Microwave clocks in B.C. can relax: the end of daylight saving time

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What? Oh. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Because News, Canada's funniest news quiz. I am Gavin Crawford. Let's welcome this week's panel. NASA discovered a galaxy that was 99% dark matter, but this week we've got a panelist who's 99% gray matter. That's right, the highly cerebral Eric Peterson. I'll soon be joining the universe, don't you worry.

A 75 million dollar lotto ticket was sold in Toronto, and while a winner has yet to be confirmed, he did arrive here by jetpack against the suspiciously wealthy Andrew Fogg. Thank you. And finally, she is so excited for their new album, she's been speaking exclusively in BTS song titles. Ready to swim into the sun, it's the dynamite and Pornell. All right, panel, are you ready to make some games out of the news? Let's do it. Yes. Then let's begin. Here we go. Yeah.

Panel, after years of hemming and hawing this week, a politician finally had the guts to make a bold political decision. That's right, a long-standing promise is coming to fruition in British Columbia. After years and years of assurances, what promise is finally being fulfilled? That pipeline baby. Daniel Smith is getting that pipeline through BC. That's right. Amaz and just in time. Just in time. No.

So good recently. They've been doing all their chores. They've been doing all of their homework. They're finally getting the puppy they've been asking for. The good old provincial pup. No, Eric. In the family of provinces, that is this country. British Columbia has never quite fulfilled its longstanding promise of, shall we say, mature significance. With its population of obsessively fit snowboarders and sea kayakers, it's been thought uh bit of a lightweight, uh pretty airhead.

Wow. At last BC has arrived. British Columbia has shown that it can dig as deep a fiscal hole as any mature economy in the country. With its projected deficit of thirteen billion dollars. Yes. Welcome BC to the big boy club. That is a great guess.

Uh it is not BC's phenomenal deficit. Does anyone know uh what promise? Uh it was a seven year old promise. They have finally fulfilled. It was promised by a seven year old? I mean I wouldn't uh be surprised. It was uh they're gonna make daylight savings permanent. You're correct for the point. Andrew Fung. The headline from the Vancouver Sun reads: BC makes daylight time permanent after years of promises.

Premier David Eby announced that British Columbians will spring forward for the last time this weekend. The provincial government passed legislation to make the switch seven years ago, but held back until the US was ready to also make the change. America has still not made that change, so why did Premier Eve decide to pull the trigger this week? When you can't distance yourself physically from bad behavior.

you have to turn to other means. And EB has decided that he will distance himself from America in another dimension, and that of time. So now British Columbia has a different time. For like half the year though, right? Because the other half of the year they are It's not a foolproof plan, Andrew. I didn't I didn't think that far. Weirdly, you are correct for the point. What? No. The province stated recent actions from the US have shifted. How BC approaches decisions.

Yeah, it's yeah take that, America. Take that, the kingdom of Trump. Yeah, we'll do what we want to do. Thank you very much. Where are they? They're in a different time. According to Premier Abe, changing the clocks twice a year has been causing all sorts of problems for the province. What kinds of problems? It's it's that thing whenever you gotta reset that alarm clock, you forgot how you do it, and you gotta press all those buttons, but then you gotta figure

What button you press and hold down for three seconds and you're not sure if you're doing the right one, so they were just sick of doing that. And then you go past the minute and you gotta go all the way over again. Good guess, Eric. Well you know what? Time change think. Roosters. Yeah, roosters. I mean with their whole purpose is undermined.

At the crack of dawn and the crack of dawn is nine thirty or ten o'clock of a winter morning and the children are already at school. I mean I might give you a point for that. Come on! One of the things that they say is that the animals have a problem with it. Dogs get up at the wrong time. Yeah, well the roosters have to be a problem. Uh parents lose sleep, kids lose sleep. There's more car accidents.

I don't know why. Everyone's too tired. The change will mean British Columbians will enjoy more daylight later in the day and less In the morning after the Yeah. Yeah, it's still daylight and you can't go to the I think I'll just stop in the bar here and have a couple of jars before I go home. I can see the waiter. Hello. Yes, that's right. No one drinks in the dark, Eric. Oh Eric, back from the time when day drinking was the

Well, at my age, I'm having a kind of a problem thinking my ideas all the way through to the end. That's it. Yeah. The Victoria Times columnist published an article saying BC's premier is celebrating the move to permanent daylight time. Others aren't so sure. Who is not so sure about this change? The people who make novelty mugs that say things like, Don't talk to me till I've had my coffee.

putting a dent in the novelty mug industry. Andrew, who's uh having a problem? I'm throwing this out there. People who do wake-up calls. Do you remember wake up? You go to hotel, you call the front desk for a wake up call, people who do wake up calls. The correct answer teens. Teens teenagers. Teenagers already have a tendency to stay up late and then can't wake up in the morning. It being extra dark in the morning is not a great thing for teens in the winter.

Uh some parents of younger kids are also concerned. If it's light outside the kids won't want to go to bed because it's it's not their bedtime. They don't think it's their bedtime. It's still light out. They're worried that s going to school in the morning and it's dark they'll get mugged. Both are great guesses. Eric gets the point. What? Oh yeah. Uh it's so dark. Yeah. DC is well known for child mugging. Mugging Uh Yeah, in the winter months the sun might not rise until nine or ten A. M.

in some parts of the province. So kids would have to walk or ride their bikes to school in the dark. Godfield's character. Come on. I feel like in the day and age where everything's connected to the internet and just changes automatically, like do we even really notice or mark the time change anymore? No, there's street lamps. Kids have street lamps. They'll be fine. I've never been more concerned with time. Because I have so little of it left. I don't care what the watch says.

Whether it's digital or Well you know, the kind that goes around and round around whatever whatever that's called, analog or what anyway, stop me, please stop me. I'm wasting my time. I'm wasting my time. What am I doing here? No, you're not because you just gave me a very good idea for a eulogy speech. He was cheated of one hour. If he hadn't wasted all his time on. Uh new. Canada's News Quick.

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All right, uh Eric Peterson is here, and that means I am contractually obligated to sing a song. Have a listen to this classic Canadian earworm, and be ready, if you will, for questions. It's been one year since you looked at the book. Hug your elbows up. months and the terrace. Running all over the world. Pulse, you're still loving me, but I'll do something wrong and I'll have to say so. All right, there is your altered lyric. Panel, it's been one year.

Since what? Since Adrian Brody made that awful Oscar speech. True. But now the answer I was looking for. Andrew, it's been one year since what? I put these bananas in the freezer and said I was gonna make banana cut this crazy. He's just staring at me every time I opened that freezer. No. Eric Peter. Well, one year ago, Justin Trudeau stepped down as Prime Minister of Canada saying He was boldly unapologetic.

For being Canadian, which allowed Canadians to say they were boldly, unapologetically relieved. You're correct. Mark Carney uh won the liberal leadership on March 9th, 2025. Five days later, he was sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Canada. From his very first official act, Prime Minister Kearney has been trying to distance himself from Justin Trudeau. Do you remember Carney's surprising first official act? Well he kicked Pierre Polyev in the crotch. You are correct for the first time.

Point. Uh yes, he killed Trudeau's signature consumer carbon tax. Yoinking some wind out of the sails of a young Pierre Polyev. Prime Minister Carney is very fond of one particular activity. In fact, he has indulged in it so much Global News wrote a whole article pointing out how often he does it. For the point, what activity is Prime Minister Kearney a huge fan of? He loves journaling. Everyone

He's got five on the go. He's got a junk journal, a commonplace journal, an agenda, just a thoughts one, and then one where he just puts his handprint in everything. Using different liquids that he's come into contact with during the day. He loves stickers too. According to Global News, his activity that he loves so much is traveling around. The global news headline reads, In his first year, Kearney doubles Trudeau's time out of the country.

Thanks to Trump's terraforms, Mark Carney has spent twenty percent of his time in office flying around the world making trade deals with other countries. He's live laugh loving it. That's great. This is great. This is good news. It's good news. I think. This week, Carney traveled to Japan, Australia, and India. While in India, the Prime Minister signed deals worth billions of dollars, including one deal that will see a Saskatoon company exporting something very Canadian to India.

What will Saskatchewan soon be sending to India? I was gonna say queer hockey shows. They're gonna be sending Saskatchewan berry pot. Pies huge pie lovers in India. Coming from Saskatchewan, I think I know the answer to this. Yeah. I grew up in Saskatchewan in case I bored you with that information before. Uh Saskatchewan will be sending to India room. As in unpopulated space. Room is an incredible guess. Uh well Anne recovers. I'll tell you the correct answer.

It is twenty two million pounds of uranium for nuclear energy generation. Uh yeah. What do you think of Carney one year in net positive or net negative? Honestly, the fact that we're just not even speculating whether or not he wears the diaper, I think is a great thing. I'm really happy to have a leader where I'm not thinking, mmm, did he just yipe in his diaping? Maybe I'm asking for too much of my leaders, but I I think it's fine.

Obviously, uh it's been a year. Uh Carney also made a couple of trips to Washington this past year in attempts to strike a trade deal with Trump. Have a listen to this memorable exchange between Mark Carney and the president. Mark, it's an honor to have you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. President. If I may. Uh you kindly hosted uh me and some of my colleagues a few months ago, and I said at the time uh you were are a Present.

I said at the time, you a blank president. What kind of president did Mark Carney say Donald Trump is? As Noel Coward used to say. when he viewed a play that he didn't like, he'd go backstage and to congratulate people and say, It was unbelievable. And that's what I think, he said. You are an unbelievable president. You're close. You are very close. Transformative. You are correct for the point here is the Prime Minister.

are a transformative present. And Donald Trump heard transformers and he's like, yeah, Michael Bay, baby. Not only do I drive the cars, I am the car. For many observers, the highlight of Kearney's first year happened a couple of months ago when he prompted international headlines and became what one article called, quote, the global darling of the anti Trump movement. Quote What did Mark Carney say that had international economist swooning?

Pickup line. It was Are You Inflation? Because my love for you keeps rising every day. Whoa. I have a degree in economics. We're freaks, okay? We lack our pickup lines, all right? You don't have a degree in dating, I can tell you that. He called for middle powers to act together to avoid being victimized by American hegemony. And then he followed up and said, you must be a perfect market because everything about you is balanced.

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It's that time. Yes, indeed, it's time for a Because News patented fake ad. Have a listen to this commercial for an absolute doll and see if you can figure out the headline that inspired it. Move over There's a new guy in town. Career gal. Introducing Matt The hottest hunk- And marvel at that. Me you The ultimate alpha male. So cool with breakable Five millimeters of towering masculinity. Max with Max New from Incel. All right, Panel. You heard that fake ad. What is the real news story behind?

I haven't a clue, but it's so, so clever. But I haven't a clue what you're talking about. Yeah, I'll take this one, Eric. So Mattel really wants to be like an inclusive company, right? So making a doll for everyone. So they thought, let's make one that hates women and blames them for everything. Good guess.

And plausible in this day and age. Uh but no. Andrew? Elimination Chamber happened over on the weekend. Elimination Chamber is a WWE pay-per-view, which means it is WrestleMania season. What you just heard. was the intro for the hottest wrestler going into WrestleMania and challenging CM Punk for the world heavyweight title. And Mattel is the maker of WWE figures, so that's the tie-in- Give me the point. I know it is WrestleMania season.

My bad, my bad. Yeah, yeah. Uh you heard about mewing at that marvelous jawline. Does anyone know for real what this is about? Yeah, it's about clavicular. Yes, you are correct for the point. Oh my god, everyone's like, Huh? Who is? Well, we'll get to clavicular in a second, but the headline from CBC News is

Your teen is likely seeing looks maxing content online. And do you want to take this one? What is looks maxing? Can you just uh In a nutshell, it's when men try to improve their appearance by doing Some normal things like basic hygiene and some insane things like breaking their jaw with hammers. That's what our teens are watching. That's what looks maxing is? Yeah, bro. Oh, I just thought I thought it was trying to improve your vision.

Like looks maxing. No, you would think that because you're not a Chad. You're you're a beta. Um Thank you? Why'd they go, oh what no, I don't want that? This guy saying that? Wha what? This is nonsense language that's real. Wha why can't it be WrestleMania season? That seems so much more fun.

It basically looks maxing is an online subculture that says in order to be successful in romance and life, boys and men should actively improve their appearance. Or as the New York Times put it, handsome at any cost.

For example, what is the looks-maxing term for just doing basic hygiene, skincare, getting a good haircut? Being a woman. Nagging mother. Do you remember in the early two thousands where if like a guy like took care of himself or had like a bag, they called it a metrosexual? Mm-hmm. Is that the term?'Cause I got called that all the time, but literally just because I bathe. Yeah. That was kind of the beginning of it. Now it is known as

Softmaxing. You're correct, and it is soft maxing. Soft maxing. Okay. A UK magazine headline from this week reads from softmaxing to bone smashing. Before you ask me, Eric, let me ask you. What is bone smashing? You've got to excuse me from this topic. I'm from a different time and place and I

I find the questions and the whole topic is making me queasy. All right, I'll move to Anne. What is bone smashing? It's when you literally smash your bones to get different bone structure. This may include your face and your jawline. This may include your legs because people break their legs so they can get taller. I'm so glad right now that I am the age I am and have missed all this. Because the only thing I do for my beauty, my personal beauty, is nap.

Bone smashing is at the extreme end of looks maxing, known online as hard maxing. My life did that for me. Can you name any of the other hard maxing techniques? Decapitating yourself and buying a new head. That's extreme maxing. Would going to turkey to get new hair count? Yes. Uh that's in the hard maxing category. Hair transplants, chin implants. Uh butt implant? Yeah, any kind of implant, really. It's just an absurd notion that to say pain is beauty.

That's not beauty. Beauty is laughter. Beauty is love. Beauty is your friends. It's the things that make you want to live your life. But some of it like some of it I get because like the hair transplant one like I understand that because like hair is such a personal thing. So I I feel like that's not as wild on the spectrum as like breaking your leg.

Right. Yeah, but when you go to the internet it takes anything normal and makes it extreme Yes, yeah. And also like if you're seventeen and don't need it, just get it because you want different hair. Uh also the trend isn't even so much that it's like that it's young boys doing it, young men doing it. Uh yeah, men are following a lot of these influencers, one twenty year old influencer in particular whose name is and from Casticular. Uh close. No. Clavicular.

The Globe and Mail wrote, Who is Clavicular, the 20-year-old influencer going viral for looks maxing and more? Clavicular started taking testosterone and steroids at age 14. Oftentimes he likes to post mogging content. Uh I wanna know what Eric thinks mogging is. Uh yeah. Well Andrew, do you know what mogging is? Yeah, mogging is the reverse of mugging. So when you mug someone you take something.

But like mogging is like, uh, put your hands up and try this new deodorant. Like there's like, get on the ground, cause we're gonna wax your back. Like it's like You're like doing stuff to people, giving them product. Uh Eric, do you know what m what do you think mogging might be? Well my daughter has a cat named Mog, and I think that's what it does when it chases mice. It's mogging. Clavicular chases mice, yes.

That's the timeline I want. Uh that would be nice. Uh and can you explain mogging? Let me give it to you as an example. So, right now I would say that Andrew is moging me, but Eric is mogging Andrew and me, but Gavin is mogging the three of us. And that's basically when you're out hotting some Uh mogging indeed. M O G stands for Male of the Group. So when you're making mogging content, it's like either a video or a still

Or you try to be the hottest person in the photo. I don't think I've ever done that. And you're moging everyone else. Oh, I've seen a few episodes of Street Legal. Did I? When I used to have high hair. Yeah. I looked like I was an extraterrestrial or some sort. But I didn't know that. Now wa wa at my age of course you'd never get moged anymore by other people because they you've become invisible. So sexy or not, I can't be seen.

That's how you know you've fully ascended. NPR wrote Looks Maxing is teaching men that pretty hurts. Is this just payback for all the years of what society has put women through? Let me take this one. I've done the weird stuff you can do to your face minus surgery. I've done the salmon sperm DNA injections. Yeah. Where they take a needle and they inject.

salmon DNA into your skin so you look like pinhead where you have tiny bumps all over your face. I've had a laser shoot through my jaws and my cheeks just to get light lifting. This is insane what we do to ourselves. As a person who was a Toronto 5 and an international 10, we gotta stop doing these crazy things.

Anytime in Toronto, no one cares about me. The second I leave town, I am a queen. So all of this to say, I have done the worst things you can do minus cut your face, and it's never worth it. Anne Cornell, first of all, I wanna say Anne Pornel, you're queen in Toronto, okay? No, my dating record wouldn't say I'm queen. You're a 10 in Toronto. I'm gonna give the counterpoint. I, up to a certain point, I don't

looks max and stuff but I love all the self-care. I love my red mask. I love my lymphatic massage. I love all those things. My wife, my birthday, got me this jawline thing that shoots like like electricity into my chin area. This is how I feel like I'm enjoying life. I feel like a l a little bit I agree with you because I'm kind of like in that same sort of health thing where I'm like, I love just like three cigarettes and then just pouring a bottle of whiskey on my face.

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