Posted May 21, 2012 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
Guest entry by Gwen Eamer, National Office Media Advisor What do a plumber, electrician and orthotics fitter have in common? It might seem like the beginning of a bad joke, but in fact its the beginning of an exceptional team being trained by the ...
Posted May 20, 2012 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
Two emergency response experts from the Colombian Red Cross have joined the Canadian Red Cross for a week-long training to prepare for deployment with the Emergency Response Unit (ERU). From the Colombian Red Cross are Luisa Salamanca and Lina...
Posted May 18, 2012 by Global Administrator
Musician Bif Naked, a friend and supporter of the Canadian Red Cross, stopped by our Burnaby, BC office earlier this week where she met staff members and volunteers and got a tour of the office. Here she posed with Sharon Dhillon (left) and Amrit Dha...
May 19 is Personal Support Worker Day in Ontario. The Canadian Red Cross is the largest non-profit provider of Personal Support and Homemaking Services in the province. Red Cross CSWs provided more than 4 million hours of care to more than 29,000 cli...
As a Red Crosser, I believe in having the right clothes for the occasion. And by occasion, I don’t mean which event you’re going to. I am talking about the weather. In Canada, the weather can be very unpredictable. During this time of year, y...
Posted May 16, 2012 by Global Administrator
Tomorrow is National Lifejacket Day. To get into the spirit, we sent one of our top-notch representatives to Parliament Hill today: our water safety mascot, Buckles (the super smiley lifejacket). While there, he met with MPs and other movers-and-sh...
Posted May 14, 2012 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
[slideshow] On May 15, 2011, more than 15,000 people were evacuated from Slave Lake and the surrounding communities due to massive wildfires that swept across the region—the largest disaster in Alberta’s history. The Canadian Red Cross response wa...
Posted May 11, 2012 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger
When Red Cross was alerted that help was needed with the northern Alberta wildfires, it responded by first calling in local teams. As the magnitude of the disaster became apparent, Red Cross quickly pulled in people from its vast resource of volu...
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