Today at 6:30pm, residents of Burlington, ON, will be holding a vigil & lament to protest the decision by city council to allow a new Wal-Mart to be built in their town.

"Our city is being inundated with Walmart, its application to build a second one just prevailed at the OMB [Ontario Municipal Board] and it has an application before city council to expand its less than year old 12000 m2 store to 19000m2. These stores are 6 km apart!" writes Ian Graham, a resident of Burlington.

Wal-Mart also won the right to build in Guelph by going through the OMB, and is currently going through the same process in Stratford, ON.

For Immediate Release
Jan 19, 2007

Contact: Tracey Pingle - (905) 335-4669

Wal-Mart wins, Council concedes defeat for Downtown BigBox Store. Citizens Group plans lament and Vigil at
460 Brant Street, Burlington, ON

Citizens Lament the Intrusion of yet another BigBox format retailer in beautiful Downtown Burlington.

Burlington - Citizens will hold a Lament and Vigil for Local Community Monday Jan 22nd, at the Upper Canada Cinema, at 6:30pm, with a screening of Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price.

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