MUSKOKA — Owners of vacant units will no longer be able to apply for a tax rebate reduction. In response to a District of Muskoka request the province has authorized elimination of the Vacant Unit Rebate for the lower-tier municipalities in the District Municipality of Muskoka effective January 1, 2018. The Vacant Unit Rebate is […]
PARRY SOUND – We the north get a chance to hear what the next premier will be do for us Friday. Seventy-two hours after the official start of the Ontario election, Kathleeen Wynne, Doug Ford and Andrea Horwath will be at the Stockey Centre here for a debate at 11:30 a.m. It’s the final event […]
HUNTSVILLE — Timing is everything — so the Ontario Greens could have the jump. The night before the provincial electrion writ is dropped on Wednesday, Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner will be back in the local riding Tuesday night rallying the troops for the June 7 run. He will be visiting Huntsville on May 8, […]
MUSKOKA — Don’t hold your breath, but not one but two parties are promising to bring back the Northlander train. After Doug Ford said he’d put the Liberal-cancelled train back on the tracks, the NDP jumped on board Thursday. In Kenora this week, Ford promised if the Progressive Conservaties win June 7 he’d restore the […]
OTTAWA — A tearful Tony Clement said the job of being an MP is “a death trap.” He was responding to reporters’ questions Wednesday morning after fellow Tory MP Gordon Brown was found dead in his Parliament office today. Clement, said he had known Brown since 1981. The Parry Sound-Muskoka MP said being a member […]
ORILLIA — In the emerging and comlicated field of health care, Orillia’s Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital has a new leader. Carmine Stumpo will now head up OSMH. Dan Germain, chair of the hospital’s board of directors, announced Stumpo’s appointment as president and CEO, effective July 16. A release says Stumpo brings more than two decades of […]
QUEEN’S PARK — While the provincial election writ is dropped any day now (this week?) more clarity will emerge from the parties on health care funding. Defending MPP Norm Miller got another jump on it by introducing a motion calling on Kathleen Wynne’s government to “immediately review the funding formula for hospitals in order to […]
GRAVENHURST — With the NDP gaining ground, the Conservatives in the lead and the Liberals holding on for dear life, the first all-candidates meeting in Muskoka should be entertaining, enlightening and politcally enjoyable. So, get out your smartphones, open your calendar and enter: Date: May 15 Location: Gravenhurst Opera House Time: 6-8 p.m. And link […]
MUSKOKA — Works continues on Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s study and evaluation of its options for hospital care in the long-term future. Its Capital Plan Development Task Force met for its 15th meeting on April 9 to examine its Model Evaluation Criteria, they say in a release. The task force confirmed that its evaluation of the […]
QUEEN’S PARK — Thanks to “some amazing people,” Norm Miller’s save the hospitals petition has about 4,000 names in less than three weeks. The Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller made the following statement in the legislautre Tuesday, thanking the volunteers who have been working tirelessly to distribute and collect petitions to save the Huntsville District […]
QUEEN’S PARK — Sunday’s Earth Day celebration is an opportunity not to be wasted. In the lead up to Earth Day, Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller moved a motion calling upon the government to make Ontario a leader in the emerging field of compostable packaging. He’s been big on the issue urging the government in […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Learn how Trillium Lakelands District School Board is supporting Indigenous education through a special presentation May 17. Parents, students and the public are invited hear Jesse Wente speak at the Rene M. Caisse Theatre in Bracebridge at the 11th annual Parent and Community Evening for First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education. Wente is Ojibwe, […]
Mark Clairmont | TODAY.COM MUSKOKA — Under heat to come clean on more details about the future of hospitals in the region, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) has offered more details of programs and services proposed in each of the models. In a release Friday, April 13, they say that “through many workshops with clinicians and […]
BALA — Add a little more time to the commute through Bala this week for blasting. Muskoka Road 169 will be fully closed at the North Bridge twice daily for periods up to 30 minutes, warns to the District and Township of Muskoka Lakes. At 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. The closures are required to accommodate […]
Dear Editor: The following piece was submitted by the Ontario Health Coalition. On this week’s swing through Northwestern Ontario PC Party Leader Doug Ford cited wildly incorrect numbers for hospital bed costs and raised the spectre of another round of hospital bed cuts. Mr. Ford was quoted in Thunder Bay’s media yesterday falsely stating that […]
MUSKOKA — The Town of Bracebridge and the Town of Huntsville would like to remind residents that Parry Sound–Muskoka MPP Norm Miller has recently launched another petition, calling upon the Minister of Health and LongTerm Care, to commit to maintaining core hospital services at both South Muskoka Memorial Hospital site in Bracebridge and the Huntsville […]
HUNTSVILLE — Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Tony Clement will be hosting a Marching for Veterans event tomorrow (April 12) at his Huntsville constituency office, accepting and packing donations for a shipment to our soldiers serving in Latvia on a NATO mission. Toiletries, snacks, lip balms, sunblock, towels, socks, sweats and sewing kits are welcome – along […]
HUNTSVILLE — With global attention on election engineering, municipal voting is coming under a harsher light as the threat of third- party tampering emerges. To highlight and avoid that threat, the Town of Huntsville is reminding the community that the Ministry of Municipal Affairs will be hosting two free webinars focused on rules pertaining to […]
GRAVENHURST — FedNor grants and loans worth $7.1 million announced Wednesday at the Muskoka Airport in Gravenhurst will go to a dozen businesses — including a pair of craft brewers — and two Community Futures groups supporting them. The money is provided through FedNor’s Northern Ontario Development and Community Futures Programs, which support projects that […]
BRACEBRIDGE — While the prospect of commercial air service circles over Muskoka Airport, regional tourism officials are going ahead with plans to market Central Ontario in four top U.S. cities. Explorers’ Edge has developed a new international marketing initiative to attract Americans from four major urban centres and to also build a database of leads […]