Ontario Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week 2026: Nov. 15-21

Ontario’s Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week 2026 runs from Sunday, Nov. 15 to Saturday, Nov. 21, because the Government of Ontario says the week “begins on the third Sunday of November each year.” The province’s page, “Bullying: we can all help stop it” (updated Aug. 12, 2026), prints that rule and no 2026 date, so the dates here are worked out from it. A live day count, the dates in other years and a free printable follow.

Countdown to Ontario’s bullying awareness week

The clock needs JavaScript. The first option counts to midnight on your own device; the Eastern Time options count from a fixed moment. On Nov. 15, 2026, clocks are on standard time, so Eastern Time is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

How the 2026 dates are worked out

Nov. 1, 2026 is a Sunday, so the Sundays of the month are Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29. The third is Nov. 15. A week that begins that Sunday ends on Saturday, Nov. 21.

The last column fills in with the days left from today.

Date	Day	What happens	Days from today
Nov. 15	Sunday	Week begins (third Sunday of November)
Nov. 16	Monday	Weekday in the week
Nov. 17	Tuesday	Weekday in the week
Nov. 18	Wednesday	Weekday in the week
Nov. 19	Thursday	Weekday in the week
Nov. 20	Friday	Weekday in the week
Nov. 21	Saturday	Week ends

Monday, Nov. 16 to Friday, Nov. 20 are the five weekdays. The province does not say how each board marks them, and no board-level 2026 dates were checked, so boards may set their own events.

Which date does the third-Sunday rule give in other years?

Because the week starts on the third Sunday, its start can fall only between Nov. 15 and Nov. 21. These dates come from applying the rule, not from a printed calendar.

Year	Week begins	Week ends
2025	Sunday, Nov. 16	Saturday, Nov. 22
2026	Sunday, Nov. 15	Saturday, Nov. 21
2027	Sunday, Nov. 21	Saturday, Nov. 27
2028	Sunday, Nov. 19	Saturday, Nov. 25

What did the province do for the week in 2024?

In 2024, a provincial investment of $4.6 million was reported for the week, according to Sydenham Current and Today’s Northumberland. Both are 2024 reports. No 2026 announcement or funding was found, so none is described here.

Where does Ontario send families for resources?

The same government page lists three places to start:

• Creating safe and accepting schools, on ontario.ca
• School Mental Health Ontario (smho-smso.ca)
• The Healthy Relationships in a Digital World Toolkit (principals.ca), listed with Victim Services Toronto

Ontario’s week and the UK’s Anti-Bullying Week

The two are separate. Ontario sets its week by a rule in its own government guidance. The UK campaign has its own organizer and dates, which our Anti-Bullying Week 2026 UK story covers. Do not carry the Ontario dates or the third-Sunday rule over to other places.

Free printable for Ontario’s bullying awareness week

The printable puts the third-Sunday rule and the start and end dates for 2025 to 2028 on one US Letter page, with an A4 copy. The dates are worked out from the rule, as the sheet says. For a month view, use the November 2026 printable calendar; the printable school calendar holds the rest of the school year.