If you or a loved one calls for an ambulance in Winnipeg tonight, you may wait far longer than you should. Not because paramedics don’t care. Not because crews aren’t willing to do the job. You will wait because the system is broken, and leadership at City Hall and the provincial government have failed to fix it.

We can’t keep pretending this problem will resolve itself. Winnipeg routinely has nearly half its ambulances off the road at night. On some recent evenings, only 9 of 19 units were staffed. That’s less than half the fleet. Calls stack up in a queue while people suffer, and families wonder when help will come. These aren’t delays for a pizza delivery; these are delays for strokes, heart attacks, and trauma.

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