{"id":40,"date":"2025-10-23T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/?p=40"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:02:21","slug":"kindness-week-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Kindness Week Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>S.C.&nbsp;2021, c. 9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assented to 2021-06-03<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Act respecting Kindness Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Preamble<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas kindness encourages values such as empathy, respect, gratitude and compassion;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas kind acts lead to the improved health and well-being of Canadians;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas Kindness Week is already celebrated in some Canadian cities;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas designating and celebrating a Kindness Week throughout Canada will encourage acts of kindness, volunteerism and charitable giving to the benefit of all Canadians;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas Kindness Week will connect individuals and organizations to share resources, information and tools to foster more acts of kindness;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And whereas Parliament envisions that Kindness Week might encourage a culture of kindness in Canada throughout the year;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kindness Week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>&nbsp;This Act may be cited as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/acts\/K-0.7\"><em>Kindness Week Act<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>&nbsp;Throughout Canada, in each and every year, the third week of February is to be known as \u201cKindness Week\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.C.&nbsp;2021, c. 9 Assented to 2021-06-03 An Act respecting Kindness Week Preamble Whereas kindness encourages values such as empathy, respect, gratitude and compassion; Whereas kind acts lead to the improved health and well-being of Canadians; Whereas Kindness Week is already celebrated in some Canadian cities; Whereas designating and celebrating a Kindness Week throughout Canada will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kindness-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindness-ssm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}