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Ambulance services in Metro are terrible, claims George Christian, a provincial ambulance supervisor whose mother Florence, 73, had a heart attack in March. He said he had time to bathe and dress her before ambulance arrived.
Ambulance services in Metro are terrible, claims George Christian, a provincial ambulance supervisor whose mother Florence, 73, had a heart attack in March. He said he had time to bathe and dress her before ambulance arrived.

Ambulance services in Metro are terrible, claims George Christian, a provincial ambulance supervisor whose mother Florence, 73, had a heart attack in March. He said he had time to bathe and dress her before ambulance arrived.

Date7/19/1974
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Crash care: Members of Metro's top ambulance crews treat victims of simulated accidents during the Metro Ambulance Service's annual Casualty Care competition yesterday
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4/12/1986
Pedestrian who had too much to drink gets ambulance service in Whitehorse, Yukon, which has the highest per capita consumption of alcohol in the count(...)
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11/23/1974
Terry Fox with his mother and father at his side gives his final Marathon of hope Press conference in Thunder bay Tues before he was taken to The airport by Ambulance
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Donated heart arrives, An attendant assists a member of a transplant team out of an ambulance at Toronto Western Hospital yesterday as he carries a he(...)
Donated heart arrives, An attendant assists a member of a transplant team out of an ambulance at Toronto Western Hospital yesterday as he carries a he(...)
1/8/1986
Tortured. By Peter Rickwood Toronto Star. A 33-year-old Canadian Sikh say he got on help from the Canadian High Commission when police in India detained and tortured him as he was about to fly home. Dalbar Sidhu, a Kitchener auto worker, told a Toronto news conference yesterday he was held at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for two days. He claims he was denied foor and seep, was threatened with revolver and had his fingernails pulled and hair tugged out of his beard and scalp. His wife Satwant, who was travelling with him, contacted the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi after his arrest said. [Incomplete]
Tortured. By Peter Rickwood Toronto Star. A 33-year-old Canadian Sikh say he got on help from the Canadian High Commission when police in India detained and tortured him as he was about to fly home. Dalbar Sidhu, a Kitchener auto worker, told a Toronto news conference yesterday he was held at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for two days. He claims he was denied foor and seep, was threatened with revolver and had his fingernails pulled and hair tugged out of his beard and scalp. His wife Satwant, who was travelling with him, contacted the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi after his arrest said. [Incomplete]
1/29/1986
Drivers of American ambulances in England had an opportunity to talk to the princess during a royal inspection
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Rally over ambulance cuts, Ambulance service cuts in at least 16 communities across Ontario in recent months spark a Queen's Park rally yesterday by a(...)
Rally over ambulance cuts, Ambulance service cuts in at least 16 communities across Ontario in recent months spark a Queen's Park rally yesterday by a(...)
9/23/1992
The city council was considering the purchase of an ambulance when Schram arrived to solve the problem
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4/26/1946
Kidney specialist Dr. Paul Tam vowed to bring a $1 million kidney dialysis unit to Scarborough after Gary Belz died of a heart attack due to kidney failure more than two years ago. Tam said if Belz, then 37, hadn't had to wait a month for dialysis treatment at a downtown hospital, he would still be alive today. And Tam said the dozens of patients who travel downtown for dialysis would have a much, much better quality of life if a unit were Scaborough. But after [Incomplete]
Kidney specialist Dr. Paul Tam vowed to bring a $1 million kidney dialysis unit to Scarborough after Gary Belz died of a heart attack due to kidney failure more than two years ago. Tam said if Belz, then 37, hadn't had to wait a month for dialysis treatment at a downtown hospital, he would still be alive today. And Tam said the dozens of patients who travel downtown for dialysis would have a much, much better quality of life if a unit were Scaborough. But after [Incomplete]
11/24/1986
A distraught woman whose infant daughter and granddaughter drowned in a bathtub watches as one of the victims is placed in an ambulance
A distraught woman whose infant daughter and granddaughter drowned in a bathtub watches as one of the victims is placed in an ambulance
1/16/1992
Anguished aftermath: Ambulance attendants support Ellia De Jesus Capelea, whose 2-year-old granddaughter was found at home yesterday overcome by smoke
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3/6/1991
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2/14/1980