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

January 2019

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 New Year’s Day* Twelfth Night* (Christian) Gantan-Sai (New Year’s) (Shinto)* 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Epiphany* (Christian) Nativity of Christ* (Armenian – Orthodox Christian)

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31 Int’l Day to Commemorate Memory of Victims of Holocaust* (UN)

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

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*

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Family Day World Day of Social Justice* International Mother (UN) Language Day* (UN)

24 25 26 27 28

Black History Month

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations) 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) Hindu New Year International Women’s Day* (Christian) (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 Naw Ruz* (Baha’i) World Water Day francophonie* (UN) Magha Puja Day (Buddhism) UN Day Int’l Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination* (UN)

24/31 25 26 27 28 29 30 Int’l Day for Truth Regarding Int’l Day of Remembrance to Gross Human Rights violations Victims of Slavery and and dignity of victims* (UN) Transatlantic Slave Trade* (UN)

Trans Day of Visibility (March 31)

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

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) Good Friday (Christian) Pesach (Passover – to April Palm Sunday (Christian) 27) (Judaism)

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Easter (Christian) Easter Monday Good Friday (Orthodox) Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian) 28 29 30 National Day of Mourning* (CLC/Gov’t of ) Pascha (Easter) (Orthodox Christian) World Day for Safety and Health at Work

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations) 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, Visakha Puja – Buddha Day Transphobia and Biphobia* (Buddhism) (IDAHO) (Fondation Émergence)

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Victoria Day World Day for Cultural Declaration of the Bab* Diversity for Dialogue and (Baha’i) Development* (UN)

26 27 28 29 30 31 Ascension of Baha’u’llah* Asian Heritage Month (Baha’i)

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

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 Multiculturalism Day* (Gov’t Day* (June 23) of Canada)

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

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

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

August 2019

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3

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

25 26 27 28 29 30 31

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

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 International Day of Peace* Democracy* (UN) (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)

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

October 2019

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 International Day of Older Persons*(UN)

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Yom Kippur (Judaism) World Mental Health Day* International Day of the Girl (UN) 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

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

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 Louis Riel Day* (Métis) Birthday (Sikh) 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)

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances) International Year of Indigenous Languages (United Nations)

December 2019

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 World Aids Day* (UN) International Day for the International Day of Persons National Day of Remembrance Advent (to December 24) Abolition of Slavery* (UN) with Disabilities* (UN) and Action on Violence (Christian) Against Women (Status of Women)*

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Human Rights Day* (UN)

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 0 International Migrants International Human Solidarity Day* (UN) Day* (UN)

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Hanukkah (to Dec. 30) Christmas Eve* Christmas Day* (Christian) Boxing Day* (Judaism)

29 30 31 New Year’s Eve*

NOTE: This calendar only highlights religious celebrations which represent the holiest time of the year for many worshipers. Major religious observances and statutory holidays are denoted in bold. The asterisk (*) indicates observances and/or events which fall on the same day annually. Compiled by the Equity Unit, OPSEU