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Originally Posted by manny_santos
When I still lived in Toronto I got an Amber Alert for an abduction in Thunder Bay. A lot of people in Southern Ontario were pissed about that one.
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You motherfuckers are running away with children every fucking week and the ONE TIME it happens here, you get pissed off? Go fuck yourself!
Tuesday March 19, kids abducted in York. April 25, Peel. Both a day's drive away. May 14, Sudbury–15 hours away. July 11, York. July 25, Brantford. October 1, Niagara (NIAGARA!! That's a two day drive!) November 6, Toronto. November 27, annual test.
And then, the big one:
January 12, Pickering Nuclear Plant Meltdown! Ahh, simple times!
March 5 Toronto, March 27 Covid, April 4 Covid again, June 28, Niagara. September 28, doesn't even actually say what city! Then November 25, annual test again.
To answer Loco's quesiton:
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Originally Posted by Loco101
I don't remember any of the alerts being for anything in Northern Ontario.
We get them in Timmins and the Amber alerts will be for Niagara, GTA, Ottawa, Windsor, etc.. Does ALL of Ontario get the same alerts every time there is one in the province?!? Do people in Thunder Bay and Kenora get the same ones? Do they get them in Moosonee and Moose Factory?
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Yes, we absolutely fucking do. Every. Single. One.
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Originally Posted by CityTech
Even for natural disasters the alert system is too broad. I got a tornado warning alert in the summer and when I checked the weather alert online, I saw that I was 40km beyond the edge of the square shown on the map. They should have only given it out to people inside that square.
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The only time I got a tornado warning here, it was radio only, the tornado was in Gull Bay. That's nearly 200km away.
Anyway as far as I know, Kenora does not get alerts from Manitoba, so if they are suspected to be heading east, Winnipeg police or RCMP have to alert Ontario's emergency response about the situation and maybe they'll send an alert.
The weather alerts do seem to be more specific, I think the reason we get so many province-wide amber alerts is because the amber alert reporting system treats Ontario as a single entity instead of splitting it into zones. You're still going to get lots of them in the GTA, though. People there just seem to kidnap their own children a lot.
That amber alert from Thunder Bay that Torontonians love to complain about was, as far as I recall, the first time a child was kidnapped here in the digital era. (It was very common in the 70s though, I know several people in their 40s to 60s who were kidnapped as children, almost always by their father or uncle).