Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION A national universal pharmacare plan is wonderful news. I let government officials at all levels know that this week. Contraception and diabetes are the first subsidized medications that will go to Parliament for approval ahead of a March 1 deadline. However, I read that the provinces will decide on what […]
Ed. note: Gravenhurst has recently lost a doctor and Port Carling has lost the only physician in Muskoka Lakes. Both belonged to the Cottage Family Health Team, which sufferered a further blow when the Ministry of Health turned down a proposal to expand services in the two communities. CCFHT is asking why surrounding communities received […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A biting wind was no match for the sun and shinny on Lake Muskoka this weekend for another annual hockey fest. This year’s winter lite didn’t stop hundreds of slap-happy puck purists who gathered under the sun for a glorious game of what makes us Canadian. The battle for […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — This week’s coldest nights of the year were capped with another “Coldest Day of the Year” walk yesterday. Hundreds of walkers and volunteers raised more than $173,000 in the annual Gravenhurst Against Poverty trek through town for food security. The 336 who registered gathered at the Lion’s Pavilion on […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — No final decision on the fate of Muskoka’s hospitals is forthcoming. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare said today that talks continue widely and that its board of directors will not be approving a recommendation on a future model of care at its next scheduled meeting in March. This follows meetings this […]
MUSKOKA — Three x-ray sites at MAHC are open again as walk-in service centres — in Burk’s Falls, Huntsville and Bracebridge — after four years due to COVID. No appointment is necessary. MAHC will no longer schedule x-ray appointments Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare says today, Feb. 22, that it is resuming walk-in only service for outpatient […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — South Muskoka doctors aren’t waiting for a meeting tonight with Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare and have released a counter proposal that would see 90 inpatient beds at South Muskoka and 50 at Huntsville. As well as obstetrics at both sites and no Level 3 ICU beds at Huntsville. They’re calling […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — MPP Graydon Smith, under weeks of pressure in south Muskoka to help its hospital, gave more than $1.26 million to Family Health Teams (FHT) in Huntsville, Sundridge, Burk’s Falls and Wasauksing First Nation today. At two Ford government announcements he attended in the morning and afternoon on Friday in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — A fatal accident two years ago that claimed the life of a 22-year-old Burk’s Falls customer has led to a proposed liquor licence suspension for a local roadhouse restaurant. Colton Orr, 22, of Burk’s Falls, died shortly after driving away from Kelsey’s Original Roadhouse on Howland Drive in Huntsville, […]
HUNTSVILLE — The Fire Marshal’s office has been called in to investigate a late morning fire here on Valentine’s Day in which a one person was taken to hospital. At 11:40 a.m. February 14, the Huntsville/Lake of Bays Fire Fighters responded to a structure fire on North Waseosa Lake Road in Huntsville. Crews from Station […]
HUNTSVILLE — Two Severn Bridge residents face charges involving a $680,000 fake GIC investment. OPP in Huntsville charged the pair in relation to an investigation just over a month before Christmas. On November 18, 2023, members of the Huntsville Detachment along with Muskoka Crime Unit and Anti-Rackets Branch of the OPP commenced a fraud investigation […]
“Solidarity, solidarity, solidarity forever.” “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Out, out, out!” Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Coal mining, we know today, causes global warming. In 1984-85 when the fossil fuel still powered global industrial growth, Britain’s “Iron Lady” prime minister Maggie Thatcher took on northeast England miners in a bid to close collieries and strike […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The ball’s back in MAHC’s court after its ninth hospitals model meeting, as they decide how to respond to public outcry about two unequal hospital sites in the coming months before submitting the “proposal” to the province. Or whether they should alter it after hearing from residents and patients. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner says Ontario has unspent billions it could spend on health care including Muskoka’s hospitals. He says the province ranks last in health care spending per capita in Canada. “We are the bottom.” The leader of the two-member party — as expected — waded in […]
GRAVENHURST — A 31-year-old Gravenhurst woman has been charged with mischief after a confrontation here February 3. Police say today that at 8:15 p.m. officers responded to an emergency call from a tenant residing in a duplex on First Street South, after a woman, who the caller believed may have been a guest from another […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — MPP Graydon Smith, who originally said he would address the public after all hospital meetings — but who instead addressed an angry hometown crowd in Bracebridge Tuesday night — released a formal statement this afternoon in which he reiterated what he said three days ago. Today he put that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — After hundreds of the public here were locked out of an overflow meeting last week on a new Muskoka hospitals model, a second opportunity to talk about the plan will take place Monday. With capacity for 650 more to speak — double the number allowed last week. Muskoka Algonquin […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Debbie Thomson likes to keep an eye on things. She’s content to watch and observe. Let the others do the talking, says her husband Rob. But when she heard Town Crier Bruce Kruger announce the opening of the new Muskoka Alzheimer’s office at the north end of Manitoba Street, […]
GRAVENHURST — An investigation in to a “serious assault” last Thursday has police charging three Gravenhurst men with assault causing bodily harm. The assault took place February 1 on First Street South they say took place at a “busy residence,” OPP say today. The victim was able to get out of the residence and was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PORT CARLING — The sixth — and maybe not the last — MAHC hospitals meeting drew another large crowd last night. MPP Graydon Smith, who spoke out the evening before in Bracebridge calling for calm in the debate, was not present. But Muskoka Lakes Mayor Peter Kelley, who has attended most […]
