SYDNEY, N.S. Ambulances were a plenty outside of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney on Wednesday, but that hasn t always been the case across the province, according to the head of Nova Scotia s paramedics union. We re actually passed a health care crisis. We keep hearing we re in a health care crisis, but we re actually on the brink of disaster in our opinion and our member s opinion, says Michael Nickerson, the Nova Scotia Paramedics Union CEO. Nickerson and the paramedics union are once again sounding the alarm on staffing shortages in the province, and have revived their code critical campaign, which means two or fewer ambulances available in a given county.