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Posted on 10/14/2026 7:30:18 AM PDT by xp38
Ontario is set to move parts of the province’s northwest region to permanent daylight time in order to align with Manitoba, Indigenous Affairs Minister Greg Rickford told The Canadian Press.
Rickford said there is overwhelming consensus among municipalities, First Nations and businesses to make the time change permanent.
Rickford says the province intends to make a regulatory change in the Time Act on Nov. 1 to allow regions west of the 90th meridian to align with Manitoba.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced last month the province would stop twice-annual clock changes and stay on daylight time year-round in the central time zone, leaving it one hour ahead of the other Prairie provinces rather than aligned with them.
“That put northwestern Ontario, who sits in the central standard time zone, in a bit of a spot, to say the least,” Rickford said.
The province had three options, he said. One, the northwestern region could shift to Eastern time to align with the rest of the province. Two, they could continue on with time changes, but then they’d be out of step with the rest of Ontario and Manitoba.
“The other option… we took by unanimous consensus, was to not change our clocks and go to what I’m calling Wab Kinew time,” Rickford said.
Much of the province’s northwest jumped into action after Kinew’s announcement to figure out a way forward.
Rickford said the province reached out to municipalities, businesses and First Nations to get their thoughts.
“What ended up coming back was overwhelmingly unanimous, 90 to 94 per cent from every survey,” he said.
New Democrat Sol Mamakwa, who represents the riding of Kiiwetinoong that is home to the majority of Ontario’s remote, fly-in First Nations, also helped figure out a way forward.
“After having brought the voices of our communities across the northwest to the table, we are happy the advocacy to observe daylight savings will be implemented permanently,” Mamakwa said in a statement.
“We are proud of our collaborative efforts to deliver what works for the North. We thank everyone who reached out and shared their thoughts on this important decision.”
British Columbia said in March that it was moving to permanent Pacific Daylight Time.
Alberta also switched to permanent daylight time this year in what it calls Alberta time, which means it now has the same time as Saskatchewan year round.
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See? The government can do anything! Even have permanent daytime, no night!
Ontario’s Doug Ford will probably change his mind back and forth on this 5 or 6 times before next year ,LOL
We did this in 1974 and EVERYONE HATED IT!!!!!
THE AIRLINE SCHEDULES WILL BE A NIGHTMARE.
That’s correct. The same thing will happen again if we go to Daylight Saving Time now. Those who will complain the loudest are those who are complaining the loudest today to make Daylight Saving time permanent. Just watch.
Thunder Bay, Ontario is in the Eastern Time Zone. If it was at the same latitude as Nashville -- which is close to the Eastern-Central Time Zone border in the U.S. -- it would be about 140 miles into Central Time.
A better solution might be to take each time zone, split it in half, and move the eastern half into the adjoining time zone for the whole year.
New York City would move to Atlantic Time. Cleveland would stay in Eastern Time. Chicago and St. Louis would move to Eastern Time, too. Etc., etc.
I can’t wait until the US goes to permanent daylight savings time.
Why don’t they just pass a law saying the sun doesn’t set?
Since we now have electricity and artificial light it may be more popular than it was in the before times.
Do you know why Chicago baseball previously had only Londoners calling balls and strikes?
Because the Sun never sets on the British umpire !
I remember this in 1974. I was in middle school and it was a Jimmy Carter initiative to reduce energy (lights in the evening) use. The problem was it was so dark in the morning that school children waiting on the bus were being hit by oncoming traffic. At least, that is the reason according to my parents as to why it was changed back.
I remember getting to school and it being pitch black dark outside....and I lived along the gulf coast, not in a northern state.
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