Red Cross Talks (Page 220)

*The Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-up is courtesy of our friend, Robin Parker from Red Cross in Oregon Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized lin...

Contrary to the popular saying, lightning can strike twice.

[slideshow] Check out these cute photos from a recent swim program with the Mattagami First Nations in Timmins. Shout out to the instructors, Kayla Lessard, Natasha Kullas, and Ashley Kullas, who were in the water with these 25 children. Also, Dar...

*Every Friday we invite Red Crossers to share their favourite recipes, or recipes that remind them of the Red Cross. This Food Friday is a favourite of Red Crosser Nancy Twerdohlib. “This salad may sound a little strange, but any time I've made it...

Check out this story from the Toronto Star about a guy who delivered a pizza to a heart attack victim and saved his life with CPR. Turns out the delivery man was a former paramedic, but you don’t need to be a paramedic to do CPR. Any one of us can...

 * Guest blog by Red Crosser Melanie Goodchild-Southwind, Senior Manager, First Nations Projects. The Canadian Red Cross in Ontario is making great strides in the work we do with our First Nations communities. We wanted to share with you news abou...

Just recently, Laura Edwards, a First Aid Co-ordinator in York Region, got a call from her daughter’s daycare that two-year-old Katelyn was having an allergic reaction to a bug bite.  Laura credits her first aid training for, quite possibly, saving h...

If you've been following this blog regularly, then you know that we try to bring you a Red Cross recipe for “Food Friday.” You might also have seen our Roving Reporter Jen Mayville's post on Disaster Dining.  On that note, when I saw this post on the...