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Several Canadian regions, including parts of British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba, stopped observing daylight saving changes on November 1, locking into fixed UTC offsets. Microsoft has confirmed that Outlook, Power Automate, Fabric and SharePoint On-Prem have not fully adapted, producing incorrect meeting times and requiring manual fixes from users and administrators.
Google has told Android users in Canada to install pending software updates and restart their devices after some phones showed incorrect times following British Columbia and Manitoba's permanent switch to daylight saving time. The provinces will not turn clocks back on November 1st, which can confuse devices still expecting the old time change. Google also suggested enabling location-based time zone detection or manually setting the correct time zone if the issue persists.
A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, led by UBC's Professor Raymond Lam, compared the health effects of permanently adopting standard time versus permanently adopting daylight saving time. The researchers concluded that permanent standard time better aligns with human circadian biology, citing the importance of morning light exposure for sleep and mood, especially in winter when permanent daylight saving would delay sunrise by an hour in cities like Toronto and Calgary.
A study published in Organisms Diversity & Evolution by University of British Columbia researchers documents seven sea spider species found in the Salish Sea, including two previously undescribed ones alongside five known species. The team collected specimens from depths of up to about 60 feet and used scanning electron microscopy and DNA analysis to classify them. One new species, Callipallene pilosuspedes, was named for its hairy, sensory-hair-covered mouthparts.
A wave of legal actions against companies like OpenAI are increasingly framing chatbots as defective products rather than just faulting their outputs. British Columbia's government recently sued OpenAI, claiming the company failed to alert police ahead of a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in February.
British Columbia and its local school district are suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT reinforced a shooter's violent ideation and that the company failed to alert police despite internal reviewers flagging the account for gun-violence discussions. The February shooting killed the shooter's mother, half-brother, five students and an education assistant at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, which was later demolished; the lawsuit seeks damages covering emergency response and rebuilding costs, plus release of the shooter's chat logs and safety changes to ChatGPT.
British Columbia's government has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California, alleging the company was negligent and designed an unsafe product by failing to alert the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about a shooter's concerning conversations with its chatbot. The suit claims OpenAI's own human reviewers had recommended notifying police in 2025, but the company did not act until after the shooting occurred, despite later banning the shooter's account and discovering a second one.
British Columbia has filed suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman in San Francisco federal court, alleging the company's negligent design and failure to alert police to a user's violent ChatGPT conversations contributed to a mass shooting at a Tumbler Ridge school that killed nine people, mostly children. The suit claims OpenAI's own safety reviewers had recommended notifying the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about the shooter's chats, but the company decided the messages didn't meet its threshold for legal referral.
The Canadian province of British Columbia has sued OpenAI, alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot assisted an individual in planning a mass shooting at a school. The lawsuit claims OpenAI failed to alert law enforcement despite warning signs and points to broader gaps in the product's safety safeguards.
OpenAI has been hit with 30 new lawsuits from survivors and families connected to the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia school shooting, alleging the company enabled the attacker through ChatGPT interactions and failed to warn police despite internally debating whether to do so. These join seven earlier lawsuits filed in April, bringing OpenAI's total legal exposure to more than 50 cases claiming psychological, physical, or fatal harm linked to ChatGPT use.
Visitors to British Columbia's Williston Reservoir filmed a tree-covered floating mass roughly the size of two football fields drifting on the water. The island was later reported to have disappeared from view, leaving its exact fate unclear.
A batch of newly reviewed titles spans wildly different territory: Suzanne Simard's account of her Mother Tree Project reforestation effort in British Columbia, Antonio Melechi's historical survey of theories about the unconscious mind, and Jeffrey Marlow's exploration of the little-studied deep ocean floor. A fourth title, Valerie Tiberius's Artificially Yours, is also noted among the season's book releases.