{"id":661226,"date":"2026-05-11T00:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661226\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:56:30","slug":"alert-ready-system-to-be-tested-across-canada-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661226\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert Ready system to be tested across Canada today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Canadians across most of the country will hear the shrill screeching siren of the public alerting system today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alertready.ca\/testing-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.alertready.ca\/testing-schedule\/\">A test message and tone from Alert Ready<\/a> will be broadcast on television, radio and compatible wireless devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">There is no option to opt out of the test or actual emergency alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Alert Ready system issued 28 alerts in Canada as of April 30, for emergencies including Amber Alerts, tornadoes and more.<\/p>\n<p>Alert Ready testing scheduleProvince\/TerritoryDateTimeAlbertaWednesday, May 6, 20261:55 PM MDTBritish Columbia Wednesday, May 6, 20261:55 PM PDTManitoba Wednesday, May 6, 20261:55 PM CDTNew Brunswick Wednesday, May 6, 202610:55 AM ADTNewfoundland &amp; Labrador Wednesday, May 6, 20269:55 AM NDTNorthwest Territories Wednesday, May 6, 20269:55 AM MDTNova ScotiaWednesday, May 6, 20261:55 PM ADTNunavutWednesday, May 6, 20261:55 PM EDTOntarioThursday, May 7, 20261:55 PM EDTPrince Edward Island Wednesday, May 6, 202612:55 PM ADTQuebec NO TEST SCHEDULED**Saskatchewan TEST CANCELLEDYukon Wednesday, May 6, 20261:55 PM YT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">**to be confirmed<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Canadians across most of the country will hear the shrill screeching siren of the public alerting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,47,714,66,1133],"class_list":["post-661226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-national","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661226","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=661226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}