{"id":943763,"date":"2026-05-07T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943763\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:20:28","slug":"people-across-canada-will-hear-a-loud-alert-on-their-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943763\/","title":{"rendered":"People across Canada will hear a loud alert on their phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians across most of the country will hear the shrill screeching siren of the public alerting system today.<\/p>\n<p>A test message and tone from Alert Ready will be broadcast on television, radio and compatible wireless devices.<\/p>\n<p>Test messages will be issued in nearly every province and territory except Quebec and Saskatchewan at specific times between morning and early afternoon, with Ontario\u2019s test set for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The system is typically tested in May and November and is part of Canada\u2019s effort to ensure it works and raise awareness.<\/p>\n<p>There is no option to opt out of the test or actual emergency alerts.<\/p>\n<p>The Alert Ready system issued 28 alerts in Canada as of April 30, for emergencies including Amber Alerts, tornadoes and more.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last 30 Days: 50,043 Votes<\/p>\n<p>All Time: 1,329,493 Votes<\/p>\n<p>    673 VOTES<br \/>\n    Are you excited for the Toronto Tempo WNBA team?    <\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadians across most of the country will hear the shrill screeching siren of the public alerting system today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-943763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116533266122970757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}