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Sorry about the occasional audio issues. Something seems to have gone wrong during rendering. Canada is about to pull the plug on Weather Radio Canada (https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-...) , and the timing could not feel worse. When the world is getting more fragile, not less, taking a nationwide VHF weather radio service offline isn’t just a budget line item. It’s the removal of a simple, durable layer of emergency communication that keeps working when the fancy stack starts to crack. I break down what Weather Radio Canada is, how those 162 MHz VHF transmitters function as a quiet 24/7 public safety backbone, and why replacing them with apps, websites, and phone-based Alert Ready messaging is a risky bet in real storms. If you’ve lived through a blizzard, an ice storm, a hurricane, or any multi-day outage, you know the failure tree: power drops, towers drain their backup, backhaul links fail, fiber gets taken out, and suddenly the “widely available technologies” are not widely available at all. A weather website is one power strip away from useless. A push notification is one overloaded LTE sector away from never arriving. We also talk about who actually loses when VHF weather radio goes dark, and it’s not only remote northern communities. It’s older folks who expect a SAME-capable radio to scream during a warning, truckers and farmers monitoring weather bands, and volunteer groups that quietly use weather radio as a backup feed. The bigger question I keep coming back to is simple: what does redundancy really mean in 2026, especially with climate change driving more extreme weather and longer outage windows? Links mentioned in this episode: CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbur... Radio World https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-b... SWLing Post https://swling.com/blog/2026/02/break... NorthPine https://northpine.com/2026/03/06/week... Opinion piece on Weatheradio and public safety https://ca.news.yahoo.com/leong-weath... Send me a text message with your thoughts, questions, or feedback (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/tex...) Support the show (https://www.tylerwoodward.me/2463382/...) If you enjoyed the show, be sure to follow The Tyler Woodward Project and leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id...) or your favorite podcast app (https://podcast.tylerwoodward.me/2463...) —it really helps more people discover the show. Follow the show on Instagram (  / tylerwoodward.me  ) and Threads (https://www.threads.com/@tylerwoodwar...) . All views and opinions expressed in this show are solely those of the creator and do not represent or reflect the views, policies, or positions of any employer, organization, or professional affiliation.