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Oct 30, 2026
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No more time change? NL isn't ruling out ditching daylight saving time
Original article ↗What we measured
Outlets covering
3
Lean bands spanned
2
Widest spread
Center-Left → Center
Verdict
None yet
Key figures
In 1987, the administration of daylight saving time fell under the jurisdiction of the provinces and territories.
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B.I.A.S. ANALYSIS
CENTER
Where the 3 outlets covering this sit
Center
67%
Center-Left
33%
None framing
Center majority
3-outlet cluster
Broad pickup
Signal breakdown
Heuristic (v1/v3)
-0.20 · CENTER-LEFT
ML v2 (DistilBERT)
0.000 · CENTER
Ensemble
0.000 · CENTER
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Rolling outlet bias
CENTER
avg -0.147
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No more time change? NL isn't ruling out ditching daylight saving time
NL will look at the idea of a permanent ban
Author of the article:
By Nicholas Mercer
Published Oct 30, 2026
NL Premier Tony Wakeham spoke with reporters at the end of Question Period at the House of Assembly on Oct. 29.
Like most other places in the country, NL will gain an extra hour when clocks strike 2 a.m. on Nov. 1.
It will happen as it has since 1917, when Canada became the first country in North America to adopt daylight saving time.…
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