A team of volunteers have set up shop at the Salvation Army to process tax returns. Already around 400 people have taken advantage of the free service, which opened earlier this month, to properly process their finances. The Salvation Army is working with the Canada Revenue Agency to ensure its volunteers are accredited and trained  […]

The Salvation Army Thrift Stores across Western Canada are currently experiencing a slowdown in donations and are hoping the public can help. “We’re in need more now than we have been in years,” said Scott Gilmore, marketing co-ordinator at Salvation Army NRO West, adding that with spring cleaning, “it’s a great time for us to  […]

Thanks to more than half a million dollars in federal funding the Salvation Army will be able to assist women recovering from addiction. Capt. Robert Sessford said he couldn’t be happier to be able offer the service in Regina. The Salvation Army Regina Waterston Centre is receiving over $500,000 in Homelessness Partnering Strategy funding to  […]

Toronto, ON March 20, 2012 – Today, The Salvation Army is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the launch of The Dignity Project, which is designed to educate and inform the public about the challenges facing society’s most vulnerable people. Last March, The Salvation Army launched this initiative with the release of a report, The Dignity  […]

An intensive non-residential treatment program for people whose lives have been negatively impacted due to substance use, misuse and abuse begins April 2 at the Salvation Army in Williams Lake, B.C. “We’re accepting referrals,” says program director Steve Hakes who began working as an addictions counsellor for the Salvation Army in February. With a background  […]

A fire at the Salvation Army sorting centre is being investigated after various items caught fire early Monday morning outside of the building and caused it to ignite. Moose Jaw Police service and Moose Jaw Fire Department responded to a fire at the centre on the 600 block of High Street West at 3:20 a.m.  […]

Salvation Army Emergency Services (SAES) teams have been working around the clock in south-east Australia, where some areas have experienced the worst flooding in more than 150 years. Southern regions in the state of New South Wales (NSW) have been hardest hit, with SAES teams working to assist affected residents in many cities and towns  […]

The Salvation Army is providing aid to people affected by tornadoes in the U.S. At least 39 people have been killed and many hundreds were forced from their homes. The tornado season has started unusually early this year, with more tornadoes reported on 29 February and 1 March than are normally seen in the whole  […]

A Salvation Army team is investigating how best to help people forced from their homes by a series of massive explosions in the Mpila area of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo. Up to 200 people are known to have been killed in the disaster – though this number is likely to rise  […]

Regina’s affordable housing crunch has the Salvation Army’s men’s shelter always at capacity and there is no relief in sight. In 2011 beds at the Waterston Centre were used almost 23,000 times, a 6,000 increase from 2010. Many of the people staying at the shelter are trades people in Regina for jobs. Read more