Emergency Preparedness 22

Have you ever seen the #dlws hashtag on Twitter? It's usually associated with an offhand comment or complaint about the weather. You may have used it to make your own observations too. But do you know what it all means on a larger scale? By the time...

TV's favourite ad men and women returned to television screens across North America last night and if you saw the latest episode you can probably understand why we're interested in a particular scene. Don and Megan's doorman suffers a sudden car...

Snow melting and the sun peeking out from behind the clouds can only mean one thing in Canada: Fashion Weeks are starting across the country. While we can’t begin to understand why Canadian fashion designers are debuting their Fall/Winter lines w...

So you’ve prepared a memorable evening to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your sweetheart, but have you really thought of everything? Even when your horoscope predicts the perfect evening, it only takes a few seconds to transform your romantic evening...

With the early onset of flu season this year, many Canadians' immune systems have been caught off guard. So what does the technologically-inclined Red Crosser do when they feel the onset of flu symptoms? When chicken soup won't cut it (and when you a...

Last week we were talking about Red Cross Holiday Traditions and we received a great story about a tradition-gone-wrong from Red Crosser Joan Savoie in Ontario. Joan’s family gathers together every year on Christmas Eve to relax and exchange gifts...

Is your disaster kit ready for the end of the world today? An important part of any disaster kit is food. In a real disaster it could take days or weeks before emergency responders are able to reach you. During this festive time of year, we like ...

‘Beware!’ That is the message from various organizations predicting the end of the world on Friday or over the weekend. Doomsday scenarios include the magnetic poles reversing, Earth colliding with an interplanetary object, the planet being consumed ...