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[slideshow] Following an explosion caused by a derailed train in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, the Canadian Red Cross sent teams of volunteers and equipment in support of the municipality to help those in need.  About 2000 people have been evacuated from th...

Barb Teghtmeyer lives in the community of Bragg Creek, 30 minutes south west of Calgary. Looking out from the side of where her house is on the edge of the river, you can see where the highway used to be, that’s now washed out. Teghtmeyer grew up the...

Guest post by Lindsay Vogan, Communications volunteer deployed in Alberta High River is one of the hardest hit by the Alberta floods. With so many evacuated, where do all of displaced residents go? Some are lucky enough to have friends and family ...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. NIGERIA: Last August, heavy rains began in Nigeria, leading to the worst flooding the country had experienced in 40 years. Hundreds of thou...

Guest post by Vicki Eichstaedt, Communications Volunteer on deployment in Alberta from American Red Cross It was eerily quiet in High River on Sunday. No people, no cars, no movement. I joined a group of Red Cross and other community volunteers...

The town of High River has been the focus of much of the attention since devastating flooding prompted a state of local emergency and the evacuation of its residents. This weekend, residents from one of the eight zones were allowed to return t...