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 […]
GRAVENHURST — A 31-year-old Gravenhurst woman has been charged with mischief after a confrontation here February 3. Police say today that at 8:15 p.m. officers responded to an emergency call from a tenant residing in a duplex on First Street South, after a woman, who the caller believed may have been a guest from another […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — MPP Graydon Smith, who originally said he would address the public after all hospital meetings — but who instead addressed an angry hometown crowd in Bracebridge Tuesday night — released a formal statement this afternoon in which he reiterated what he said three days ago. Today he put that […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — After hundreds of the public here were locked out of an overflow meeting last week on a new Muskoka hospitals model, a second opportunity to talk about the plan will take place Monday. With capacity for 650 more to speak — double the number allowed last week. Muskoka Algonquin […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Debbie Thomson likes to keep an eye on things. She’s content to watch and observe. Let the others do the talking, says her husband Rob. But when she heard Town Crier Bruce Kruger announce the opening of the new Muskoka Alzheimer’s office at the north end of Manitoba Street, […]
GRAVENHURST — An investigation in to a “serious assault” last Thursday has police charging three Gravenhurst men with assault causing bodily harm. The assault took place February 1 on First Street South they say took place at a “busy residence,” OPP say today. The victim was able to get out of the residence and was […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com PORT CARLING — The sixth — and maybe not the last — MAHC hospitals meeting drew another large crowd last night. MPP Graydon Smith, who spoke out the evening before in Bracebridge calling for calm in the debate, was not present. But Muskoka Lakes Mayor Peter Kelley, who has attended most […]