Who’s Minding the Store? There was a compelling commentary on Huntsville Doppler this week titled Linda Kelly, a 17-year ICU nurse at Huntsville Hospital, shares her insight. To me, it was a wake-up call. It caused me to wonder: in the search for integrated health care services in Muskoka and…
By Linda Kelly I have been following the debates on the hospital situation in Muskoka and I would like to comment from a personal perspective. Having worked in Huntsville’s ICU for 17 years, I have seen many changes in staffing, management and policies. I have witnessed efforts to conserve supplies…
Dog Poop There is an old chestnut of a ‘Little Johnny’ story that goes something like this. A teacher in one of Toronto’s finest schools wanted to give her students a lesson in business and salesmanship. What she got was a lesson in politics. She gave her students a weekend…
A living wage calculation includes the cost of living in a specific community based on data from Statistics Canada and municipalities. The result is a decent – but far from luxurious – quality of life and the ability to live free of constant economic anxiety.The minimum wage has inched up over…
A Political Observation True Confession. I am a junkie. Have been since I was about 13 years old. It just kind of happened. I got on the wrong bus one day coming home from U.T.S. in downtown Toronto, where I had just started school. So I jumped off and began…
By Kennedy Marschdorf Recently, the Canadian group The Tenors were given the honour to sing our national anthem at the MLB all-star game in San Diego. One member took the opportunity to change the lyrics from ‘With glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North strong and free!” to…