Our City Council is fuming over Alberta Health Services decision to do some streamlining by way of directing Medicine Hat’s Ambulance dispatch thru Calgary. A move that will break-up this region’s current Emergency Dispatch service. Our 9-1-1 dispatch center has won numerous awards and is the most accredited in the world. It’s flaw? It’s not in Calgary or Edmonton. Therefore expendable.
Our forgotten corner of the province seems to be taking the lion’s share of every cost cutting measure by this provincial government. Promise of money for hospital expansion dissolved, Events Centre funding not possible in this harsh economy and don’t even bother requesting for cash for new schools. Is this the straw that broke the camel’s back? Have we had enough?
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It is hard for me to disagree with this. I am not a world traveler (Maybe Sol can chime in, she has been to all 4 corners). But, I have to admit whenever I have been to other Canadian cities or a few major US cities, I definitely think Calgary is clean in comparison. Although, when I have been to Montreal, there seems to be a lot more graffiti.