For years, Winnipeg has had no shortage of reports, committees, and panels studying how to modernize the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service. What we lack is the courage to act when the evidence is already staring us in the face. City Hall has become a place where good ideas go to die. Leaders talk about innovation while clinging to the comfort of old practices. They insist they need to reinvent the wheel even when the wheel has already been tested, proven, and is rolling without issue in other jurisdictions. The shift to 24-hour schedules in firefighting is one of those ideas. It isn’t experimental. It isn’t risky. It’s a modern, evidence-based model already used by five of the seven full-time fire departments in Manitoba. Yet Winnipeg is still wrestling with whether to even test it.

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