Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — South Muskoka doctors cite a “toxic environment, widespread mistrust and frustration, both publicly and within Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare.” This as the MAHC board is expected to vote Tuesday on a motion calling for its consultants to “proceed with the formal, detailed planning … for the Stage 1.3 submission to […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com CHARLOTTETOWN — Jack Hutton looks like a scholar — with his bushy eyebrows, braces and bent posture that makes him appear as if listening or speaking with quiet authority. He and his wife Linda Hutton-Jackson were among similar company last week as they received a rare award for their Bala Museum […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — First it was Gravenhurst — now it’s Bracebridge. Has the Heart of Muskoka lost its heart for its hospital? The town has instructed the Save South Muskoka Hospital group to take a step back with their signs. Supporters have until Friday at 2 p.m. to remove their distinctive red […]
PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Long-term care providers will receive $786,453 from the province to assist residents with complex health needs. Parry Sound-Muskoka residents will have access to new items such as IV equipment, bariatrics equipment bed support, bladder scanners, and ECGs. The funding also included important everyday things like slip-proof floor mats, wrap around bed rails […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — MPP Graydon Smith says he is “pleased” that MAHC and south Muskoka doctors are at least sitting down again to attempt to resolve their serious differences as a fall deadline for submitting a proposal supported by the full communities soon approaches. In a statement yesterday, which comes the same […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The middle ground between MAHC and south Muskoka doctors remains an unrelenting battle ground. After another attempt at a resolution last week, presented by some mayors, the impasse remains. Bracebridge Mayor Rick Maloney, who hosted the meeting, couldn’t bridge the growing gulf. Dr. Rohit Gupta, who was only there […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Kim King sat in the middle of Memorial Park this afternoon, with rain drizzling around her — an old umbrella in one hand, a thumbs up in the other and a big grin on her face. She sat only a few feet from the band shell to hear the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — “Quality patient care” — always at the heart of hospital discussions — was again the primary focus of south Muskoka doctors in another round of talks with Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare this week. It’s at least some healthy progress in the stubborn stalemate with physicians that not long ago had […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SOUTH MUSKOKA — A march down main street Bracebridge Sunday afternoon will coincide with a rally by the Save South Muskoka Hospital committee. Ontario Green Party co-deputy leader Matt Green has been invited to speak at Memorial Park at 1 p.m. after meeting at 12:45 p.m. outside MPP Graydon Smith’s Manitoba […]
Bob Pomerantz, Special to MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The 31st annual Chamber of Commerce car show provided plenty of eye candy — like the 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Retractable hardtop convertible; or the ’68 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow; or the R.E.O. (for company founder Ransom Eli Olds) Speed Wagons or even the odd, amphibious cars wading […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s not the heat, but the rain that’s postponed Thursday’s 2 p.m. Rotary Rocks the Barge grand opening. The much anticipated new summer seating by the service club and town was rescheduled at the last minute after sudden “untimely” torrential rains overnight Monday made final landscaping impossible. Flooding and […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Jim Bravo had an idea for Gravenhurst’s main street. And the Toronto muralist is realizing it on the north side of the Bethune Bistro. A 15- x 30-foot canvas wall that’s been ripe for the painting for years. A prized commission from District of Muskoka commission for the award-winning […]
MUSKOKA — Three break-ins in Huntsville and Baysville have police asking for help in their investigations. On Friday June 7 the OPP learned a break-in on West Road in Huntsville was broken into overnight in which cash was stolen. The same day — between 2 p.m. and 7 a.m. Friday morning — another business was […]
Ed. note: Roma Kassian, of Port Carling, made the following submission Tuesday at the Ontario Health Coalition meeting and provided it to MuskokaTODAY.com when asked. Discussion around proposals for two new hospitals for Muskoka have often been misrepresented as a competition between the communities of Bracebridge and Huntsville, as in a recent Toronto Star headline […]
Letter to the editor: We attended the meeting at the Bracebridge Legion Tuesday morning. I didn’t speak. However, if I did, my point is this: The plan to truck patients from Bracebridge to Huntsville is not practical. When we get out to Hwy. 11 our vehicles turn south only. If we are needing medical attention […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION The Ontario Health Coalition held a public hearing in Bracebridge on Tuesday at the Bracebridge Legion, in its work to develop recommendations for the future of our local hospitals, including in small, rural and northern communities. Several residents made presentations. Presenters referred to the promise made during the 2018 provincial […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Greg Poole grew up with a camera in one hand and a hockey stick or bat in the other. He’s a fourth generation photographer who has opened “Portraits in the Park” in Gull Lake Rotary Park. His great-grandfather, Herbert, had a photo shop on corner of Toronto’s Queen Street […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Summer is about to sizzle — heating up this week. With temperatures expected to return to 30+ degrees the next couple of months. That means more Muskoka outdoor events. Including this weekend at the Gravenhurst Legion, which is hosting two days of food and music day and night respectively. […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The Ontario Health Coalition held a public hearing here today as it develops recommendations for the future of local hospitals — including small, rural and northern communities like Muskoka. Several residents made presentations. Also in attendance were Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner; France Gélinas, NDP MPP for Nickel Belt […]
Greg Hammond, Special to MuskokaTODAY.com WAHTA — This morning MAC artist Greg Hammond presented his piece “Honouring Herman Stock” to Chief Phillip Franks of Wahta First Nation. “Honouring Herman Stock” is a tribute that captures the spirit, valour and legacy of a young man from the Wahta First Nation, who was killed 80 years ago […]