Stories from Canadian Blood Services

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How students can save lives while competing for scholarships this summer

With the Assignment Saving Lives Scholarship Program, recruit donors to win up to $6500 toward your 2024-2025 tuition

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Everything you need to know about donating blood: A guide for first-timers

Donating blood is one of the most important things that you can do.

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She beat cancer. And she couldn’t be more thankful to blood donors.

Now Kira Hall and her parents are helping us attract the 100,000 new donors we need this year

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Her aunt’s lifesaving stem cell transplant inspired her to become an advocate

Balreen Singh is helping us build a stem cell registry as richly diverse as Canada

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After donating stem cells to her father, she’s bringing hope to others

Lauren Sano’s powerful personal story inspires people of diverse backgrounds to join the stem cell registry

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Jim Taylor donates plasma at the plasma donor centre in Kelowna.
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First time plasma donor pays it forward in honour of his late wife

Jim Taylor’s wife Joan received hundreds of lifesaving plasma treatments during her battle with leukemia

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Blood and stem cell recipient, Miranda Webber with her daughter and husband
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Anonymous stem cell and blood donors saved her life, now she’s giving back

Miranda Webber launched a record-setting fundraiser for Canada’s Lifeline after her stem cell transplant

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