GRAVENHURST — Local manufacturing and tourism businesses are being backed by FedNor again. In an annual announcement at the Muskoka Airport Tuesday, Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, and Minister responsible for FedNor announced $7 million in local funding for the Parry Sound-Muskoka riding. People, businesses and communities in Parry Sound–Muskoka […]
BRACEBRIDGE — Muskoka Brewery is praising the provincial Liberals for tax changes and a government grant that will let them expand and enhance their beer-making experience at their location at the south end of town. The recent re-location and opening of the Re-Store in part of the old Zeller’s building has freed up space at […]
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario’s health minister won’t commit to two hospitals in Muskoka, but will listen to local concerns before deciding. That wasn’t the answer Norm wanted when he sought an answer in the legislature Tuesday. He said he was “disappointed.” During today’s Question Period, the Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP asked the minister to support two […]
QUEEN’S PARK — A Parry Sound teacher with a passion for history was honoured in the Ontario Legislature Monday during Vimy Ridge Day celebrations. Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Norm Miller made the following statement in the Legislature today: As we celebrate Vimy Ridge Day, I rise to pay tribute to one of my constituents, Mr. Rick […]
QUEEN’S PARK – Keep our hospitals intact. That’s the message Norm Miller has for Helena Jaczek and her Liberal government. The Parry Sound-Muskoka Tory MPP launched a petition this weekend calling upon the Minister of health and Long-Term Care to commit to maintaining core services at both Huntsville Memorial Hospital and South Muskoka Memorial Hospital. […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Brenda Rhodes knows she’s in tough to upset Norm Miller. Nonetheless, the Liberal candidate is undaunted. Last time she ran against Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP, in 2007, she had half his votes. Since then, Dan and Cindy Waters cut into that Conservative lead in 2011 and 2014. Rhodes hopes this […]
ONTARIO — The province marked Family Caregiver Day Tuesday, introducing a Seniors’ Healthy Home Program. Ontario is taking steps to ensure that people are betterable to look after their loved ones with new funding that supports caregiversand makes it easier for seniors to continue living at home, says a government release. Premier Wynne was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Mike Schreiner has come a long way as leader of the Green Party of Ontario. For a guy without a seat in the Ontario legislature, he’s logged a lot of miles promoting the greenway. Wednesday he was in Huntsville with local candidate Matt Richter, who has been carrying the […]
EDITORIAL Is it business as usual or is the hospital debate dysfunctional? The public love-in between all parties was shattered this week with Huntsville’s threat to blow up the process by going to province and calling for the MAHC board to resign, along with its CEO Natalie Bubela. One can only wonder what real estate […]
MUSKOKA — Confused about the hospital situation in Muskoka? Join the crowd. There’s a lot of talk on both sides of the issue. The towns of Bracebridge and Huntsville have been outspoken and controversial in their opinions. And public opinion has even gotten personal on social media forcing the MAHC board to issue a defence […]
BRACEBRIDGE — With the provincial election fast approaching, New Democrat Party members in Parry Sound-Muskoka are getting ready for it. On March 24 they met at the Your Independent Grocer (YIG) Community Room for their annual general meeting and to elect an executive. “This year’s AGM was well attended with lots of new energized and […]
March 29, 2018 Dear Editor: Over the past number of weeks, the leadership team of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare has watched as our chief executive officer has been referred to in a negative light, her reputation unfairly tarnished. We, the leadership, want you to know the Natalie we know. Natalie began her hospital career as a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Ontario is becoming more socialist, says Norm Miller. “This government wants to play a bigger part in people’s lives,” the Progressive Conservative Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP said in his post budget analysis Wednesday. “I would call what it’s doing as socialism.” The budget offers lots of more spending for pre-school […]
QUEEN’S PARK — “Good on the mayor and council ….” Norm Miller has come out strongly on the side his communities in a growing and nasty dispute with local hospital operators. The Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP was up in the legislature Thursday “in support of the everyone who relies upon the hospitals in Huntsville and Bracebridge,” […]
GRAVENHURST— Brenda Rhodes is giving politics another go a decade later. The executive director of the Bracebridge-Port Sydney Chamber of Commerce, who ran locally for the Liberals in the 2007 provincial election, got the party’s nod again Tuesday as the candidate for Parry Sound–Muskoka. She received 9,819 votes (26.71 per cent of the 36,766 votes […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The gloves are off and the love affair between the Town of Huntsville and MAHC has turned into a bitter public squabble that threatens Muskoka’s two local hospitals. Before Huntsville’s town council had a chance Monday night to consider a motion calling for the disolvement of the hospitals board […]
MUSKOKA — On the eve of the provincial budget, the embattled Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare received a funding increase from the governemnt it flatly calls totally insufficient. “The $750,000 earmarked in the budget is very disappointing, and does not address the multi-million dollar operating shortfall we are projecting for the 2018-19 fiscal year,” said CEO Natalie […]
QUEEN’S PARK – MPP Norm Miller is busy standing up for constituents as the provincial election approaches. The Parry Sound-Muskoka says he was on his feet again in the Ontario legislature Monday to tell the Liberal government about the complaints he has been hearing about long wait times and lack of access to home care […]
HUNTSVILLE – A council motion Monday night could see the Town of Huntsville ask the province to disband the Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) board and fire its CEO Natalie Bubela. If adopted and voted on, councillors will be expressing their displeasure at the way Muskoka’s two hospitals could end up being one – either in […]
HUNTSVILLE — It takes a village to grow to be 132. Sunday, the Town of Huntsville highlighted that fact by announcing their annual community theme for 2018 at a public celebration at Partners Hall. After announcing a $3.9 million sale of its Waterloo Summit Centre (for a worker rehab facility), they laid out the ABCs […]