Blacklock’s- Fewer Use Gov’t Forecasting
Canadians choose private sector weather forecasts over Environment Canada, says in-house federal research. The finding followed 2022 disclosures the department scooped data on hundreds of thousands of users who downloaded a government weather app.
The Department of Environment in 2019 launched its own weather app with “super cool” features at an undisclosed cost, according to then-Minister Catherine McKenna. Managers subsequently acknowledged they tracked the personal information of 715,791 Canadians who downloaded the app.
Your communist government is utterly corrupt. And there are none worse than your own personal Stassi … the RCMP.
Not quite my experience. I no longer use a weather app and instead have Environment Canada’s local weather forecast bookmarked in my phone and computer’s browser — this page: https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=52.131,-106.659
I stopped using private sector apps as they went all-in on climate scaremongering — Weather Network was particularly bad, with every single bad weather event being tied to climate change hysteria. You might see a bit of that in the text of alerts and warnings on the Environment Canada forecast page, but not as bad as in the apps.
OMG. I just said that I trust a federal agency more than I do a private sector company. Yikes!
As for the spying angle – meh. If you are online in any capacity, every intelligence agency on the planet knows who you are, where you are, and what you are doing as soon as you boot and connect. You pay for a VPN? You’re just putting yourself on the “Must Watch” list and a paying for the privilege of having everything you do go directly through servers at CSIS, RCMP, CIA, FBI, and whatever alphabet-alefbet-kanji-hanzi-harf-agencies other governments have.
Hold on a sec. A couple of black SUVs just pulled into my driveway. I should go see what they want.
I use the weather forecast that came with my iPhone, and the same Environment Canada link that Lickmuffin uses above.
I especially like the Env Canada hour by hour wind forecast and their weather radar map.
Also periodically use Ventusky; found at the bottom of Kate’s SDA site
Managers subsequently acknowledged they tracked the personal information of 715,791 Canadians who downloaded the app.
Well, they didn’t track me…
Government does nothing efficiently or well. Nothing. Not one thing.
That app no worky outside Canada, can’t say for USA. Guess I’m one of the non-users.
Windy.com works fine everywhere.
So the government built spyware and people fell for it… not at all surprised.
The federal government of Canada is a malignant and belligerent entity that exists to serve itself.