier Doug Ford called the […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An explosion of 2,380 Ontario COVID cases today includes 43 regionally, says the health unit this afternoon. The province reported 48 earlier today. Two of them are Muskoka males from Gravenhurst and Huntsville. The man from Gravenhurst, aged 35-44, was part of an outbreak and was first reported back […]

SIMCOE MUSKOKA — If you were born in 1951 or before it’s your turn to get vaccinated. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit said today adults 70 and older (born in 1951 or earlier), as well as all remaining (moderate priority) healthcare workers as identified in the Ministry of Health’s Guidance on Health Care Worker Prioritization can now […]

CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES — A couple thousand pot plants may seem like small potatoes for provincial police who announced a $1.8 million raid in southwestern Ontario. But a cottage country cannabis bust is a big deal in the Kawarthas. The OPP executed a Cannabis Act (CA) warrant Tuesday they say interrupted the illegal production […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Messages of condolence papered the front window of DTA this week. The heartfelt sentiments — and etched memories — were inside big red and white hearts tucked beneath dangling snowflakes and all expressed similar sympathies. Each was a personal connection with the DTA accountant who died March 15 of […]

PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — A forecast of 25-35mm of rain through Friday has the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) issuing a Watershed Conditions Statement – Water Safety. It is in place until Wednesday and affects residents in the MNRF’s Parry Sound District, which includes Muskoka, Parry Sound and a north-west Haliburton. They say higher […]

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — The buck(s) doesn’t stop at Queen’s Park. Nor should it now. Ontario’s budget this afternoon put billions of dollars in to play to stimulate the spring and summer economies, while promising to “protect lives and livelihoods.” All of it as Simcoe saw 44 more cases today and Muskoka none. […]