CORRECTIONS TO 2010 CALENDAR

The 2010 calendar distributed to my constituents in early January contains errors in respect to dates of certain holidays and festivals.I deeply regret this inadvertent error.

As an addendum to the calendar, please consult the following list of correct dates of holidays and festivals during 2010.

I thank you for your understanding, and as always, I appreciate and value your feedback.

AMRIT MANGAT

January:

January 1^st - New Year’s Day

January 7^th - Orthodox Christmas

January 14^th - Orthodox New Year

January 18^th - Martin Luther King Jr. Day (U.S)

January 30^th - Tu B’Shevat (Arbour Day)

February:

February 14^th - Chinese New Year (Year of the Tiger)

February 14^th -  Valentine’s Day

February 15^th - National Flag Day of Canada

February 15^th - Family Day

February 16^th - Shrove Tuesday  

February 17^th - Ash Wednesday  

February 26^th - Prophet’s Muhammad’s Birthday

February 28^th - Purim

March:

March 1^st - Hola Mohalla

March 8^th - Commonwealth Day

March 14^th - Daylight Savings Time Begins

March 17^th - St. Patrick’s Day

March 20^th - Vernal Equinox

March 28^th - Palm Sunday

March 30^th - Passover Begins

April:

April 1^st - Holy Thursday

April 2^nd - Good Friday

April 3^rd - Holy Saturday

April 4^th - Easter Sunday

April 4^th - Orthodox Easter

April 5^th - Easter Monday  

April 6^th - Passover Ends  

April 11^th - Yom HaShoah

April 13^th - Vaisakhi  

April 18^th - Yom Ha’atzmaut

May:

May 2^nd - Lag B’Omer

May 9^th - Mother’s Day

May 13^th - Ascension Day 

May 23^rd - Pentecost

May 19^th - Shavuot

May 24^th - Victoria Day

May 30^th - Trinity Sunday

June:

June 3^rd - Corpus Christi

June 20^th - Father’s Day

June 21^st - June Solstice

July:

July 1^st - Canada Day

July 9^th - Isra and Mi’raj

July 19^th - Tisha B’Av

August:

August 2^nd - Simcoe Day

August 11^th - Ramadan Begins

September:

September 5^th - Laylat al-Qadr

September 6^th - Labour Day

September 8^th - Rosh Hashanah

September 9^th - Eid al-Fitr

September 18^th - Yom Kippur

September 22^nd - Autumnal Equinox

September 23^rd - Sukkot Begins

September 29^th - Sukkot Ends

September 30^th - Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah

October:

October 11^th - Thanksgiving Day

October 31^st - Halloween

November:

November 5^th - Diwali

November 7^th - Daylight Savings Time Ends

November 11^th - Remembrance Day

November 16^th - Eid-al-Adha

November 21^st - Birth of Guru Nanak

November 25^th - Thanksgiving Day (U.S.)

November 28^th - First Sunday Advent

December:

December 2^nd - First Day of Chanukah

December 9^th - Last Day of Chanukah

December 21^st - December Solstice

December 25^th - Christmas Day

December 26^th - Boxing Day   

December 31^st - New Year’s Eve