Posted: Apr 08, 2021 9:09 PM AT | Last Updated: April 9
A memorial pays tribute to RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year member of the force and mother of two, who was killed in Shubenacadie, N.S., on April 19, 2020. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
The RCMP notified the Nova Scotia government that it wanted to send out an emergency alert only five minutes before police shot the man responsible for killing 22 people in the province last April, new records show.
CBC News obtained documents through an access-to-information request that shed light on the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office s internal communications on April 19, 2020, as well as the contact officials had with RCMP regarding the possibility of sending out an alert to warn the public.
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Ontario emergency alert telling everyone to stay home angers people across the province
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All of Ontario experienced a simultaneous moment of panic this morning as cell phones across the province buzzed with urgency thanks to an emergency alert from the government and, as per usual, the use of Canada s Alert Ready notification system didn t exactly go over well.
The jarring alert went out across Ontario at 11 a.m. Thursday, nearly 12 hours after the province s latest stay-at-home order came into effect, telling people to stay home and only leave the house for essential reasons.
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