The paper still charges to read on-line articles (!), so I can't link to it, But I have cut and pasted the article, which appeared in this weekends' edition below: Canada justices to hear union vs. Wal-Mart: Retailer shut Quebec store after employees organized BY STEVE PAINTER ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Labor union leaders in Canada and elsewhere are closely watching a case involving Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to be taken up by Canada's highest court this month. The Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear arguments Jan. 21 on whether Wal-Mart violated Canadian law when it closed a store in Jonquiere, Quebec, in April 2005 rather than go to arbitration with a union representing the store's 190 workers. Nine groups of Wal-Mart Canada Corp. workers have been organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada over the past several years, but none has yet obtained a contract.