CMAT Emergency Alert: Nepal Earthquake – Update #5

May 20, 2015 – Canadian Medical Assistance Teams’ second team of medical volunteers recently arrived to begin their rotation in Baluwa, Nepal, relieving outgoing team 1 members returning to Canada. […]

CMAT Emergency Alert – Earthquake in Nepal Update #4

May 12, 2015 – Baluwa, Nepal  –  CMAT Team 1 was sound asleep when another major quake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale shook them awake at 3:00 this morning. […]

CMAT Emergency Alert – Earthquake in Nepal Update #3

Thursday May 7, 2015: CMAT Team 1 arrived in Nepal early late Sunday night, and got on the road in the early morning hours of Monday, heading for the town […]

CMAT Team 1 departs for Nepal

  Saturday May 2, 2015: The CMAT Assessment team conducted an assessment of the devastated region of Gorkha early Saturday morning, and completed a survey of the city, as well […]

CMAT Assessment, K9 and USAR Teams departing; PRELIMINARY call for volunteers and Appeal for donations

UPDATED 23:00 ET EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FORMVANCOUVER – CMAT will be deploying its initial disaster assessment team in collaboration with members a British Columbia Canine and Urban Search and Rescue […]

EMERGENCY ALERT: Earthquake in Nepal

April 25, 2015: Kathmandu, Nepal – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the densely populated Kathmandu Valley in Nepal earlier today, killing thousands, and injuring thousands more. It is being recorded as […]

CMAT welcomes new board member

CMAT welcomes the addition of Dr. Pat San Agustin as interim Director at Large on the Board of Directors.  Pat assumes the seat previously occupied by Iain Kenny, who recently […]

CMAT reflects on the decade since the Tsunami

    10 years ago today, many of us woke to news of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that swept the Indian Ocean, taking with it 230,000 lives, and affecting […]

CMAT announces its 2015 Board of Directors

We would like to thank all our members for your participation in the 2014-15 CMAT Board of Directors election.  We had a record voter turnout for this year’s campaign! Congratulations […]

Sphere Minimum Standards – Vancouver, BC – October 2014!

      REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!! Course Schedule Saturday October 25 –  Sphere Orientation: 08:30 – 16:30 Sunday October 26 – Sphere Orientation: 08:30 – 16:30 * participants are […]