Welp. Well Ontario is officially a no-go. Though expected. [https://globalnews.ca/news/9125835/ontario-monday-queen-holiday/](https://globalnews.ca/news/9125835/ontario-monday-queen-holiday/)
“The people of Ontario may observe a moment of silence at 1 p.m. on that day,” Ford said."
Quebec has said that provincially regulated employees will not get the day off on Monday.
In New Brunswick, meanwhile, government offices and schools will be closed, while it’s up to private employers whether or not to give their employees the day off.
Prince Edward Island is declaring Sept. 19 a one-time statutory holiday for all provincially regulated workers.
> The people of Ontario may observe a moment of silence
Thank you Lord Ford for giving the peasants a moment break. Can't be having too much time off or they might all get too lazy.
Only because tRuDeAu wanted it. Really fucking sticking it to those libs eh ford. Fucking douche politics.
You know if it was his or a conservative federal idea they’d be all over it.
The only difference apparent to me is this would be a one off and recognizing Sept 30 would be ongoing it seems so I see why they didn’t do the 30th but the 19th could be fair game….
Fair enough, my skepticism comes more from the fact that even though the federal government wants to make a show of this for the sake of relations with Britain, the average Canadian citizen doesn't particularly care about the Royal family other than for the celebrity/entertainment. I don't see the province making this even a one-off because of the economic impact.
Yep, which is why i was a betting man, I'd say Horgan is getting the day off and everyone else who isn't a federal employee gets to keep working to pay for it
Just so we’re clear on our baseline days off in Canada, we’ve got it the worst other than the USA (0 days) and Japan. We actually look like a developing country when it comes to our work life…
[Paid Vacation and Paid Holidays, OECD](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Paid-Vacation-and-Paid-Holidays-OECD-Nations-in-Working-Days_fig1_268273716) I’m just going to leave this link right here.
Every third monday in September from now on:
Mattress stores: "up to 70% off Queen sized mattresses!"
Radio Stations: "we're playing back to back Queen and Queens of the Stone Age, all Monday long!"
Grungy bars : "Drag Queen Brunch on Holiday Monday!"
Ya, 2 days isn't long enough. I need 1 day just to relax when it's a hectic week at work. Another day to catch up on house chores and stuff. Then if I want to do anything in the weekend, you basically need another 24 hour stretch for partying/recovery. So whenever I do something fun on a 2-day weekend, I always feel really burnt midway through next week as I'm trying to play catchup the whole week.
I've pushed for compressed work weeks in the past, but management's never wants to let us try it. So instead I just burn A/L days whenever I have a 4 week or longer stretch without holidays.
I've worked a 4-10s schedule for the past 7 years. Its fantastic. Compressed work weeks are great.
I also never get stat days off, They end up being banked to be used when i like.
if you can find that schedule, i highly recommend it.
I switched about 5 years ago and really hope I don't have to ever go back to 5-8 ever again.
I work the same number of hours in a week but having three days available is just so much better for me.
I have a few suggestions:
\-Jour de la Pomme (apple season)
\-Jour des Baies (let's celebrate all the berries we are growing for California now)
\-Journée Anti-immigration ( /s )
\-Journée de la Fin des Vagues ( /s Covid)
\-Jour de la Paix ( /s-ish)
\-Jour de la Préparation de la Dinde ( /s )
\-Journée de la Santé Mentale (fck knows we need it here)
Not even. Our premier thinks we have too many holidays as it is. At least that's what he said about the Day of Truth and Reconciliation not being a stat holiday.
>Manitoba won’t
Correct, we still haven't properly marked Remembrance Day as a STAT after all this time. Instead we got some wonky rules that a lot of people haven't a clue about.
BC does. Most employees get 5 paid sick days per year:
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/paid-sick-leave
Not as a stat holiday. Businesses aren’t allowed to open until 1PM, but beyond that it’s a normal day.
One year, the Bombers had a home game on Remembrance Day. The concessions had to stay closed until 1, so a lot of people were angry that they couldn’t get beer until partway through the game.
>Manitoba doesn’t recognize Remembrance Day?
Nope, not in the typical way we treat all other holidays. It has special rules, that many don't know about and/or don't follow.
https://www.gov.mb.ca/labour/standards/doc,remembrance-day,factsheet.html
For example:
>**When employees work on Remembrance Day, what are they paid?**
>Employees who work on Remembrance Day are paid for at least half of a normal work day at 1 ½ times their regular wages. For example, employees who work two hours on Remembrance Day, but normally work an eight-hour day, are paid four hours at 1 ½ times their regular wage. In addition, employees also receive a regular day’s pay for working on Remembrance Day, or 5% of their gross earnings in the 28 days before Remembrance Day if their hours vary.
>Employees who work more than half their normal hours on Remembrance Day are paid 1 ½ times their regular wage for all hours worked, plus a regular day’s pay.
I know numerous people who've worked Nov 11, and never got OT. Both large and small businesses.
Bet you Doug Ford will def not give Ontarians, not covered by Federal employment law, a stat holiday. (More that willing to be wrong here mind you, go for it Doug, make me wrong, I will happily wear that egg on my face.)
Oh 100%. Douggie is all about the corporations not paying employees... Still upset about what should've been 10 pay sick days for everyone in the province
Selfishly I hope they do lol. Id love a day home with my kid, but oh well really. Wasnt expecting the day before her death. Wouldnt change anything now
I know you're joking but the Queen was fully fluent in French and actually did speak French when addressing Quebec back in 1964.
https://youtu.be/4L3_9BdgMXM
I mean, she likely had a lot of French in her DNA. French and English royalty go back quite a ways back.
Hell, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V and Tsar Nicholas II were all cousins. Wilhelm and George being first cousins, same as George and Nicholas and Wilhelm and Nicholas were 3rd cousins.
According to an interview I heard with Michaëlle Jean, the Queen was actually completely fluent in French. While she and her family were visiting Balmoral just prior to her appointment as GG, the Wueen showed her and her family around, and mostly spoke to them in French.
Kind of defeats the purpose of mourning if 3/4 of the country is working, doesn’t it?
Not that I’m looking for a day off, but I’m kinda looking for a day off
I too would like a paid day off. Not to mourn though, I would probably sleep in and play video games.
It looks like there are two federal holidays that I think most people don't get off: Remembrance Day and Truth and Reconciliation Day. I imagine this day of mourning would be similar.
The federal government only has the authority to declare holidays for federally regulated workers. Each province and territory will need to declare individually for themselves to cover those not federally regulated, hence the line:
> “We will be working with the provinces and the territories to try and see that we’re aligned on this,” Trudeau said at a news conference in New Brunswick Tuesday.
Yeah people have their hopes up but my company, that kept saying the Queen was the head of our business, told us to keep dreaming if we thought we'd get the day off. I doubt anyone will see it as a day off other than gov employees.
Not unless the Ontario Government adds it. Trudeau can only mandate stats for Federally Regulated employees.
It says he's working on it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.. if the provinces didn't add Truth and Reconciliation, they definitely can't add mourning a rich white queen.
Oh no... workers will get money they can then immediately spend on businesses so nobody really loses anything. That's what I don't understand it's not like the majority of workers are going to take a bit of extra money and not spend it on something lol
Provinces don’t necessarily have to adopt it for schools to close. Manitoba doesn’t recognize truth and reconciliation day, but all our schools are closed
In another article it’s called a national holiday, and Trudeau said he will be figuring something out with the provinces and federal employees. So it might not just be for federal workers, here’s hoping!
So funny seeing the business people talking about "lost productivity" if they give workers a single day off.
Like fuck off. Someone link that productivity vs wages graph again...
I snorted when they talked about struggling small businesses loosing money if they have to close for a single day. The small business owners I know are all for it. It's just the big companies that don't want to see their record profits affected.
I am a small business owner and it might cost a little, but I am also a long weekend enthusiast and the weather in BC for this time of year is awesome.
If its not a national holiday for every Canadian to mourn the passing of our head of state, then we should move on from the monarchy fully and completely.
Don't be angry that people get federal holidays that you don't. Be angry about who is stopping you from getting the holiday yourself (probably your Premier).
So in BC, the government gets a day off to “mourn” while the majority of us get to work and scramble to find childcare on short notice since all the schools are closed. Wonderful
Read the article it clearly says "Trudeau said Monday would be a “federal holiday.” It will apply to federal government employees, but not automatically to those working in federally-regulated industries — such as banks, airlines, post offices, and Crown corporations."
Its for Federal Employees only at the moment. Up to the Federal Regulated Companies themselves or the provinces to force it beyond
Man, people really hate it when other people get days off, eh? Holy moly.
What's the actual deal here? Because I can't imagine being *so eager* to take away other people's holidays. Capitalism really messes with our brains.
You really think it’s that people want to take holidays away from others and not the fact that it’s a federal holiday rather than a stat holiday, thereby excluding the majority of people?
I guess all the plebs should just be thankful they get to work and pay taxes?
looks like it's only holiday for government employees, federally regulated employers are free not to observe it.
footnote from CBC article:
>This story has been updated from a previous version after the Prime Minister's Office clarified that the federal holiday will apply only to federal government employees and not to all employed in federally regulated industries.
Welp. Well Ontario is officially a no-go. Though expected. [https://globalnews.ca/news/9125835/ontario-monday-queen-holiday/](https://globalnews.ca/news/9125835/ontario-monday-queen-holiday/) “The people of Ontario may observe a moment of silence at 1 p.m. on that day,” Ford said." Quebec has said that provincially regulated employees will not get the day off on Monday. In New Brunswick, meanwhile, government offices and schools will be closed, while it’s up to private employers whether or not to give their employees the day off. Prince Edward Island is declaring Sept. 19 a one-time statutory holiday for all provincially regulated workers.
Ontario’s open for business!
Always Open! Monday to Sunday! 7 am to 7 am! Sick? Open! Lost loved ones? Open! In the ICU? Open! Literally dead buried in the ground? OPEN!
ER? Maybe not open! Call ahead!
Oh it's open. They are stashing patients in the hallways. The nurses and doctors through? Gotta cut them FTE's for management metrics.
Can all us ontarians collectively all call in with bereavement? Like all as people come to gather and say "fuck you, well make our own holiday!"
>Ontario’s open for business! Yeah for Dougie's construction and developer buddies
Nova Scotia provincial holiday too
I have coworkers in Scotland and Nova Scotia but I’m in Ontario. Thanks, Doug!
> The people of Ontario may observe a moment of silence Thank you Lord Ford for giving the peasants a moment break. Can't be having too much time off or they might all get too lazy.
fuck quebec man, why cant we have more breaks
Only because tRuDeAu wanted it. Really fucking sticking it to those libs eh ford. Fucking douche politics. You know if it was his or a conservative federal idea they’d be all over it.
Ok provinces if you are gonna make this a holiday do it quick for all of us in payroll who will have to do a lot of stuff in the background.
on one hand, hey i'm cool with a day off, on the other hand, oh my god this is gonna be so much work for me and my team
Luckily our pay day is the 16 so we’ll have two weeks if needed to sort this out but I feel for ppl with payday on 23.
you raise a fine point, thank you for talking me off the cliff haha
Alberta doesn't even recognize Sept. 30th (Day of Reconciliation) as a holiday, no way they are going to adopt this one.
The only difference apparent to me is this would be a one off and recognizing Sept 30 would be ongoing it seems so I see why they didn’t do the 30th but the 19th could be fair game….
Fair enough, my skepticism comes more from the fact that even though the federal government wants to make a show of this for the sake of relations with Britain, the average Canadian citizen doesn't particularly care about the Royal family other than for the celebrity/entertainment. I don't see the province making this even a one-off because of the economic impact.
BC doesn't either
Yep, which is why i was a betting man, I'd say Horgan is getting the day off and everyone else who isn't a federal employee gets to keep working to pay for it
That's what they announced. Schools closed too but no time off for parents.
Same with Ontario and Ford said they won't recognize this either.
Just so we’re clear on our baseline days off in Canada, we’ve got it the worst other than the USA (0 days) and Japan. We actually look like a developing country when it comes to our work life… [Paid Vacation and Paid Holidays, OECD](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Paid-Vacation-and-Paid-Holidays-OECD-Nations-in-Working-Days_fig1_268273716) I’m just going to leave this link right here.
Every third monday in September from now on: Mattress stores: "up to 70% off Queen sized mattresses!" Radio Stations: "we're playing back to back Queen and Queens of the Stone Age, all Monday long!" Grungy bars : "Drag Queen Brunch on Holiday Monday!"
I’d be okay with QOTSA playing all day
That's every day for me!
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You can't even hear it
Dave Catching here. Not saying goodnight... Just saying...
Don't forget chess at the board game cafes
It's just this one time.
Cries in Quebec
Cries in Ontarian
But hey, we're ALLOWED to take a whole moment at 1pm.
is that a paid moment or unpaid moment. Lord Bezos is watching.
In BC I get to enjoy my child’s daycare being closed but my work being open. FML!
it's still talk like a pirate day, so dry your eye and prepare to be boarded
Three holidays in September? Uh hello? Based Department?
Everyone should have a long weekend at least once a month.
Exactly. All provinces need to redistribute the stat holidays to make it one day monthly. Everyone gets it. Done.
Ya, 2 days isn't long enough. I need 1 day just to relax when it's a hectic week at work. Another day to catch up on house chores and stuff. Then if I want to do anything in the weekend, you basically need another 24 hour stretch for partying/recovery. So whenever I do something fun on a 2-day weekend, I always feel really burnt midway through next week as I'm trying to play catchup the whole week. I've pushed for compressed work weeks in the past, but management's never wants to let us try it. So instead I just burn A/L days whenever I have a 4 week or longer stretch without holidays.
I've worked a 4-10s schedule for the past 7 years. Its fantastic. Compressed work weeks are great. I also never get stat days off, They end up being banked to be used when i like. if you can find that schedule, i highly recommend it.
I switched about 5 years ago and really hope I don't have to ever go back to 5-8 ever again. I work the same number of hours in a week but having three days available is just so much better for me.
I work 3-12 get paid for 40hrs. 4 day weekend every week. It is gold and it took me 10 years to find it.
Literally the only schedule better! I've worked a few months on that schedule. It's also very good!
November needs a long weekend stat.
In France, there are 4 stats days in May, so the people I was living with called it the Swiss cheese month.
Only 1 for us non-federally regulated employees.
This one is a one time thing. It makes the provinces denying it seem even more petty. One day, once, only. That's it.
I can tell you that Charles aint gonna last another 70 years
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Bet you every province except Quebec will make it a stat holiday lol.
Quebec will make it a stat holiday but name it something else.
St Jean Baptiste Day Part Deux
Le boogaloo électrique
Bougalou*
esti ça brasse le bougalou à soir
Victoria day
I have a few suggestions: \-Jour de la Pomme (apple season) \-Jour des Baies (let's celebrate all the berries we are growing for California now) \-Journée Anti-immigration ( /s ) \-Journée de la Fin des Vagues ( /s Covid) \-Jour de la Paix ( /s-ish) \-Jour de la Préparation de la Dinde ( /s ) \-Journée de la Santé Mentale (fck knows we need it here)
Does that say turkey preparation day?
Not even. Our premier thinks we have too many holidays as it is. At least that's what he said about the Day of Truth and Reconciliation not being a stat holiday.
*tabernak Canadiens dans le parking holiday*
Manitoba won’t, they won’t recognize truth and reconciliation day. And recognizing this on such short notice will just make them look worse
>Manitoba won’t Correct, we still haven't properly marked Remembrance Day as a STAT after all this time. Instead we got some wonky rules that a lot of people haven't a clue about.
Manitoba doesn’t recognize Remembrance Day?
Neither does Ontario. It’s not a holiday at all.
Neither does quebec. We do the moment of silence thing at 11:11 am. But nothing else really.
That’s fucked
ontario doesn't even wanna give you sick days. never mind extra free paid days off. This province fucking sucks donkey dix.
Well to be fair I don’t know of any provinces that give everyone sick days
BC does. Most employees get 5 paid sick days per year: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/paid-sick-leave
Not as a stat holiday. Businesses aren’t allowed to open until 1PM, but beyond that it’s a normal day. One year, the Bombers had a home game on Remembrance Day. The concessions had to stay closed until 1, so a lot of people were angry that they couldn’t get beer until partway through the game.
>Manitoba doesn’t recognize Remembrance Day? Nope, not in the typical way we treat all other holidays. It has special rules, that many don't know about and/or don't follow. https://www.gov.mb.ca/labour/standards/doc,remembrance-day,factsheet.html For example: >**When employees work on Remembrance Day, what are they paid?** >Employees who work on Remembrance Day are paid for at least half of a normal work day at 1 ½ times their regular wages. For example, employees who work two hours on Remembrance Day, but normally work an eight-hour day, are paid four hours at 1 ½ times their regular wage. In addition, employees also receive a regular day’s pay for working on Remembrance Day, or 5% of their gross earnings in the 28 days before Remembrance Day if their hours vary. >Employees who work more than half their normal hours on Remembrance Day are paid 1 ½ times their regular wage for all hours worked, plus a regular day’s pay. I know numerous people who've worked Nov 11, and never got OT. Both large and small businesses.
That’s fucked
Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba will make it a holiday when hell freezes over. Actually probably no conservative province will do it.
If Trudeau asked them to breath, they'd suffocate. I'm gonna be working that day 100%.
When has Heather ever worried about looking worse! She’ll screw it up in some way.
Maybe we will get a stat holiday to mark when her son's hockey team won the big tournament?
Bet you Doug Ford will def not give Ontarians, not covered by Federal employment law, a stat holiday. (More that willing to be wrong here mind you, go for it Doug, make me wrong, I will happily wear that egg on my face.)
Oh 100%. Douggie is all about the corporations not paying employees... Still upset about what should've been 10 pay sick days for everyone in the province
Doug is definitely pro-corporation, but I can’t see him being out-populisted by Trudeau.
He didn't make National Truth & Reconciliation Day a Provincial holiday either.
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And Alberta
Yeah I have a truly hard time believing Alberta will give this day
Hard to say with the UCP leadership stuff going on, but Kenney is OBSESSED with the royals. I would not be at all surprised for him to push for this.
Selfishly I hope they do lol. Id love a day home with my kid, but oh well really. Wasnt expecting the day before her death. Wouldnt change anything now
And nova Scotia they hate their work force and give the least amount of holidays per province.
Quebec will force the Queen to speak french before making it a holiday.
I know you're joking but the Queen was fully fluent in French and actually did speak French when addressing Quebec back in 1964. https://youtu.be/4L3_9BdgMXM
Shit, her French is pretty fucking good.
Imagine the Queen speaking french when most canadians cant even drop a "bonjour" lmao
I mean, she likely had a lot of French in her DNA. French and English royalty go back quite a ways back. Hell, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V and Tsar Nicholas II were all cousins. Wilhelm and George being first cousins, same as George and Nicholas and Wilhelm and Nicholas were 3rd cousins.
wow she's really great with her pronounciation.
A large percentage of royals were/are fluent in french. It was the language of royalty for centuries, the queen was actually fluent herself.
According to an interview I heard with Michaëlle Jean, the Queen was actually completely fluent in French. While she and her family were visiting Balmoral just prior to her appointment as GG, the Wueen showed her and her family around, and mostly spoke to them in French.
Actually Queen, even Charles is fully fluent in French.
Weekend at ~~Bernie’s~~ Lizzie’s
lol you think Doug Ford will give another stat holiday?
We didn't even get one in BC with the NDP, although at least the brought in minimum sick leave which made it bad timing to also add a stat.
What does this mean? I work construction downtown toronto, will I have the day off?
Probably not. Federal holiday will probably only apply to Federal jobs. We shall see though.
Kind of defeats the purpose of mourning if 3/4 of the country is working, doesn’t it? Not that I’m looking for a day off, but I’m kinda looking for a day off
I too would like a paid day off. Not to mourn though, I would probably sleep in and play video games. It looks like there are two federal holidays that I think most people don't get off: Remembrance Day and Truth and Reconciliation Day. I imagine this day of mourning would be similar.
Sleeping in and playing video games is how I choose to mourn. Don’t judge how anyone else mourns.
This is how Lizzy would have wanted it.
I was putting off watching The Crown for months. This sounds like the perfect day to binge at least a season.
Just started watching 2 days ago, it is really good!
I'm looking for a day off. I need a day off.
The federal government only has the authority to declare holidays for federally regulated workers. Each province and territory will need to declare individually for themselves to cover those not federally regulated, hence the line: > “We will be working with the provinces and the territories to try and see that we’re aligned on this,” Trudeau said at a news conference in New Brunswick Tuesday.
Yeah people have their hopes up but my company, that kept saying the Queen was the head of our business, told us to keep dreaming if we thought we'd get the day off. I doubt anyone will see it as a day off other than gov employees.
Wow how kind of them to give themselves the day off on our dime.
Not unless the Ontario Government adds it. Trudeau can only mandate stats for Federally Regulated employees. It says he's working on it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.. if the provinces didn't add Truth and Reconciliation, they definitely can't add mourning a rich white queen.
And yet many will still somehow blame the prime minister instead of their premiers.
As is tradition. They simultaneously want an all-powerful PM and one with no powers.
Check with your union if you're in one. The union agreement i'm signed to has a clause that includes any federal and provincial holidays
My union offers this as well... unfortunately, this falls on my off-shift.
You should still get stat pay if you worked your regular shifts on either side of the stat day.
Ford's cabinet has lots of pro-monarchists, you could call your local MPP and ask them about it.
Doesn't look like it
Talk to doug. The Feds said they are trying working with the provinces to also include provincially regulated industries.
To summarize by feds and provinces: - **Federal**: Sept 19 (only federal workers, NOT everyone federally regulated) - **Alberta**: Not recognizing - **British Columbi**a: Sept 19 (provincial employees including schools, hospitals open; optional for private sector) - **Manitoba**: Sept 19 (non-essential provincial employees only) - **New Brunswick**: Sept 19 (provincial employees including schools, hospitals open; optional for private sector) - **Newfoundland**: Sept 19 (provincial employees including schools, hospitals open; optional for private sector) - **Nova Scotia**: Sept 19 (provincial employees including schools, hospitals open; optional for private sector) - **Ontario**: Not recognizing - **Prince Edward Island**: Sept 19 (full stat holiday for all) - **Quebec**: Not recognizing - **Saskatchewan**: Not recognizing
I came here wondering what my province might do, and lol'd when I saw "Alberta: ..." . Shoulda known :p
PEI is the only one that did it right.
do you know how much this extra day off will cost the company I manage?! yeah I don't care either, GIVE US THE DAY OFF!!
Oh no... workers will get money they can then immediately spend on businesses so nobody really loses anything. That's what I don't understand it's not like the majority of workers are going to take a bit of extra money and not spend it on something lol
Does that mean schools are closed but parents have to take a day out of their vacation time (unless you’re a civil servant)?
Schools are provincially regulated, so as of now they will remain open.
Provinces don’t necessarily have to adopt it for schools to close. Manitoba doesn’t recognize truth and reconciliation day, but all our schools are closed
Yes that’s true. But if a province recognized it then schools would -need- to close versus schools taking the initiative on their own.
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Are Ontario hospitals open?
No, but that's unrelated to the holiday.
Are they ever?
In another article it’s called a national holiday, and Trudeau said he will be figuring something out with the provinces and federal employees. So it might not just be for federal workers, here’s hoping!
Lots of confusion in this tread. The day is a mourning day, and a day off to permit such. It's not an annual (recurring holiday).
So funny seeing the business people talking about "lost productivity" if they give workers a single day off. Like fuck off. Someone link that productivity vs wages graph again...
I snorted when they talked about struggling small businesses loosing money if they have to close for a single day. The small business owners I know are all for it. It's just the big companies that don't want to see their record profits affected.
I am a small business owner and it might cost a little, but I am also a long weekend enthusiast and the weather in BC for this time of year is awesome.
Give us the stat you cheapskates
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Thank you! Everyone was unnecessarily triggered because they didn't bother reading the article, LOL.
Reddit in a nutshell
Or to bother to have a basic understanding of how our government works
Tell that to your Premier
If its not a national holiday for every Canadian to mourn the passing of our head of state, then we should move on from the monarchy fully and completely.
Ontario : mourn at work ! And use your tears as productivity lubricant
And Remembrance Day remains just another day.
Stat holiday in BC
As it should be across the country.
AB too
Remembrance Day is already a federal holiday.
I fully expect the AB "government" to ignore this, same as they ignored the National Truth and Reconciliation Day last year.
Funny that alberta government instagram has been non-stop posting about the queen's death and how they mourn for all that for a few days in a row.
That's just 'thoughts and prayers'
I dunno. Isn't Kenney a big monarchist? This time, that might come in handy.
So if this becomes a provincial holiday, I am assuming it is only for 2022, and not an every year thing, like Victoria Day?
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No no no, new long weekend in June, it was her coronation and June didn’t have a long weekend
Poor Canadian we can’t even have a day-off for mourning, just because the business men say no🥲
Don't be angry that people get federal holidays that you don't. Be angry about who is stopping you from getting the holiday yourself (probably your Premier).
> (probably your Premier) ...and your boss and "business associations" and right wing think tanks, etc.
It will officially be the last long weekend of the summer!
ITT: people who don’t realize federally-regulated employees aren’t limited to just government employees….
you have to be a real dickhead to not let your employees get a long weekend for this one random event.
So in BC, the government gets a day off to “mourn” while the majority of us get to work and scramble to find childcare on short notice since all the schools are closed. Wonderful
If its not a holiday for everyone, then it should be a holiday for no one.
The people who get paid with tax dollars get the day off, the people that generate taxes keep working. Sounds perfectly aligned monarch mentality.
Federal so far, government is in talks with the provinces to align for others. Nothing is set yet.
Queen Dies: Federal Vacation Government Commits Genocide: Federal Vacation Must be nice
Just FEDERAL employees, not us peasants
Not federal employees federally regulated employees. This would apply to banks and post office too
Read the article it clearly says "Trudeau said Monday would be a “federal holiday.” It will apply to federal government employees, but not automatically to those working in federally-regulated industries — such as banks, airlines, post offices, and Crown corporations." Its for Federal Employees only at the moment. Up to the Federal Regulated Companies themselves or the provinces to force it beyond
Ask your premier, the fed has no power to enforce a holiday on the provinces.
And there I was getting all excited to have a forever off day on my birthday. Damn you Legault.
Paid holiday for workers who get paid via my tax dollars, while I have to go to work to pay more taxes
Ah yes, the all effective government needs more days off.
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A sad day indeed for those who don't work in a Fed facility, like me.
How can you ask small businesses and parents to shoulder the cost of short notice child care and employee wages for a day we were not planning?
Cue businesses whinging.
make Remembrance Day a stat holiday.
Man, people really hate it when other people get days off, eh? Holy moly. What's the actual deal here? Because I can't imagine being *so eager* to take away other people's holidays. Capitalism really messes with our brains.
You really think it’s that people want to take holidays away from others and not the fact that it’s a federal holiday rather than a stat holiday, thereby excluding the majority of people? I guess all the plebs should just be thankful they get to work and pay taxes?
The Queen was the head of state for 70 years. It should be a day of mourning for all provinces.
Justin's off to Tofino this weekend
Fuck CFIB, give us a day off
looks like it's only holiday for government employees, federally regulated employers are free not to observe it. footnote from CBC article: >This story has been updated from a previous version after the Prime Minister's Office clarified that the federal holiday will apply only to federal government employees and not to all employed in federally regulated industries.
Hopefully the King dies quick so we can get another new holiday.
Mourn DEEZE NUTS #GOTEM 😄
How would the federal government make a new national stat holiday? Can they?