There is a five-alarm fire raging in Winnipeg.
It’s coming from inside the fire halls.
While the latest controversy to roil the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service centres on the actions of a single medic and firefighting crew during a critical-care call in the North End last fall, the context in which it sits is a turbulent 24-year marriage between two departments that were forced to become one.
City misses deadline, taxpayers on the hook
The City of Winnipeg has missed a chance to put an end to a controversial arrangement that sees taxpayers on the hook for 60 per cent of the firefighter union president’s salary.