TORONTO, Sept. 24 /CNW/ – Just before 5:00pm a six-alarm blaze broke out on the 24th floor in a highrise on Wellesley Street and quickly spread to adjacent floors. The Salvation Army arrived on scene within an hour to provide nutrition and hydration relief to first responders and evacuees. Mr. Jeff Noel, of The Salvation  […]

The Salvation Army and the Carmichael Outreach Centre have set up a low-cost form of voice mail, in which people get a number for their voice mail account, and record a greeting. “A phone is very important to people,” Val Wiks, a community worker with the Salvation Army, told CBC News. “They need to be  […]

Bermuda, Saturday September 18, 2010 – The Salvation Army Emergency Response is prepared to help people as a hurricane warning is in effect for Bermuda. Hurricane Igor is expected to hit or approach Bermuda by Sunday night. Conditions from Hurricane Igor are expected to deteriorate Saturday. A dangerous storm surge is expected to produce significant  […]

Her father was a pedophile. Her mother was an alcoholic. And, from ages three to 12, Laverna Wabash was terrorized physically and sexually by men on her First Nations reserve.

Employees from an investment group will be climbing Mount Baldy in Kananaskis Tuesday, to help raise money for vulnerable women at the Salvation Army. Forty workers from World Financial Group’s Alberta, Manitoba and British Columbia offices are making the five hour hike. Two groups of climbers will take part with the team raising the most  […]

Fifty-five-year-old Paul Kailek can’t afford one of life’s basic necessities—food. He is not homeless, but lives on a fixed income for the severely disabled.

The third major flood relief distribution effort arranged by The Salvation Army in Pakistan took place on Saturday 21 August. The first distribution took place at Tar Nab Farm, on the bank of the River Kabul between Nowshera and Peshawar, where sleeping and cooking packs were given out to 43 families. As with previous distributions  […]

Pakistan has been hit by some of the worst floods in living memory. Those affected were already desperately poor and what little they had had now been washed away.

According to a new study at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, barriers of all kinds are standing in the way of homeless people accessing health services in Canada. Competing priorities, including finding shelter, food and employment, are cited as factors that can delay seeking medical attention. Also, many people have had a hard time finding a  […]