Preparedness (Page 29)

Introducing the newest member of the Canadian Red Cross Social Media Team, Judi Samuels! The Social Media Team is made up of social media users who use their social networks to help spread the word about the work of the Red Cross. In a disaster, the ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Left to right: Serenna Besserer, Tony Hearn, Jen Duke Holmes, Sarah Marsden, Mahogany McGuire Canadian Red Cross staff and volunteers traveled to Moose Cree First Nation to research information to create “Be Ready”. Be Ready is a new personal prepar...