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Images from the Thunder Bay floods

[slideshow] The Canadian Red Cross is on the ground in Thunder Bay, helping to provide support and comfort to people affected by severe flooding that has affected approximately 1,500 homes. Working closely with community officials, Red Cross volun...

Red Crossers in Action: Delegate spotlight

Red Cross aid worker Eboukele Aka had his first overseas mission with the Red Cross two years ago in Afghanistan. A pharmacist by trade, Eboukele was based in Kandahar with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Working in a hospita...

Zombie apocalypse focus of new emergency preparedness campaign in BC

If your hometown suddenly turned into a scene from Night of the Living Dead, how would you survive? The British Columbia government believes if you are prepared for a fictional zombie attack, then you are prepared for any real disaster that mi...

Photo of the Day: Red Cross friends from Colombia

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...

Three cheers for our Community Support Workers!

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...

Photo of the Day: Buckles takes to the Hill

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...

Photo of the Day: Ready for the season

It's that time of year when we cannot wait to take part in our favourite summer activities on the water. Red Cross offices across Atlantic Canada have hundreds of PFDs (a.k.a. personal floatation devices or lifejackets) of all sizes ready to go for...

Value of volunteers: Northern Alberta wildfires response

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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