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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Five-year-old Rachelle with her family while in treatment for cancer
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Cancer survivor encourages others to give back

Rachelle Drummond required countless blood transfusions to survive cancer

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Image of Bruce Phinney with wife and daughter sitting in a recliner
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Blood donors honour incredible legacy of Bruce Phinney

Dec. 25 marks one year since the passing of ‘Mr. Acadia’

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Brookswood Secondary School students in Langley, B.C. encourage youth blood donation
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Youth blood drive inspires new donors this holiday season

Friends from rival high schools team up for youth blood drive

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Alberta man holds precious donor stem cells just prior to receiving them for his lifesaving transplant on October 24th, 2018
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Alberta man thankful for the generosity of donors this holiday season

Michael Wark required blood products to treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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Jamaique Rose poses with her three daughters. Jamaique urgently needs a stem cell transplant. She urges Black Canadians to join the stem cell registry.
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‘I desperately need a Black donor to come forward’

Jamaique Rose, a single mother in Toronto with leukemia, urgently needs a stem cell transplant

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Michelle Pho, seen here with her husband Blaine Pho and their children Emily and Carson, died in 2018 after a multi-year wait for a kidney transplant.
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Data offers hope to patients waiting for organ transplant

Family mourning loss of wife and mother hopes system improvements will help others

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