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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
You’d have to think Lloydminster is going to vote overwhelmingly for permanent DST, so to be in synch with the Saskatchewan side of town- which alone could put a huge dent in the 10,000 vote gap we have in Calgary. I’m dreading that the yes vote is going to win this.
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The Saskatchewan side of Lloyd switches their clocks the same as Alberta. Living on the Saskatchewan side is virtually the same as living on the Alberta side -- no PST, daylight savings, etc. The only difference is things like your provincial taxes and car registration. Day to day, you don't really notice a difference.
If someone has to do a lot of business with people who live outside the Lloyd bubble in Saskatchewan, they might have been motivated to vote to stay on DST, but it still has the same issues with late sunrises in the winter that the other northern cities have. So, in December, you go to work and it's not quite light yet and you go home at the end of the day and it's already dark.
Also, another thing to note about Lloyd is their municipal elections are conducted on the Saskatchewan schedule, so yesterday was not their normal election day. Alberta people in Lloyd would have only been voting on the provincial ballot yesterday, so I'd expect the voter turnout to be extremely low.