March 29, 2018 Dear Editor: Over the past number of weeks, the leadership team of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare has watched as our chief executive officer has been referred to in a negative light, her reputation unfairly tarnished. We, the leadership, want you to know the Natalie we know. Natalie began her hospital career as a […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Ontario is becoming more socialist, says Norm Miller. “This government wants to play a bigger part in people’s lives,” the Progressive Conservative Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP said in his post budget analysis Wednesday. “I would call what it’s doing as socialism.” The budget offers lots of more spending for pre-school […]
QUEEN’S PARK — “Good on the mayor and council ….” Norm Miller has come out strongly on the side his communities in a growing and nasty dispute with local hospital operators. The Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP was up in the legislature Thursday “in support of the everyone who relies upon the hospitals in Huntsville and Bracebridge,” […]
BARRIE — Three Barrie residents have been charged in a pair of drug raids in the city in an investigation involving the OPP’s Biker Enforcement Unit (BEU). Provincial police said Wednesday afternoon that on March 27, 2018, members of the BEU, the OPP Tactical Unit and Barrie Police Service Tactical Unit executed a Criminal Code […]
GRAVENHURST— Brenda Rhodes is giving politics another go a decade later. The executive director of the Bracebridge-Port Sydney Chamber of Commerce, who ran locally for the Liberals in the 2007 provincial election, got the party’s nod again Tuesday as the candidate for Parry Sound–Muskoka. She received 9,819 votes (26.71 per cent of the 36,766 votes […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — The gloves are off and the love affair between the Town of Huntsville and MAHC has turned into a bitter public squabble that threatens Muskoka’s two local hospitals. Before Huntsville’s town council had a chance Monday night to consider a motion calling for the disolvement of the hospitals board […]
MUSKOKA — On the eve of the provincial budget, the embattled Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare received a funding increase from the governemnt it flatly calls totally insufficient. “The $750,000 earmarked in the budget is very disappointing, and does not address the multi-million dollar operating shortfall we are projecting for the 2018-19 fiscal year,” said CEO Natalie […]
CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES — A man accused of engaging in inappropriate conversations with the young female over social media has been charged. Provincial police from the City of Kawartha Lakes detachment said they responded to a concern from a parent of a 12 year old female. On March 26, 2018, following an investigation, 44-year-old […]