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Volunteer Spotlight: On the road with Rick

Since retiring from his job as a papermaker, Rick Allen has been a devoted Red Cross volunteer with the Senior Transportation Program in Dryden, Ontario, driving anywhere and anytime he was asked. In fact, since 2010, Rick has driven more than 31...

Photo of the Day: Canadian Red Cross helps a little one

Five-year-old Alyssa from Truro, Nova Scotia found herself in quite a predicament, recently, after having injured her foot upon accidently colliding with her dog Bailey. After an exhaustive search for tiny crutches in her hometown went nowhere, a...

Photo of the Day: Timmins Girl Guides learn personal preparedness

A group of Girl Guides in Timmins, Ontario received a visit from Serenna Besserer, a disaster management coordinator, to learn more about personal preparedness. The Girl Guides have always focused on developing the skills they need to be prepared...

Tech Talk: #DLWS and what it all means

Have you ever seen the #dlws hashtag on Twitter? It's usually associated with an offhand comment or complaint about the weather. You may have used it to make your own observations too. But do you know what it all means on a larger scale? By the time...

CPR & Mad Men: Confidence from the boardroom to a cardiac emergency

TV's favourite ad men and women returned to television screens across North America last night and if you saw the latest episode you can probably understand why we're interested in a particular scene. Don and Megan's doorman suffers a sudden car...

World Health Day - Providing care where it's most needed

Many people around the world today are marking World Health Day. World Health Day was celebrated on Sunday, April 7 to mark the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization, the UN’s health agency. Health services are one of the c...

Tech Talk: The future of First Aid may be in your phone

As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the mobile phone, it is really amazing to think about all of the innovation in mobile phone technology and how it impacts our health, provides life-saving information, and provides information in a disaster or ...

Photo of the Day: Promoting hygiene, by bike!

Around the world, Red Crossers use many different means of transport and even technology to reach people to spread important prevention information. We love this photo of Zimbabwe Red Cross hygiene promotion volunteer Tizai Miidzo on his bicyc...

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