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• Edmonton paramedics exhausted amid long response times, fewer staff: ‘It’s heartbreaking’

  With the busy shifts, patients are seeing massive delays after they call 911. The wait times are also having a big impact on the paramedics treating them.

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  Dec 22, 2025
  
• Alberta health minister to decentralize AHS: mandate letter

  Danielle Smith wants to see “a willingness to reform the management and structure of Alberta Health Services to better decentralize decision-making and resources.”

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  Jul 18, 2023
  
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• HSAA disputes UCP ‘Alberta Health Services is not in crisis’ claim; requests EMS data

  The Alberta health-care workers union is challenging the provincial government's claims that AHS is no longer in crisis, especially EMS.

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  Mar 9, 2023
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• Alberta NDP slams United Conservative Party for health centre closures

  Recent data from AHS showed most of the reductions happened in rural communities such as Peace River, Rocky Mountain House and Sundre.

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  Aug 10, 2022
• AHS employees represented by HSAA approve contract with 4.25% pay hike over 4 years

  HSAA members, who include respiratory therapists, lab workers, paramedics, mental health professionals and others, voted 85 per cent agreed to accept the tentative agreement.

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  Jul 29, 2022
• Frequent code reds, high levels of ambulance strain in Edmonton region: AHS data

  In January 2020, there were 18 red alerts resulting in no ambulances for less than one hour. Two years later, there were 1,233 code reds resulting in 40 hours of no ambulances.

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  Jul 18, 2022
• Data shows Alberta’s emergency medical services in crisis: NDP

  The Alberta Health Services Emergency Medical Services quarterly dashboard from early April shows ambulance response times in urban areas got progressively worse in the past year.

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  May 11, 2022
• ‘We’re on our knees’: Alberta EMS union says system on the verge of collapse

  In a tweet on Monday morning, the Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA) reported that 40 emergency calls in Calgary were waiting for an ambulance to be dispatched on May 3.

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  May 9, 2022
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• Alberta Health Services proposing wage rollbacks up to 11% for some health workers

  An email shows AHS made an opening bargaining proposal of wage rollbacks for about 57 per cent of HSAA members ranging from 0.28 per cent to 10.93 per cent depending on profession.

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  Mar 15, 2022
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• Head of Alberta paramedic union wants more done to protect staff

  The head of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta says staff are falling victim to burnout and are being denied time off.

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  Jan 17, 2022