Erika Engel

1 week ago | collingwoodtoday.ca | Erika Engel

The family that stays active together grows together. At least that's the case for Sarah Applegarth and her family, who have been training and teaching at Active Life Conditioning since it began 15 years ago. This week, the local gym celebrates an anniversary milestone, and Applegarth is marking it with an expansion and a throwback to the same excitement and nervousness she felt when she took her personal training business from her basement to a space at Cranberry Mews 15 years ago.

2 weeks ago | collingwoodtoday.ca | Erika Engel

For the last three years, Jillian Morris has been stringing words together and sowing connections in the community as Collingwood's poet laureate. A lot has happened since she applied for the role in 2022 with "zero expectations and zero plans."  The community came through COVID-19, Morris helped organize and host events around Indigenous storytelling, she wrote poems for sombre occasions, celebratory days, and formal events.

2 weeks ago | orilliamatters.com | Erika Engel

It appears Canadians were a lot more motivated to vote in this election than they were in the last election, when turnout rates were among the lowest in federal election history. This time, however, the national turnout was around 67 per cent of voters, up almost about five per cent from 2021. And this year's count doesn't include the voters who registered on election day or the approximately one per cent of polls not counted yet, so it will likely end up above 70 per cent.

2 weeks ago | collingwoodtoday.ca | Erika Engel

This will be the last election for Simcoe-Grey Liberal candidate Bren Munro, who was proud to see Mark Carney elected Prime Minister of Canada and to see more votes for the Liberals in her riding. Munro said the Liberals are building a base in Simcoe-Grey, and she's been part of that for the last two federal elections. After thanking the volunteers and her campaign team at a party at Black Bellows in Collingwood, Munro said the local riding results were "respectable" for the Liberals.

2 weeks ago | collingwoodtoday.ca | Erika Engel

Alex Ruff will get his seat back in Ottawa after winning the Simcoe-Grey-Owen Sound riding again for the Conservatives. With 85 of 277 polls reporting in, Ruff has almost 54 per cent of the vote, or 5,989 votes, in the riding of 95,783 voters. Anne Marie Watson, the Liberal candidate, is second behind Ruff with 4,082 votes and almost 37 per cent of the vote. The NDP candidate Christopher Neudorf has 457 votes, and the Green candidate, Natasha Akiwenzie picked up 365 votes.