{"id":293084,"date":"2025-11-19T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/293084\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:52:15","slug":"alert-ready-system-to-undergo-public-test-across-canada-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/293084\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert Ready system to undergo public test across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Canada&#8217;s national public alerting system is scheduled to be tested across the country today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A test message and tone from Alert Ready will be broadcast on television, radio and compatible wireless devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Test messages will be issued in every province and territory at specific times between late morning and early afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The system is typically tested in May and November to help ensure it works and so officials can practise issuing alerts for emergencies such as tornadoes, wildfires and Amber Alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is no option to opt out of the test or actual emergency alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Alert Ready system had issued nearly 900 emergency alerts this year in Canada as of Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 19, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s national public alerting system is scheduled to be tested across the country today. A test message and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[132378,132376,49,48,132377,44,2550],"class_list":["post-293084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alert-ready","tag-amber-alerts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-national-public","tag-news","tag-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}