AHS EMS has never met a pile of taxpayer cash they couldn’t set on fire. While ambulances sit empty and paramedics keep quitting in droves, management seems more interested in buying fancy chairs and throwing up bureaucratic roadblocks than actually fixing anything.
Now, they’re claiming that pulling basic budget numbers—something that should take a single click in accounting—will somehow require 12 hours of searching and a $324 paywall. Either they’re hiding something, or their books are an absolute disaster. Either way, we’re not letting this slide.
📢 Donate now to help us pry open AHS EMS’s books and expose exactly how bad the financial mismanagement is.🔗 https://www.givesendgo.com/GC4M8
💰 What Are They Hiding?
We asked AHS a simple question: How much money have you actually spent on EMS over the last six years? Seems like something taxpayers should have the right to know.
Instead of just handing it over, AHS is claiming it’ll take 12 hours to find the data. Twelve. Hours. To locate budget and expenditure numbers in an accounting system.
This is either:🔹 A brazen stall tactic.🔹 Proof that their financial tracking is held together with duct tape and hope.🔹 A desperate attempt to make sure no one actually looks at where the money is going.
And to top it off? They slapped on a $324 paywall. Because nothing screams “we have nothing to hide” like charging for transparency.
🚨 Why This Matters
B.C.’s ambulance service (BCEHS) is $200 million in the hole, and their brilliant fix? Cut overtime, leave ambulances unstaffed, and burn out the remaining paramedics. If AHS EMS is even half as reckless as B.C., Alberta is circling the same financial drain.
We already know AHS EMS loves to waste money on everything except solutions. Instead of fixing the staffing crisis, we’re seeing fancy new chairs popping up in EMS stations. Because when you’re bleeding paramedics left and right, why not go furniture shopping?
Here is our chance to show the province that what has been going on behind the scenes has been a financial disaster. This is a big one folks, theres a potential smoking gun here. We desperately want to bring it to light so we can demand some big change!
🔍 What We’re Digging Into
If we crack this open, we can take the proof straight to the people who actually control AHS EMS’s budget: the government. No more hiding behind PR fluff—just hard numbers and real consequences.
Here’s what we’re after:
📊 The actual EMS budget vs. what they’ve really spent over the last six years.💺 The per-unit cost of those mysterious new chairs. (These better be gold-plated recliners for what we’re guessing they cost.)🚚 How much they’ve wasted just to deliver them.🚑 How many paramedics are actually left in Calgary Zone. (Spoiler: fewer every year.)
We’ve already sunk hundreds into FOIPs this year alone and over $1100 last year. Edmonton Zone? Already on it. Central Zone? Coming next. After that? A deep dive into chute times and core flex. Long story short, we did not budget for this fee adjustment.
💡 How You Can Help
If we expose the financial incompetence, we can finally force some accountability. But to get this data and shove it under the right noses, we need your help.
📢 Every dollar gets us closer to proving what we already know—AHS EMS is burning through taxpayer money like a bonfire at a gas station. If you want to see what they’re really hiding, consider kicking in to our GiveSendGo.
🚨 Donate now, and let’s pull back the curtain on this disaster.🔗 https://www.givesendgo.com/GC4M8
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