Alberta Ditches Clock Changes, Sticks to DST

0:00It's April 21st. Welcome in. This is Canada News Today, where local news meets AI. Alberta's government is moving to ditch those annoying spring and fall clock changes, locking in daylight saving time all year for more evening light. Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally dropped the news Monday, saying he'll introduce the bill this week to make it official. Even with a narrow no vote in the 2021 referendum, Nally says the landscape shifted. There's now step between Saskatchewan, which runs. Central standard time year round, and the Northwest Territories, where the premiere just announced a switch to permanent standard time too. Farmers are cheering loudest. The Alberta Federation of Agriculture says, cows don't read clocks and get hungry at sunrise, so twice yearly feed tweaks. Our hassle, plus tired workers' risk accidents on heavy gear, border towns like Lloyd Minister, split between provinces, will breathe easier. No more mix-ups costing oil crews big bucks from showing up an hour off.

1:00University of Calgary site profo Michael Ansel backs ending the switches, but pushes standard time instead. Daylight saving means brutal winter. Sun rises, like 10.02 a.m. in Fort McMurray, throwing off body rhythms and spiking health woes from fatigue to hard issues. NDP leader Nahid Nenshi calls it a shiny distraction from health care headaches, urging a nod to voters and experts. With neighbors diverging and the bill incoming, Alberta's quak hands might finally settle for smoother days ahead.