There is a five-alarm fire raging in Winnipeg.
It’s coming from inside the fire halls.
While the latest controversy to roil the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service centres on the actions of a single medic and firefighting crew during a critical-care call in the North End last fall, the context in which it sits is a turbulent 24-year marriage between two departments that were forced to become one.
City misses deadline, taxpayers on the hook
The City of Winnipeg has missed a chance to put an end to a controversial arrangement that sees taxpayers on the hook for 60 per cent of the firefighter union president’s salary.
Who Is Allowed To Administer The COVID-19 Vaccine In Canada?
Health care workers need specific qualifications to immunize people. The Public Health Agency of Canada has made the training free to provinces and territories. Patricia Treble, Maclean’s Updated
January 12, 2021 Eunice Fiddler, 85, receives a COVID-19 vaccine from Andrea McWatters as her daughter Margaret Beardy and interpreter Tom Chapman look on in Sioux Lookout, Ont. Thursday, Jan.7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre MANDATORY CREDIT
In the past few weeks, countless doctors, nurses and other health care professionals have volunteered to help with Canada’s vaccination programs in an effort to get as many Canadians vaccinated as quickly as possible. But who is actually allowed to administer the COVID-19 vaccination?