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Partner News

Full steam ahead! CN’s $200,000 donation has put us on track to double the impact of our MISSION POSSIBLE campaign!   

  We’re honoured to announce that this iconic Canadian brand is now an Official National Partner of Team Rubicon Canada. Earlier this year, CN pledged $10 million (CAD) over ten years to support disaster relief initiatives across North America, underscoring CN’s commitment to assisting communities affected by natural disasters and the impacts of climate change.    … Read More

By The Admin on Jul 23

Reflection

Canadian Volunteers Deliver Southern Comfort

Disaster relief volunteers deploy to the American Southeast to help serve survivors of historic hurricane season. Before responding to Hurricane Sally with Team Rubicon, Canadian lawyer Amilah Abd-Al-Rashid had never held a chainsaw. After, she held her Chainsaw 1 qualification, and the knowledge she’d played a part in helping 584 survivors in Florida and Alabama … Read More

By Helen Lialias on Jan 06

From The Field

In Service, Finding Soul Food

Deploying with Team Rubicon recently I found true soul food—or, food for the soul. But, what is food for the soul? Let me give you just a little taste:   It’s community: This is the powerful thing that drives Team Rubicon Greyshirts to the heart of disasters. The external community, in the heart of disaster, is full … Read More

Stories of Service

Above and Beyond: Veteran Volunteers Go From Sawyers to First Responders

They weren’t even supposed to be there. Not as a team and not as individuals. Yet somehow the universe conspired to put four veterans—each from a different branch, each from a different part of North America—in front of a home with a downed tree in Orange, TX, in late October and then on top of that … Read More

By Julie H. Case on Nov 12