Confusion as some provinces, territories ditch daylight saving time

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Nov 2, 2026
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In BC, it's time for a change, and that means staying the same.
We're not changing the clocks. This is very different.
I'm not sure if I like this or not.
A few old friends have to turn their eye,
and I wish we had our time, and I wish we had our time.
It's the first time in decades British
Columbians haven't fallen back an hour.
The province, along with Alberta, will keep daylight time year-round.
I'm glad not to change time.
I wish all across Canada was doing the same.
I think that the morning sun is a problem,
and I wish they had gone to standard time instead of daylight time.
Farmers also aren't sure.
I'll talk to you in December in the winter solstice and we'll find out.
Here are Canada's current time zones.
On November 1st, Quebec, Atlantic Canada,
Nunavut and most of Ontario fell back an hour.
At the same time, B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories
and northwestern Ontario stopped changing their clocks.
The shift will most impact people whose jobs straddle time zones.
Think of truck drivers, for example, who now have to navigate B.C.,
being an hour ahead of Washington state.
Truckers are very, very used to managing their time and their hours.
It's that extra bit of planning,
that extra bit of when am I actually crossing the borders.
And what about our lives online?
The times that individual users,
depending on which side of the border they're on,
will be seeing might be different, might be confusing,
leading to meetings being missed,
deadlines being blown, things like that.
Darker mornings will be a new challenge for Western Canada too,
for kids and adults.
I've noticed waking up is already hard when it's cold,
so when it's dark and cold.
Quebec has said it will opt out of changing the clocks in the future.
Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador have hinted they may opt out too.
Georgie Smyth, CBC News, Vancouver.
