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Despite a heat warning in effect for Montreal, the city’s Canada Day parade went ahead as planned today. About 4, participants and onlookers, many of whom were dressed in red and white, waved.

Read by 17, people It could all be over tomorrow. A truly modern threat. The threat of an EMP — via natural event or deliberate attack — remains a grave one. Its potential as a WMD looms larger than any other weapons known to man. It is a system wide reset that few are prepared for. It could include our telecommunications, our banking and finance systems, our petroleum and natural gas transportation systems, our food and water delivery systems, our emergency services.

It also affects all of the automated control devices that we take for granted every day, like the automatic control of lights, our surge system. It is a stark reminder that all the high technology of this world has been built on a fragile and very vulnerable foundation. Such an event would also render hospitals unable to help their patients, as they rely on electronics.

People with pacemakers or other electrical-based medical devices would suddenly lose their source of life.