York Region is facing criticism for taking away the one thing retail workers look forward to all year ? statutory holidays. Last month, while the city of Toronto was conducting extensive consultation with retail workers about the merits of keeping businesses open on nine statutory holidays, York politicians quietly passed a bylaw making it law as of Jan. 1 ? with little consultation with the workers themselves. And last Thursday, even when given the chance to reconsider the bylaw after labour organizers and workers came out to a regional meeting to protest...