Mélanie Chartier has been a Canadian Red Cross volunteer since 2018. She is a member of the Rouyn-Noranda Personal Assistance Team (PDAT). She is also the coordinator of the Regional Emergency Response Team (ERT). She is a member of the Quebec’s volunteer emergency on-call team. Finally, she is an ambassador for the Wal-Mart fundraising campaign for Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or.
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Denis has been volunteering with the Canadian Red Cross since 2007 and has assisted with more than a dozen emergency responses across the country.
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Eric Dion has been a volunteer since 2018. He is an Emergency Response Team (ERT) coordinator, a Personal Disaster Assistance Team (PDAT) team leader, and a senior emergency management facilitator. He frequently responds to PDAT calls in Montréal. He served as a site manager during the Manitoba wildfires in the summer of 2025, assisted with the reception of Ukrainians, and supported vaccination centres during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lyle Karasiuk has been a Canadian Red Cross volunteer engaged in First Aid for more than 20 years. He is the National Volunteer Chairperson for the Canadian Red Cross Council for Health Education; a National Master Instructor Trainer in all Prevention and Safety programs and a training partner.
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Michelle Landsiedel started volunteering with the Canadian Red Cross after being impacted by the fires that devastated the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in 2016.
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Dana Linfield has been a volunteer in emergency management with the Canadian Red Cross since 2008. He is currently an ERT and PDA supervisor for the eastern Newfoundland region and is on the EMIS Atlantic team.
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Heidi Marcon is a Health Emergency Management Specialist with Health Emergency Management British Columbia (HEMBC). She has been a Canadian Red Cross volunteer since 2011.
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Joy Martin has volunteered with the Canadian Red Cross since 1998, when she says, "the seven Fundamental Principles hooked me." She is involved with many Red Cross teams, including the Personal Disaster Assistance Team (PDAT), the regional Emergency Response Team (ERT), the National Safety & Wellbeing Team, the National Social Emergency Response Team (Indigenous Northern and Remote Communities).
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Victoria Mitchell has been volunteering with the Canadian Red Cross since 2012 mainly in Emergency management. She leads a Personal Disaster Assistance Team (PDAT), responds remotely to large scale events, and conducts volunteer interviews.
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Geoff Moon has volunteered with the Canadian Red Cross for over 30 years in governance councils at local and provincial levels. Over the years, he has been involved with many working and task force groups for the Red Cross at provincial and national levels.
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Ross David Pratt is a proud member of the Muscowpetung Saulteaux First Nation Band. He has been a volunteer with the Canadian Red Cross since 2012. He is currently a member of the Personal Disaster Assistance Team (PDAT), the Emergency Response Team (ERT), and supports case management activities.
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Clara Reinhardt retired from the Canadian Red Cross in 2015. She was working in Prevention and Safety. As a First Aid Master Instructor Trainer and a Water Safety Master Instructor Trainer, she worked with National Advisory Groups, coordinated the Drowning data collection and reports, and represented the Canadian Red Cross at the Canadian Safe Boating Council. She has experience working with and living in Indigenous Communities in four western Provinces and three Territories.
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Rita Saliba is from Lebanon and as a university student, she got involved with the Youth Progam of the Lebanese Red Cross. During the war, the Red Cross assisted her and her family, and since then the Red Cross has always been part of her life.
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Caberry Yu has been a volunteer with the Canadian Red Cross since 2011, when she helped establish its York Region Youth Action Council. Since then, she has led the McMaster University subgroup of the Red Cross and still serves as a Personal Disaster Responder in Hamilton. She has participated in large Red Cross responses, including refugee claimant and COVID-19 pandemic responses.
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