Students from across the province competed Saturday in the Ultimate Mix Challenge at Polo Park Shopping Centre. CAA Manitoba held the event to encourage future drivers to create non-alcoholic beverages. “With grad season just around the corner, CAA’s Ultimate Mix reminds teens that you don’t need to drink to have fun and that drinking and [...]

Ten high school teams from across the province are set to battle it out in the “Ultimate Mix Challenge” on Saturday, May 1. The task is to create the best original non-alcoholic concoctions for the judges. The teams must also create the best road safety slogan, as the event is put on by CAA Manitoba. [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans will get the chance to meet this season’s quarterbacks at Earls Polo Park today. The men who will lead the team will be available for photos and autographs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. On Saturday, head coach Paul LaPolice and other coaching staff held a similar [...]

Olympic speed skater Cindy Klassen signed dozens of autographs Thursday at Polo Park Shopping Centre. The hometown gal is back in the province after competing at the Vancouver Olympics. She’ll be in Brandon Saturday at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair if you missed her yesterday. View the photo gallery below. Submitted photos by Ted Grant

Olympic speed skater Cindy Klassen will return home to Winnipeg on Thursday for the first time since competing at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Klassen will meet fans and sign autographs beginning at 11 a.m. in the MTS Connect Store at Polo Park Shopping Centre. After taking two years off from skating for double [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein Winnipeg police surrounded the Sears store at Polo Park Shopping Centre at around 4:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon after reports of an individual with a gun. Officers later apprehended a 15-year-old male in the food court in possession of a pellet gun. He is facing numerous charges and has been released on [...]

Winnipeg businessman David Asper and his company, Creswin Properties, were granted another year today to put together the retail development at Polo Park. Profits from the project will eventually fund the new Winnipeg Blue Bombers stadium at the University of Manitoba. Ken Hildahl, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Winnipeg Football Club said [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein Swedish clothing retailer H&M is coming to Winnipeg — that is, if their website is any indication. Most recently, numerous job postings have appeared on their site for a Winnipeg store, which has yet to open. Rumours are that the store will be located in Polo Park Shopping Centre, but that [...]

Wannabe musicians from all walks of life came out to Polo Park Shopping Centre on Saturday in support of a good cause. The Winnipeg Free Press provided us with the photo above of music writer Rob Williams (from left), deputy editor online John White and online content manager Wendy Sawatzky. All three tuned into their [...]

The search is on for Manitoba’s best Guitar Heroes and Rock Band gamers in the second annual Heroes Rock for the Missing competition. It all goes down this weekend, September 26 and 27 at Polo Park Shopping Centre. Gamers will participate in their choice of a Rock Band or Guitar Hero tournament. Wonder if any [...]

Winnipeg’s first Apple Store opened Saturday morning in Polo Park Shopping Centre, as hundreds of customers waiting patiently in line for several hours in anticipation. Kevin Harms and his son, Julian (above), were the first two to make it into the store at 9:30 a.m. Harms said they waited in line since 6 a.m. The [...]

The Apple Store will officially open this Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in Polo Park Shopping Centre. Speculation has been running wild for months now of a rumoured store in Winnipeg. Apple can certainly excite the marketplace, and the lineup outside the store Saturday will most likely be huge. UPDATE: ChrisD.ca will be getting a sneak [...]