Canada reaffirms 3-day emergency supply guidance amid calls to extend it to a week
Public Safety Canada sticks with its decades-old three-day stockpile advice even as experts and the U.K.'s own push for seven days of self-sufficiency.
What to know
- Public Safety Canada's official guidance remains unchanged at three days of emergency supplies, a figure in place for roughly three decades.
- The reaffirmation comes as the U.K. and other countries have recently urged residents to prepare for longer periods without aid.
- Disaster-preparedness experts argue a week of self-sufficiency is more realistic, citing increasing disasters, expanding development into risk-prone areas, and cyberattack threats.
- Recommended supplies include water, food, medications, first aid, and a ready go-bag in case of evacuation.
Public Safety Canada Federal government departmentSuzanne Bernier Faculty member, Disaster Recovery Institute of Canada
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Expert advises preparing for a week without outside help
Further reporting highlights advice that people should be ready for the possibility of no emergency response reaching them for up to a week, and recommends keeping a go-bag, medications, and first aid supplies on hand.
“We need to really be preparing people for ... potentially not being able to have anybody respond to you or save your family within that first week…”
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I’m not saying it’s new, I’m not saying it’s conspiracy. I just find the timing peculiar. I’m 100% sure every nation in the world has some form of preparedness plan and they’d be wrong not to. Yes winter is hot on our heels, yes it’s gonna probably bring a lot of ice storms because of an El Niño year. Anyone who’s lived here for at least one…
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⚠️ We knew this but it's a helpful reminder " We need to really be preparing people for ... 👉 potentially not being able to have anybody respond to you or save your family within that first week," she said, adding people should also have a go-bag ready in case of evacuation. " 📌 Don't forget to stock up on medications and first aid supplies #…
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Yeah I remember being told in school in like the 90s/early 2000s about stocking up and having an emergency plan, and that it was recommended by the government. I remember having some sort of assignment actually for making a stock list and an emergency plan with my family in elementary school.
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Disaster expert Suzanne Bernier says it's time to update the messaging
Bernier, a faculty member of the Disaster Recovery Institute of Canada, notes governments have used the same three-day messaging for at least three decades and says it makes sense for guidance to become more prominent given rising natural and human-caused disasters, population growth in previously unpopulated areas, and more frequent cyberattacks.
“governments have been putting out the same messaging for at least three decades but it's a good time for an update…”
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“Suzanne Bernier, faculty member of the Disaster Recovery Institute of Canada, says governments have been putting out the same messaging for at least three decades but it's a good time for an update. “She says it makes sense that the messaging is becoming more prominent, as natural and human-caused disasters are increasing, people are living in…
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Public Safety Canada reaffirms three-day emergency supply guidance
CBC reports that Public Safety Canada is maintaining its longstanding advice for Canadians to be prepared to go at least three days without running water or electricity, following recent calls in the U.K. and other countries for residents to do the same.
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first by CBC, 5d ago
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