HALIFAX --
Alert Ready is designed to deliver critical and potentially life-saving alerts through television, radio and cellphones across the country.
But officials in Nova Scotia are once again being criticized for how long it takes the province to activate the emergency alert system.
"You can't have bureaucrats, politicians, RCMP haggling over commas and periods and capital letters, just get the alert out," said Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston.
Janson Bryan Baker was arrested Wednesday in Amherst, N.S., after a 19-hour manhunt that started in Riverview, N.B.
Baker is accused of shooting a 35-year-old man outside Riverview High School, then fleeing to Nova Scotia. The man, who is a teacher, remains in hospital with what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries.