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Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival - Midland Hosting Annual Event for Ninth Year

Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival officially announced today that it will return to the Town of Midland’s downtown core and waterfront on June 10, 2023.

“Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival is one of the Town’s annual highlights and we can’t wait to welcome festival visitors to Midland this June,” said Mayor Bill Gordon. The Mayor will be at the festival to declare it open at 9 a.m., following the Piping of the Tart throughout the festival with the Midland Legion’s Pipes and Drums.

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Midland proclaims Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month

Whereas, multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often disabling neurological disease affecting an estimated 1 in 400 Canadians and approximately 90,000 across the country; and  

Whereas, multiple sclerosis symptoms vary widely and may lead to problems with numbness, coordination, vision and speech, as well as extreme fatigue and even paralysis; and  

Whereas, there is no known cause of, prevention of, or cure for multiple sclerosis; and  

Whereas, annual fundraising events such as the MS Walk, MS Bike, and A...

Midland Fire Department Receives Pawesome Donation

Paws up! The Midland Fire Department is committed to helping our furry friends during fire emergencies with an equipment donation of pet oxygen masks from Invisible Fence Brand of South Central Ontario Inc! 

Invisible Fence® Brand created Project Breathe™ is a pet oxygen mask donation program designed to provide oxygen mask kits to fire departments and other first responders. Each kit includes a small, medium, and large mask; the Midland Fire department received two kits from Project Breath™.

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Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III

The Town of Midland joined fellow Canadians, the Commonwealth countries, and citizens around the world in recognizing the Coronation of their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

As the first coronation to take place since Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, it was a historic moment for Canadians and people around the world to witness such an event in their lifetime. The Coronation took place on May 6, 2023, at Westminster Abbey in London, UK, where British monarchs had been crowned...

Midland proclaims National Day of Awareness for MMIWG2S

Whereas Canada is the first North American country to officially recognize the disappearance of Indigenous women; and

Whereas, in 2015, Canada launched the National Inquiry of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG2S) at the request of Indigenous families, organizations, and Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and

Whereas May 5, 2023, marks the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People in Canada, also known as “Red...