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Keeping the Last Mile on Air: Community Radio as Emergency Communications Infrastructure

Synopsis: When emergency alerts go out, power grids fail, or cellular networks congest, local community radio stations can serve as a critical “last mile” infrastructure—providing street-by-street updates, evacuation directions, and multilingual information directly to impacted residents. However, many of Canada’s non-profit stations operate with significant technical vulnerabilities, from single points of failure in the signal […]