Overview

• Ottawa Liberal MP Marie‑France Lalonde said she will table a private member’s bill next week that asks the federal government to convene a pan‑Canadian conference on ending biannual clock changes.
• The bill would not itself change the time system and instead aims to gather provincial, territorial and Indigenous officials, alongside experts, to agree on one year‑round clock.
• Sleep researchers backing the announcement highlighted health and safety risks tied to the spring and fall shifts and noted evidence favouring permanent standard time.
• Most jurisdictions still change clocks, though Saskatchewan made permanent standard time decades ago, Yukon moved to permanent daylight time in 2020, and parts of B.C. and Nunavut do not observe the switch.
• Provinces have hesitated to act alone—Atlantic premiers said they would wait for others, Ontario passed conditional legislation, and Albertans narrowly voted in 2021 to keep switching—while this year’s fall change is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 a.m.