Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Hidden in special electronic council meeting Friday to enact emergency off-site meeting measures amid the COVID-19 crisis is a bureaucratic and political move by the mayor and CAO to limit the public voices of councillors and residents. Councillors — some of whom have voiced concerns privately in the past […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com A Toronto Star report today says Ontario destroyed tens of millions masks vital in the pandemic fight, because their recommended best-before date had expired. Reporter Rosie DiManno says a decade after stockpiling N95 masks following the SARS epidemic, in 2013 the province began destroying most of them, along with thousand of […]
QUEEN’S PARK — Together apart, provincial politicians put partisanship aside here yesterday in response to COVID-19. The legislature agreed to the Ford government’s “action plan,” passing a bill to add an extra $3.3 billion to Ontario’s health-care system, and it says $3.7 billion in direct support for people and jobs. MPP Norman Miller said in […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — A young woman worried people aren’t taking COVID-19 seriously enough has taken safety measures into her own hands. Taylor — who preferred not to give her last name — was out for quick walk today on Muskoka Road in Gravenhurst shopping for “essentials.” She said “I’m concerned people won’t […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKOA — Park it is the latest law emerging as the COVID clampdown continues. Day 1 of the workplace lockdown sees parks and playgrounds the next public spaces you can expect to close in your town. Just wait. Across the province that’s the new reality — for today. Soon streets will […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — Muskoka Airport, which normally experiences fewer winter landings and takeoffs than Santa and Rudolph Christmas Eve, has become a parking lot for backlog of Air Canada jets as the COVID-19 shuts down half the country’s airspace. With the U.S. border closed and Canadians domestic flights halved with fewer travellers […]
MUSKOKA — Horror stories spreading worldwide about lack of health supplies at hospitals have landed at MAHC. They say in a release late Wednesday afternoon that “as we manage the COVID-19 pandemic,” Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare is in need of donations of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies. This after the hospitals CAO just “assured” […]
HUNTSVILLE — With the pandemic virus gripping the globe at its doorstep, Huntsville faces a more immediate spreading health threat. Health officials say a second food handler at a Huntsville restaurant has tested positive for Hepatitis A, promping another call for a second round of public testing by customers and those who may have contracted the […]