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New Health in All Policy: The health impact of permanent Daylight Savings
The original Daylight Savings Time Act set permeant standard time across the province in 1948. The latest amendment changed the act’s name to “Official Time Act” in 2026 and makes Daylight Saving time Permanent, A.K.A. Alberta Time (ABT).
Alberta’s new time is bad medicine
Alberta’s Official Time Act, part of an Omnibus bill passed earlier this year, eradicates the time changes on November 1 and March 22nd.
The scientific evidence shows that a return to a permanent daylight savings is the wrong decision for our health.
It appears no one in government is looking at the science or listening to the experts. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, for one, specifically recommends the adoption of permanent Standard Time as the optimal choice for health and safety.
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