Today is a day off in Canada. Family day is what it's called.

[Swede]

Is it a day off is the US also?

[TZ]

1. Yep. President's Day

We are celebrating Lincoln/Washington's Birthday.

[Darth_Kitten]

2. Rest of Canada gets a day off?

How fair is that? ;)


It's Louis Riel Day here. :)

[auntAgonist]

4. Layton urges Harper to create new national holiday on third Monday of February

Not all of Canada has the day off it seems.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/02/18/4856653-cp.html

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jack Layton wants the prime minister to give Canadians a winter break.

Layton is asking Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to declare a Family Day holiday for all Canadians on the third Monday of each February.

Currently, Alberta, Saskatchewan and, most recently, Ontario have provincial Family Day holidays in February, while Manitoba celebrates Louis Riel Day on the same date.

Layton says hardworking Canadians could use a holiday in "the dreary month of February."

[Deep13]

3. Sure if you work for the state, the post office or a bank.

Otherwise, it is known as "Monday." There used to be two state holidays in February: Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's Birthday. When the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was added in January, the two birthdays in February were consolidated into "President's Day."

[TZ]

5. I don't work for the state, post office or bank

and I have the day off....See? Being a Big Pharma shill has benefits...:P

[Deep13]

6. So does working for "the Man."

The DA's office is closed today too.

[Tindalos]

7. Lucky you

It's not a holiday here in BC. Enjoy it for the rest of us, okay?

[Swede]

8. I just learned all this on this thread...

I assumed the whole country got the day off. Sorry about that.

[GirlinContempt]

9. Not in all of Canada

It's family day in Alberta and Louis Riel day in Manitoba (In MB, it's a stat, so we get paid). Not sure about the other provinces, but I know this is the first year for MB having it as a holiday.