Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals - MAHCP

06/17/2026

Happy 100 years of community-led care, Mount Carmel Clinic! We're looking forward to celebrating with you this Friday during your National Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration to honour the rich cultures, histories, and contributions of Indigenous Peoples.

Thank you to our Neighbourhood Sponsor, the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals - MAHCP, for being part of our National Indigenous Peoples Day celebration. So glad to have you in our corner! 🧡

06/16/2026

Violence, verbal, or physical abuse should not be “part of the job.”

MAHCP is hearing from our members that violent incidents in health care are on the rise.

We don’t know how bad it actually is, but our members are feeling psychologically and physically unsafe at work. That’s because incidents are reported differently across the healthcare system: RL6, Near Miss, Dangerous Occurrence, et cetera…

It’s disorganized, and disjointed employers are not sharing the information with us, with each other, or with anyone — if it’s even being collected at all.

We need your help reporting violence. Reach out to your LRO if you or your co-workers experience violence at work. If we don’t know, we can’t track the data, and we certainly can’t help support you.

Every incident must be reported, investigated, and communicated.

06/10/2026

Healthcare is one of the most dangerous industries in Manitoba.

Bet you didn’t expect Cory to say that. But according to statistics from the Workers Compensation Board (WCB), it’s more dangerous to be a social worker than it is to work in an underground mine.

Last year had over 400 serious incidents alone. Serious means life altering for you, your family, and even your friends.

That’s more than one serious life-changing accident per calendar day in Manitoba, resulting in injury and time away from work.

In 2025, the WCB recorded nearly one hundred and seventeen thousand days of lost time due to injury, creating longer wait times for you and your family and feeding the burnout of our health care workers.

06/08/2026

Celebrating YOU! 🌈✨

Over the weekend, MAHCP staff, members, and friends marched loud and proud in the Winnipeg Pride Parade.

Everyone deserves to feel safe, seen, and supported in health care, in workplaces, and in our communities. We’re proud to stand in solidarity with 2SLGBTQIA+ communities year round.

🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

06/05/2026

MAHCP member Victor Phan is a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RT) at Grace Hospital. He's passionate about the intensity of respiratory therapy and the problem-solving involved in caring for patients in critical situations.

"I love what I do. If a person's breathing is compromised because of a bad lung infection or a drug overdose, and they need to be put on a breathing machine, respiratory therapists are there. We are present throughout the system in some of the most critical situations."

At the hospital, Victor rotates between the ICU, emergency department, and wards, working 12-hour shifts. He supports patients in some of the hospital’s most urgent moments.

"If you’re good at math and science, and you want the opposite of a 9-to-5 office job, RT is the job for you."

Meet Victor.

06/04/2026

Come join MAHCP! We're hiring a Research & Policy Analyst. Know someone with an analytical lens into operations and governance, strategic research skills, and project management expertise? Sounding like you? Find the full job description here: mahcp.ca/workwithus. Applications accepted until June 19.

06/02/2026

MAHCP is proud to celebrate the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community and march in the Winnipeg Pride Parade on Sunday, June 7!

The theme of this year's Pride Festival is "Celebrate YOU!" Join us to champion unity and diversity as we walk alongside other unions affiliated with the Manitoba Federation of Labour.

Walking with us? Let us know you're coming and find important details about the event here: mahcp.ca/pride

05/29/2026

Today, CBC News featured a story about the Manitoba government’s recent recruitment initiative for rural paramedics. The government says it has signed 29 conditional offers from paramedics in the U.K. to backfill open positions in rural Manitoba.

We welcome any qualified paramedic choosing to practice in Manitoba, including these 29 U.K. paramedics. The bottom line for MAHCP is that we want to see all the recruitment and retention incentives offered to these paramedics offered to our member paramedics already employed within Shared Health.

Why wouldn’t they?

We have qualified medics in Manitoba who might be interested in taking a position in a hard-to-fill rural or Northern location where the pressure is greatest if they were incented to do so.

We know the U.K. paramedics will be signing return of service agreements and receiving relocation bonuses, but we have not been shown the full terms of the agreements. We are asking that the return of service agreements be made public.

And these are only conditional offers. Conditional offers are not arrivals, and an arrival is not a retained, licensed, practicing paramedic in a Manitoba community. The test is how many of these 29 will still be here, in those communities, 12 and 24 months from now.

International recruitment is a useful near-term tool, and this is the right way to use it: As a bridge. But this is not a foundation.

The foundation must be investing in Manitoba's healthcare system and our own residents. The lasting fix is training paramedics here, in the communities that need them.

We are ready to work with government to turn the paramedic staffing crisis around, and we have said so consistently.

The Emergency Medical Responder to Primary Care Paramedic pathway is one of the strongest tools we have to move people up and keep them local, yet we still have not yet been told about a clear, funded route to full paramedic practice.

Education and training take time, and that is precisely why near-term recruitment and a long-term pipeline have to run together.

05/25/2026

For years, Emma Grandmont believed escaping into fantasy meant she was avoiding her problems. Only later did she realize her mind wasn’t failing her, it was trying to survive the waves of borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Emma captured the experience of living with BPD in a creative nonfiction that tells the story of a princess who appears to have a perfect life struggling silently with overwhelming emotions and a need to please others.

Through help, self-understanding, and learning new skills, the princess discovers she can live alongside her emotions without being consumed by them, finding quiet strength in simply sitting with herself.

This spring, Emma joined MAHCP on a three-week work placement from RRC Polytech’s Creative Communications program. As an outspoken advocate for mental wellbeing and destigmatization, she was an excellent fit for our team and supported us with video production, member profiles, website audits, and more. We're proud to share Emma's nonfiction, "Once Upon a Mind," during .

Read her full story here: workingdraftmagazine.com/once-upon-a-mind

05/23/2026

Terrell is an Intermediate Care Paramedic with Riverton EMS.

In March 2026, we had the honour of sitting down with Terrell, a 14-year paramedic, for a conversation. We talked about his career path and the daily life of a paramedic.

Read our Q&A with Terrell, including why you should become a paramedic, what it takes, and what you should know here: mahcp.ca/qa-with-terrell-intermediate-care-paramedic-riverton-ems

To our 800+ MAHCP members working in emergency response service, including roughly 500 paramedics providing life-saving care in rural and Northern regions: Happy !

You meet Manitobans on some of their most difficult days. You somehow steady the chaos and bring calm and compassion to any crisis.