Most Canadians can expect their mobile phones, televisions and radios to sound off today as the Alert Ready system undergoes a second round of testing. Provincial emergency management organizations will conduct simultaneous public alerting tests across the country in a bid to make sure people receive emergency alerts and can take action to stay safe. A smartphone and a television receive visual and audio alerts to test Alert Ready, a national public alert system. This second test comes after Manitoba Infrastructure’s Emergency Measures Organizations said only 60 per cent of wireless users received an alert in a test of the system in May. The first test didn’t sound at all in Quebec due to a coding error, which the system operator said was fixed within a couple of hours.

Source: thestar November 28, 2018 12:45 UTC