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Toronto’s Fourth Emergency Service | Winnipeg News
Toronto’s groundbreaking fourth emergency service—dedicated to mental health crises—is proving wildly effective, diverting nearly 50,000 calls annually and responding over 41,000 times without police involvement. Now, Winnipeg is poised to adopt a similar model, with its mayor proposing a “fourth crisis response pathway” to redirect non-violent calls to community teams. Backed by input from frontline responders, survivors, and local organizations, the Toronto program—expanded citywide and even staffed with a dedicated subway team—has shown measurable success through triage, mobile response…
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