Alberta minister points to ‘old code’ as cause of multiple emergency alerts

Alberta’s Public Safety and Emergency Services Minister has clarified what was behind a glitch during a test of the province’s emergency alert system this month.

Mike Ellis said in a statement that “old code in the system” caused nine alerts to be sent out from the system during a test on March 1.

Alert Ready told Postmedia in an email there were no issues to report on their end from the test.

Read the full article in the Edmonton Journal.