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I came across this article from the Toronto Star this morning.

Toronto does not need another WalMart. Last year, I spent a few days in Nova Scotia. It’s a beautiful place, which only added to the horror when I was taken to a new development of box stores in Dartmouth. Box after box after box, and all I could do was look around and wonder how a pedestrian could ever penetrate the compound (let alone actually shop there, wandering through massive parking lots with bags in hand). Dartmouth doesn’t need this, but on some level it’s understandable: the East Coast is all about car culture.

Toronto, however, is another story. We have pedestrians and the TTC! Well, for now, anyway. We also have a significant, if fragile, film industry. We need that. We need the culture, the jobs. We don’t need box stores and more minimum wage jobs.