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PAC
The Paramedic Association of Canada applauded the federal government today for turning to paramedics to help provide primary, public, and emergency healthcare to remote First Nations in Ontario and Manitoba.
“COVID-19 has placed a huge strain on our healthcare system and nowhere has that been more keenly felt than in our isolated Indigenous communities,” said Dave Deines, President of the Paramedic Association of Canada.
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PAC
L’Association des paramédics du Canada acclame aujourd’hui le gouvernement fédéral de s’être tourné vers les paramédics afin d’offrir des soins de santé primaires et d’urgence publics aux communautés éloignées des Premières Nations de l’Ontario et du Manitoba.
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First Responders First
First responders are at least twice as likely to suffer from PTSD. There’s no need to suffer in silence. The help you need is here. This website offers resources and services for the First Responder community to understand the various steps of a PTSD program from managing a crisis through to implementing best practices into an existing program.
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The Financial Post
The Canadian Union of Public Employees is pleased to announce the settlement of a first collective agreement by arbitration for employees of Oneida Nation of the Thames Emergency Medical Services. This is the first contract between the union and a First Nations paramedic service in Ontario.
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Fusion Nutrition Inc.
Fusion Nutrition Inc., a leading sports nutrition company based in Canada and a recent acquisition of SIRE, has unveiled its 1st ONES First Responder Appreciation Program to give back to our community's finest. The program supports police officers, firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics, as well as doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who - now, more than ever - go above and beyond to keep us safe.
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CBC News
The federal government is looking to hire paramedics who can fly up to remote First Nations in case there's a surge of COVID-19 cases — evidence, officials say, of a different approach to Indigenous health care than during the H1N1 outbreak.
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Vermilion Today
A Cajun musician is without a job after he was fired because of a cartoon he posted on the Internet.
Jamie Bergeron of Jamie Bergeron and the Kickin’ Cajuns, a successful recording group with at least seven albums and a successful touring, nightclub and festival schedule, got into trouble after posting a cartoon of a car hitting protesters in a roadway under the heading, “All Lives Splatter.”
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Coast Reporter
People who use drugs on the Sunshine Coast are being urged not to use alone as the region grapples with a spike in overdoses.
While BC Emergency Health Services responses to overdoses in the first five months of 2020 are comparable to the same time period last year, they shot into the double digits in May. BCEHS responded to 10 overdose calls in Sechelt compared to five in May 2019.
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Medical Xpress
Ambulance workers who took part in a University of Manchester led study have told of the complex challenges they face in responding to suicide without adequate training and support.
The qualitative interview study by experts at Manchester and Keele University, funded by the National Institute for Health Research is published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
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EMS1.com
A COVID-19 outbreak at a Maine ambulance service has led the state Center for Disease Control and Prevention to launch an investigation and contact tracing effort.
The Maine CDC is urging anyone who had close contact with any member of Houlton Ambulance Service since June 8 to get tested for the virus after four members tested positive, according to a statement issued recently.
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Métro
Les voies cyclables et piétonnes que la Ville de Montréal aménage sur plusieurs artères de la métropole sèment l’inquiétude auprès des paramédics d’Urgences-santé, qui craignent que la qualité de leur service en écope.
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VOCM
According to the air ambulance group for Central Newfoundland, both Liberal leadership candidates are in favour of creating an air ambulance base in Gander.
Chair Eugene Nippard says the current air ambulance situation creates longer wait times and does not make sense. He says a base in Central, with medical personnel, would help save more lives.
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My Lloyd Minister Now
A Hillmond teacher is organizing one last get-together for students as classes wrap-up for the summer.
Katie Clark is hosting a drive-in theatre at the Hillmond Redden Arena to bring families together within the community. “I wanted to do something the kids could look forward to and be in a safe place.”
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The Belleville Intelligencer
Life-saving firefighters and paramedics are often overlooked as frontline workers who risk their own lives to ensure the safety and well-being of others, says Lisa Zachariah.
Organizer of the Bags for Hope, a nonprofit group that helps cancer patients in Prince Edward County, Zachariah said there is no better time than now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to recognize both groups of first-responders for their work year-round.
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CBC News
A paramedic charged after a crash between his ambulance and a car says he yielded appropriately before running a red light.
But the woman driving the red Dodge Caliber that was totalled in the crash said she heard no sirens and didn't see the ambulance until it was too late.
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CKOM-AM
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a lot to change, including pride festivities typically scheduled in June.
In Saskatoon, the pride parade was cancelled with other events moving online.
To show their support during pride month one Saskatoon Advanced-Care Paramedic turned to a local company, Imagine That Media, to create colourful patches.
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Woodstock Sentinel-Review
Oxford County paramedics welcomed and honoured the travelling Paramedics Memorial Bell during a Woodstock ceremony recently.
Handed from Norfolk County paramedics to Oxford County paramedics Monday, members hosted the small ceremony that honoured the lives of paramedics who died in the line of duty and those who died after mental-health struggles.
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Durham Region
A veteran Durham Region paramedic has been charged with stealing personal protective equipment as COVID-19 was starting to surge and his fellow front-line workers began expressing fear that there was not enough gear to do their job safely.
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