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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    I’m in northern Ontario in Canada … our province is roughly about 1,500 km long north to south, 1,500 km east to west, and at about 1 million square kilometers it is roughly three times the size of Germany, ten times the size of England, twice the size of Spain or France and you could fit Portugal between Windsor and Ottawa … but if a child gets lost in Toronto, I gotta know about it in northern Ontario as soon as possible through the Emergency Broadcast system because someone could have abducted the child in downtown Toronto an hour ago and used an F16 fighter jet to fly little kidnapped Timmy to Sudbury in 60 minutes.

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        YES … and that is insane … I’m all for helping kids and keeping them safe but if you’re going to spend thousands of dollars to tell everyone in the province at 4am that a single child MAY have been lost in the city, it might be a better use of public dollars to instead fund support programs and services for families and children instead.

        The whole public broadcast system was supposed to be about alerting the public about a major catastrophe, the apocalypse, an asteroid has wiped out Toronto, the Russians have launched a full scale invasion, America is finally going ahead with annexing Canada, etc … instead it’s turned into a public propaganda campaign service to casually keep people on edge and superficially make people think that the government is actually doing something.