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High school students from across Winnipeg are gathering at the first annual Booth University College Youth Forum on November 14 and 15 to learn about homelessness and how it impacts individuals and a community. This two-day, 24-hour event will introduce students to the issue of homelessness through emergency shelter visits, movies, and guest speakers including  […]

It happens most nights. Individuals are unloading their unwanted junk at many Salvation Army thrift stores. These stores have become dumping sites for household garbage or other items that should be taken to landfill sites. The Salvation Army originated the concept of the thrift store and opened its first store more than 100 years ago.  […]

The Salvation Army across the Caribbean is responding to damage caused by Tropical Storm Tomas. Some countries – including Haiti – have been left relatively unscathed, but others are dealing with the aftermath of the worst storm for many years.

In Barbados the government – through the Ministry of Agriculture – officially wrote to The Salvation  […]

Truro, N.S. – She walked in—and walked out. Violet Large, 78, wanted no accolades, no special recognition. She just wanted to help others. Her hand-delivered cheque left at the cashier’s counter of her local Salvation Army Thrift Store contained a substantial donation that would be life-changing for many. In July, Violet and her husband Allen,  […]

At the back of a busy Thrift Store in the downtown core of Toronto, there is a quiet space filled with soft, comfortable couches, shelves stacked with books, and the smell of coffee in the air. This is the site of the new, ‘Coffee Corner’ found at the Parkdale Thrift Store. The space is a retreat  […]

The Salvation Army clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, led by Dr Danielle Prosper, is preparing to treat a possible influx of cholera patients. In recent weeks Haiti has experienced a rise in the number of people contracting cholera. It is primarily spread through contact with dirty water. The clinic is surrounded by an Internally Displaced Persons  […]

On Friday, October 1, 2010, during the 44th edition of the “Journée fèves au lard”, representatives of the Montreal Policeman’s Brotherhood (FPPM) stopped at The Salvation Army’s warehouse in Montreal, to donate $5,500 worth of food products, consisting of pork and beans, snacks, and bottled water – the equivalent of 1,071 meals. Mr. Nikolas Klimis,  […]

The Salvation Army’s Booth University College in Winnipeg has reached a record enrolment with a 37 per cent increase in new campus-based students entering the institution this fall. Booth University College has about 500 students, or about 250 full-time-equivalent students. The University College’s President, Donald Burke, says the increase in enrolment is largely due to  […]

TORONTO, Oct. 12 /CNW/ – The Toronto Argonauts will partner once again with The Salvation Army on October 16, 2010 to serve a community dinner for more than 600 at The Salvation Army Toronto Harbour Light Ministries, 160 Jarvis Street, Toronto at 12:00 noon. This year’s event marks the 13th anniversary of the partnership between  […]