Internal federal government memos and emails show the early-morning Jan. 13 alert that sent people in the tropical U.S. state scurrying for cover soon had Canadian officials scrambling to figure out their own system for informing the public of an incoming missile.

A Calgary MLA was in Hawaii Saturday when a text message alert about an incoming ballistic missile was sent out by mistake.

People in Hawaii received accidental warnings on their cell phones Saturday, which read that a ballistic missile was headed toward the U.S. state.