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 […]