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Author: City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias
Publication Date: May 5, 2025 - 11:57
Stay informed during emergencies with Ottawa Alert
May 5, 2025
Sign-up to receive text or voice notifications during emergencies on your personal devices.
The City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Police Service can now send emergency information directly to your personal devices with Ottawa Alert.
In an emergency, guidance and recovery information will be sent through Ottawa Alert to subscribed residents, businesses and visitors. Receiving timely emergency information on our phones, computers or other devices is the best way to stay informed and to be prepared, which leads to better safety outcomes for you.
Ottawa Alert is powered by Alertable (a product by Calgary-based company, PEASI) and sends notifications:
- Through the Alertable app, SMS, email, telephone, Amazon Alexa and more channels.
- In English and French, with in-app machine translation available for more than 30 languages.
- That are fully accessible under WCAG 2.0 AA compliance standards.
- Important updates and recovery information following an emergency, such as when emergency shelters or family reunification centres are opened.
- Urgent safety instructions, such as clearing snow from furnace and dryer vents after major snowstorms to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Advisory alerts to provide instructions following high impact situations, such as avoiding areas damaged by a tornado, ice storm or other event.
- Critical alerts for situations posing an immediate danger to public safety.
- Information about keeping the public safe and away from potential harm, such as when there is an active police investigation or threat to public safety.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she does not support the secession of her province from Canada, but “demonizing” the growing number of her constituents who do is not the way forward.On Tuesday, Ms. Smith told a press conference at the provincial legislature that she would support any citizen-led petition that gets the number of signatures required to trigger a referendum, even if it puts forward the question of Alberta’s separation. The day prior, she had given a nearly 20-minute speech about her demands of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new federal government.
May 6, 2025 - 21:49 | Temur Durrani | The Globe and Mail
The Southeast District Major Crime Unit has taken over the investigation, as police confirm they are treating Walsh's death as suspicious.
May 6, 2025 - 21:41 | Victoria Femia | Global News - Canada
Columbia University said Tuesday that it will be laying off nearly 180 staffers in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel $400 million in funding over the Manhattan college’s handling of student protests against the war in Gaza.Those receiving non-renewal or termination notices Tuesday represent about 20% of the employees funded in some manner by the terminated federal grants, the university said in a statement Tuesday.
May 6, 2025 - 21:14 | Philip Marcelo | The Globe and Mail
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