Looks like the UK may finally be having a proper emergency alert system via the telecoms network. gov.uk/alerts/planned
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Ontario abuses the Presidential Alert level for amber alerts so it treats every missing child as an imminent nuclear attack with a mandatory siren + spoken alert.
They've ended up really pissing people off (myself included) since you can't opt-out and they send them at 4am.
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They also often send a separate alert in French minutes later rather than fitting both into the same message. It's normal for all Canadian government communications to be in English + French but it's quite annoying for this.
As a bonus, they often send false alerts with it...
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Seems that Common Alerting Protocol does support multiple languages so I really don't see why that would not be used. Sounds like the whole system is rather shoddily implemented.
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cbc.ca/news/canada/to is the worst example of their abuse of the system. They sent out an alert to most people in the province implying that there was an imminent nuclear meltdown in a city right to the east of Toronto. Scared the hell out of people and of course it was wrong.
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Same nuclear plant with the large clearing for huge power lines from Pickering all the way to the middle of Toronto which I showed you on Google Maps.
Anyway, it's pretty much just par for the course in Ontario. Our government is insanely incompetent in all regards. Ridiculous.
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That is horrible. Reading that article I can't believe that the live and training system were not clearly marked. What if in an actual alert they send it to the training system? Seems like a seriously harmful setup.
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I wouldn't really be surprised if there was an actual nuclear meltdown with the level of competence displayed by our government. That was basically my thought when I saw that alert: oh great, we're Chernobyl now.
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