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PAC
PAC is delighted to announce that the CSA Group Standards Development Council, at their meeting on March 4, 2020, endorsed Pierre Poirier, Executive Director of The Paramedic Association of Canada, as a recipient of a 2020 Award of Merit. Pierre was nominated by his CSA Group colleagues and selected by the Awards Committee.
The CSA Group Award of Merit recognizes individuals who, through their leadership, have fostered the development and advancement of standards, both nationally and internationally.
Celebrating their volunteer membership each year is extremely important to the CSA. Later this spring they will be featuring a series of online profiles to recognize the achievements of each of their 2020 award recipients. In addition, Pierre and a guest have been invited to attend the CSA 2021 Annual Conference & Committee Week in Vancouver, since 2020 has been cancelled due to the pandemic.
We at PAC are extremely proud of the work Pierre does on behalf of the paramedic profession. We consider ourselves fortunate to have him in our leadership team.
Congratulations Pierre on an award well deserved.
The Globe and Mail
COVID-19 became real to many British Columbians on March 12, just before the start of the spring break. That’s when B.C.’s medical officer of health warned against all non-essential travel outside of Canada and ordered large gatherings to be cancelled.
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La Presse
Une nouvelle directive du ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux stipulant que le port du masque N95 n’est plus nécessaire pour les ambulanciers qui interviennent auprès de certains patients ayant la COVID-19 inquiète grandement le milieu.
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Merci à tous les travailleurs des services essentiels qui sont présents pour nous.
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The Record
A database of information about people who have tested positive for COVID-19, which can be accessed by police, is strictly a measure to keep officers safe when responding to emergency calls, says the local police association.
"It gives our members extra measures to keep them safe and their families safe," said Mark Egers, president of the Waterloo Regional Police Association.
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CTV News
The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service is investigating allegations that physical distancing rules were broken at a fire station over the weekend.
A statement from the city said a probe is underway.
“The WFPS is currently investigating a report indicating members of the service hosted colleagues from other stations to Station 1 over the weekend, and in doing so, failed to follow social distancing policies,” the statement reads. “The allegations suggest members attended the station to pay respects to a retiring firefighter on his last shift.”
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CTV News
An 83-year-old woman falls out of bed and 911 is called. Jason Fraser, a Peterborough, Ont. paramedic for 17 years, and his partner respond to the routine call. But these days, no call is truly routine; every call can instill fear.
“Is today going to be the day that I become infected with COVID-19?” Jason, a married father with triplets, asks.
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Toronto Star
The province has expanded the $4 an hour pay increase to more front-line workers combating COVID-19.
Paramedics, public health nurses and addictions and mental health workers in hospitals and congregate care settings, and respiratory therapists will now be eligible to receive the expanded pandemic pay, the province announced recently.
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L' Écho de Maskinongé
COVID-19. Avec l’annulation des festivals, des grands rassemblements estivaux et l’incertitude qui plane sur la saison de camping, les entreprises spécialisées dans la vente ou la location de véhicules récréatifs (VR) devront éponger cette année d’importantes pertes financières.
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Financial Post
To salute healthcare heroes across the country, Imperial is providing up to $2 million in free fuel vouchers to frontline nurses, paramedics and doctors as part of its Heroes Campaign launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News
Ambulance paramedics and emergency dispatchers are often the first step in an arduous journey for anyone battling coronavirus.
They are that first calming voice, the careful touch, or helpful advice that a person struggling with the disease encounters.
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Vancouver Sun
The COVID-19 crisis has forced the expansion of a program wherein paramedics in remote B.C. rural communities help patients and doctors connect with one another.
About a year ago, community paramedic Case Ambrose was one of a small number of paramedics going into the homes of seniors and others with heart, liver and other chronic health problems and then using their laptop computers to connect the patients through conference calls with their doctors.
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CTV News
A paramedic with the Region of Waterloo has decided to donate his pandemic pay bonus and he’s challenging other frontline workers to follow his lead.
On Tuesday the province announced that it was expanding its pay increase program.
Paramedics and respiratory therapists were just two of the jobs added to the list.
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Global News
Every year since 2002, the Halifax Lebanese Festival has been celebrating the Lebanese culture with people across Halifax Regional Municipality through food, dance, music and art. But due to COVID-19 restrictions, the festival announced Wednesday that it will cancel its celebration scheduled to take place July 2-5.
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Kingstonist
To pay tribute to fallen Nova Scotia RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson and all those lost in the mass shooting on April 18 and 19, 2020, local first responders held a moment of silence outside the Kingston RCMP detachment.
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Lethbridge News
Working in emergency services can be tough and stressful, especially when you have to respond to one of your own.
Fire Chief with Coaldale & District Emergency Services Kevin McKeown says they were called to a home on the morning of Monday, April 27.
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Ottawa Matters
For residents living in long-term care facilities during COVID-19, the testing will come to them as Ottawa’s Paramedic Services ramps up to undertake a big project that will have paramedics going to each of the homes themselves and testing residents and employees throughout the week.
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CKTB
The head of Niagara EMS explaining a media report questioning how a local paramedic ended up working while infected with COVID-19.
Kevin Smith says the report, that one of the service's paramedics was still on the job when he tested positive for the virus, is true.
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Bradford Today
For the next few weeks, BradfordToday will be running features highlighting the efforts of essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic locally. This week, we’re focusing the efforts of a Simcoe County paramedic.
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