Paramedic

• Family mourns Edmonton paramedic killed while serving in Ukraine

  The family of an Edmonton man says he died earlier this month while serving as a medic with the Ukrainian military.

  Canada

  Nov 23
  
• Memorial for B.C. paramedics killed in 2010 crash unveiled on Highway 4

  In 2010, 59-year-old Jo-Ann Fuller and 65-year-old Ivan Polivka died when their ambulance jumped a curb and plunged more than 30 metres (100 feet) into the Kennedy Lake.

  Health

  Oct 20
  
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• ‘You don’t wait around’: A Manitoba man’s struggle to get his mother transported to health care she needed

  Manitoba's Community Paramedic Services began as a group dedicated to getting people using wheelchairs to health-care centres across the province. But that all changed.

  Health

  Sep 29
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• Manitoba community’s brush with ER closures highlights extent of health care concerns

  Health care challenges for communities across Manitoba has left one municipality shouldering the province's burden onto itself to provide its residents the care they need.

  Health

  Sep 28
• Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service opts to provide information on incidents on its website

  Changes are afoot as the city's fire and paramedic service looks to adopt a new resource tool that will provide up-to-date information on ongoing incidents online.

  Crime

  Aug 8
• Kelowna, B.C. first responders join forces to donate plasma

  "Every time you come in here you're making a difference for someone in Canada."

  Lifestyle

  Apr 5
• Frontenac County program training regular people to save lives

  A new program, "Neighbours Saving Neighbours" will see Frontenac County residents get CPR and AED training to respond in emergency cardiac situations

  Canada

  Mar 29
• Frontenac Paramedics to receive $1M in municipal funding

  The funding will be used to hire eight new full-time Paramedics to staff two new 12-hour ambulance crew shifts stationed in the City of Kingston.

  Canada

  Feb 15
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• Veteran B.C. mediator Vince Ready deployed to break paramedic contract impasse

  Vince Ready arrived Thursday morning and has signed on for two days with the Ambulance Paramedics of B.C. and their provincial employer amid stalled contract negotiations.

  Health

  Dec 15, 2022
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• Paramedics getting assaulted on the job becoming ‘a habit’ in N.S., union says

  The union says for the second time in a week, Nova Scotia paramedics were assaulted while on the job.

  Canada

  Dec 14, 2022