metropolis at metrotown

• Unhappy Holidays

Every year around this time, I spiral into a bottomless pit of anger and depression," writes Paul Couvrette, the Halifax-based administrator of a 1,500-person group called I Hate Christmas. "Outside of family gatherings, it's just one huge commercialized cash grab. If I did not have kids, I wouldn't celebrate it at all. "We hear a lot of negative stories (in the news) but when you actually walk around the mall, that's not the case," said Artie Chumpol, community relations manager for Metropolis at Metrotown, B.C.'s largest mall complex. "You see people stressing about 'how do I wow my loved ones' and spending absurd amounts of money trying to do thatI I've seen a lot of people rushing around with a look of panic in their eyes," said [Albert Couillard]. "I've personally reached a point...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009

• Saskatchewan Canadian Idol Fans Sing Blues

We will be back. This is not to say that Saskatchewan has fallen off the Canadian Idol radar forever. It's a place we want to come back to -- we need to come back to. [Brad Wall] encouraged Saskatchewan fans of Canadian Idol to voice their displeasure through the show's website. He predicted they would turn out in the same numbers they do when someone from Saskatchewan is in the top 10. "Maybe that is not their intent, but my feeling on it is that they are saying there is no talent in Saskatchewan -- that is how I am taking it," she said. "I personally consider it a bit of an insult."

...9-10, Metropolis at Metrotown; Winnipeg, Feb. 23-24, St. Vital Cent...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 22, 2009

• Canada/World Briefs

... cordoned off a parking lot at Metrotown in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after the shoot..." said Brenda Longland, spokeswoman for Metropolis at Metrotown. "On Saturday evening, the shopping c...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 19, 2010