Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode Six

paulcrosstoronto’s Podcast · Feb 22, 2020 · 10m

"On the broken emergency alert system" From February 21, 2020. When a false "emergency alert" was sent out suggesting there had been an incident at a nuclear power station near Toronto on January 12th, it took 43 minutes for a correction. When a false alert -- including information that it was not a drill -- about an incoming missile was issued in Hawaii, it took 38 minutes for a correction to come out. How the Pickering nuclear alert was sent out in error almost does not matter any more. What still matters six weeks later is the lack of public information about who should have done what when…