Amber Alert: baby abducted
Like many readers of this blog I was jolted from my postprandial torpor by an Amber Alert going off on my phone around 13:30. A one‑year‑old has been abducted in Lachine by a teenager. TVA specifies that the abductor is the child’s mother.
Update: The alert was over early Wednesday. The kid has been found and her mother arrested… and is now charged with abduction.



Ephraim 11:10 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
I have to say that the Amber alert provided some interesting comedy for us. We were on a flight…. and as people turned off “flight mode” the whole airplane began to buzz with alert after alert
Mark Côté 11:39 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
Am I the only one who got that alert four times that afternoon?
Ephraim 12:11 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
@Mark – 3 Times. But one was a “Presidential Alert” and may have come in because I have a travel esim installed on my phone
Kate 12:12 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
Only saw it once – at home in Montreal, phone on Fido.
Ian 12:17 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
I got it twice on my mobile, on Fizz.
steph 12:59 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
Three times within 20 mins. Fido.
CE 13:00 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
I only got it once.
Daniel 13:17 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
Strange. I got it once in the afternoon and then once near 11pm as we were going to bed! Bell mobile.
jeather 13:23 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
I got it once, but half the office got it at one time, then the other half 15 seconds later.
EmilyG 15:02 on 2024-01-03 Permalink
I caught the end of it as I turned on the radio.