Alberta is never changing the clocks again

Congratulations, Alberta. We're never falling back again.

In a very rare W for the UCP, Danielle Smith says she'll introduce legislation this week to stay on daylight time year-round.

In a less rare UCP L, she announced it exclusively in a column from Rick “Paragraphs Can Only Have One Sentence” Bell.

He's moved slightly up on the government access to information pipeline, which now goes cabinet, separatists, anyone at Mar-a-Lago table 14, the Western Standard and Rebel News, Rick Bell, and then 20 spaces down, only if she's forced to, the public.

I'll take my wins

But look, I'll take my wins where I can get them. This is the right choice.

I love late summer evenings. I love having a little bit of light at the end of the workday in winter. I love not changing the (Thomas) Dang microwave clock.

We're going to share time with Saskatchewan and be permanently one hour ahead of B.C. Lloydminster is finally going to be one time zone.

I know some of you (incorrectly) want permanent standard time.

But if you actually want Danielle Smith to hear you, take that to a separatist comment section.

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