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At 2 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 2, daylight saving time (DST) will end and clocks will “fall back” one hour for most Canadians, forcing people to adjust their sleep schedules.
In Canada, DST always starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
DST is practiced in over 70 countries and by an estimated one billion people globally, but how did Canada come to participate in this peculiar routine, and why do some provinces just not bother? What are the potential benefits and downsides? Here’s everything you need to know about daylight saving time ahead of another...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | National Post | National Post
California robotics company 1X has announced it is taking preorders for NEO, which they say is the “
world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot
.”
The...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Election day 1944 was just like any other in Montreal: rival candidates hired teams of thugs to smash windows and fire pistols at each other (17 men suffered bullet wounds), while “telegraphers” impersonated dead voters at the ballot box. When the glass had been swept up and the results were tallied, the enormous, swaggering Mr. Montreal, Camillien Houde, had been re-elected, mere months after completing a four-year stint in a prison camp for urging French-Canadians to dodge military service. Dressed in spats, with a pearl-grey vest and an ascot tie under his morning coat, he twirled his...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
As I get older, my parents begin to show me glimpses of their secret dreams. “Dad wants to move back to Vietnam when we retire,” Mum tells me. “We can live like kings and queens over there!” Dad hollers in the background.
My mother hasn’t returned since 1978. For one, she couldn’t travel without a passport, and she didn’t get her Canadian citizenship until after she turned fifty-five and was no longer required to take the citizenship test. Second, she’s in no rush to go back to a land still soaked in blood and mired in misery.
But then she surprises me one day. “I think I want to go back...
November 1, 2025 - 06:30 | Rachel Phan | Walrus
The people of a small town on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland have had their prayers answered.The leaders of Portugal Cove South, a fishing town two hours from St. John’s, made headlines last year, including in this newspaper, for seizing their own church after learning the archdiocese was selling the building to help pay for a settlement in a historical sexual abuse scandal. Parishioners, hell-bent on keeping their church, changed the locks, posted no trespassing signs, banned the archbishop, thwarted a real estate sale and were eventually ordered by a court to stand down.
November 1, 2025 - 06:15 | Lindsay Jones | The Globe and Mail
This year’s Canadian wildfires and their impact American air quality have been a hot topic between the countries’ governments, with the Trump administration urging Canada to emphasize “forest management” as an antidote, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday.
But the two nations don’t necessarily agree on the role of such measures, EPA chief Lee Zeldin suggested during a meeting of G7 environment and energy ministers in Toronto.
Climate scientists and data indicate that a warming planet has made forest fires wilder and bigger, something even the U.S. space...
November 1, 2025 - 06:00 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
