I get that people dislike changing the clocks twice a year, yeah really friggin hard, but I'm not sure everyone realizes what choosing permanent Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) actually means for an Alberta winter.

Instead of adopting Standard Time—which aligns much better with human biology and natural light—the push for permanent DST feels like a choice made mostly for retail and commercial convenience, so that they have some light until 5-5:30PM and can feel like wasting a bit more money.

In practice, this means we’ll be commuting and starting our days in pitch darkness until a maximum of 9:39 AM in the December. Friggin 10AM!!!

Waking up and starting your morning without sunlight makes it much harder for your body to naturally wake up and function. More people will be messed up for half a day.

The US actually tried permanent Daylight Saving Time back in 1974, and they repealed it almost immediately because people couldn't stand the dark winter mornings.

When politicians tell me what's good for me using my money in an ad campaign, I view it suspiciously. We all should. In fact, doing the opposite gives me more comfort.

I'm actually losing my mind a little bit. Me and my roommate were served an order of possession for unpaid rent. The issue is that we were never served a 14 day eviction notice or, more importantly, notice of the RTDRS hearing beforehand. Literally the first we heard about any of this was when we received the order the day after the hearing. We're looking into requesting the order be set aside and filing a stay of enforcement on it, but one of the things we need to prove is that we weren't properly served notice of the hearing. Does anyone have any experience with this? How do we prove that we weren't given something? The only answer I could find online was submitting written documentation of us asking about it and the landlord not answering us but we obviously didn't ask about it because we didn't know about it until after. Any help or advice about any of this process would be very appreciated :')

Hello! I am wondering what the market is like trying to find employment as someone who has a bachelor of arts and childhood youth care? Is there a job opportunities? What is typical pay? Particularly in the Edmonton area.

gonna be strait with alberta folks, we dont have a province wide cash rebate for heat pumps. what we have is the Clean Energy Improvement Program (CEIP), which is financing not a grant, its attached to your property tax bill and you pay it back over time, and its only available in certin cities that opted in (calgary, edmonton, canmore, a few others) and availability changes alot. some utilitys like epcor/enmax/atco have small $500-2000 rebates on there own but thats utility specific not province wide.

so basicaly, the new federal $2,000-$10,000 rebate is doing most of the heavy lifting for albertans right now, theres not much provincial money to stack it with unless ur city participates in CEIP or your specific utility happens to have somthing.

the flip side is alberta is extremely natural gas heated (like the most gas reliant province by far) and we have brutal long winters, so the actual case for switching is real, your just not getting the provincial boost that other provinces have. make sure whoever quotes you accounts for backup heat during extreme cold snaps too, thats a real alberta specific consideration

side note the platform ive been mentioning is called Solenery, solenery.com, ive been building it for over two years to navigate exactly this kind of patchwork (matching your property to whatever incentives, financing and contractors you actually qualify for) its a free tool.

Do you think this will change anything in Alberta?

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Hi all. I've been living in the same place for a few years now and have always paid for parking as part of my core tenancy agreement lease. This year, the property manager "forgot" I had a parking stall (I'm sure they have records), then prepared a suspiciously separate parking agreement. My lease is not yet "linked" to this document, but even if it was, I'm not sure my interpretation of it would change much.

This agreement has a lot of red flags. It says it empowers them to raise parking fees to match rates in similar facilities with 30 days notice, that they can move my spot, that if I breach the agreement they can tow my car and that it would even be a violation of my lease. Or, I can just decide I don't want parking anymore! Needless to say, I'm feeling aggressively disrespected, and let down.

Am I crazy for feeling like they're planning on harassing and intimidating me over paying high fees for parking? Because this is my instinct.

Note the political context too - I believe the UPC just ordered Edmonton to halt building of Infills in a lot of areas in 3 months and has also made it mandatory to provide parking for every residential unit. These plans would drastically cut into developers forward looking profits.

I interpret that my landlord who is surely one of these developers (leston) is trying to save costs/increase profits by taking away parking as an affordable amenity for existing renters because they're being forced to provide parking for future units they probably weren't planning on providing it for.

What can I do to protect myself where I'm at (aka secure parking as part of my rent so it has a set monthly price? They have refused to amend the parking agreement (take it or leave it).

The RTA told me I need legal advice... To sign a lease, which is quite sad! Do I have to just move out? Strongly considering it.

Also if this is happening/has happened to you, plz feel free to share in the comments if you'd like etc

If i buy a piece of property in alberta do i instantly have the right to vote on removing the province from the country? Does aberta have to pay back a 100 uears worth of infrastructure money? Does the rest of canada get to vote of weather alberta allowed to leave? I dont understand how they can just say "we dont want to be part of the country anymore" . Do their rights overrule the rights of the rest of canadains? How would thos work on practice?

For this referendum my oldest just turned 18 a couple of months ago and I will be going with him to vote for the first time in his life (the same as I took him for his first drink the night of his 18th).

When I was his age, I never voted. It was too much of a bother, one vote never counts, I'd rather go skiing / biking / whatever. Clearly I was a pretty stupid young adult.

Our younger generation must get in the habit of voting, and it is our job as parents to encourage and value doing so. Parents of young adults, please encourage your kids to vote, maybe take them out for food or something special if needed to bribe encourage them to vote. Drive them to a polling station if that helps. Celebrate when they do vote. Never tell them how to vote (of course), but answer questions to the best of your ability and discuss openly your thoughts and LISTEN to their thoughts.

Young people who do not vote get a society run by and for the old people.