Canada May Soon Have a New February Public Holiday in Manitoba

Source: Radio-Canada. The Labour Minister for the Canadian province of Manitoba, Nancy Allan, will introduce a bill, this coming week, to add a new public holiday, to occur every year, sometime in the month of February.

Analysis: The specific date an name of this new public holiday has not yet been finalized. However, this new public holiday is in line with the addition of a similar, February public holiday, in the province of Alberta in 1990, and in neighboring Saskatchewan, in 2006. Both of these February public holidays were named "Family Day", so there is a good chance that the new public holiday in Manitoba will be similarly named.

In a much less directly related manner, one will remember our news story of February 17, in which we reported on a British Columbia private member's bill to declare Flag Day, February 15, a federal holiday, confirming Western Canada's yearning for a public holiday to bridge the holiday-less gap between New Year's Day and Easter.