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Photo Tuesday: From Haiti

Every Tuesday, we publish a photo to show Red Cross at work across the province or around the world. Do you have a photo to share? Let us know!  A significant rise in cholera cases has been reported in Haiti, leading the Red Cross to re-open a chole...

Water Safety Week - What’s wrong with this photo?

It’s Water Safety Week. All week, we are providing tips and info on how you can stay safe in, on, or around water this summer. At first glance, this is probably the place you want to be on a hot sunny summer day. Looks safe doesn’t it? But it’s ...

Volunteer from Ontario receives highest Red Cross award

Last December, we told you about Bonnie Kearns, a Canadian Red Cross delegate from Sarnia, ON, who was deployed to Haiti to help set up our field hospital there. We’re happy to announce that Bonnie recently received the Red Cross’ highest honour: ...

Disaster school for Red Cross humanitarian workers

The Canadian Red Cross hosted more than 200 participants at the annual Conference on Disaster Management in Halifax, Nova Scotia this week to discuss all things disaster: evacuations, planning, training, communications and preparedness.Halina St Jame...

The Red Cross Round-up

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.PAKISTAN: It has almost been one year since the flooding began in Pakistan.  The Pakistan Red Crescent Society, with support from IFRC, is wrap...

The heat is on, so we’re listening to some cool tunes

Summer -along with high humid temps - has finally made its way to Southern Ontario. The City of Toronto declared its first heat alert of the season today and many communities in the province are expected to have humidex values of 40C. That will defin...

The Red Cross Round-up

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.UNITED STATES: The tornado that caused a trail of destruction across the state of Missouri is one of the worst the country has experienced in l...

Fun new approach to seniors’ well-being

With the support of a Red Cross program, seniors in Saint John, NB are keeping busy playing sports on the Wii, grooving to the Latin beats of Zumba and even getting therapeutic massages. It all started when Dugna London and Debbie McLeod teame...

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