By Celeste Percy-Beauregard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter County of Brant staff and councillors pushed hard for a new hospital at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference in Ottawa last week. Specifically, the county asked the province to grant Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) the remaining $8.5 million needed to complete the next planning stage and put the new hospital on the 2025 budget, Coun. Lukas Oakley wrote in a conference summary he shared with The Spectator. Brantford General is the main hospital in the area, serving residents of Brantford, Brant County, Six Nations of the Grand River and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. It has been challenged to keep up with the rapidly growing population, and reached 125 per cent capacity in the winter, councillors heard at

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