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Lighting the Night in Montreal

UFCW Canada members were front and centre at Montreal’s 2008 Light the Night walk to benefit leukemia research, organized by our union’s charity of choice, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC).

Through the union’s Quebec Provincial Council, members from various UFCW Canada local unions chose to collectively support the new event,in Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau, instead of holding a traditional fall gala evening. And the payoff was outstanding – of the walk’s $439,000 raised, almost $140,000 was raised by UFCW Canada members.

"I was very proud to participate in this walk," says Gilles Gélineau, president of the provincial council. "We must say thank you to the support of all the sponsors who made it possible to raise such a large amount for the continuing research to find a cure for leukemia and other blood cancers."