Stories from Canadian Blood Services

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Save a life for a chance to win a scholarship

With the Assignment Saving Lives Scholarship Program, recruit donors to win up to $9000 toward your 2025-2026 tuition

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The need goes on #8: Plasma to save a toddler’s life
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The need goes on #8: Plasma to save a toddler’s life

Without medication made from a blood component, self-isolation would be the norm for Mavrik Hampe

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Green Shirt Day
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Join us for Green Shirt Day and National Organ & Tissue Donation Awareness Week

Register. Tell your family. Be inspired. 

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Criteria take effect March 30 and more updates will likely follow during the pandemic as our knowledge of the virus evolves
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New eligibility requirements for donors in response to COVID-19

Criteria took effect March 29 and more updates will likely follow during the pandemic as our knowledge of the virus evolves.

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Jerry spent weeks in the hospital recovering from broken ribs, a broken collarbone, a lung infection, ruptured spleen, and intercostal bleed
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The need goes on #7: A motorcycle accident

Jerry Vrabic thanks “the unknown heroes” who saved his life.

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Ty Armatage
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The need goes on #6: Fighting childhood leukemia

Ty Armatage could need blood products at any time, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The need goes on #5: Stepping up for a child with a special need
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The need goes on #5: Stepping up for a child with a special need

Special plasma eye drops for a child with a rare condition

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