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Remembrance Day Act assessment tool

Can my business open on Remembrance Day?

Is your business, or organization a non-retail operation that primarily falls into one or more of the following areas?
  • Licensed childcare facilities
  • The work of police officers, firefighters, correctional officers, furnace tenders or stationary engineers, security guards, building custodians or persons providing domestic service
  • Operations conducting emergency repairs (this does not include scheduled or routine maintenance)
  • Buses, trains and other public transportation for passengers/goods and work required for their operation
  • Caring for perishable products and live animals
  • Dairy operations and dairy manufacturing, processing and distribution of products directly to the consumer
  • Fish plants and meat packing plants, if closing would cause a serious deterioration in product quality, and any work required for receiving, paying for and shipping these products
  • Work that, if not done on Remembrance Day, would cause a break in the continuous supply of electricity, telephone service, heat, fuel oil, gas, gasoline, light or water
  • Work related to conducting commemorative or religious ceremonies
  • Brokers registered under The Securities Act (opens in a new tab) who conduct business on stock exchanges outside of Nova Scotia
  • Broadcasting operations, newspaper publishers including work related to preparing, printing or distributing a newspaper