Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The budget says the proposed funding responds to the Mass Casualty Commission's recommendations on public alerting. (Giordano ...

The budget says the proposed funding responds to the Mass Casualty Commission's recommendations on public alerting. (Giordano Ciampini/The Canadian Press - image credit) The federal budget is ...

The federal budget is proposing more than $55 million for a new national emergency alert system, making good on a recommendation from the committee that examined the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

Canada’s public emergency alerts system will send out a test on Wednesday, with Canadians in all provinces and territories set to receive alerts. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications ...