A former paramedic has launched a civil lawsuit against the company which operates the ambulance service in Nova Scotia. She's alleging Emergency Medical Care Inc. was negligent in failing to adequately protect her from sexual assaults and sexual harassment from her immediate supervisor. According to her lawyer, Michael Dull, she was just 21 in 2001 when she started work at the paramedic station in Chéticamp in Cape Breton. In the lawsuit, the woman alleges her supervisor sexually harassed and assaulted her over a four-year period before she finally quit the profession. Nova Scotia RCMP say they received a complaint in June of last year about a sexual assault allegation at the Chéticamp paramedic station.

Source: CBC News March 10, 2021 20:48 UTC