Downtown shoppers urged to donate blood to help with Yuletide supply

Neither emergency surgeries, anemia or hemophilia take the holidays off, alas, but blood donors do.
This week in particular Canada Blood Services runs low on stores of donated blood, something Joban Bal and his friends would like to make you aware of.
“This time of year there can be snow, there are regular donors who are on holiday with their families,” said Surrey native Bal, a third-year biology student at the University of B.C. who has rallied university and high school students f