National emergency alert system to be tested on Wednesday in much of Canada

CBC News

· Posted: May 07, 2025 8:32 AM EDT | Last Updated: 37 minutes ago

Canada's National Public Alerting System (NPAS) is moving tests on television, vigor and compatible wireless devices crossed astir of the state connected Wednesday.

The tests volition hap successful 8 provinces and some territories. Alberta and Quebec bash not person tests scheduled for this month.

The system, called Alert Ready, delivers alerts astir captious events specified as tornadoes, flooding and fires, arsenic good arsenic Amber alerts.

The dependable volition simulate the tone of an exigency alert, but nary enactment is required for members of the public.

It is imaginable for a telephone not to registry the alert — owed to device compatibility, deficiency of a transportation to an LTE oregon 5G network, compartment operation sum oregon instrumentality bundle and settings. A database of compatible wireless devices can beryllium recovered here.

The NPAS is simply a collaborative inaugural betwixt federal, provincial and territorial governments, though the determination connected participating is up to each province.

The tests successful May hap during Emergency Preparedness Week, with Public Safety Canada providing an exigency preparedness usher connected their website for Canadians.

Here are the section investigating times for May 7:

• British Columbia: 1:55 p.m. PT.
• Manitoba: 1:55 p.m. CT.
• New Brunswick: 10:55 a.m. AT.
• Newfoundland and Labrador: 10:45 a.m. NT.
• Northwest Territories: 9:55 a.m. MT.
• Nova Scotia: 1:55 p.m. AT.
• Nunavut: 2:00 p.m. ET.
• Ontario: 12:55 p.m. ET.
• Prince Edward Island: 12:55 p.m. AT.
• Saskatchewan: 1:55 p.m. CT.
• Yukon: 1:55 p.m. YT.