Matt Friesen

Let me start off by saying as a business owner, I have a love/hate relationship with stat holidays. I appreciate the value of extra recharge time, but business keeps on ticking…


Anyway, this particular holiday doesn’t sit well with me. The name indicates a celebration of work, but thanks to the drones of Wikipedia, it turns out the birth of Labour Day in Canada was a parade supporting a strike by the Toronto Typographical Union. Through a series of subsequent events, this parade helped lead to a repeal of the anti-union laws.


Given that history, shouldn’t the name be something more like Union Day or Strike Day? I suppose naming a holiday after the negotiation tactic of a three year old doesn’t really make sense…. or does it?


Happy Strike Day Everyone!