Test of Canada's public alerting system scheduled for November 25

OAKVILLE — The next test of Alert Ready, Canada’s public alerting system, is scheduled for Wednesday, November 25. Each participating province and territory will issue one test message to be distributed over television, radio and compatible wireless devices. Pelmorex Corp., which operates Canada’s National Alert Aggregation and Dissemination System, part of Alert Ready, issued a press release today announcing the testing times of the public alerting system (please see below). “Pelmorex operates the technical infrastructure of the Alert Ready system,” said Martin Belanger, director of public alerting at Pelmorex, in the press release. “Pelmorex receives alerts from authorized alert issuers...