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The Manitoba Disaster Management trailer recently rolled out of the Red Cross Winnipeg office, heading east to Ontario, ready for a dramatic makeover.

Halloween is upon us, ghouls and gals. Are you prepared for the spooktacular festivities? Let Red Cross guide you through the things that go bump in the night with five survival tips.

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world.

This year’s World Disasters Report, released by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), takes on a challenging theme of looking at how culture affects disaster risk reduction, and how disasters and risk influence culture.

Cette année, le Rapport sur les catastrophes dans le monde a pour ambition d’examiner différents aspects de l’influence de la culture sur la réduction des risques de catastrophe et, parallèlement, de celle des catastrophes et des risques sur la culture.

As the Red Cross continues to scale up its response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Red Cross staff and volunteers who are responding to the global health emergency are taking every precaution to stay safe while they provide care to patients infected with Ebola.

The cat in question, Sylvester, a black cat who lived in Dauphin’s Towers Hotel, came back from a near-death experience after he rode the front of the hotel’s second storey down to the ground as it collapsed following a recent fire. The fire left several residents without a home, including the cat.

Last month, the coastal town of Bamfield, B.C. celebrated the 75^th anniversary of the founding of its outpost hospital, a Red Cross facility that was established on September 7, 1939, just at the beginning of the Second World War. The Red Cross had opened 90 of these remote facilities across Canada to meet the needs of remote and emerging communities.