Preparedness (Page 36)

Our friends at momstown are celebrating their 5th birthday with community events across the country. Canadian Red Cross has set up information booths at many of the celebrations to share information on topics such as disaster preparedness or firs...

Guest entry by Melanie MacDonald, Communications Coordinator in Atlantic Canada Have you heard about our Canadian Red Cross and Transport Canada water and boating safety teams touring the Atlantic region this summer? Since the beginning of June, 16 ...

You may have heard this week that the Canadian Red Cross has been hosting Disaster Dining Challenges across the country as part of the launch of the annual Walmart fundraising campaign. Without using electricity, 'chefs' are challenged to create a di...

By Nicole Robicheau As a new Red Cross staff member working with Public Affairs in Ottawa, I’ve recently been going through some of the materials we have on disaster preparedness in Canada.  I’m trained as an ERU delegate, so I’ve learned the skil...

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. GAMBIA: With the lack of rain in the 2011 season, it wasn’t possible for thousands of agro-pastoralists families in the Sahel region to pro...

With the August long weekend coming up, many of us will be heading to the cottage or the campground. Whether you’re lounging on a boat, playing volleyball at the beach, or sitting around the campfire, we’ve discovered some great smartphone applicatio...

*Our friends at momstown.ca recently posted this blog by our own water safety expert, Shannon Scully-Pratt. We wanted to share this important information with you on how to keep kids cool this summer. We’ve had a series of heat waves across the coun...