Canada’s Emergency Alert System is Backwards, Should Not Be Privately Owned: Expert
Michael Hallowes, an expert in emergency alert systems, ripped into Canada's Alert Ready system last Wednesday during the ongoing public inquiry into the mass shootings in Nova Scotia from April 2020 — reports CBC News. Hallowes, who advises governments across the world on the design and deployment of public alert systems, took great issue with...
CRTC Working with Partners to Fix Problems in Canada’s Emergency Alert System
According to a new report from the Financial Post, the CRTC is working with all of its partners to fix the technical errors that caused the test emergency alerts to be inconsistently distributed to Canadians. The alert system faced even more criticism on Monday after the first real alert was issued in Ontario. Wireless providers...
Emergency Alert Test Notification Did Not Reach Everyone in BC
As a part of a Canada-wide emergency alert system, Emergency Management BC conducted a test of the alert system for its residents. As we saw with the alert tests in Ontario and Quebec, the alerts did not reach everyone in British Columbia either. The alert system is supposed to warn the public of a large-scale...