A sentry paces as they guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, on Canadian Armed Forces Day, Sunday, June 4, 2023.
After a flood of angry comments, Veterans Affairs Canada staff found themselves working over the Easter weekend this year, scrambling to explain why one of the department's social media posts didn't actually mention the holiday.A sentry paces as they guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Canadian Armed Forces Day, Sunday, June 4, 2023.
Aside from Good Friday and Easter Sunday, which fall on different days each year and sometimes in April, there are no federally recognized statutory holidays in March. But by the time the Easter wishes landed, people had flooded the Friday post on X with angry comments about the apparent exclusion of Easter."Terrible wording here Vets Canada! Maybe say Happy Easter!" wrote one X user.Post called 'outrageous' and 'shameful'
St. Patrick's Day is a statutory holiday in Newfoundland and Labrador but not in the rest of the country. Ramadan began this year on March 10 and ended April 9, the equinox was March 19 and Purim was March 23 to 24.
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