ICYMI this week ...

A weekly round-up of the Daily News podcast

Mar 09, 2025

We lose an hour tonight; surely, the worst time for me to find myself arriving in Toronto at 00:40 and leaving at 7:55. The time change is the worst cultural marker that we have: a useless ritual that nearly nobody loves, based on the idea that no one wants to wake up in the dark (unless you must wake up in the dark anyway — we can’t make the sun pop up any earlier!)

And so by the time you read this, I have either made my calculations correctly and I am about to land back home, or I have missed my flight.

But who am I kidding? The only tiny bit of magic of this ritual was obliterated by the ubiquitous cell phone. The disorientation of waking up, not being totally sure what time it is, maybe calling the automatic time phone number to hear the lady tell you that it’s 8 AM, not 9 AM (or is it 9 AM, not 8 AM?) The guessing is gone. Our phones even automatically adjust our alarm clocks.

As I write this, my computer says that it’s 7:26 (or 19h26 as I have become accustomed to reading it). Now, that’s not actually true. It’s actually 5:26; my computer does not automatically recognize that I have changed time zones. My flight is at 6:30, I land at 10:40 or something, but really, it’s almost 1 AM and I will ricochet myself off of a Sheraton Hotel pillow.

Pilots have figured out how to tell time without these time zones but even they must contend with losing an hour tonight.

Anyway. Here are the headlines that were featured at the Daily News podcast this past week …

Nova Scotia

Mi’kmaw show up at RCMP detachment to protest dispensary raids

Man, 37, dead after being Tasered by Halifax police; 2nd similar incident in a week

Ontario

About 2,500 patients of Toronto gynecologist potentially exposed to HIV, hepatitis. ‘Trust has been broken’

Grassy Narrows First Nation sees start of mercury treatment facility — decades after river was poisoned

Ontario measles cases nearly double, marking largest increase in almost 30 years

Toronto Public Library Workers Vote Resoundingly in Favour of Strike

British Columbia

Quesnel, B.C., mayor wins lawsuit against city after residential school book controversy