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January 30, 2024

NOT MUCH NEW INFORMATION ON HOSPITALS AS MAHC DEFENDS DECISION TO SPLIT SERVICES BLAMING PROVINCIAL FUNDING CUTS

Mark Clairmont / Events, Headlines, Orillia, Politics

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com DWIGHT — Live by the scalpel, die by the scalpel. That’s Muskoka’s hospitals. After the province cut them some slack in agreeing to two hospitals, the Ministry of Health nipped and tucked their billion-dollar budget. Two equal, full-service hospitals became “complimentary” last fall when COVID bludgeoned Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s $1.6-billion projected […]

January 29, 2024

PETITIONS AND PUBLIC OUTCRY START WEEK OF ‘CHATS’ OVER WHAT MUSKOKA HOSPITALS WILL LOOK LIKE IN A DECADE

Mark Clairmont / 911, Events, Headlines, Orillia, Politics

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The divisive issue of how Muskoka’s hospitals will operate in a decade takes centre stage starting tonight in Dwight. After 41 doctors in south Muskoka overwhelmingly came out on the weekend — in strongly-worded letter criticizing a ‘Made-in-Muskoka’ “model of care” — Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare is preparing for a […]

January 29, 2024

‘SAVE OUR HOSPITALS BY ADDING YOUR NAME …’: PETITION OPPOSES PROPOSED MAHC CHANGES

Mark Clairmont / 911, Events, Headlines, Orillia, Politics

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — A petition to dissolve the MAHC board of directors — ending its new hospitals plans — and to return independent public boards to the South Muskoka and Huntsville District hospitals began circulation this weekend in person and online. Former MPP Dan Waters who opposes the changes, says in a […]

January 29, 2024

CHAREGES LAID IN SEPTEMBER ACCIDENT ON HWY. 60 IN HUNTSVILLE

Mark Clairmont / 911, Headlines, Orillia, Politics

HUNTSVILLE — An accident early last September here has led to charges against a Huntsville man. An OPP investigation of the collision on Highway 60, which began September 6, follows the “serious” 6 p.m. accident Emergency services responded and the OPP Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) team was dispatched in the area of Fairyview […]

January 28, 2024

LETTER: MUSKOKA DOCTORS COME OUT AGAINST ‘MADE IN MUSKOKA’ NEW HOSPITALS PLAN

Mark Clairmont / 911, Events, Headlines, Orillia, Politics

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ED. NOTE: On the eve of public conversations on the future plans for SMMH and HDMH, this coming week, local doctors have ‘endorsed’ a letter expressing major concerns with the plan to be presented to the province this spring. MuskokaTODAY.com received the following letter Sunday, January 28. Re: MuskokaAlgonquinHealthcareHospital Redevelopment Model […]

January 28, 2024

THREE IMPAIRED DRIVING CHARGES LAID THREE DAYS IN A ROW

Mark Clairmont / 911, Headlines, Orillia, Politics

MUSKOKA — Police charged three people with impaired driving offences over the weekend. Early this morning, January 28, at 2 a.m. a member of the public called police to express their concerns about a person’s ability to drive after they left an address in Bracebridge. Police conducted patrols and located and stopped the vehicle on […]

January 28, 2024

THREE RESTAURANTS TARGETTED IN LATEST B&Es IN HUNTSVILLE

Mark Clairmont / 911, Headlines, Orillia, Politics

HUNTSVILLE — Thieves hungry for cash — and chocolate — made off with both in three recent break and enters here. The overnight shopping sprees last week leave police investigating separate incidents — second and third a half hour apart. On Tuesday January 16 at 12:30 a.m., a male suspect forced entry to a restaurant […]

January 26, 2024

PAPERS OF RECORD BEST SOURCE FOR LEGALLY-REQUIRED NOTICES, NOT GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

Mark Clairmont / 911, Events, Headlines, Orillia, Politics

EDITOR/PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — District and municipal governments are grappling with ways to provide legally-required notices — particularly around planning issues — now that the last hard-copy newspaper is no longer being dropped in driveways. After a major town and district mix-up this month on the public announcements regarding proposed changes […]