MONTREAL, April 28 /PRNewswire/ - CN (TSX: CNR)(NYSE: CNI) announced today it has teamed up with the Canadian Red Cross to recruit and train corporate employees as disaster volunteers to help the agency respond to natural disasters.

Proposed projects will combat global diseases INDIANAPOLIS, Feb.

Is the sector serving the most vulnerable people itself vulnerable in the event of a disaster? In the next decade, Canada can expect to suffer more severe storms, more flooding and a possible influenza pandemic.

A judge cleared Canadian health officials and a U.S. drug company Monday of criminal liability for tainted blood products that infected thousands of people. Justice Mary Lou Benotto of the Ontario Superior Court said the accused should not have been charged, The Toronto Globe and Mail reported.

By THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - An Ontario judge has acquitted the former national medical director of the Canadian Red Cross and three other doctors not guilty in the first criminal case linked to Canada's tainted-blood scandal.