20+ hour, 2+ min ago   (519+ words) You probably won’t hear much about environmental issues during the municipal election, since there are so many competing crises to deal with, but the cost of dealing with the coming whirlwind is very much a bottom-line matter. Reflecting the general…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1060+ words) Barrie Fire Chief Kevin White was just a few years into his career when Al‑Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes on Sept. 11, 2001, two of which were flown into the World Trade Center, but it was the profession’s deep sense of…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (344+ words) It marks the first time Canada has fielded a team for the WAWE World Championship. The championship is hosted by the Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre — the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art — and brings together 74 riders from 22 nations....

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (582+ words) The SportsKlub Orillia slo-pitch season is down to its final games. Two best-of-three series got underway Sunday morning at Tudhope Park, with the Wagner Lawn Care Angels defeating the Studabakers Beachside Rockies 9-5 in Game 1 of the Fall Classic, while the…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (746+ words) Orillia may be hundreds of kilometres from the Canada-U.S. border's major manufacturing hubs, but local businesses aren't insulated from the escalating trade war between the two countries. In fact, the biggest impact in Orillia may have little to do with…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (581+ words) Student and Family Support Offices opened at school boards across Ontario last week, due to changes made by the provincial government last year. However, those “offices” are actually an email, webpage and a phone number that will be monitored by…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (266+ words) The steamship Enterprise was never considered among the better steamships plying Lake Simcoe, and by the last years of her 40-year career she was almost un-seaworthy. And yet, people in Lake Simcoe’s lakeshore communities had a warm place in their…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1124+ words) As Muskoka prepares to change how it plans for flood risk, residents, the District Municipality of Muskoka and watershed advocates agree the region faces a serious flooding problem — but they don’t agree on what should be done about it. Stop…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (169+ words) OrilliaMatters.com Swing bridge to bear memorial signs for fallen OPP officer Provincial Const. Hovingh, aged 52, was tragically shot while responding to a call near Gore Bay on Manitoulin Island. He died on Nov. 19, 2020. He was survived by his wife…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (159+ words) OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will announce an extension of the gas-tax holiday at a press conference in Ottawa today. The Liberals temporarily suspended the federal 10-cent-per-litre excise tax on gas in April when the war in Iran caused global…...