Stories from Canadian Blood Services

Vancouver home to unique donor centre collecting blood for research

A family from Aldergrove, B.C. is hosting blood drives in October to celebrate their daughter’s first birthday following a whirlwind year marked by sudden hospital visits, treatments and surgeries.

Creative and committed – Jhoanna Del Rosario drives donor engagement in a pandemic by channelling her passion for helping people

Peter Regan, who has been fighting leukemia, is well known for his community service

Brenda Brown, president of the Canadian Transplant Association, works tirelessly on behalf of organ recipients and donors — thanks to her own lifesaving kidney transplant

Linda Paul continues to recover from a rare immune disorder