Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Doctors don’t usually get hugs, handshakes and high-fives. Least not in public at a park. Dr. Stephen Rix had all three Saturday morning. Taking time out to attend the rally supporting fellow physicians was nice way to spend an hour or so with his young son. Better than digging […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Yesterday’s surprise announcement that talks between doctors and the MAHC board tomorrow will be virtual has caught a lot of people off guard. Oh, to have been a fly on that wall had it remained at the Utterson Town Hall as planned until Monday. Alas the fate of hospitals […]
MUSKOKA — If your phone blares at you this Friday morning don’t be alarmed. It’s only a test. The Muskoka Emergency Response Committee (MERC) has scheduled a test of the #AlertMuskoka system, powered by Voyent Alert!, at 10 a.m. This test is taking place during Emergency Preparedness Week to support the community’s readiness for actual […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — An anticipated face-off between MAHC and south Muskoka MDs Wednesday has been cancelled and instead will be held via zoom. The third meeting to work out differences between the physicians’ ‘Care Close to Home’ model and Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s ‘Made in Muskoka’ health care plan was to be held […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — In a public square the people’s voice was heard loud and cheer. “54 and Care Close to Home!” “54 and Care Close to Home!” Organizers of Saturday’s “support for doctors” couldn’t be more clear, as Dan Waters and Phyllis Winngton-Ingram led hundreds in the repeated chants — which may […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A family feud fast devolving in to a Muskoka health crisis witnesses the critical divide both sides sneer at in U.S. And increasingly around the world and now on campuses closer to home. Muskoka hospitals are about healing, not hurting. This is a family break-up that has parents, children, […]
HUNTSVILLE — A local man accused of a sexual assault here Wednesday was held for a bail hearing and remanded in custody. Police say that after a report and investigation they arrested Isiah Hamilton, 24, of Huntsville, charging him with sexual assault. At 11:20 a.m., police received a report from a victim of a sexual […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — May the 4th be with them. That’s what south Muskoka doctors and their patients wish each other tomorrow morning as they unite at Memorial Park in Bracebridge at 10 a.m. Bring a smile and a cookie May 4 to show your support for physicians lobbying to keep the more […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — There’s good and bad news for residents and drivers here. James Street is soon going to get some paving; but it’s also going to have more traffic as Bay Street and beyond is going to be closed most of this summer and fall from Muldrew Lake Road heading east […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Rotary is getting closer every day to rocking your musical world. Construction on their new Rotary Rocks the Barge amphitheatre seating project and waterfront reconstruction — in conjunction with the Town of Gravenhurst — is halfway complete on the banks of Gull Lake Rotary Park as tons of slabs […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Two public rallies to show support for South Muskoka Memorial Hospital are planned this weekend and next Wednesday. Save South Muskoka Hospital (SSMH) members are calling for another huge turnout Saturday, May 4 at 10 a.m., at Memorial Park in downtown Bracebridge; and on Wednesday, May 8 at 5:30 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The first casualty of war is truth. And the war over Muskoka health care is a prime example — or be it said a primary care example. Every story has two sides and until the victor writes this hospitals history (MAHC has already begun with its own journey website […]
GRAVENHURST — A 31-year-old Toronto man has drown Sunday in Lake Muskoka just before noon. Police say the visitor to the area took a kayak out onto Lake Muskoka, near Taylor Island, and encountered difficulties causing him to enter the water. OPP along with their Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (USRU) conducted a thorough search […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The latest tit for tat war being waged by the two sides in the hospital debate doesn’t bode well for negotiations in public and next month in private. Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare refutes claims by doctors relying on statistical population data released this week. It said today in its weekly […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — South Muskoka doctors are all calling for “at least 54” acute care beds in south Muskoka and 62 in Huntsville, which could bring local hospitals closer to the “equal” status many call for. “Gains” “headway” and “negotiated” improvements are fine, but MAHC’s 40 per cent cut in beds in […]
MUSKOKA — A close call Friday night has a Port Carling man charged with impaired driving. He’s one of two alcohol-related incidents the past three days. On April 19 at 10 p.m. police were called to a commercial parking lot on Wellington Street near Monck Road in Bracebridge after a vehicle was seen scraping along […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A new dedicated MAHC website puts its case to the public for two distinctly different hospitals and includes its latest spring offering. The site created by Algonquin Digital, which operated the IT portion of their recent community meetings, provides all of the information shown on screens in those often […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Keeping tabs on Rotary community projects (all thanks to donors like you) is a like predicting the weather. It’s always changing. Last month in Bracebridge they raised $29,000 for Ukrainians and to bring another Syrian family to the Heart of Muskoka. Here in Gateway to Muskoka the big news […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com QUEEN’S PARK — A petition “to disregard” MAHC directors has officially been presented to the province. It only took half a minute yesterday for MPP Ric Bresee, member for Hasting-Lennox and Addington, to stand in the legislature yesterday during petitions period to present the signatures of more than 4,000 people in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — “Transparency, clarity and inclusiveness” are this week’s catchwords for Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare as they admit to trying to convince a skeptical public — notably those in south Muskoka — of what’s being proposed of late (this week) as it works toward a late 2024 twin-hospitals proposal to the province. […]