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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...

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 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...

It is that time of year again where the ice starts to melt and we need to be extra cautious. In Winnipeg, Gordon Giesbecht from the University of Manitoba (you may know him better as Professor Popsicle) helped us demonstrate just what happens whe...