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It’s Emergency Preparedness Week across Canada and you may have noticed we’ve been having a little fun in social media with a promotion on first-aid fanny packs, encouraging Canadians to ‘Save Your Fanny’. The fanny packs (regular $13.95), as ...

Every day, we publish a photo to show the Red Cross at work across the country or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know! It's Emergency Preparedness Week and we're happy to see Orange Cat has its first aid fanny pack! Orange ...

If you follow this blog often enough, you know that Red Crossers love all things having to do with first aid and disaster preparedness. Well, now we’ve found a way that we can all wear our love for safety – a fanny pack! That’s right! Fanny packs. ...

[slideshow] There’s no question that many of us who work at the Red Cross bring our work home with us – you never do know when a disaster will happen. But, since joining Pinterest a few weeks ago, I’ve realized that many people literally bring the...

Did you know that nearly every country in the world has produced Red Cross stamps at one time or another? It’s just one of the fascinating aspects of stamp collecting that’s allowed volunteer Cheryl Grantham to combine two passions: stamps and the Re...

 Photography and other works of art challenging our views on war and its impact on children are on display this week in the lobby of the Schulich School of Law building at Dalhousie University in Halifax. The exhibit is an initiative of Red Cross vol...

The American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced that it’s challenging tech-geeks to invent a new robot to help respond during emergencies. To sweeten the deal, the designer of the winning robot will receive a whoppin...

[slideshow] For today’s Photo of the Day, I’m sharing a slideshow to introduce you to the newest batch of Canadian Red Cross delegates. Delegates are highly trained professionals who are deployed internationally on behalf of the Canadian Red Cross...