• Canada’s airports saw record improvements in delays, NAV Canada says

  Source: Global News Politics
  Date: 2026-09-28 15:26:44.0
  Tags: [National, British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, Transportation, Infrastructure, Governance]

  NAV Canada reported that the number of scheduled flights impacted by delays across Canada's four major airports—Toronto Pearson, Montréal-Trudeau, Calgary, and Vancouver International Airports—fell by 85 per cent from May 1 to Aug. 31, 2026, compared to the same period in 2025. Specifically, delayed flights dropped from 4,996 (1.54 per cent) in 2025 to 769 (0.24 per cent) in 2026, while total flight volume across the four hubs increased by 0.9 per cent to handle 394,919 flights. Vancouver recorded the sharpest improvement with delays dropping from 4.42 per cent to 0.64 per cent, Toronto Pearson had the lowest share of delayed flights at 0.04 per cent, Calgary dropped to 0.05 per cent, and Montréal-Trudeau dropped to 0.28 per cent. Additionally, NAV Canada noted that national air traffic controller staffing shortages narrowed from a deficit of 200 staff in the spring to 170 by August. Concurrently, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that the federal government is moving ahead with plans to attract private investment in Canada's four largest airports under a model where the federal government retains ownership of underlying land and assets.

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• Time zones in Canada are getting complicated. These maps lay them out

  Source: Territories - Northern Affairs (Yukon, NWT, Nunavut)
  Date: 2026-09-18 18:57:22.0
  Tags: [National, Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta, Governance, Transportation]

  Manitoba has become the latest province to adopt permanent daylight saving time, ending semi-annual clock changes and aligning with recent policy shifts in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Northwest Territories. Yukon abolished clock changes in 2020, and Saskatchewan maintains year-round standard time. This regional patchwork has created unique time zone anomalies, such as a small portion of northwestern Ontario around Kenora falling one hour behind both Thunder Bay and Winnipeg during the winter months, while Ontario's previously enacted legislation to end clock changes remains contingent on matching actions by Quebec and New York.

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