2026-06-03 from cbc.ca

Paramedic teams will soon be available around the clock to respond to overdose calls in Winnipeg's downtown area as a pilot project to address the ongoing toxic drug crisis, the Manitoba government says.

But Winnipeg's mayor and the head of the union representing the city's paramedics wonder where those paramedics will come from, when they're already in short supply in the city.

"In the past week alone, several ambulances were out of service on multiple days because we lacked the staff to operate them," Mayor Scott Gillingham said in a statement following the province's announcement on Tuesday.

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