January 2008

Calendar of Health- & Injury-Related Days in 2008

Special Events for the Month
Alzheimer Awareness Month; Alzheimer Society
http://www.alzheimer.ca

Special Events for the Week(s)

January 13-21  International Snowmobile Safety Week
Alberta Snowmobile Association
http://www.altasnowmobile.ab.ca/

January 20 – 26  Healthy Weight Week
Repudiates the cult of thinness
http://www.healthyweight.net/hww.htm

January 20-26 National Non-Smoking Week;Canadian Council for Tobacco Control
http://www.cctc.ca

Special Events for the Day (s)

January 11-13, 2008
Avalanche Awareness Days; Canadian Avalanche Association
http://www.avalanche.ca

January 23 Weedless Wednesday
http://www.cctc.ca

January 27 Family Literacy Day
http://www.nald.ca/index.htm

Janurary 27  International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/

Sources: Health Canada & UN Canada