Environment Canada is discontinuing its Weatheradio service on March 16th, after 50 years of VHF emergency weather radio broadcasts: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weatheradio.html 😞

[dpogue@mastodon.social]

Environment Canada is discontinuing its Weatheradio service on March 16th, after 50 years of VHF emergency weather radio broadcasts: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weatheradio.html

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(torontosun.com)

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[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@dpogue

Why would they do that?

[dpogue@mastodon.social]

@HopelessDemigod Likely because it costs money to operate and maintain and all the government departments are getting budgets cut due to the current economical situation

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@dpogue

There is always places to cut, this (public safety) isn’t one of them.

[bruce@allovertheplace.ca]

@gtbray @dpogue Okay, that's super-sad.

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@dpogue yeah, why would they maintain a weather radio service when they could just send out announcements on Twit... oh