Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com — OPINION We need two fully functioning hospitals in the Muskoka Algonquin area. The Province of Ontario does not agree and is pushing private health care. The Doug Ford Conservatives are slipping more private health care in to Muskoka Algonquin by taking away hospital beds. South Muskoka Memorial Hospital currently has […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Bob Hutcheson, 97, has heard it all before. “We’ve done a lot planning and we’ve tried to get somewhere over the years with various forums and committees, all sorts of things around Muskoka. And this is the first time in 46 years that we’ve been offered an opportunity. And […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION The Province of Ontario has been telling the people of Ontario for the past 50 years that the public health-care system is not sustainable. OPINION In 1974 the first cuts to hospital beds across the province took place by none other than Muskoka MPP and minister of health Frank Miller. It […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com HUNTSVILLE — Keep calm and carry on. That was Day 4 here for Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare tonight as the war of words over the new hospitals ended its first week of community engagements. With MPP Graydon Smith at his second MAHC meeting in as many nights, some 250+ people filled almost […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Ontario Greens Leader Mike Schreiner will have his new deputy party leader, Matt Richter, with him Monday when he holds a Town Hall meeting here. The party says Richter, who nearly upset MPP Graydon Smith in the last provincial election, is “pleased to announce that Matt Richter has been […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: Re: North-south hospital divide Here is what I see. Muskoka can’t afford more than a BILLION DOLLARS for new hospitals. The healthcare model is changing to a DISPERSED MODEL. Muskoka wants TWO EQUAL HOSPITALS in Bracebridge and Huntsville. Current hospitals are filled with NON-CRITICAL ALC PATIENTS. Solution is THREE TRANSITIONAL-CARE facilities — […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com OPINION Wouldn’t you vote for a politician who says I will raise your taxes and you will get the health care you need and want? Our municipal and district property taxes rise each year. We don’t start shouting in the streets. We know that if we want the roads plowed, kept in […]
Lois Cooper | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — You can’t afford it! You can’t afford it! You can’t afford it! That is the mantra of the Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare board to the people attending the “chat” in Gravenhurst on Tuesday night. Well, yes, we can afford it, I say! The “it” being great health care and two […]