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Green Monday is an online retail industry term similar to Cyber Monday. The term was coined by Shopping.com, [1] an eBay company, in 2007 [2] to describe the best eCommerce sales day in December, [3][4] usually the second Monday of December.
Buy Nothing Day is a day of protest against consumerism. In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent with Black Friday; elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is usually the last Saturday in November. [1][2] Created by artist Ted Dave and promoted by magazine and nonprofit Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day ...
History First observed in the United States on November 27, 2010, Small Business Saturday is a counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which feature big box retail and e-commerce stores respectively. By contrast, Small Business Saturday encourages holiday shoppers to patronize brick and mortar businesses that are small and local.
Civic Holiday (French: congé civique) is a public holiday in Canada celebrated on the first Monday in August. [1] Though the first Monday of August is celebrated in most of Canada as a public holiday, [2] it is only officially known as "Civic Holiday" in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, where it is a territorial statutory holiday. In other provinces and municipalities, the holiday is ...
Public holidays in Canada (French: Jours fériés au Canada), known as statutory holidays, stat holidays, or simply stats (French: jours fériés), consist of a variety of cultural, nationalistic, and religious holidays that are legislated in Canada at the federal or provincial and territorial levels.
In 2019, drawing inspiration from the World Cleanup Day, computer scientist Kévin Guerin came up with the idea of a digital version, specifically focused on the Cyberspace and comparable to Black Friday / Cyber Monday – the Cyber World CleanUp Day.
Thanksgiving is also typically regarded as the beginning of the holiday shopping season, with the day after, Black Friday, often considered to be the busiest retail shopping day of the year in the United States. Cyber Monday, the online equivalent, is held on the Monday following Thanksgiving.
In Denmark schools have a week-and-a-day Easter Holiday, being closed on Monday-Wednesday before Easter, as well as for the public holidays. Good Friday is a statutory holiday in all of Canada except for Quebec, where Easter Monday is a statutory holiday instead.