OCD AWARENESS WEEK 2026
October 11-17
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Light Canada Teal for OCD
#LightCanadaTealForOCD
Landmark or porch light. Big or small. It all counts. 🩵
Landmark or porch light. Big or small. It all counts. 🩵
Across Canada, landmarks and communities are turning teal for OCD Awareness Week, October 11-17th, 2026.
Find a lighting near you. Help bring teal to a landmark in your community. Or simply turn on a teal light at home.
Every light helps make OCD more visible — and reminds people living with OCD and their families that their communities see them.
Where Canada is turning teal 🇨🇦
Where Canada is turning teal 🇨🇦
Explore the map to find confirmed landmark and community lightings across Canada.
When Canada Lights Up ✨
When Canada Lights Up ✨
Planning to see the teal in person? Here’s when confirmed landmarks across Canada will be lighting up for OCD Awareness Week. Multi-night lightings are listed first, followed by single-night lightings by date.
MULTI-NIGHT LIGHTINGS · OCT. 11–18
Cabot Tower / Signal Hill · St. John’s, NL
Oct. 11–17 · Dusk to dawn
The Big Fiddle · Sydney, NS
Oct. 11–17 · Dusk to dawn
Nova Scotia Legislature / Province House · Halifax, NS
Oct. 11–12 · Dusk to dawn
Oakville City Hall · Oakville, ON
Oct. 11–14 & Oct. 16–18 · Evening
OCTOBER 11
CN Tower · Toronto, ON
First 30 minutes of every hour
Toronto Sign · Toronto, ON
Evening
Brant Street Pier · Burlington, ON
Sunset to midnight
Hamilton Sign · Hamilton, ON
Dusk to dawn
Peace Bridge · Fort Erie, ON / Buffalo, NY
Sunset to sunrise
OCTOBER 12
Main Street Bridge / Bridge 13 · Welland, ON
Dusk to dawn
OCTOBER 13
Princes’ Gates at Exhibition Place · Toronto, ON
Evening
Moncton City Hall · Moncton, NB
Dusk to dawn
Downing Street · Moncton, NB
Dusk to dawn
Downtown Place · Moncton, NB
Dusk to dawn
OCTOBER 17
Niagara Falls · Niagara Falls, ON
10 p.m. · 15 minutes. ▶️ Webcam viewing
All times are local. Lighting schedules may be subject to change.
See teal? Show us. 📸
Visiting a landmark? Lighting your own corner of Canada? Snap a photo or video. Share it using:
#LightCanadaTealForOCD
You can also tag #TealForOCD, #OCDWeek and #TogetherAgainstOCD to connect your post with the wider OCD Awareness Week community.
Want to add another light to the map? 🩵
Want to add another light to the map? 🩵
There are two ways to take part:
Ask a landmark to light teal
or
Light your own corner of Canada.
Either way, you can help put your community on the map.
Want to light a landmark?🌟
Want to light a landmark?🌟
It's probably easier than you think.
Many landmarks, municipal buildings, bridges and public spaces accept requests to illuminate for awareness campaigns. The International OCD Foundation has resources to help, and IOCDF Advocate Stacey Black walks through the process in this short video.
PICK. PITCH. CLICK.
No landmark? No problem. 🏠
No landmark? No problem. 🏠
A single teal light is enough. 🩵
A single teal light is enough. 🩵
There are only so many landmarks — and you don’t need one to make a difference.
Turn a porch light teal. Put a teal bulb in a window. Light a balcony. Hang teal string lights. Add a teal sign. Light the whole house if you’re feeling particularly committed. 😂
Whatever you’ve got, light it teal for OCD – tell us your city and province/territory and we’ll add your community to the map.
No home address. No complicated submission. Just another teal light showing that OCD is seen here.
Add your teal light to the map 💡
Add your teal light to the map 💡
Ready to put your community on the map? Use the form below to submit a confirmed landmark or tell us where you’re lighting teal.
About This Resource
About This Resource
Light Canada Teal for OCD is a community-created resource developed by Stacey Black, IOCDF Advocate and co-lead of the Nova Scotia OCD Parent & Caregiver Peer Support Group, to help Canadians find confirmed OCD Awareness Week illuminations — and make it easier for more people to light their own communities teal.
It is not an official publication of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). Landmark information is based on confirmations received and may change.
For home and community submissions, only city and province/territory are displayed. Please do not submit home addresses.
OCD Information, Treatment & Support
OCD Information, Treatment & Support
For evidence-based information about OCD, treatment, support and OCD Awareness Week, visit the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF).
Learn more about OCD Awareness Week and ways to get involved — including OCD Walks, landmark illuminations, awareness activities and resources for spreading the word.
Evidence-based information about OCD, resources, treatment, support, and advocacy.
Specialized OCD and related-disorders care in Canada, including outpatient services and intensive live-in and day treatment options.
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