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Emergency Preparedness Week: Tune-in to the next coolest emergency accessory

There has been a lot of buzz this past week about fanny packs being the hottest emergency preparedness accessory. While no one can deny that fanny packs are very hip, there is another emergency accessory that’s also making some noise: Radios.  “Ra...

Are you prepared? Bif Naked and the Red Cross can help you #saveyourfanny

It’s Emergency Preparedness Week across Canada and you may have noticed we’ve been having a little fun in social media with a promotion on first-aid fanny packs, encouraging Canadians to ‘Save Your Fanny’. The fanny packs (regular $13.95), as ...

Photo of the Day: Orange cat and the fanny pack

Every day, we publish a photo to show the Red Cross at work across the country or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know! It's Emergency Preparedness Week and we're happy to see Orange Cat has its first aid fanny pack! Orange ...

Emergency Preparedness Week is coming - time to save your fanny!

If you follow this blog often enough, you know that Red Crossers love all things having to do with first aid and disaster preparedness. Well, now we’ve found a way that we can all wear our love for safety – a fanny pack! That’s right! Fanny packs. ...

Photo of the Day: Helping families to be ready

Next week is Emergency Preparedness Week – an awareness week to encourage Canadians to be prepared for disasters where they live. Since we’re super keeners (it’s never too early to be prepared!), we’re getting a jump start by hosting emergency p...

Heat wave, spring thaw and ice jams

Much of Eastern Canada has been experiencing record high temperatures this week, prompting many to swap mitts and toques for flip flops and shorts. But this wacky weather has resulted in the quick melt of snow and ice, and not surprisingly some flood...

How we would prepare Katniss for the “Hunger Games”

Have “Hunger Games” on the brain? The film version of the first book from this popular trilogy is set to hit theatres soon. If you haven’t heard of this futuristic story before, it’s about 12 young men and 12 young women who are chosen to compete to ...

Building communities online and off: a new partnership with momstown

I was with Red Cross Twitter Team member Ann Douglas at a social media event last year and she said to me: “There is someone here you must meet.” That someone was Ann Marie Burton from momstown.ca. And Ann was right – within just a few minutes of ...

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