Posts & Podcasts

  • Earth Day Should Be Everyday

    Here are a few events taking place this week and things to do at home all year round This Saturday, April 22 is Earth Day and there are plenty of ways to do your part to celebrate: raise awareness, pick up garbage on your road, turn off those lights for most of the day, use Read more

  • Rents Rising

    I peaked at current rental listings in Muskoka and compared them to the national average There seems to be a common knowledge that renting any type of decent unit (room, apartment, home) is a very expensive venture throughout Canada. However, in light of recent social media – and in person – discussions among my friends Read more

  • Leave Lawns Alone – For Now

    Don’t rake the leaves and let the dandelions go to seed to give the pollinators what they need One of the main things we’ve learned owning a home with a large yard, a couple of gardens and adjacent to a ravine that is full of trees is that pollinators come in all shapes and sizes. Read more

  • Increasing performance, mitigating risk

    Dr. Lowell Greib, MSC ND CISSN, chats about what’s new in the world of sports medicine New techniques and technologies blended with tried and true methods for performance enhancement are helping sports medicine professionals take athletes to the next level. In a world where shaving off a second of reaction time can be the difference Read more

  • Top 10 ways to get to know your community

    Many have relocated during the past three years and it’s not easy when you’re new Almost everyone knows that weird feeling of being the new kid in class, that new person on the job, or any other social situation where you don’t really know anyone else. It can be even tougher when you completely uproot Read more

  • Time to honour true telephone inventor

    It’s Meucci’s birthday week and the perfect time to give him his due It’s a bold statement that to this day elicits mixed reactions: “Alexander Graham Bell was nothing more than a common thief.” Anglo Saxons often get their back up about this statement, while Italians are prone to agree and nod in supportive approval. Read more