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Home » News » County addresses ‘misinformation’ on shoreline bylaw Haliburton County council feels there has been lots of misinformation spread about the municipality’s proposed shoreline preservation bylaw. Environment20 January 2021 By Chad Ingram Haliburton County councillors are calling another special meeting to further discuss the county’s controversial draft shoreline preservation bylaw, after a discussion during a Jan. 13 council meeting that addressed misinformation about the draft bylaw being circulated in the community. The bylaw, which aims to protect lake heal...

Home /Reviewing physician recruitment program News23 December 2020 By Chad Ingram Haliburton County councillors discussed a number of potential changes to the county’s physician recruitment program during a Dec. 16 meeting. The county has a recruitment committee and a physician recruitment co-ordinator in the form of Cheryl Kennedy, formerly the administrator of the Haliburton Highlands Family Health Team. A report received by councillors last week made a number of suggestions, including expanding the scope of the county’s recruitment work to clinics outside of its borders that serve it...

Haliburton County council passed its 2021 budget last week. News22 December 2020 By Chad Ingram Haliburton County councillors discussed a number of potential changes to the county’s physician recruitment program during a Dec. 16 meeting. The county has a recruitment committee and a physician recruitment co-ordinator in the form of Cheryl Kennedy, formerly the administrator of the Haliburton Highlands Family Health Team. A report received by councillors last week made a number of suggestions, including expanding the scope of the county’s recruitment work to clinics outside of its...

Haliburton County Warden Liz Danielsen shares her thoughts after attending the 2021 virtual ROMA conference last week. News22 December 2020 By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands Deputy Mayor Liz Danielsen will again serve as Haliburton County warden after a tie vote by county councillors between Danielsen and contender Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin during the county inaugural meeting on Dec. 15 was broken with a name being drawn from an envelope. Like other council meetings amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, that meeting took place with councillors participating remotely via online...

Home /Long wait ahead for vaccinations COVID-1916 December 2020 By Chad Ingram With the approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine in the country by Health Canada last week, shipments began to roll into the provinces this week, with the first inoculations being administered. However, as Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin noted during a Dec. 9 council meeting, it will likely be later in 2021 before many residents get an opportunity to be vaccinated. The province has created a three-phase framework for the rollout of vaccinations. Part of the first phase, which was getting underway this week, was th...