Ambulance Services

• “It kills us”: Montreal’s West Island mayors renew push to expand Jacques-Bizard corridor

  Montreal's West Island mayors are united in pushing to expand the Jacques Bizard corridor. The say the project will ease traffic and improve life-saving ambulance response times.

  Canada

  Mar 15, 2024
  
• No ‘silver bullet solution’ to address ambulance response times: Ambulance NB

  Ambulance response rates in many rural areas remain bellow target, even as the province continues to pay out bonuses to its ambulance service provider.

  Health

  Sep 21, 2023
  
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• Paramedics strike at 40 Quebec ambulance services to demand pay increase

  The union representing paramedics is asking for the same salary and retirement conditions as other health-care workers in the province.

  Canada

  Jul 1, 2022
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• New Brunswick MLAs question province’s ambulance services contract

  The chairman of Ambulance New Brunswick's board suggested "both sides" may be willing to look at the contract, but a difference in outcomes require changing priorities.

  Health

  Feb 24, 2021
• Coronavirus: paramedics in Saskatchewan trained to swab on the job

  Many emergency medical services will be taking on the additional role of providing peer-to-peer COVID-19 swabbing, according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority.

  Canada

  Dec 11, 2020
• Ontario government looks at merging ambulance services; Doug Ford says service won’t go down

  In its budget delivered last week, the government says it plans to streamline the way land ambulance dispatch services are delivered by integrating the 59 emergency health services operators and 22 dispatch centres.

  Health

  Apr 16, 2019
• Union protesters join New Brunswick campaign trail

  Protesters from CUPE have been showing up at Liberal announcements to voice concerns over ambulance service in the province.

  Politics

  Sep 19, 2018
• Young boy found wandering alone in rain in Mount Forest Sunday: OPP

  Emergency responders were called after a young boy was found alone on the streets of Mount Forest on Sunday.

  Jun 25, 2018
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• GTA paramedics not ready to handle Ebola: Report

  Several paramedic services in the Greater Toronto Area are not equipped or trained properly to deal with cases of Ebola.

  Health

  Oct 27, 2014