By Brian Konrad

Alberta and Saskatchewan part of Emergency Alert Test today

May 9, 2018 | 8:00 AM

Medicine Hat, AB. – Your cell phone or other wireless device may start buzzing a 1:55 this afternoon.
That will signal the first test of Canada’s new Alert Ready Emergency Alert system for wireless devices.
The system operator hopes to have learned from bugs that showed up in a test of the system in Quebec and Ontario on Monday.
Alberta and Saskatchewan are among other provinces being tested today, at 1:55 pm.
The test will begin with an 8 second tone followed by a text or audio alert.
The test won’t work if your cell phone is set to silent, on vibrate or turned off.