Experts: Fall time change  

On Sunday, Nov. 2, Canadians in most of the country will set their clocks back to standard time. (Those in Yukon, most of Saskatchewan and some other places remain on standard time year-round.) A Private Member’s Bill to end the biannual time change was introduced in the House of Commons earlier this month, reigniting the age-old debate. 

Topics McGill University experts can address: 

• The science of our biological clocks and how time changes throw them off 

• How disrupted sleep affects our health and daily functioning 

• Practical tips to ease the transition  

• The scientific case for a permanent return to standard time 

Experts available: 

Reut Gruber, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Attention, Behaviour and Sleep Laboratory at the Douglas Research Centre. 

reut.gruber [at] mcgill.ca (English) 

Micah Provost, PhD student in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience and member of the Laboratory of Molecular Chronobiology. 

micah.provost [at] mail.mcgill.ca (English, French) 

Kai-Florian Storch, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and researcher at the Douglas Research Centre. 

florian.storch [at] mcgill.ca (English)