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Canadian officials accidentally push nuke alert to millions

by Associated Press
| January 13, 2020 12:05 AM

TORONTO (AP) — People throughout the Canadian province of Ontario awoke Sunday to a cellphone alert warning them of an “incident” at a nuclear plant just east of Toronto — only to later be told the message was a mistake.

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