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Norah Fountain (born October 21, 1960) is a Canadian writer, journalist and activist. She is presently the editor of Muskoka News Watch. A native of Torrance, Muskoka, Ontario, Fountain received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Studies and the Arts from Nipissing University and earned a Print and Broadcast Journalism Diploma from Humber College School of Media and Information Technology. Fountain has been a news anchor, reporter and/or producer for CFBG FM The Moose, [|Canadian Press-Broadcast News], [|CFNY FM], CRN Radio (Ski Watch) and CKO Radio News Network. As a freelance writer, Fountain has published articles in Muskoka Magazine, Diver Magazine, What's Up Muskoka, Beyond the City Magazine (now Muskoka Life), and she was the editor of Dive Ontario for the Ontario Underwater Council.

As a school trustee for the Trillium Lakelands District School board, Fountain was successful in stopping a change in the school year calendar that residents and businesses worried might have a negative impact on the seasonal economies of Muskoka, Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton.

An advocate for affordable, equal access to broadband technology, Fountain applied and received on behalf of the Township of Muskoka Lakes, Muskoka Lakes Chamber of Commerce and Wahta First Nation $30,000 business plan development grant from the federal Broadband for Rural and Northern Development program which resulted in a combined fibre-wireless broadband technology plan and proposed public-private community broadband network. It did not proceed but Fountain is recognized for helping gain $10million in funding for broadband and ICT development in northern Ontario and resulted in an active project by Core Broadband in Muskoka (See Broadband Canada List of Projects). In 2012, Fountain was nominated in two categories in the Muskoka Technology Achievement Awards.