When do the clocks change? Daylight saving time in the U.S. and some other countries ends on Nov. 3 at 2 a.m. local time, meaning people will gain an extra hour of sleep. Mornings will be brighter but it will get dark earlier in the evening. The saying “spring forward, fall back...
Most of Canada is on Daylight Saving Time; only portions of Saskatchewan and small pockets of British Columbia remain on Standard Time year-round. However, the practice has its detractors. In the words of a current-day Canadian poultry producer, “The chickens do not adapt to the changed clo...
And there’s talk on the national level of doing away with the twice-a-year changing of the clocks, too. Why does the change happen on Sunday at 2 a.m.? Certainly, there’s less interruption in the middle of a weekend night. (And by the way, the 2 a.m. change is s...
what Pete hadn’t realized was that 'Turn It on Again' was in 13/8 time, which made it like a merry-go-round: He’d think he had got to the end and suddenly we would be off again. He spent the whole song trying to work that one out...
Times do change, don’t they, particularly in our era of heavy carbon emissions! Have you ever, dear readers, prepared a house to weather a hurricane? If so, you have a good idea of the physical and psychological strain of our day and a half before my county’s mandatory evacuation ...
Also, as many of you know, for twenty years we spent four or five months of the Canadian winter in the delightful city of Palm Springs in California, where we, usually, except for the one year when we had flooded impassable roads, had lovely warm days. That all ended in April of 20...
according toClimate Central. As climate change increases the number of extreme weather events we see within a year, it stands to reason that the number of power outages we see in the space of a year will increase as well. Do yourself a favor, and subscribe to your local weather alerts so...
As a proud Canadian, I grabbed my red t-shirt and posted the following tweet: To which I received this message from my Twitter friend, Debra: Hey, where’s your Canucks stuff for tomorrow’s race? Do you need any? I’m bringing some extra if you do… I realized, to my horror (...
I was six when I joined my father and two elder brothers at sunrise in the fields of Eufaula, Okla.1the time I was eight, I was helping Dad fix up old furniture.He gave me a cent for every nail I2out of old boards. I got my first3job, at JM’s Restaurant in town, when I...
The Canadian finds her voice onThe Project,her debut after nearly a decade in Nashville. There’s no way she’d have been able to convey the nuanced emotions of “Worth the Wait,”“Space” and “Mint” without Bush’s guidance, and she’ll say as much. The best of these 12 songs ...