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Photo of the Day: 28th Annual Global Issues Symposium for Youth!

Guest entry by James Park, Assistant Communications Coordinator in BC  This Remembrance Day weekend marked the 28th year of our Global Issues Symposium for Youth, a four-day camp run by the Canadian Red Cross’ Humanitarian Issues Promotion. At our...

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. VIETNAM: With the experience of enduring continuous disasters year after year, the Red Cross Societies of the Philippines and Viet Nam inst...

Tech Talk: Using online mapping tools to improve emergency response

There are many possibilities provided by online mapping tools in advancing emergency response. An online map can allow community members to upload geo-tagged information to alert other community members or emergency officials to a problem or situat...

Tech Talk: Canadian survey on social media in emergencies

The Canadian Red Cross commissioned Ipsos Reid to conduct a survey to find out what Canadians think about social media use in emergencies. We’re eager to share the results, as it’s the first survey of its kind in Canada and it can help us better unde...

Photo of the Day: Nobel Peace Prize recognition in Saskatoon

Earlier this week, Red Crossers gathered at the Peace Plaza at Rotary Park in Saskatoon for a ceremony to unveil a brick in recognition of the 1917 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Red Cross. This brick was generously sponsored by SaskEnergy, a long ...

French Red Cross show us how people react in a disaster

Most people seem to think they would know what to do in an emergency, but in reality, it takes a lot of planning and preparedness to know how to react in an emergency or disaster. For World First Aid Day on September 8th, the French Red Cross wan...

Photo of the Day: Grande Prairie kicks off Walmart campaign

Guest entry by Gordon Lamb, Communications Assistant at the Canadian Red Cross in Alberta Walmart Canada officially launched its annual campaign for the Canadian Red Cross in Grande Prairie yesterday with the ambitious goal of raising $3.2 million. ...

Keeping kids cool this summer

*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...

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