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Location: The Tranzac
Sept. 25 – This Magazine’s Every Film is Political series presents WAL-TOWN Timely documentary on Wal-Mart’s business practices kicks off alternative magazine’s new film series This fall, one of Canada’s longest-publishing alternative publications, This Magazine, begins a new film screening series at the TRANZAC (292 Brunswick Avenue), featuring documentaries and narrative films that tackle current political and social issues. The series kicks off on September 25 with WAL-TOWN, director Sergeo Kirby’s NFB-produced look at the business practices of mega-retailer Wal-Mart and the ongoing debate of the company’s effect on towns across Canada. With Wal-Mart Canada eyeing Toronto’s historic Kensington Market neighbourhood for future development, public attention has again turned to Wal-Mart and the radical effects of the retail giant’s business practices. When RioCan announced plans to install a 125,000-square-foot Wal-Mart in the former site of Kromer Radio (just beside the distinctive, fabled Kensington Market), the Friends of Kensington Market formed to oppose the deal, and Toronto City Council passed a bylaw to freeze current development on the Bathurst strip. The screening of WAL-TOWN will shed some light on the current Kensington situation, as well as tie into the September/October issue of This Magazine: their annual ‘Corporate Hall of Shame’ issue. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by This Magazine editor Lauren McKeon, debating some of the issues raised by the documentary and the current Kensington Wal-Mart proposal.
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