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While that might be true emotionally, there is a vast difference between federal and provincial relationships and provincial and municipal relationships. Municipalities are "creatures of their respective provinces" in that they exist solely under provincial legislation and control. How that control is exercised is too often egregious in Alberta and hopefully that will be remembered at the next election but there are so many other areas where Alberta's behaviour has been egregious it's simply not likely to stand out.
Metropolitan Edmonton is what?
Yes, an interesting choice of words - "provincial rights". So I feel its not about peoples rights (we are both Federal and Provincial residents) for Smith, as much as is about her powers.
I thought it was supposed to go to a referendum
Well I’m not okay with it. Sunrise at the winter solstice will be at 9:50 in Edmonton and 10:20 in Grande Prairie which will be a disaster for people’s mental health and they will quickly realize that staying on standard time would have been the better choice. Another cock up by our totally incompetent government.
I can't fathom why this keeps being the decision of so many jurisdictions when there's scientific consensus that sticking with astronomical time is best for our monkey brains and bodies. I get why our particular government would make that decision (they've proven themselves both incompetent and hateful, a delightful combination) but that seems to be the way most single-time jurisdictions have chosen and I don't understand.
Statistically, DST raises the frequency of auto collisions and heart disease. It is nice to have an extra hour one night per year for sleep, but I agree with people saying it completely ruins their sleep schedule.
