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    Fourth Emergency Service

    According to City of Toronto, from March 31, 2022 to April 30, 2023,
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    Fourth Emergency Service

    Unlike police and paramedics, they are not City of Toronto employees, TAIBU Community Health Centre 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations Gerstein Crisis Centre Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)...
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    Fourth Emergency Service

    TCCS sounds similar to B-HEARD - the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division of FDNY-EMS, When no EMTs volunteer, they get Voluntold, Toronto Paramedic S.O.P. regarding Delay Service on a 9-1-1 call: 4. wait for police assistance if, a. there is an active shooter...
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    Fourth Emergency Service

    TCCS spends an average of 53 minutes On Scene. Toronto paramedics spend an average of 24 minutes On Scene. If paramedics were spending an average of 53 minutes On Scene, 9-1-1 Response Times would be severely impacted.
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    Fourth Emergency Service

    Toronto Community Crisis Service (TCCS) launched this year as a pilot program to take pressure off Toronto Paramedic Services. TCCS is the fourth emergency service in Canada's largest city. Toronto Paramedic Services received 21,400 9-1-1 "Mental Health -- Requests for Service" in 2021...
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    Self Defence in Canada (split from Gun Control 2.0)

    A comedian repeated the shotgun loading formula that was dictated to him,
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    6 Jan 2020 U.S. Events (Split from A Deeply Fractured US)

    In today's news, Ashli will receive full military honours. The Capitol Police Chief described the J6 pardons as, "probably one of my worst days in this job." The Fraternal Order of Police and International Association of Chiefs of Police criticized the pardons of 1,500 individuals convicted of...
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    Self Defence in Canada (split from Gun Control 2.0)

    Heard of youthful pranksters putting a paper bag containing excrement on a porch, setting it on fire, then ringing the doorbell. As far as Gun Politics goes, when I worked part-time as DZ driver for a well known armored truck company, we had a shotgun in the cab, and bolstered .38s. I was...
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    Sick Leave

    Saw this in Politics, Do your 35 years, full-time "It's a career, not a hobby" , retire with your first employer, take take your nine month Gratuity, and GTFO on an OMERS pension. 162 sick days are deducted for the Gratuity. You can burn off the remaining 468 sick days, or donate them...
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    Cost of housing in Canada

    The mayor of Canada's largest city put it this way, "being treated like a “little boy going up to Queen's Park in short pants” .
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    End of an era at Cracker Barrel

    Just don't @#$% with the Senior's Special.
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    Funny Pix & Video Thread

    Ontario. Probably still passed.
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    WSIB in Emergency Services

    This may be of interest to Guelph, and other Ontario, municipal taxpayers, 27 August, 2025 City eyes 97% spike in WSIB allocations for firefighters, paramedics https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/city-eyes-97-spike-in-wsib-allocations-for-firefighters-paramedics-11126136
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    Active Shooter / Hostile Event ( ASHE ) prevention / response

    Recent school shooter in Minnesota, https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/minneapolis-shooting-live-updates-latest-on-catholic-school-active-scene/
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    End of an era at Cracker Barrel

    The President has spoken, Uncle Herschel is back. White House takes credit for Cracker Barrel logo reversal https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/white-house-credit-cracker-barrel-logo-00527928
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    Self Defence in Canada (split from Gun Control 2.0)

    Not sure which jurisdiction you live in, but in our town, the way the Paramedic department does it now, after I retired, if it is not an emergency, they refer those calls to Toronto Community Crisis Service (TCCS). TCCS is a non-police or paramedic mental health crisis response program...
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    Self Defence in Canada (split from Gun Control 2.0)

    Don't disturb a man in his bed. "The old man's still an artist with a Thompson. "
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