HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #8081  
Old Posted Apr 11, 2024, 12:56 AM
urbandreamer's Avatar
urbandreamer urbandreamer is offline
recession proof
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 4,656
I think Leslieville area, Hamilton Mountain/Ancaster, Conestoga Mall, London and maybe in Barrie it could work.

I was listening to this country music station from Listowel, Ontario the other day when I was in Stratford area and kind of enjoyed it:
https://theranch100.com/
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8082  
Old Posted May 7, 2024, 4:09 AM
cslusarc cslusarc is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 286
Retail-Insiders.com reports that Regina's Hudson’s Bay store is closing next year:
Hudson’s Bay To Exit Regina And Close Downtown Cornwall Centre Store In 2025 
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8083  
Old Posted May 23, 2024, 10:54 PM
cslusarc cslusarc is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 286
Luxury beauty brand Clarins to pull out of Hudson's Bay stores in Canada

Also,

That 5-month long strike at Hudson’s Bay in Kamloops with assistance of a provincial mediator.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8084  
Old Posted May 28, 2024, 3:58 PM
ericmacm's Avatar
ericmacm ericmacm is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: SW Ontario
Posts: 811
Freedom Mobile is expanding to Manitoba. Aggressively discounted plans are being offered for the first 6 months. They are also now starting to offer internet and TV packages in Ontario, Alberta, and BC.

Freedom Mobile has come a long way under Quebecor since they took ownership of it. The coverage areas of Videotron and Freedom have been merged together and they have started offering some really affordable plans that offer combined US and CA coverage. The Big 3 have had to step up their game on their offerings over the past year and the cost of data is going down fast.

From just a cursory search, the Q2 2023 data shows Rogers/Bell/Telus have approximately 10-11M mobile subscribers each while Quebecor has approximately 3.6M between both Freedom and Videotron. It is great to see the gap narrowing.

Last edited by ericmacm; May 28, 2024 at 4:31 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8085  
Old Posted May 28, 2024, 9:08 PM
Djeffery Djeffery is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Posts: 4,948
I was willing to give Freedom a look when I was searching new plans over Christmas. Had a look at their coverage map and was less than impressed. I live in Woodstock Ont, and we are in their 4G LTE zone. Meanwhile the sparsely populated farm country immediately east and north east of the city is in the 5G zone. This includes about 8 of the very few km of 401 that has 5G with them from Windsor to west of Toronto.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8086  
Old Posted May 28, 2024, 9:41 PM
ericmacm's Avatar
ericmacm ericmacm is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: SW Ontario
Posts: 811
Quote:
Originally Posted by Djeffery View Post
I was willing to give Freedom a look when I was searching new plans over Christmas. Had a look at their coverage map and was less than impressed. I live in Woodstock Ont, and we are in their 4G LTE zone. Meanwhile the sparsely populated farm country immediately east and north east of the city is in the 5G zone. This includes about 8 of the very few km of 401 that has 5G with them from Windsor to west of Toronto.
That's my problem with them right now. The plans are great but the coverage doesn't work for me. If they had at least the 4G LTE MVNO coverage in rural areas I would be okay with it, but we aren't there yet. They are slowly rolling out their MVNO coverage in other parts of the country (just recently happened in Ottawa, and the Manitoba service will also be through MVNO) so I'm hoping that they can make some more progress on that front in the near future. The $35/mo 50 GB US-CA plan is really tempting.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8087  
Old Posted May 28, 2024, 11:23 PM
svlt svlt is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Canada
Posts: 869
I've wanted to join Freedom for more than a decade since they first launched as Wind mobile. I don't care for the fanciest or fastest speeds, but time and time again the big three Canadian carriers come up with an offer that's actually pretty decent. I'm paying $34 a month and I don't think shaving a couple dollars a month is worth it with Freedom to experience an outage or two once I travel out of a network area.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8088  
Old Posted May 28, 2024, 11:25 PM
MolsonExport's Avatar
MolsonExport MolsonExport is online now
The Vomit Bag.
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Otisburgh
Posts: 46,693
Quote:
Originally Posted by cslusarc View Post
Retail-Insiders.com reports that Regina's Hudson’s Bay store is closing next year:
Hudson’s Bay To Exit Regina And Close Downtown Cornwall Centre Store In 2025 
that sucks. Hudson's Bay has been quietly retreating its footprint in Canadian cities for decades now.

Death by Big Box Barf in the Boonies.
__________________
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8089  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 12:12 AM
ScreamingViking's Avatar
ScreamingViking ScreamingViking is offline
Ham-burgher
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Hamilton
Posts: 6,926
Quote:
Originally Posted by MolsonExport View Post
that sucks. Hudson's Bay has been quietly retreating its footprint in Canadian cities for decades now.

Death by Big Box Barf in the Boonies.
Gotta follow the money.

I remember being bummed out when Eaton's was done. In Hamilton, Hudson's Bay took over the regional Robinson's chain. Which was also sad, but at least it kept the 'anchors' in the city... there is still one HB remaining, but I doubt it will be around for long.

And then we were down to Sears. But that departure has now allowed mall owners to rethink their retail space!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8090  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 3:32 PM
WarrenC12 WarrenC12 is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: East OV!
Posts: 22,443
Quote:
Originally Posted by svlt View Post
I've wanted to join Freedom for more than a decade since they first launched as Wind mobile. I don't care for the fanciest or fastest speeds, but time and time again the big three Canadian carriers come up with an offer that's actually pretty decent. I'm paying $34 a month and I don't think shaving a couple dollars a month is worth it with Freedom to experience an outage or two once I travel out of a network area.
I have been with Freedom since the WIND days. I'm mostly in downtown Vancouver, so YMMV but my experience has been pretty good. For years it was 2nd tier but still well worth the savings. Now my wife and I pay $75 after tax for 2 lines at 30gigs, more than we'd ever need, 5G, and we roam on other networks for no charge when we don't have Freedom service.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8091  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 3:40 PM
Acajack's Avatar
Acajack Acajack is offline
Unapologetic Occidental
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
Posts: 70,208
Quote:
Originally Posted by MolsonExport View Post
that sucks. Hudson's Bay has been quietly retreating its footprint in Canadian cities for decades now.

Death by Big Box Barf in the Boonies.
It's not a downtown store but my guess is that the Hudson's Bay store near me at Les Promenades Gatineau isn't long for this world.
__________________
No, you're not on my ignore list. Because I don't have one.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8092  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 4:53 PM
MolsonExport's Avatar
MolsonExport MolsonExport is online now
The Vomit Bag.
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Otisburgh
Posts: 46,693
Malls without department stores usually become malls depleted of high-end retailers, hastening the transition away from retail.

Does Gatineau have a second HBC store?
__________________
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8093  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 5:26 PM
Acajack's Avatar
Acajack Acajack is offline
Unapologetic Occidental
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
Posts: 70,208
Quote:
Originally Posted by MolsonExport View Post
Malls without department stores usually become malls depleted of high-end retailers, hastening the transition away from retail.

Does Gatineau have a second HBC store?
No, it's our only one. Les Promenades also has a Simons, if you count that as a department store. It seems to be doing quite well. My wife and kids shop at Simons all the time, but almost never set foot in The Bay. So Les Promenades will probably be OK without it, if it closes. Even if it will be a huge hole to fill. (Probably spurring some non-retail development there eventually.)

Department stores are of course a dying breed everywhere. We used to have a Sears at Les Galeries de Hull. That left a huge hole and the entire mall suffered. The space has been partly filled by L'Aubainerie (affordable clothing retailer) but now there are plans to gradually demolish that mall segment-by-segment, replacing most of the mall retail footprint with residential.
__________________
No, you're not on my ignore list. Because I don't have one.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8094  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 5:58 PM
MolsonExport's Avatar
MolsonExport MolsonExport is online now
The Vomit Bag.
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Otisburgh
Posts: 46,693
ah, well that is a good consolation prize (Simons, of which sadly, there are none in London...we have two HBC locations towards the North-South ends of the city). Our "third" major (double storey) mall, Westmount, died a quick death once it was vacated by Sears (at one end) and Target (formerly, Zellers) at the other end. It now specializes as a place for Seniors to do their daily 'mall-walking' programs. The second floor is 100% bereft of retail; the first floor is perhaps 25% occupied with shitty retail (no chains, other than the local sort, and Tims/Bulk Barrel). Our "fourth" multi-storey mall started dying in the 1990s (it was a downtown, Campeau-corp mall, with very upscale stores when it opened), and became a sad ghost town after the Department stores (first Eatons, then the Bay) left. It now looks like this:

__________________
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8095  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 6:01 PM
zahav zahav is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,963
I hope the Bay stabilizes again, they had a decent period before Covid where it seemed to be not sinking quite as much, they had some forward momentum, moreso than lots of other department stores in North America. But not it seems full steam back, to avoid implosion. Losing so many locations in the prairie cities is sad, for them to have no stores outside Saskatoon is weird, their history was so tied to the prairies (not in the best way sadly, but still). They will have 1 location in all of SK. Yet somehow they have 3 locations on Vancouver Island, and 4 in the Okanagan still. They have to just be watching leases as they come up and use that as their guide? Sad
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8096  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 10:05 PM
ericmacm's Avatar
ericmacm ericmacm is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: SW Ontario
Posts: 811
Quote:
Originally Posted by WarrenC12 View Post
I have been with Freedom since the WIND days. I'm mostly in downtown Vancouver, so YMMV but my experience has been pretty good. For years it was 2nd tier but still well worth the savings. Now my wife and I pay $75 after tax for 2 lines at 30gigs, more than we'd ever need, 5G, and we roam on other networks for no charge when we don't have Freedom service.
I had also been with Freedom since WIND up until probably 5 or 6 years ago. It worked fine when I lived in Mississauga as a teenager, but when I moved to Windsor for university the service just didn’t work in the rural areas where I was doing my co-op terms and had to switch. I am looking forward to switching back in the future.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8097  
Old Posted May 29, 2024, 10:14 PM
Djeffery Djeffery is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: London
Posts: 4,948
Quote:
Originally Posted by ericmacm View Post
I had also been with Freedom since WIND up until probably 5 or 6 years ago. It worked fine when I lived in Mississauga as a teenager, but when I moved to Windsor for university the service just didn’t work in the rural areas where I was doing my co-op terms and had to switch. I am looking forward to switching back in the future.
I ended up going back with Bell (mainly because I was taking a plan that came with a new phone and they were strangely enough the easiest to deal with online with my EPP. I was with Telus and even as a current customer, I had to jump through hoops with the EPP). I ended up switching one of my kids' phones over to Public Mobile, which is Telus, and got him on a 50 or 60 GB Canada/US plan for $34/month. He hasn't had any issues, and since my other kid and my wife aren't on contract anymore, I'm debating switching them over as well.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8098  
Old Posted May 30, 2024, 5:52 AM
1overcosc's Avatar
1overcosc 1overcosc is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Eastern Ontario
Posts: 11,935
Quote:
Originally Posted by Djeffery View Post
I was willing to give Freedom a look when I was searching new plans over Christmas. Had a look at their coverage map and was less than impressed. I live in Woodstock Ont, and we are in their 4G LTE zone. Meanwhile the sparsely populated farm country immediately east and north east of the city is in the 5G zone. This includes about 8 of the very few km of 401 that has 5G with them from Windsor to west of Toronto.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ericmacm View Post
That's my problem with them right now. The plans are great but the coverage doesn't work for me. If they had at least the 4G LTE MVNO coverage in rural areas I would be okay with it, but we aren't there yet. They are slowly rolling out their MVNO coverage in other parts of the country (just recently happened in Ottawa, and the Manitoba service will also be through MVNO) so I'm hoping that they can make some more progress on that front in the near future. The $35/mo 50 GB US-CA plan is really tempting.
I've been with Freedom for almost a decade, and I spent a lot of time out camping, hiking, etc. in very rural areas (ie. north of Hwy 7 in east-central Ontario) and honestly, the phone works perfectly fine out there.

The rural coverage is pretty seemless. Since the Videotron takeover, Freedom plans don't have any extra fees for going out of their service areas like they used to.
__________________
"It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves." - Friedrich Hayek
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8099  
Old Posted May 31, 2024, 1:31 PM
Maldive's Avatar
Maldive Maldive is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 4,761
39 of an eventual 50 foodie vendors and the market are now open at The Well.


The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini l nearing completion/market opens


Justelena

The Wellington Market (nicknamed “Well Fed”) just opened a couple of days ago with 38 of an eventual 50 vendors offering myriad options to foodies, and it’s already a big hit.


interchange42

interchange42

Free samples were everywhere.


interchange42

interchange42

interchange42

interchange42

interchange42

interchange42

interchange42

Smaller vendor spots are also included for entrepreneurial foodie start-ups.


interchange42

interchange42

interchange42

The Pier Bar.


UT

Isabella sold out her beloved donuts in no time.


interchange42

interchange42

rdaner

RyanD
__________________
circa 2008: home of the 3rd best skyline in N.A. +++ circa 2028: home of the 2nd best skyline in N.A. (T-Dot)
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #8100  
Old Posted May 31, 2024, 2:56 PM
whatnext whatnext is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 23,470
Quote:
Originally Posted by WarrenC12 View Post
I have been with Freedom since the WIND days. I'm mostly in downtown Vancouver, so YMMV but my experience has been pretty good. For years it was 2nd tier but still well worth the savings. Now my wife and I pay $75 after tax for 2 lines at 30gigs, more than we'd ever need, 5G, and we roam on other networks for no charge when we don't have Freedom service.
Having been with Freedom a few years ago I was shocked at how poor their coverage was in many areas of Metro Vancouver. Maybe it’s improved.
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada
Forum Jump



Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 5:00 PM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.