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How Alberta Invented Family Day. Thanks Friends!
Family Day started in 1990 when Alberta Premier Don Getty's son got arrested. You're planning your long weekend right now. Maybe skiing, maybe nothing. The stat exists because Getty wanted to show family values after the scandal, or so the press claimed. Saskatchewan took 17 years to follow in 2007. BC waited until 2018. Every province eventually copied what might have been political damage control disguised as policy.
Ed Conroy notes the press hostility toward Ontario's 2008 version. Another paid holiday we don't need, they said. But here's what changed. Families now spend time in the same…
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