Happy Labour Day to everyone in Canada! We hope you have a great Monday off as part of the last long weekend of Summer (sigh). Labour Day was founded in Canada. Did you know that, according to Wikipedia, it has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in Canada since the 1880s? You can trace it back to April 14, 1872, when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike to demand a mere 58-hour work-week.
Of course, Kazakhstan used to be a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) before its dissolution. May 1 (May Day) was celebrated for many years throughout the communist world, as in many other places, as International Workers' Solidarity Day. So, one would expect that a holiday in commemoration of labour would continue to be held in Kazakhstan. Nyet. After gaining independence, the May 1 holiday was renamed here as the Day of Unity of the People of Kazakhstan: a day to celebrate the ethnic diversity of Kazkahstan. Fortunately, it's still a labourless day.
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