Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The cheque is in the mail — and the mail is being delivered as an essential national service. That’s more important today, especially with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promising yesterday that the new million who are now expecting EI cheques that they are on their way. Of course, along […]
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” […]