Category Archives: Collingwood News

The province's paid sick leave program is being extended until the end of the year. Ontario's Worker Income Protection Benefit, which mandates three paid sick days, was initially set to expire on Sept...

The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit is reporting 27 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths. New cases include 14 in Barrie, 2 each in Collingwood and Huntsville, 4 in Innisfil, and a case each in Br...

Provincial police report a fatal motorcycle crash on Highway 12 near Gervais Road in Tay Township. A media release from the Southern Georgian Bay Detachment says a motorist came upon the scene Tuesday...

Mayor Doug Measures would like to announce that all members of Clearview Council have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Made individually, the decision to receive both doses was to protect their...

CGMH is going to close the temporary Alternate Health Facility (AHF) at the Collingwood Legion. Effective tomorrow (Sept 1) , the hospital will stop transferring patients to the AHF and the care of an...

With the start of school quickly approaching, the Simcoe-Muskoka Catholic District School Board knows that students and families are experiencing a wide range of emotions about the return to classes a...

There are now fewer COVID-19 symptoms that would require children to stay home from school or daycare. The provincial government has removed a runny nose, sore throat, headache, and extreme tiredness ...

The Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit is reporting 51 new COVID-19 cases today and no new deaths. Today's update also includes 1 new hospitalization and 32 newly resolved cases. To date, 81 percent ...

A 25-year-old Barrie man has died while swimming in Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario. OPP divers recovered the body of Yuriy Zhlobitskyy on Sunday. Police were called Saturday afternoon to a beach at...

Please click on the candidate's name below for more details on their campaign. (The incumbents are marked with a *) BARRIE-INNISFIL PC-John Brassard *   LIB-Lisa Marie Wilson NDP-Aleesha Gostkows...