'It saved lives': Emergency alert officials say system worked before tornadoes hit

Officials in charge of Canada’s emergency alert system were scheduled to report to the Senate committee on national security and defence Monday about how it is working, now that mobile phones have been added to the network.
Three days before that meeting, they got their answer in dramati
c fashion when six tornadoes left a trail of destruction across Eastern Ontario, Ottawa and West Quebec.
Before the storms hit, warnings could be heard coming from mobile phones, radios and televisions acr