By Hugh Holland Hospital Planning – 2017 Healthcare planning is one of the biggest challenges in every country. In developed countries, the relentless appetite for money is driven by aging demographics and the ever-increasing list of costly new procedures, technologies, therapies and drugs. In Ontario, healthcare consumes almost 50 per…
Now Here is an Idea. Last week I received a late night email from Mayor Scott Aitchison, just hours before he underwent extensive heart surgery, which he has subsequently come through with flying colours. In spite of his condition and not one to sit around feeling sorry for himself, he…
On the wrong side of the ‘right’ to bear arms … One might reasonably extrapolate that almost 1,000 guns were seized at the border from American citizens wanting to visiting Canada over 12 months, given that in the first half of 2016, the CBSA (the Canada Border Services Agency) seized…
Many years ago, there was a very popular comic strip called ‘Pogo’. Most of you will be too young to remember it, but from it sprang a memorable slogan which I have never forgotten and that is; “We have met the enemy and he is us!”. I have been thinking…
Huntsville Council Gets It Right During the past few weeks a lot has happened in relation to health care in Muskoka. Some of it is positive, much of it is frightening and most of it is confusing! There are too many Boards, Committees and bureaucrats with their fingers in the…
Did your mother ever tell you, “What happens in this house stays in this house?” It usually wasn’t about terribly serious things but if Uncle Barney cursed out the TV repair guy or Grandpa Joe drank too much at a family wedding we were expected to keep it on the…