• New paramedic station in Montague will create 'room to grow,' says Island EMS

  Source: Prince Edward Island - Regional News
  Date: 2026-10-21 19:00:00.0
  Tags: [Prince Edward Island, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Emergency]

  Construction is underway on a new 4,400-square-foot paramedic station in Montague, Prince Edward Island, with an estimated cost of $1.2 million and a target completion date of late spring. The purpose-built facility replaces an older 2,640-square-foot repurposed home demolished in June, which had served as a legacy base. Managed by Island EMS, the new centralized station will consolidate operations from two different locations, integrate 911 services, mobile mental health, and community paramedicine, and feature a backup generator, training rooms, and capacity for future expansion.

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• Four hospitals, 22 ambulances, six planes, two helicopters: The CFB Wainwright evacuation effort

  Source: Alberta - Edmonton Journal (Legislature & Capital)
  Date: 2026-10-18 20:42:10.0
  Tags: [Alberta, Emergency, Healthcare, Defence, Public Safety]

  Following a mass casualty explosion at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Wainwright training facility, Acute Care Alberta activated a Code Orange on Saturday night that lasted over 10 hours until Sunday afternoon. Emergency Health Services (EHS)-Alberta and contracted service partners deployed 30 units directly to the scene, including 22 ground ambulances, six fixed-wing planes, and two rotary-wing helicopters. Patients were evacuated from the Wainwright Healthcare Centre and distributed across four major medical facilities: University of Alberta Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Foothills Medical Centre, and Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

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• 'The worst it's ever been': Alberta implements triage liaison physicians as emergency rooms continue to buckle under pressure

  Source: Alberta - Edmonton Journal (Legislature & Capital)
  Date: 2026-10-17 16:38:59.0
  Tags: [Alberta, Healthcare, Emergency]

  The Government of Alberta, through Hospital and Surgical Services Minister Adriana LaGrange and Acute Care Alberta, is implementing triage liaison physicians (TLPs) in the province's busiest emergency departments following a nine-month delay caused by stalled negotiations with the Alberta Medical Association. The program aims to expedite patient care amid severe emergency room overcrowding, where patients like 44-year-old Prashant Sreekumar—who died at the Grey Nuns Hospital emergency room—have faced prolonged delays and fatal wait times. Dr. Paul Parks, president of the section of emergency medicine at the Alberta Medical Association, noted that admitted patients have been stuck in emergency rooms for over 100 hours, and a public fatality inquiry into Sreekumar's death is scheduled to begin on October 19 to review systemic care failures.

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• Pharmacy treatments for Lyme disease cut N.S. emergency visits in half: study

  Source: Nova Scotia - Halifax & Regional News
  Date: 2026-09-21 21:34:59.0
  Tags: [Nova Scotia, Healthcare, Emergency]

  A study published in the Canadian Pharmacies Journal by researchers at Dalhousie University found that giving Nova Scotia pharmacists the authority in August 2021 to assess and provide preventative Lyme disease treatment cut emergency department tick-bite visits in half relative to overall emergency volumes. Comparing 16-month periods before and after implementation, emergency visits dropped from 617 to 402. A separate 2024 study noted that pharmacists accounted for 61.3 per cent of all single-dose doxycycline prescriptions, with community pharmacists assessing over 8,000 tick bites in the quarter from April to June.

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