Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — Final new hospital plans won’t be submitted until the end of the year, more smaller public consultations are planned and a doctors’ alternative ‘Care Closer to Home’ model is being costed out by consultants. That’s this week’s MAHC update Friday on a publicly contentious redevelopment proposal for South Muskoka […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — International Women’s Day was a morning of celebration today as 150 women — and 10 men — marked the occasion with a breakfast of champions at the Gravenhurst Centennial Centre. Ladies noshed, nurtured and nourished each other with invigorating Muskoka tales echoing throughout the Terry Fox Auditorium. “It’s not […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A doctor, a Rotarian, a humanitarian and huge civic supporter, Jim Goodwin was many things. Aged 93, he died at home this morning, leaving a long legacy that touched many and most of Gravenhurst. He would have been 94 in June. The retired physician — and former Canadian Navy […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — District and municipal governments are being asked to withdraw millions of dollars they’ve committed to MAHC’s “unequal” hospitals plan, until the Ministry of Health examines a counter proposal submitted by south Muskoka doctors. In its first public statement and “community report,” members of the ‘Save South Muskoka Hospital’ (SSMH) […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — As the community independently debates the state of local hospitals and its reponse to changes, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare continues its own updates with a new release today as promised. MAHC said “our commitment to enhancing healthcare in our community is taking a significant stride forward.” And that they are […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — “Inspiring inclusion” is this year’s theme of International Women’s Day at the Terry Fox Auditorium at the arena March 8, where an all-star panel will sit down for a dockside chat. Statistics Canada (2021) pegs the median employment income for women in Muskoka at between $20,000 and $26,800, says […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Charming, witty, inspiring with great performances. That’s “Billy Elliot,” which wrapped up its first weekend run at the Rene Caisse Theatre Sunday. Community theatre at its best. Entertaining, intelligent, heartwarming and atristically true to hit movie and play’s original 2005 West End London production. The buzz about “Billy” and […]
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 — 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 […]