I love that Canada's ruling class decided to sent out every amber and weather alert as presidential alerts. I have over a dozen phones on my desk letting me know that a MIRV is about to hit Toronto with air raid sirens. They can even get it without a SIM.
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If the phones don't have a Canadian SIM, they see it as the real category (Presidential alert) instead of it using the generic "EMERGENCY ALERT / ALERTE D'URGENCE". By the way, French isn't even a top 10 first language in Toronto and look how much space they're wasting on that.
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This is an improvement over their past approach of sending out separate alerts in English and French with the French one often coming hours later. I would not be surprised if they've killed seniors with heart attacks just to stop people from being able to turn off the alerts.
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I'm fully prepared for it at this point. In 2020, they announced there was some kind of nuclear meltdown in a city that's a short distance from Toronto. It was quite positive and noted no radioactive material had been released into the environment yet.
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the total opposite of Australia, where they don't use any of these neat LTE alerting features at all, and instead insist on using SMS for safety critical alerts about things like cyclones and wildfires.