Global News published this video item, entitled “Daylight saving critics push to end time change across Canada” – below is their description.
Daylight saving time 2023 will come to an end on Nov. 5, as the clocks roll back in the wee morning hours for Canadians in most time zones while they are sleeping.
Every year around this time, many Canadians have the same conversation, about why we change our clocks for Daylight Savings time.
Saskatchewan already doesn’t recognize it and British Columbia started the process to eliminate it in 2019.
As Global’s Victoria Femia reports, advocates are pushing to end the change and outlining the risks that come with it.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
