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Food Friday: Chocolate meets first aid

*Every Friday is all about food on Red Cross Talks – everything from Red Cross inspired recipes to emergency food tips and solutions. This week, Food Friday is a day early because of the long weekend. It’s once again chocolate season! And if you are ...

Food Friday: Can bacon cure nosebleeds?

*Every Friday is all about food on Red Cross Talks – everything from Red Cross inspired recipes to emergency food tips and solutions.  If one thing is for certain: Canadians love bacon. Most Canadians would say the smell of bacon can cure just abo...

Photo of the Day: Walmart employee receives Canadian Red Cross Rescuer Award

Yesterday, Russ Tombs, a Walmart employee in Leamington, ON, was surprised with a Canadian Red Cross Rescuer Award for saving a woman's life while at work. Last month, while collecting shopping carts in the store's parking lot, Tombs noticed a woma...

Shaving cream, munchies and chest compressions: A perfect recipe for Edmonton’s first CPR tweet-up

[slideshow]Guest blog by Leila Daoud, Public Affairs Coordinator in Edmonton Cheese and crackers, trivia, a little mingling and a swag bag at the end of the night.  Sounds like a recipe for a party, but the men and women gathered at the Red Cross ...

Photo of the Day: #RedCrossCPR

Every day, we publish a photo to show Red Cross at work across the country or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know!  [slideshow] Earlier this week, the Canadian Red Cross hosted CPR classes across the country for our Twit...

Photo Tuesday: Stepping in and saving a life

Every Tuesday, we publish a photo to show Red Cross at work across the country or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know! Check out this photo from a recent Red Cross Rescuer Award presentation in Toronto. At the presentation...

Photo Tuesday - Royal wrap-up

Every Tuesday, we publish a photo to show Red Cross at work across the country or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know![slideshow]Canadians were on royal watch last week and Red Crossers were no exception. You may have read abo...

Food Friday – Foods that can quench your thirst

*Every Friday is all about food on Red Cross Talks – everything from Red Cross inspired recipes to emergency food tips and solutions. This week we are  publishing this blog a day early because of the long weekend. The Canada Day long weekend is fi...

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