THUNDER BAY, ON, June 7, 2012 /CNW/ – Allstate Insurance Company of Canada today presented The Salvation Army with a cheque in the amount of $10,000 in support of efforts to assist residents affected by flooding in Thunder Bay, Ontario. “This is a difficult time for the community, and we wanted to offer our support  […]

The Salvation Army in Nigeria is responding after a plane crashed into a residential area near Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos on Sunday 3 June. All 153 passengers were killed, along with an unknown number of casualties on the ground. A team of Salvation Army officers was dispatched to the evacuation site on Monday morning.  […]

OTTAWA, June 6, 2012 – Canada’s largest non-governmental direct social service provider is commending the Federal Government on the release of a national strategy to address the issue of Human Trafficking. The Salvation Army had called on the government to develop a national plan and participated in the development of the strategy announced today in  […]

Major Len Millar of the Estevan Salvation Army usually looks at life as being a glass half-full, not half-empty. But when the glass is 80 per cent empty, he’s not enjoying the odds. That’s the situation with the Salvation Army operated food bank right now. It’s at 20 per cent of where it needs to  […]

Throughout the month of April, residents and employees at the Delmanor Glen Abbey Seniors Community in Oakville worked together to amass a generous amount of gently-used clothing to donate to The Salvation Army. On May 10th, Delmanor Recreational Manager Marilyn Cook and Driver Kurt Anderson, dropped-off roughly 240 pounds of donations to the Oakville Recycling  […]

Heavy rains over the weekend in Thunder Bay have prompted a nationwide appeal for help. “Hopefully we will see an influx of donations to remove some of the burden off people who are coping with the cost of cleanup and other concerns,” says Major Merv Halvorsen of The Salvation Army. Thunder Bay and surrounding areas  […]

The Friends of the Army award was presented to Steele Communications for the Help For Home Radiothon that was held September 29, 2010. $1.35-million was raised and donated to the Salvation Army to assist victims of Hurricane Igor. A total of 1,400 families were assisted. Read more

Roy Langer had seen it all. And he figured he could handle it. It turned out this veteran Salvation Army officer – who specializes in disaster relief and had seen horrors ranging from the 1992 Westray mine disaster to 9-11 in Manhattan to Hurricane Katrina – is only human. And that’s one of the key  […]

On the morning of May 29, 1914, the Toronto Star announced to a shocked nation that the Empress of Ireland had been rammed and sunk in the St. Lawrence River. On board were more than 150 Salvation Army members, bound for an international congress in London, England. Most of them, including the national commander, his  […]

On Friday, May 25th, Deanne Roberts, Guelph Thrift Store Manager, was formally presented with an award for outstanding employer by The Employment Coordination Committee (ECC), of Guelph and Wellington County. The Salvation Army Thrift Store was among the roster of 2012 award recipients including Tim Hortons, Goodwill Industries and McDonald’s, all of whom were recognized  […]