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Photo Tuesday: BBQ at Edmonton Red Cross House

Posted August 16, 2011 by Global Administrator

Every Tuesday, we publish a photo (or two) to show Red Cross at work across the country or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know! This week’s photos come to us from the Edmonton Red Cross office. Local staffer Nicole Farn exp...

Photo Tuesday: Images from Africa

Posted July 26, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

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! Our Secretary General and CEO, Conrad Sauvé, is currently in Kenya to meet families affected by the dro...

Why we’re forgoing Food Friday

Posted July 15, 2011 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

For those of you who follow this blog, you know that on Fridays we like to post Food Friday blogs. It’s a chance for Red Crossers to have a little fun and talk about something many of us love – food. But given the mounting crisis in the Horn of Africa, our team decided it would be insensitive to post light stories about food when more than 11 million are at risk of starvation right now.

Photo Tuesday - Royal wrap-up

Posted July 12, 2011 by Global Administrator

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...

Red Crossers take in royal visit to Slave Lake

Posted July 07, 2011 by Global Administrator

[slideshow]Guest blog by Leila Daoud, Alberta Public AffairsJean MacNeil from Antigonish, Nova Scotia is, in many respects, a typical royal watcher. A grandmother with eight children and many grandchildren, Jean has the latest tea towels commemoratin...

That’s a big Red Cross

Posted July 07, 2011 by Global Administrator

When most youth go to summer camp they go canoeing, make crafts, sing songs around a campfire. Yesterday, 2650 Finnish summer campers did something different: they made a mark by creating the world’s largest human Red Cross. The cross was create...

Food Friday – Foods that can quench your thirst

Posted June 30, 2011 by Global Administrator

*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...

Walking our way to Geneva

Posted June 16, 2011 by Global Administrator

5,201 kilometres is the distance between Atlantic Canada and Geneva, home of the international Red Cross headquarters. And that’s how far employees and volunteers of the Canadian Red Cross walked on Wednesdays over the past year. It started as...

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