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BCEHS presented Mike Nasr with a Good Samaritan award for his assistance in 2022, and a Vital Link award for his life-saving actions in 2024.

Mark Sherwin awarded a Frontenac Paramedics Chief’s Commendation for his work.

It takes an ambulance an average of 14 minutes and seven seconds to show up in Kirkland. Some experts argue the ideal response time is under eight minutes.

The annual training event is held in honour of 11-year-old Caleb Kroffat, who died suddenly outside of the Island Savings Centre in the Vancouver Island city.

The pair of trained firefighters in the medical response unit SUV will help free up other firefighting resources.

Kyriakos Vogiatzakis, the 51-year-old owner of the Cork and Flame on Portage Avenue, died in hospital last month after a confrontation outside the west Winnipeg business.

A report said only four per cent of Canadians can identify when someone is experiencing cardiac arrest. This leaves people experiencing it much more vulnerable to death.

Every nine minutes a Canadian suffers a cardiac arrest outside the hospital and only one in 10 people will survive, according to a report by the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

A bus driver has been charged after a serious multi-vehicle crash in Mississauga earlier this year that left one person dead and several others injured. 

An emotional John McKiernan returned to the Peterborough-area Home Hardware store this week to thank his 'guardian angels' who saved him after he had suffered a cardiac arrest.

'To have just a mindless attack on an organization like this, it's really disappointing,' Curtis Dublanko said in response to three break-ins and theft his league experienced.

Reggie Abercrombie, whose #11 jersey was retired by the Goldeyes just last month, was at a baseball practice facility in Waldorf, Md., on Friday when the incident took place.

'The items stolen were directly related to local wildfire response,' RCMP said, adding that they had been called to multiple similar thefts this week.

A man in his 50s and a 91-year-old woman drowned in separate incidents on Sunday, and authorities are searching for a man in his 30s who disappeared after jumping into a river.

The 18-year-old freshman son of LeBron James was treated in the ICU before being released to general care.

Michael Schuls, a 16-year-old from Wisconsin, was attempting to unjam a wood-stacking machine when he became pinned inside.

After he was resuscitated by a group of people while suffering from a cardiac arrest last month, a Halifax man finally got the opportunity to thank the strangers-turned-heroes.

“The evidence that is already out there for some of these psychedelic substances is kind of earth-shattering, I think, in the field of psychiatry," one expert said.

The Montreal Children's Hospital's longest running charity celebrated 32 years raising over $400,000. Nine-year-old Emma Corbett is this year's spokeschild.

Emergency crews have had to perform multiple extrications after an eight-vehicle crash in north Mississauga that has left nine people injured, three seriously, officials say.