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Fashion Week: Styles from the Red Cross Carpet

Snow melting and the sun peeking out from behind the clouds can only mean one thing in Canada: Fashion Weeks are starting across the country. While we can’t begin to understand why Canadian fashion designers are debuting their Fall/Winter lines w...

Photo of the Day: B.C. proclaims March is Red Cross Month

The province of British Columbia has officially proclaimed March as Red Cross Month. The Lieutenant Governor of B.C., the Honourable Judith Guichon, made the proclamation, recognizing the Canadian Red Cross as a reflection of the Canadian spirit ...

Queen’s University prepares to get certified in Mouth to Mouth for Canadian Red Cross Awareness Week

As part of their emphasis on giving back to the community, last week was Canadian Red Cross Awareness Week on Queen’s University campus in Kingston, Ontario. With a special focus on water safety, first aid and CPR initiatives, the Queen's Red Cross...

Hey Rosetta! Rocks Halifax at Red Cross benefit concert

Friday night marked a very special evening for the Canadian Red Cross in Nova Scotia. The award-winning band Hey Rosetta! was the headliner of the “Red Cross Rocks” benefit concert held at the Cunard Centre in Halifax with local bands SoHo Ghetto...

Photo of the Day: President of the International Committee of the Red Cross visits Ottawa

President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Peter Maurer, was in Ottawa recently to visit with the Canadian Red Cross. During his visit he presented on today’s humanitarian challenges and discussed how we can best work together...

Tech Talk: Bringing life back to abandoned phone booths

A small community in Northern Ireland has brought life back to their abandoned phone booth by retrofitting it with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). The community of Crossgar, population 1500, has also had more than 10% of its population...

Photo of the Day: Celebrating 50 years of the Senegalese Red Cross

Today’s photo comes from Maya Helwani, a Canadian Red Cross delegate working as the operations manager in Senegal for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society's Food Insecurity Emergency Appeal. The Canadian Red Cross ha...

The Red Cross Round-up

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. Mali: After the outbreak of the conflict in northern Mali, thousands of people were displaced within the country while others sought re...

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