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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Five-year-old Rachelle with her family while in treatment for cancer
Inspiration

How Canada’s Lifeline supports childhood cancer patients

Blood, plasma and stem cell donors help children survive devastating illnesses

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Stem cell donor Rachel Van Pelt stands in front of a green tree by a lake.
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Stem cell donation brings joy to a donor as well as hope to a patient

Rachel Van Pelt was thrilled to help a patient ― and to hear from them later, in her own time of grief

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A plasma donor donates plasma while holding a sign that says “Ask me what I’m celebrating!”
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Celebrating a year of plasma donation in Sudbury

Thousands of donors have already visited our new dedicated plasma donor centre. Their support is critical.

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Greg and Hilary Dobbin stand in front of the donor clinic in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
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Blood donation a family affair for father-daughter duo

This summer, Greg Dobbin made his 61st blood donation while his daughter Hilary made her first

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An 87-year-old man in a striped shirt holds a frame filled with mementoes of his blood donations.
Inspiration

His first blood donation was in 1950. He’s now at 270, and counting

Elmer Cantelo still donates blood regularly at age 87, and recalls the episode that got him started

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A woman smiles as she holds open the glass door to a building.
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Art auction supports patients and honours remarkable creative spirit

Ayako Ellen Anderson’s family organized an art auction to support Canadian Blood Services.

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