Saskatchewan News and Stories

Friendly phone calls make all the difference

- A couple of years ago, Gwen Schick retired. She discovered that she missed meeting people in the course of her travels for work. So, Gwen started volunteering as a Friendly Phone volunteer with the Canadian Red Cross in Saskatchewan.

The Red Cross Indigenous Swimming & Water Safety program in Saskatchewan

- The Red Cross Indigenous Swimming & Water Safety program has been running in Saskatchewan since 2016. Since then, more than 1,600 youth in 27 communities have learned how to be safer in, on, and around water.

Fluffy recruits provide comfort during times of emergency

- A fluffy friend in a time of need! Read how Red Cross teddy bears make a difference during disasters and emergencies

Saskatchewan company leads the way in offering psychological first aid training for employees

- Read how a company in Saskatchewan is providing mental health tools for employees. 

Saskatchewan company leads the way in offering psychological first aid training for employees

- Read how a company in Saskatchewan is providing mental health tools for employees. 
 

Using the Red Cross app to help a stranger

- Long-time paramedic, Lyle Karasiuk, was taking a routine call for a person lying on a street in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. When he arrived, he found three people - a man lying on the ground, one woman standing and talking on her phone, and a second woman crouching beside the man scrolling on her phone.
 

Using the Red Cross app to help a stranger

- Long-time paramedic, Lyle Karasiuk, was taking a routine call for a person lying on a street in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. When he arrived, he found three people - a man lying on the ground, one woman standing and talking on her phone, and a second woman crouching beside the man scrolling on her phone.

Warmth and help after an apartment fire in Saskatoon

- It was late February 2019, in Saskatoon. The night was freezing, and Samantha was standing outside in her shorts behind because the fire alarm was blaring, and thick smoke was filling the hallways of her apartment building.

Help Red Cross choose its 2020 Saskatoon Humanitarians of the Year

- The Canadian Red Cross is seeking nominations for the 2020 Saskatoon Young Humanitarian of the Year and the 2020 Saskatoon Humanitarian of the Year.

100 years of giving

- “As the men were coming out of the trenches, the Red Cross met them with a cup of tea,” Skawski said. “It probably wasn’t very hot considering what was going on at the time, but they always met them with a cup of tea.”