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When Half of This Town Got the Day Off (And You Didn't)
Statutory holiday gaps between New Year's and Easter used to span four brutal months. You're living in Lloydminster in 2005. Your neighbor across the street has Family Day off because they're on the Alberta side. You're working because you're on the Saskatchewan side. Same town, different province, seventeen years of watching half the town celebrate while you clock in. Which side of the boundary line you live on determined whether you got a break or kept working.
Alberta created Family Day in 1990 under Premier Don Getty. Allegations suggest it was a political play to show family values when…
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