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As 2019 comes to a close, Paramedic Association of Canada would like to wish its members, partners and other allied professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the profession, we would like to provide the readers of the PAC eNews a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020.
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The Globe and Mail
From Oct. 31:
A paramedic and two children have died after an ambulance collided with a truck on an icy highway in northern Saskatchewan.
RCMP say the crash happened on a highway near Beauval late Friday afternoon, Oct. 25, and that road conditions were poor with slush and ice-covered sections.
Police say a man in the ambulance, who was one of just two people in the vehicle, died after being brought to hospital.
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PAC
From Oct. 31: March 23, 1991 – October 25, 2019
Leigh, late of Meadow Lake, SK, passed away tragically at the age of 28 years. He was predeceased by his maternal grandparents, Ruth and Edmund Rosom and paternal grandparents, Rose and Ben Schroeder. Leigh is survived by his parents, Gwendolyn and Rudy Schroeder; brothers, Ryan (Kelly), nieces, Evangeline, Anastasia, and Seraphina; Reid (Cara); as well as numerous aunts, uncles, many cousins, and a multitude of friends and colleagues.
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Vancouver Sun
From Sept. 5:
As Sarah Blyth arrives for work on an August morning, there’s someone overdosing on the doorstep, unconscious. A second person is on the verge of going under. Both have just minutes before brain damage sets in, and minutes after that, death.
Blyth, the director of the Overdose Prevention Society, runs one of several sites in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside where people can use drugs under the supervision of overdose prevention workers.
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Live Wire Calgary
From April 4: The NDP are promising to come up with a solution to ambulance shortages in Alberta, but the union for EMS workers and a health care advocate are both saying the proposal is a short-term solution at best.
Rachel Notley pledged on Tuesday to post EMS professionals in emergency rooms (ERs) who would care for up to three individuals waiting for admission.
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CBC News
From June 13: The last person Tracey Gundersen spoke to was an ambulance call-taker while she frantically begged for help.
It was 8:14 a.m. on Nov. 8, 2018.
"My groin. It's bleeding. Profusely!" Gundersen, 56, stammered in a recording her family obtained through a freedom of information request.
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Global News
From Nov. 7
A program aimed at getting paramedics on the streets faster after dropping off patients at the hospital has been cancelled, despite improvements in wait times. Adam MacVicar reports.
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CBC News
From Nov. 7:
Mourners gathered at Regina's Living Hope Alliance Church on Sunday, Nov. 3, to remember a paramedic who was killed on duty in a collision in northern Saskatchewan.
Leigh Schroeder, 28, was one of three people killed after the Oct. 25 collision between a truck and an ambulance. One-year-old Kinzey Iron-Couillonneur, and Jerome Coulineur, 12, were also killed in the crash.
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Calgary Sun
From Oct. 31: Lunging at a paramedic who came to his home to rescue him wasn’t a criminal act, a judge ruled Monday in acquitting a Calgary man of assault.
Provincial court Judge Greg Stirling ruled John Goumas was justified in attacking paramedic Olivia Chan when she arrived at his home after he lost consciousness.
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CBC News
From May 9: Two people say a 911 ambulance dispatcher who handled their emergency call in Windsor didn't treat their situation seriously because of the community they live in.
Shane Scott woke up one Sunday morning with severe back pain, painful enough that he could feel shocks coursing through his body.
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CTV News
From Oct. 31: Urgences-Sante has admitted to a 'lack of professionalism' on the part of two paramedics who responded to a 911 call last month.
Linda Jones Dion filed a formal complaint after it took nearly three hours to transport her husband to the hospital.
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