CANALERT was one of the names for the
Government of Canada
The government of Canada (french: gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown is the corporation sole, assuming distinct roles: the executive, as the ''Crown ...
's series of initiatives between 2003–2009 to develop an all-channel national public alerting system. Work began on CANALERT in 2003 with the First Canadian Public Alerting Forum and Workshop and continued with another forum in 2005.
Industry Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED; french: Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada; french: ISDE, label=none)''Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal I ...
was the lead federal agency for this initiative and worked closely with
provincial and territorial governments to define guidelines, procedures, and protocols, including a Canadian profile for the
Common Alerting Protocol
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to m ...
(CAP) standard for exchanging alert messaging across communications technologies.
In June 2009,
Pelmorex
Pelmorex Corp. is a Canadian weather information and media company. Based in Oakville, Ontario, it is the owner of the Canadian specialty channels The Weather Network (English) and MétéoMédia (French), and their associated digital properties.
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was granted permission by the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; french: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes, links=) is a public organization in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasti ...
(CRTC) to develop and maintain the National Alert Aggregration & Dissemination (NAAD) System,
which later became the National Public Alerting System (later branded as ''
Alert Ready
The National Public Alerting System (NPAS; french: Système national d'alertes à la population), branded as Alert Ready (), is the national warning system in Canada, broadcast to Canadian television, radio, and wireless devices.
The system con ...
''), effectively putting an end to CANALERT and its successor project NPAS.
If it had become operational as intended, it would have been the first federal government operated national public alerting system in Canada since the demise of the
National Attack Warning Siren System (NAWSS) in the late 1980s.
See also
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Emergency Public Warning System
The Emergency Public Warning System was a system used in the province of Alberta, Canada until October 2011, whereby local or provincial authorities could warn the public about impending or current emergencies affecting their area. The system wa ...
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Alert Ready
The National Public Alerting System (NPAS; french: Système national d'alertes à la population), branded as Alert Ready (), is the national warning system in Canada, broadcast to Canadian television, radio, and wireless devices.
The system con ...
References
External links
Industry Canada's public alerting website* http://alerts.pelmorex.com/en/ {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110602142348/http://alerts.pelmorex.com/en/ , date=2011-06-02
Emergency population warning systems in Canada
Civil defense