{"id":534271,"date":"2026-03-13T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:56:10","slug":"kinew-says-its-time-to-survey-manitobans-on-changing-clocks-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534271\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinew says it\u2019s time to survey Manitobans on changing clocks \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Premier Wab Kinew says Manitobans will be consulted on whether they should continue changing their clocks twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>He says he and other politicians have been professionally and personally getting an earful about daylight time.<\/p>\n<p>He says he was at a rink with other hockey parents for an early practice last weekend when clocks sprang ahead, and he wondered, \u201cWhy are we doing this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b44d3d00ea5b49498c4349jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"7658\" data-pswp-height=\"5080\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b44d3d00ea5b49498c4349jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew speaks with reporters before the First Ministers Meeting in Ottawa, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026.  THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManitoba Premier Wab Kinew speaks with reporters before the First Ministers Meeting in Ottawa, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026.  THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n<p>He says his wife also says it\u2019s a stupid idea and that the inboxes of legislature members are full of comments from Manitobans about it.<\/p>\n<p>He says consultation will likely take the form of a survey.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newslettericons-jenz24.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Jen Zoratti | Next\"\/><\/p>\n<p>British Columbia recently announced it\u2019s moving to year-round daylight time.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Premier Wab Kinew says Manitobans will be consulted on whether they should continue changing their clocks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-534271","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\/534271","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=534271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}