Northwestern Ontario

I think it's kind of interesting.

In northwestern Ontario, there's a cluster of small lakes surrounded by a boreal forest.

And no towns are on the shore.

No factories upstream.

And so scientists could run experiments on entire ecosystems, the kind of experience you would never do in a lab because you can't, you need the volume to do it.

So all these experimental lakes in this area are like a big thing here.

It's a huge thing up in Northwestern Ontario.

In 2001, A team led by Karen Kidd, who was with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the time, picked one of those lakes, lake number 260.

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And then I left that job to take over a family business, which was a fly-in company.

fly in fishing lodge in Northwest Ontario.

And I love nature and I love also freedom and being able to decide.

And this experience was invaluable business-wise because when you have a business like this, you have to do everything, the human resources, logistics.

Shianne Desjardins, CBC News, Toronto.

Communities in Northwestern Ontario are requesting the provincial government move to permanent daylight time.

The move comes as Manitoba makes a decision that it won't be changing its clocks this November.

Karen Pauls has more.

How, so how far have you gotten?

I've tour- I've toured, like, Northwestern Ontario to Winnipeg-

Okay

... uh, two or three times.

Mm-hmm

... or something like that.

[laughs] Like, why am I stopping here? But the reason I do Northwestern Ontario is 'cause I have, uh, a family cottage on Lake Nipigon, which is-

Mm

Oh, there you go.

We're Northwestern Ontario, Fort Francis, Ontario.

So definitely, right? It's like a different province.

Southern

And Keith Barker.

Keith is a member of the Metis Nation of Ontario and is an award-winning playwright, actor, and director from Northwestern Ontario.

He is the former artistic director at Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto, and he is currently the director of the Forrester Bernstein New Play Development Program at the Stratford Festival.

I would also call Keith one of my mentors and one of my most respected colleagues here at the festival.

And so it was really easy to talk about that.

But I found that with Shakespeare, with King Lear, when we were there, we had long conversations around the idea, like, how are we separating the land and how we, this, whatever.

you know, like how do we justify these things as actors on the inside? And when we were, so we had those 50 volunteers standing there and we, and you know, just as one of the barriers, like I grew up in Northwestern Ontario, same thing.

No, no art, no access to Shakespeare, no nothing.

It'll be confusing to think about what time it is and what that means.

For more than a century, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario have been on the same clock on Central Time.

Both regions change their clocks in spring and fall.

But come November, not anymore.