2012 12-Month Basic Calendar (any year)

[Pages:12]Diversity Calendar (Religious, Human Rights and Equity Observances)

International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (United Nations)

SUNDAY

7

Nativity of Christ* (Armenian ? Orthodox Christian)

14

MONDAY

1

New Year's Day* Gantan-Sai (New Year's) (Shinto)*

8

15

January 2018

TUESDAY

2

WEDNESDAY

3

THURSDAY

4

9

10

11

16

17

18

FRIDAY

5

Twelfth Night* (Christian)

12

19

SATURDAY

6

Epiphany* (Christian)

13

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

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

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 Sustainable Tourism for Development (United Nations)

SUNDAY

MONDAY

February 2018

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

1

FRIDAY

2

4

5

6

7

8

9

SATURDAY

3

Setsubun-sai* (Shinto)

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

Shrove Tuesday (Christian)

Valentine's Day*

Ash Wednesday (Lent Begins) (Christian)

Chinese New Year (Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist)

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

Family Day

World Day of Social Justice* (UN)

International Mother Language Day* (UNESCO)

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 Sustainable Tourism for Development (United Nations)

March 2018

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

1

Zero Discrimination Day (UNAIDS)

FRIDAY

2

SATURDAY

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

International Women's Day* (UN)

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

St. Patrick's Day* (Christian)

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

Hindu New Year (Hindu)

Journ?e internationale de la francophonie* (UN)

Naw Ruz* (Baha'i)

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

Int'l Day for Truth Regarding Gross Human Rights violations and dignity of victims* (UN)

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

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

Palm Sunday (Christian)

Good Friday (Christian)

Magha Puja Day (Buddhism)

Pesach (Passover ? to April 7) (Judaism) Trans Day of Visibility

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 Sustainable Tourism for Development (United Nations)

April 2018

SUNDAY

1

Easter (Christian) Palm Sunday (Orthodox Christian)

8

Pascha (Easter) (Orthodox Christian)

MONDAY

2

Easter Monday World Autism Awareness Day (UN)

9

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

3

4

Mahavir Jayanti (Jain)

10

11

International Day of Pink

THURSDAY

5

12

FRIDAY

6

13

15

16

17

18

19

20

SATURDAY

7

World Health Day* (UN)

14

Baisakhi (New Year)* (Sikh)

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

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

Visakha Puja ? Buddha Day (Buddhism)

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 Sustainable Tourism for Development (United Nations)

May 2018

SUNDAY

6

MONDAY

7

TUESDAY

1

Beltane and Samhain* (Wicca/Pagan) May Day/Int'l Worker's Day* (CLC)

WEDNESDAY

2

8

9

THURSDAY

3

10

FRIDAY

4

11

SATURDAY

5

12

13

Mother's Day

20

Pentecost (Christian)

27

14

15

16

Ramadan Begins (Islam)

21

22

Victoria Day

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

28

29

Ascension of Baha'u'llah* (Baha'i)

23

Declaration of the Bab* (Baha'i)

30

17

18

Int'l Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia* (IDAHO) (Fondation ?mergence)

24

25

31

19 26

Asian Heritage 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 Sustainable Tourism for Development (United Nations)

SUNDAY

Pride Month

National Aboriginal History Month

MONDAY

3

4

June 2018

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

1

5

6

7

8

SATURDAY

2

9

10

11

17

18

Father's Day

24

25

12

World Day Against Child Labour* (ILO)

19

26

13

14

15

Eid al Fitr (sunset to June 15) (Islam)

20

21

22

World Refugee Day* (United Nations)

National Indigenous Peoples Day*

27

28

29

Multiculturalism Day* (Gov't of Canada)

16

23

United Nations Public Service Day*

30

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 Sustainable Tourism for Development (United Nations)

SUNDAY

1

Canada Day*

8

15

22

29

MONDAY

2 9 16 23 30

July 2018

TUESDAY

3

WEDNESDAY

4

THURSDAY

5

FRIDAY

6

SATURDAY

7

10

11

12

13

14

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

17

18

19

20

21

Nelson Mandela International Day* (UN)

24

25

26

27

28

Asalha Puja Day (Buddhism)

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 Sustainable Tourism for Development (United Nations)

SUNDAY

MONDAY

August 2018

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

1

THURSDAY

2

FRIDAY

3

SATURDAY

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Civic Holiday

International Day of World's Indigenous People* (UN)

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

International Youth Day* (UN)

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

World Humanitarian Day* (UN)

Eid al Adha (to August 25) (Islam)

Int'l Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition* (UNESCO)

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

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