WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT Weekly. Vol. 0/ No. 1d We are Westmount February 12, 1/03 99-year-old breaks hip, waits Navigating the deep five hours for ambulance BA L4><77: S@77:7A kept in communication with her through Westmount Public Security and Lifeline,” A 99-year-old Westmount woman who an emergency notification service. fell in her apartment building February 12 She said Urgences Santé prioritizes calls waited more than five hours for an ambu - using the same triage system as hospitals. lance, Public Security officials said. She Starting with 0 and 1 as top priority, she ex - was believed to have fractured her hip. plained, this case was classified as a num - Officers remained with the woman ber 4 out of 10. Fire department first re - while concerned tenants were reported to sponders typically answer only 0 and 1 have made multiple calls to 911. priority calls, she added. Urgences Santé confirmed to the Inde - Public Security director Greg McBain pendent it had received an overflow of pri - said the department responded after re - ority calls that evening and that ambu - ceiving a call at 10:26 pm from an out-of- lances dispatched to the woman’s address town family member concerned about the had been re-directed twice to more urgent delays. The woman was believed to have incidents. fallen about an hour earlier. “This patient was not alone,” said Jo - Officers found the woman just outside The temperature on February 20 went up to plus 5 degrees C. The day had a combination of a little hanne Dufort, its chief of communica - the door to her apartment being cared for wet snow and rainfall. Most of the crosswalks in Victoria village were quickly inundated as people tions. “She was conscious and not in a by other tenants but un - navigated the deep, slushy moats. One pedestrian, well equipped with rain gear, wades through a large dangerous [life-threatening] condition. We able to move because of a continued on p. 13 puddle on Sherbrooke at the corner of Roslyn. Photo: Ralph Thompson Letters p. 6 One Hydro Westmount legal case concludes Social Notes by V. Redgrave p. 14 ‘Final’ award for wrongful Foot pain? dismissal could reach 500K Heel spur? Bunions? BA L4><77: S@77:7A to this is the value of fringe benefits whose amount the commission stated was out - Consult The city is now processing compensa - side its scope of competency. Dr Constant, podiatrist tion for a Hydro Westmount manager This could raise the total compensation found to have been wrongfully dismissed to some $500,000 if the fringes are calcu - 514-439-5112 six years ago, city officials confirmed last lated at 26 percent of lost salary over four week. This follows a third ruling from the years. 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At that time, the the time, “Westmount had always followed A longstanding protocol for lowering police or firefighters killed in the line of 1997 policy was not immediately available, a policy – a rule I have followed – of low - Westmount’s flags to half-mast has been duty. The only occasion mentioned is Re - Trent had explained (see story November 4, ering flags for Canadian state officials, roy - amended to include events considered ap - membrance Day, November 11. p. 10). alty, and local and provincial elected offi - propriate by “the mayor,” the Independent It was agreed, the minutes state, “that Councillor Patrick Martin had also urged cials but not for natural disasters and mass learned last week. council will adopt an amended flag policy the lowering of Westmount’s flags based killings outside Canada.” The decision was made by the council at that includes, on an exceptional basis, the on the principle that France being an ally He added that he felt municipal flags its general committee meeting December half-masting of flags for events that the of Canada in the war against ISIS, an at - were “not instruments of foreign policy.” 7 and made public in minutes of the mayor determines to be befitting the ges - tack on that country was an attack on Last week, he said he would be looking closed-door session released February 1 ture.” Canada. at Quebec’s protocol governing provincial The new policy includes the protocol Asked what these might include, Trent In walking around Westmount, however, buildings. He and others had noticed in from 1997 that restricted lowering of flags said last week that, in the absence of guide - Trent subsequently discovered that flags the wake of the Paris attacks that flags had to the death of political officials “linked” to lines, “My feeling is that it has to be some had not been lowered on the federal RCMP been lowered on schools, provincial prop - Westmount at all levels of government. event, some disaster, in Canada.” headquarters buildings and told the Inde - erty. Among them are the prime minister and The updating of the city’s policy arose pendent he had requested a copy of the premier, as well the sovereign and a mem - from the terrorist attacks November 13 in city’s protocol for review.