Prescott-Russell Racing Against Drugs

Each May, Prescott-Russell Emergency Medical Service partners with several local agencies and private businesses to stage “Racing Against Drugs,” a community-based drug and alcohol awareness program for almost 1,000 Grade Six students. Racing Against Drugs is a bilingual community-based drug and alcohol awareness program that demonstrates the benefits of a drug and alcohol free lifestyle and offers various alternatives to students by teaching them skills and tactics to say “NO” to drugs and alcohol. Student teams manoeuvre a remote miniature race car...

04 June, 2018
CARE Course

A team of Doctors, Nurses, and Paramedics made the voyage from British Columbia to Bruce County to run The CARE Course (Comprehensive Approaches to Rural Emergencies). This was the first time in Ontario that this program has been run and Bruce County Paramedic Service partnered with Grey Bruce Health Services to participate in this unique two-day rural emergency medicine program that brought together paramedics, nurses and physicians in a collaborative learning environment. The training is designed for small rural hospitals where...

07 May, 2018
Oxford County Hybrid Ambulance Study

On October 26, 2017 Oxford County became the first municipality in Canada to deploy hybrid ambulances.  However, the journey towards this objective began much, much sooner.  On June 24, 2015, Oxford County council set in motion a plan to rely only on 100% renewable energy sources by 2050, and as such became the first municipality in Ontario to commit to the energy target. With the release of the final draft of the Community Sustainability Plan Oxford positively positioned itself to commit to 100%...

23 April, 2018
For Voting Members:

The Canadian NG9-1-1 Coalition is pleased to present the Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) Transition Roadmap for Canadian Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP). The enclosed document presents a high level road map to an NG9-1-1 transition for Canadian PSAPs and is designed to guide senior leadership, governing and funding authorities. The Canadian NG9-1-1 Coalition is pleased to present the Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) Transition Roadmap for Canadian Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP). The folloiwng documents present a high level road map to an NG...

11 April, 2018