On July 19, Toronto City Council authorized the City to donate two end-of-life vehicles from Fleet Services to the Ukrainian government for humanitarian
Strains on the health-care system caused by the Omicron variant are increasingly seeing paramedics off sick or tied up with patients in hospital emergency rooms.
At points this weekend there were upwards of 50 Toronto ambulances that were out of service at one time while paramedics waited to offload patients at local hospitals, a situation that officials say is increasingly impacting response times in the city.