Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction, and epinephrine is the first and most important treatment. For decades, Canadians had exactly one way to give epinephrine outside a hospital: the EpiPen auto-injector, a needle injection into the outer thigh. That changed in August 2026, when neffy — an epinephrine nasal spray — became available in...Read More

You did the work. You passed your first aid and CPR course. Now you need the certificate — your employer wants it before your start date, your school needs it for your placement file, and the deadline is not moving. So you wait. And wait. Getting the certificate into your hands, quickly, is one of...Read More

If you have been looking for an Emergency First Aid or Standard First Aid course lately, you may have noticed something confusing: those names are disappearing. Canada’s first aid course names have been updated, and at The Academy for First Aid and Safety we now use the new names across all of our courses. The...Read More