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Costco Canada is providing priority access for members who are healthcare workers and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The popular warehouse club said customers who present official identification of their role along with their membership card will be allowed to move to the front of any line to enter the store.
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Ontario
Today, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, and Sylvia Jones, Solicitor General, issued the following statement regarding new emergency measures to protect Ontario's first responders and stop the spread of COVID-19.
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REMI Network
Delta, B.C. is a wide-open landscape of quiet neighbourhoods and sprawling farms and migrating birds that gather near the coast of Boundary Bay. A network of three communities, combined with a population of about 100,000 people, the city is also home to one of the largest, developing industrial lands in the Greater Vancouver Area.
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Vancouver Sun
Day 1 went as smoothly as probably could be expected as school districts across B.C. opened schools to the children of essential service workers.
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Sands has added a new surgical mask to our production line until the mask shortage is over.
It is made of three plies of NWPP NonWoven Polypropylene with elastic ear loops. NonWoven Polypropylene is constructed of 100% polypropylene.
These limited use masks can be cleaned a few times by following the enclosed instructions.
These masks have not been tested by Health Canada, but a single layer of this material has a typical filtration of 0.2 microns.
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Battlefords Now
A local business is doing what they can to help out frontline healthcare workers and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bridges Chevrolet Buick GMC in North Battleford is offering free full synthetic oil and filter changes, vehicle inspection and fluid top ups.
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The London Free-Press
Chatham-Kent paramedics are hosting one of two temporary Ornge critical-care land ambulance bases being set up to transport critical COVID-19 patients between hospitals across Southwestern Ontario. “This is the first time we’ve had to do this on a temporary measure,” said Wade Durham, Ornge’s chief operating officer of medical operations.
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Radio NL
As emergency personnel in Kamloops show their support to health care workers fighting COVID-19 at Royal Inland Hospital with a parade at 7 p.m., there was a special guest at the parade on April 2.
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Cowichan Valley Citizen
Panago Pizza franchises from Parksville to Mill Bay are giving free small pizzas to health care workers, firefighters, and RCMP members on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Sault Online
McDougall Energy would like to show its appreciation for frontline Health Care Workers, First Responders, and Transportation Drivers, by offering free beverages, snacks and meals when they visit the company’s retail and gasoline locations.
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EMS1.com
The Committee on Accreditation of Education Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions has shifted its requirements for paramedic programs to allow for more flexibility during the COVID-19 crisis.
The committee said in a statement this weekend that paramedic educational programs will be permitted to employ a broader array of methods for determining competency, including simulation, scenarios and case studies.
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Stratford Beacon Herald
Requests for ambulances and visits to area emergency departments are trending downward, but local paramedics are still in need of more personal protective equipment as they adjust to the realities of offering an essential service in the pandemic era.
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Global News
One organization is asking for children’s help to boost the morale of Calgary’s first responders as the COVID-19 outbreak continues across the globe.
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Seaway News
Cornwall SDG Paramedic Services Chief Bill Lister told Cornwall City Council during a Special Meeting on Tuesday, April 7 that his goal was to get seven more ambulances on the road to deal with any future spike in COVID-19 cases in the region.
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The Standard
As it awaits an opening day which could be delayed months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marineland has turned its attention to the region's first responders.
The Niagara Falls theme park has purchased 2,000 KN95 protective face masks for Niagara Falls Fire Department, and facilitated the purchase of an additional 20,000 KN95 masks for Niagara Emergency Medical Services.
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Radio-Canada
Les ambulanciers de la région de Montréal cessent d’utiliser le massage comme première technique de réanimation dans le cas d’un arrêt cardiaque, en raison des risques de transmission du coronavirus. Le nouveau protocole d’Urgences-santé prévoit donc l’intubation et la défibrillation avant la réanimation manuelle.
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Kelowna Capital News
While a large majority of society is following the recommendations of Provincial Medical Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry to self-isolate in these uncertain times, several groups, including first responders, continue to work on the front line.
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TBNewsWatch
Thunder Bay district health authorities now have a new tool for COVID-19 testing. Some residents are now being tested at home, thanks to new mobile assessment units operated by Superior North EMS. Community paramedicine coordinator Shane Muir said the unit makes testing accessible to those facing mobility, transportation, or childcare challenges.
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North Bay Nugget
The Innovation Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping (ICAMP) at Canadore College is producing free face shields for health care agencies and first responders.
ICAMP has been using its 3D printing capabilities in metal and plastic to make 50 face shields a week.
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Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Paramedics responding to calls in Saskatchewan will now offer all patients a surgical mask at the scene to wear as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).
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Vancouver Sun
Paramedics and emergency response professionals are being overwhelmed not only by the demands of their jobs but now by offers of home baking and the “art-bombing” of their workplaces.
People are plastering stations with chalk drawings and hearts cut out of colourful construction paper, as well as dropping off fast food treats such as pizzas, doughnuts and ice cream cakes or even whole dinners at ambulance stations.
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The New York Times
Christell Cadet, a New York Fire Department paramedic, loves her job.
I know because she told me. When I asked her what it was like to be on the ambulance last year, she spoke of the thrill of saving a life, of racing toward danger to help when others were running away.
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Toronto Star
The call came from Pearson International Airport. A patient arriving from China had a low-grade fever and cough. Mississauga paramedic Kerri Piquette nervously steered the ambulance that February day toward a remote but distinct possibility: This could be her first COVID-19 call.
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Global News
A Vancouver paramedic whose gear was stolen from her vehicle earlier this week says it has been returned to her safe and sound.
Annelie Van der Heyden had returned to her East Vancouver home on Sunday night after a marathon shift with BC Emergency Health Services.
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CBC News
A paramedic's job revolves around life and death, but since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, these essential health care workers are thinking much more about their own well-being.
Jennifer Cripton has been answering emergency calls in the London area for ten years and the past few weeks have brought challenges she never imagined.
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Global News
As Canadians rally behind health-care workers across the nation, a B.C. paramedic is asking people to pass on those acts of kindness to people who need it most.
On a given shift, there’s no shortage of baked good, free coffee, or discounts for Kelly Budway and most health-care workers during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Global News
Juliet Kaczmarek is a paramedic on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, but under proposed changes to her collective agreement, she’s expecting to sometimes make $2 an hour for an on-call shift. Kaczmarek is stationed in Oliver, B.C., as a casual paramedic, and when she’s scheduled for an on-call shift, she has to be ready to respond to an emergency within minutes.
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Region of Peel
A Peel paramedic has tested positive for COVID-19 after being exposed to the virus while at work. The paramedic is in isolation at home. The exposure happened when the paramedic and their partner responded to a motor vehicle collision. They followed all procedures as the patient was transported to hospital.
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COOL-FM
Les ambulanciers de la Beauce prennent les mesures nécessaires pour se protéger dans le contexte de la COVID-19. La région est considérée comme une zone verte puisqu’il ne semble pas y avoir de transmission communautaire pour l’instant. Les paramédics sont tout de même sur un pied d’alerte, anticipant une augmentation prochaine du nombre de cas.
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Chambly Matin
Patrick Dufresne est un paramédic depuis de nombreuses années. Il est également un résident de la ville de Chambly. Il exerce présentement son métier à Montréal.
Le Chambly Matin l’a contacté afin de connaitre les situations auxquelles il doit faire face tous les jours, dans le cadre de son travail.
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Manitoulin Expositor
Retired paramedic Bill Cranston of Mindemoya has created a novel method of delivering oxygen to COVID-19 patients while also potentially reducing the exhalation of viral droplets and airborne particles using an ordinary object with a series of one-way seals — a full-face snorkel mask.
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The London Free-Press
If we think of our health-care workers as the warriors in the battle to defeat COVID-19, the paramedics are the first ones out of the trenches. Like soldiers on the battlefields a century ago, they react at the first shot of enemy fire, and head directly into it.
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Toronto Star
Peel paramedics say the surprise baby delivery they made en route to a Brampton hospital last week has boosted their morale amid the stress from tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.
The baby was delivered just after 2:20 a.m. Thursday morning.
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BBC News
Daniel Jankovic, 22, of Fernhill Road, Farnborough, approached the emergency worker, who was in a stationary ambulance, in Aldershot on Tuesday.
The paramedic was spat on after refusing to say who was being treated, police said. The incident was captured on CCTV.
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