Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Three months ago today the Gateway to Muskoka was plugged with snow. People were trapped in their homes, traffic was stopped on Hwy. 11 and good Samaritans did their best to help out. Somehow with the help of plows and plow drivers, volunteers and governments’ aid we survived the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — T&T blew up Ontario last night. Trump and tariffs turned a Tory win in to a Green loss here in this riding even in a tiny way. Reached this morning Matt Richter for a post-election interview, he MuskokaTODAY.com that “disappointment and frustration was a better way to put […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Graydon Smith defied defeat tonight as local PCs came out in more numbers to hold off the improved Greens for a second time in 36 months. In the end it wasn’t even close as many locally and provincewide thought it would. The returning MPP’s loyal Conservative faithful went […]
MUSKOKA — A short hospital emergency back-up power outage from 8 p.m. to midnight in Huntsville will mean longer ER wait times at MAHC’s south Muskoka site. The four-hour planned outage is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. and end by midnight. MAHC says the shutdown is necessary to connect the under construction MRI suite […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Time to definitively vote — one way or t’other. First, why would anyone in Gravenhurst vote PC after yet another government failure to secure the fates of the former Ontario Fire College and Muskoka Centre? And why vote for the Greens when they talk about helping small […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — In a tighter-than-expected race, local candidates are scrambling in the final days to push them over the top Thursday. With some surprising curve balls centred squarely on the election’s defining issue of the Muskoka hospitals redevelopment. The 2,200 vote gap in June 2022 between PC Graydon Smith and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — With a rush election and barely 12 per cent of residents casting their ballots in the three days of advance polling late last week, there are still more than 70,000 votes and counting to go on the provincial election day Thursday. Kim Bordeleau, the Elections Ontario returning officer […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — The Greens are gearing up for a major endorsement tomorrow in Huntsville from some local Muskoka doctors. This as party and public polls show a tightening race that is closely being watch. And with more than 10,000 people having already voted in last Thursday, Friday and Saturday’s advanced, says […]