This year, Lethbridge EMS saw the lowest first quarter number for drug responses since the start of the pandemic. However, it increased by 32% in the second quarter.
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Leth. EMS drug responses up 32% in Q2 2024
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The workers have been without a new contract for over 1.5 years. The proposed 4-year contract includes higher raises, but inflation may outpace these gains, and concerns remain about the agreement.
That’s on top of 2 years of wage freezes in their previous contract, and their new contract actually expires this summer.
That’s on top of 2 years of wage freezes in their previous contract, and their new contract actually expires this summer.
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2023 saw record drug deaths in Lethbridge
During 2023, the Alberta government recorded 120 opioid-related deaths in Lethbridge. During all of 2022, there were 79, the previous high.
Lethbridge had 28 more physicians in the first quarter of 2024 than it had at the same time last year, but it still has fewer than it did at the end of 2019.
The last time they tried this, they ended up having to go on strike, and they claimed that one of the vice-presidents was intimidating them.
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Leth. EMS drug responses rising again?
After reaching an all-time monthly low in January, EMS drug responses rose in the final two months of the most recent quarter.
Despite spending more on salaries and benefits in 2022, Lethbridge Police Service received more calls for services and charged more people with violent crime and property crime.
The City of Lethbridge recently decided that they want to sell public parkspace within the London Road neighbourhood to a private developer.