Emergency, Safety & Alerts
42 curated official resources. Search and filter these in the directory →
Federal
- Alert Ready — National Public Alerting SystemPublic alerts for life-threatening weather, Amber Alerts, and emergencies delivered via TV, radio, LTE
- Canadian Centre for Cyber SecurityGovernment of Canada lead for cyber security, providing guidance, tools, incident reporting, and threat intelligence for citizens and organizations
- Canadian Disaster DatabasePublic Safety Canada's searchable record of 1,000+ natural, technological and conflict disasters affecting Canadians since 1900, with fatalities, evacuations and cost estimates.
- Canadian Nuclear Safety CommissionFederal regulator of nuclear power and materials in Canada, overseeing licensing, compliance, and public health and safety around nuclear facilities
- CBSA — Enforcement Action StatisticsQuarterly statistics on CBSA seizures of drugs, firearms, currency, and intercepted stolen vehicles, broken down by category and fiscal year.
- CISC — Public Report on Organized CrimeDownload the annual Criminal Intelligence Service Canada public report assessing hundreds of organized crime groups and their national threat levels.
- CPIC — Stolen Vehicle and Bike SearchCheck whether a vehicle (by VIN) or bicycle (by serial number) has been reported stolen anywhere in Canada, against national police data updated daily.
- CSE — Annual ReportsRead the Communications Security Establishment's unclassified annual reports on signals intelligence, cyber defence, and foreign cyber operations, back to 2019-20.
- CSIS — Public ReportsDownload every annual CSIS Public Report — the unclassified assessment of threats to Canada from terrorism, espionage, and foreign interference.
- Earthquakes CanadaNear-real-time earthquake tracking and event data
- Health Canada — Canadian Cannabis SurveyAnnual cannabis use, perceptions, and harms reported by Canadians
- Health Canada — Recalls & Safety AlertsSearchable national database of consumer product, food, and health product recalls and safety alerts, filterable by category, date, and brand.
- National Wildland Fire Information SystemWildfire status and fire information across Canada
- Public Safety Canada — Listed Terrorist EntitiesOfficial registry of every entity listed under the Criminal Code as a terrorist entity, with background summaries and listing dates for each group.
- Public Safety Canada — National Emergency ResourcesEmergency preparedness guides, 72-hour kits, and hazard-specific response info
- RCMP — Canada's MissingSearch police-published profiles of missing persons and unidentified remains cases across Canada, with photos, descriptions, and tip submission.
- RCMP — Crime Mapping and StatisticsRCMP crime data, police reported statistics, and operational updates
- Recalls and Safety AlertsUseful public alert tool for recalls and safety notices
- Transport Canada — Motor Vehicle Safety Recalls DatabaseSearch safety recalls by make, model and year for Canadian-market vehicles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, trailers and child car seats.
Provincial
- EmergencyInfoBC — Active Emergencies and Evacuation OrdersMinistry of Emergency Management portal listing current wildfires, floods, evacuation orders/alerts and states of provincial emergency, with links to EmergencyMapBC; updated continuously by local authorities.
- NL Daily Wildfire Risk & Active WildfiresDaily Fire Weather Index map by region from Forestry, Agriculture and Lands, plus the NL Active Wildfires dashboard showing location, status and size of ongoing wildfires.
- NWT Wildfire Update (ECC)GNWT Environment & Climate Change wildfire hub: live fire map with satellite hotspots, regional updates for all five regions, active-fire counts, hectares burned, smoke forecast and evacuation links.
- Ontario Wildfire Map (Interactive)Ontario's interactive fire map with fire size, status, and restricted fire zones
- Vigilance — Surveillance de la crue des eauxSécurité publique real-time flood watch: river gauges, flood-extent surveillance maps and civil-security updates during spring freshet; complements regulatory flood-zone cartography.
- Yukon Wildfires Map (Wildland Fire Management)Live Government of Yukon map of active wildfires and prescribed burns with status, size, response type, plus fire danger ratings and fire ban information across the territory.
Municipal
- Calgary — Police Community Safety DashboardExplore Calgary crime and disorder trends back to 2018 in an interactive dashboard filterable by community, ward or police district, updated monthly.
- Edmonton — Neighbourhood Crime MappingClick any Edmonton neighbourhood to plot eight crime types (assault, break and enter, vehicle theft, more) on a map for any date range up to 60 days.
- Halifax — Police Crime MappingSee recent Halifax crimes on a map updated daily — search five crime types by street name or community for the last day, four days or week.
- Hamilton — Police Online Crime Mapping ToolSearch where break-ins, robberies, vehicle thefts and homicides occurred in Hamilton over the past 60 days, with hotspot maps and email crime alerts.
- Montréal — Vue sur la sécurité publiqueVisualize SPVM police data on Montreal crime since 2015 through an interactive map and charts, by borough, category and time period.
- Ottawa — Police Community Safety Data PortalBrowse Ottawa Police crime maps (year-to-date and historical), shootings, overdose calls by neighbourhood, and download 340k+ criminal offence records.
- Peel Region — Police Community Safety Data PortalMap 36 months of crime in Mississauga and Brampton by type, date, street and ward, with hotspot layers, and download Peel police datasets.
- Saskatoon — Police Crime MapView approximate locations of crimes and traffic collisions reported to Saskatoon Police on an interactive city map, by neighbourhood or citywide.
- Toronto — Fire Active IncidentsWatch active incidents dispatched by Toronto Fire Services in near real time, pulled from the CAD dispatch system and refreshed every five minutes.
- Toronto Police — Crime DashboardPublic Safety Data Portal — major crime incidents, shootings, traffic collisions in Toronto
- Vancouver — GeoDASH Crime MapMap crimes reported to Vancouver Police, filtering by neighbourhood, crime type and date range, with statistical reports updated every 24 hours.
- York Region — Police Community Safety Data PortalTrack crime in Markham, Vaughan, Richmond Hill and the rest of York Region with an interactive safety map, auto-theft trend dashboard and stats by municipality.
Agency
- Avalanche Canada — ForecastsDaily avalanche danger forecasts on an interactive map with dynamic region boundaries set by forecasters, covering Canada's backcountry mountain regions.
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)Workplace safety guides, OSH Answers fact sheets, and e-learning
- NSICOP — Committee ReportsDownload annual and special reports from Parliament's security-cleared committee, including reviews of foreign interference, lawful access, and defence intelligence.
- NSIRA — Reports and PublicationsRead unclassified NSIRA review reports and annual reports scrutinizing the national security activities of CSIS, CSE, the RCMP, and other federal agencies.
- Office of the Intelligence Commissioner — DecisionsRead declassified quasi-judicial decisions approving or rejecting ministerial authorizations for CSIS and CSE intelligence activities.