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 […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A tough crowd on the verge of out of hand greeted the MAHC board tonight over the “lesser” of two new hospitals. It’s a good thing next week’s meeting in Bracebridge has been rescheduled to the Sportsplex community room. Because if this crowd is indicative of what awaits the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com DWIGHT — Bruce Kruger is Bracebridge’s Town Crier. And did he have a cry for Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare last night in Dwight at a public meeting on the future of Muskoka’s two hospitals. He expressed what he and he says others in south Muskoka have said privately and online this week. […]
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 […]