OTTAWA — 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.
OTTAWA — 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.
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. In text messages on March 30, members of the communications team discussed the online concerns, with one staffer saying,"I think in trying to be apolitical we became political."At least one media outlet sent a request for clarification, asking what the March holiday season was and why Easter was not mentioned on Good Friday.
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