{"id":522712,"date":"2026-03-08T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:50:09","slug":"clock-change-marks-progress-for-some-canadians-but-is-a-pain-for-others-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522712\/","title":{"rendered":"Clock change marks progress for some Canadians, but is a pain for others \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some Canadians the twice-a-year changing of clocks is a welcome marker of progress through the seasons, but for many it\u2019s just a nuisance that comes with fatigue, confused pets and even safety issues.<\/p>\n

Daylight time began at 2 a.m. today in all provinces that observe the practice, and clocks sprung ahead by one hour. Mobile phones make the advance automatically, as long as your phone is set for a region that makes the change.<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan and Yukon don\u2019t observe a time change, and maintain permanent standard time.<\/p>\n

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Patricia Lakin-Thomas, a biology professor at York University, says the annual jump to daylight time has been known to increase car accidents, heart attacks and strokes.<\/p>\n

Time regulation falls under provincial and territorial jurisdiction, and the Canadian Encyclopedia says Ottawa officially introduced daylight time in 1918 as a measure to increase wartime production.<\/p>\n

British Columbia Premier David Eby announced last week that his province will stay on daylight time permanently and won\u2019t be turning clocks back to rejoin standard time on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will consult on doing away with twice-a-year clock changes.<\/p>\n

Almost five years ago, a referendum question was put to Albertans to keep daylight time year-round, but it failed by a narrow margin. The ballot offered only the option of adopting year-round daylight saving time, which Smith said might have been confusing.<\/p>\n

She said last week she believes if you simply asked people if they want to stop changing their clocks, that would likely get overwhelming support.<\/p>\n

In 2020, the Ontario government passed legislation to end the twice-yearly changing of clocks and make daylight time permanent \u2014 but only if Quebec and New York agreed to do the same.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Atlantic Canada\u2019s premiers decided to hold off on any move toward dropping the time change until they saw what neighbouring jurisdictions would do.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some Canadians the twice-a-year changing of clocks is a welcome marker of progress through the seasons, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-522712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}