Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

January 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3 4 5

New Year’s Day*

Gantan-Sai (New Year’s) (Shinto)*

Twelfth Night* (Christian)

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Epiphany* (Christian) Nativity of Christ* (Armenian – Orthodox Christian)

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Women’s March

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31

Int’l Day to Commemorate Memory of Victims of Holocaust* (UN)

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

February 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Setsubun-sai* (Shinto) Chinese New Year (Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist)

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Valentine’s Day*

National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Strawberry Ceremony* (NWAC)

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Family Day

World Day of Social Justice* (UN)

International Mother Language Day* (UN)

24 25 26 27 28

Pink Shirt Day Black History Month

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

March 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2

Zero Discrimination Day (UNAIDS)

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Shrove Tuesday (Christian) Ash Wednesday (Lent Begins) (Christian)

Hindu New Year

International Women’s Day* (UN)

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Lent (Orthodox) Sikh New Year

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

St. Patrick’s Day* (Christian) Journée internationale de la francophonie* (UN)

UN French Language Day

Naw Ruz* (Baha’i)

Magha Puja Day (Buddhism)

Int’l Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination* (UN)

World Water Day

24/31 Int’l Day for Truth Regarding Gross Human Rights violations and dignity of victims* (UN)

25 Int’l Day of Remembrance to Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade* (UN)

26 27 28 29 30

Trans Day of Visibility (March 31)

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

April 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3 4 5 6

World Autism Awareness Day* (UN)

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

World Health Day* (UN)

Mahavir Jayanti (Jain) International Day of Pink

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Baisakhi (New Year)* (Sikh)

Palm Sunday (Christian)

Good Friday (Christian)

Pesach (Passover – to April 27) (Judaism)

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Easter (Christian)

Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian)

Easter Monday

Good Friday (Orthodox)

28

29 30

National Day of Mourning* (CLC/Gov’t of Canada)

Pascha (Easter) (Orthodox Christian)

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

May 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3 4

Beltane and Samhain* (Wicca/Pagan)

May Day/Int’l Worker’s Day* (CLC)

5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Ramadan Begins

(Islam)

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Mother’s Day Int’l Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia* (IDAHO) (Fondation Émergence)

Visakha Puja – Buddha Day (Buddhism)

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Victoria Day

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development* (UN)

Declaration of the Bab* (Baha’i)

26 27 28 29 30 31

Ascension of Baha’u’llah* (Baha’i)

Asian Heritage Month

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

June 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

Pride Month 1

National Indigenous History Month

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Eid al Fitr (sunset to June 7) (Islam)

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Pentecost (Christian) World Day Against Child Labour* (UN)

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Father’s Day World Refugee Day* (UN) National Indigenous Peoples Day*

23/30 24 25 26 27 28 29

United Nations Public Service Day* (June 23)

Multiculturalism Day* (Gov’t of Canada)

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

July 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3 4 5 6

Canada Day*

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Obon* (to July 15) (Shinto-Buddhism)

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Asalha Puja Day (Buddhism) Nelson Mandela International Day* (UN)

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31 Caribana and Caribbean Festivals across Ontario

July to August

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

August 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

Caribana and Caribbean Festivals across Ontario

1 2 3

July to August

4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Civic Holiday International Day of World’s Indigenous People* (UN)

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

International Youth Day* (UN)

Eid al Adha (to August 15) (Islam)

18 19 20 21 22 23 24

World Humanitarian Day* (UN)

Internationall Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition* (UN)

25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

September 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Labour Day

Paryushana Parva (Jain)

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

International Literacy Day* (UNESCO)

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

International Day of Democracy* (UN)

International Day of Peace* (UN)

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Krisha Janmashtami (Hindu)

29 30

Navaratri (to Oct. 7) (Hindu)

Rosh Hashanah (to Oct. 1 (Judaism)

Orange T-Shirt Day* (Indigenous)

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

October 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3 4 5

International Day of Older Persons*(UN)

Sisters in Spirit Vigil to honour the memory of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls* (NWAC)

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Yom Kippur (Judaism) World Mental Health Day* (UN)

International Day of the Girl Child* (UN)

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Thanksgiving Day

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty* (UN)

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

United Nations Day*

27 28 29 30 31

Diwali (Hindu-Jain-Sikh) Halloween* Women’s History Month

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

November 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2

Samhain – Litha* (Wicca/Pagan)

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Remembrance Day* Guru Nanak Dev Sahib Birthday (Sikh)

Louis Riel Day* (Métis)

International Day for Tolerance* (UNESCO)

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Universal Children’s Day* (UN)

Transgender Day of Remembrance*

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women* (UN)

Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

Every effort is made to include all recognized holidays, events and days of remembrance. If you believe there are dates that should be included in this calendar, please send a request for consideration to equity@opseu.org. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU

December 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

World Aids Day* (UN)

Advent (to December 24) (Christian)

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery* (UN)

International Day of Persons with Disabilities* (UN)

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Status of Women)*

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Human Rights Day* (UN)

15 16 17

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18 19 20

21

International Migrants Day* (UN)

International Human Solidarity Day* (UN)

22

23 Hanukkah (to Dec. 30) (Judaism)

24 Christmas Eve*

25 Christmas Day* (Christian)

26 Boxing Day*

27 28

29 30 31

New Year’s Eve*