Aller au contenu

Rechercher dans la communauté

Affichage des résultats pour les étiquettes 'conference'.

  • Rechercher par étiquettes

    Saisir les étiquettes en les séparant par une virgule.
  • Rechercher par auteur

Type du contenu


Forums

  • Projets immobiliers
    • Propositions
    • En Construction
    • Complétés
    • Transports en commun
    • Infrastructures
    • Lieux de culture, sport et divertissement
  • Discussions générales
    • Urbanisme, architecture et technologies urbaines
    • Photographie urbaine
    • Discussions générales
    • Divertissement, Bouffe et Culture
    • L'actualité
    • Hors Sujet
  • Aviation MTLYUL
    • YUL Discussions générales
    • Spotting à YUL
  • Ici et ailleurs
    • Ville de Québec et le reste du Québec
    • Toronto et le reste du Canada
    • États-Unis d'Amérique
    • Projets ailleurs dans le monde.

Calendriers

  • Évènements à Montréal
  • Canadiens de Montréal
  • CF de Montréal

Blogs

  • Blog MTLURB

Rechercher les résultats dans…

Rechercher les résultats qui…


Date de création

  • Début

    Fin


Dernière mise à jour

  • Début

    Fin


Filtrer par nombre de…

Inscription

  • Début

    Fin


Groupe


Location


Intérêts


Occupation


Type d’habitation

  1. le jeudi 20 décembre 2007 Une importante pénurie de main-d'oeuvre guette le Québec dans les trois prochaines années, et la situation va ensuite s'aggraver, selon le Conference Board. L'organisme canadien affirme que la province sera à court de 363 000 travailleurs, d'ici 2030, dans une étude rendue publique mercredi. La pénurie anticipée représentera 8,5 % de la main-d'oeuvre totale du Québec. D'après le groupe de réflexion établi à Ottawa, le Québec, qui manque déjà d'ouvriers spécialisés, connaîtra une pénurie plus généralisée dès 2010. Le besoin serait de 26 000 travailleurs, soit moins de 1 % de la main d'oeuvre totale de la province. En plus des médecins, le Québec manque aussi d'ambulanciers, de professionnels des technologies de l'information et d'ouvriers spécialisés en aéronautique, notamment. Les programmes de formation améliorés, l'accès plus facile à l'éducation et l'appui des investissements dans les nouvelles technologies sont parmi les pistes proposées par le Conference Board afin de pallier la pénurie en vue. L'organisme suggère aussi de recruter plus d'immigrants qualifiés et de simplifier la reconnaissance de leurs diplômes et expériences. Ceci devrait se faire de pair avec la lutte contre la dénatalité et l'embauche de plus d'autochtones, de femmes et d'aînés. La retraite obligatoire a été abolie au Québec, de même qu'en Ontario, au Manitoba, en Alberta, à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, au Yukon et dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest. La Saskatchewan et la Colombie-Britannique devraient faire de même l'an prochain. L'Ontario et l'Alberta, dont l'économie est promise à une plus forte croissance, devront aussi manquer de travailleurs d'ici 2025 ou 2030. SOURCE http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Montreal/2007/12/20/003-penurie-mo_n.shtmlHYPERLIENhttp://www.conferenceboard.ca/documents.asp?rnext=2357
  2. MONTREAL, le 17 sept. /CNW Telbec/ - Monsieur Benoit Labonté, maire de l'arrondissement de Ville-Marie et membre du comité exécutif responsable de la Culture, du Patrimoine, et du Design, et monsieur Karim Boulos, maire suppléant et conseiller d'arrondissement du district de Peter-McGill, vous convient à une conférence de presse au sujet de leurs démissions.
  3. Du site de BBC News - 2 articles sur la conférence à McGill en fin de semaine, in "the Canadian city of Montreal" - lol Forum tackles genocide prevention Local people in front of burnt out buildings in Darfur Delegates said atrocities continued to this day in Darfur A conference in the Canadian city of Montreal has been discussing ways to try to prevent genocide. Delegates heard from survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, as well as genocidal campaigns in Rwanda and Cambodia. Many delegates referred to the current crisis in Darfur, Sudan, which has been described as "genocide in slow motion". "It seems that for the most part the vow of 'never again' was not taken seriously," Payam Akhavan, the conference chair, told AFP news agency. Esther Mujawayo, a Rwandan woman who lost her mother, father and husband in the 1994 genocide, said she was sceptical about the world's willingness to prevent atrocities. "Don't tell me you didn't know. The world did know. The world looked away. You knew but did not have the will," said Mrs Mujawayo. "When the people were evacuating, the French, the Belgians, the Americans, all the expatriates, they even evacuated their dogs and their cats," while Rwandans were left behind, she said. 'Arm opponents' Much of the discussion at the conference, sponsored by McGill University's law faculty, has centred on how to prevent common aspects of genocides, like media outlets demonising potential victims and foreign bureaucratic inertia preventing intervention. But a controversial thesis was also presented by the French scholar, Gerard Prunier. He said the only way to stop government sponsored mass killings was to give military backing to opponents of that government. "If we decide that in fact what is going to happen is of a genocidal dimension, we have to support, including militarily, the people who are fighting against it," he said. He told the BBC that would mean arming and assisting the rebels fighting against government-backed militia in Darfur. Some two million people have been displaced and at least 200,000 have died during the four-year conflict in western Sudan. Can the world stop genocide? Can the world stop genocide? A conference in the Canadian city of Montreal has been discussing ways to prevent genocide. BBC world affairs correspondent Mark Doyle, attending the meeting, asks whether this can be done. Remains of victims of the Rwandan genocide laid to rest at the Murambi Genocide Memorial. Some 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in 100 days in 1994 The 75-year-old woman sat on stage in front of hundreds of United Nations officials, legal experts and academics. The day before, Marika Nene had travelled from Hungary to Canada - the first plane she had ever taken on her first journey outside Hungary. She was not intimidated by the gathering. Her long hair was lit up by a stage light and her facial features were strong. But the strongest thing about Marika Nene, a Roma - or Gypsy - woman who was trapped in the anti-Gypsy pogroms during World War II, was her determination to tell her story. "I had no choice. I had to give myself up to the soldiers," Marika Nene said through a translator. "I was a very pretty little gypsy woman and of course the soldiers took me very often to the room with a bed in it where they violated me. I still have nightmares about it". Many members of Marika Nene's Roma family died in the work camps and the ghettos. She had travelled to Montreal to give a reality check to the experts and UN officials at the "Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide". We do not need to have a legal finding that genocide has been committed in order to take preventive action Payam Akhavan Former war crimes prosecutor She was joined by other survivors - from Rwanda, Cambodia and the Jewish holocaust. They all told their horrific stories bravely. But there was something especially extraordinary about the elderly Roma who had transported herself from a village in eastern Hungary into the glare of an international conference in one of the most modern cities in the world. It was an example of what Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka would later describe to me as one of those points where people meet each other in a spirit of "egalitarian awareness". Six million Jews or one million Tutsis are just numbers. But this strong Roma woman was a human being who was not ashamed to tell her story. Betrayal The Montreal conference drew personalities from the UN, academia and the legal profession. Romeo Dallaire Romeo Dallaire could do little to prevent the Rwandan genocide The general aim was to build pressure on politicians to take mass killings - even in far-off places about which we know little and sometimes care less - far more seriously. If that sounds like a fuzzy and vague ambition, Canadian Gen Romeo Dallaire, who commanded a UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, begged to differ. Gen Dallaire led a force in Rwanda which was betrayed by UN headquarters in New York - his mission was starved of resources and so forced to observe genocide rather than stop it. Since that failed mission, he has made a career out of lobbying politicians to do better on issues like peacekeeping, abolishing the use of child soldiers and nuclear disarmament. "This conference is aimed especially at young people," said Gen Dallaire from a hotel surrounded by the campus buildings of McGill University, which organised the conference. "If these young people became politically active," he continued, "they could dictate a whole new concept of what national interest should be and what humanity should be." What is genocide? Payam Akhavan, professor of international law at McGill and a former prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, said defining genocide mattered from a legal point of view - but that analysing how it could be prevented was the real point. Pol Pot in the 1970s, and shortly before his death in the 1990s Pol Pot, who led Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, was never brought to justice "The legal definition of genocide is contained in the 1948 Genocide convention," he told me. "In simple terms, it is the intentional, collective destruction of an entire human group based on national, racial, religious or ethnic identity." "But the key point", Mr Akhavan continued, "is that we do not need to have a legal finding that genocide has been committed in order to take preventive action." That is because, of course, by the time the lawyers have decided a mass killing fits their definition, it is usually too late to act. The Iranian-born professor said it was necessary to think about the ingredients of genocide, which he listed as: * incitement to ethnic hatred * demonisation of the target group * radicalisation along ethnic or religious lines * distribution of weapons to extremist groups * preparation of lists of those to be exterminated Similarities As someone who personally witnessed and reported on the Rwandan genocide, I found it quite disturbing to read about other mass killings. Genocides can only be stopped by the people directly involved Gerard Prunier It was not the details which I found shocking, but the spooky similarities that kept cropping up across the world. The lists prepared by the Hutu extremists in Rwanda, for example, were mirrored by the obsessive recording of the details of victims by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The yellow identity stars Jews were forced to wear in World War II were the equivalent of the ethnic identity cards every Rwandan had to carry. This is the grim opposite of Wole Soyinka's "egalitarian awareness". It is the social science of genocide, which appears to have common features across history. The conference aimed to isolate and analyse Mr Akhavan's "early warning" factors to raise awareness. But what to do with the information? As speaker after speaker reminded the Montreal conference, the US government, among others, has asserted that genocide is being committed right now in the Darfur region of Sudan. It was continuing even as we sipped our coffee in softly carpeted rooms and nibbled our Canadian canapes. Everyone has known about it for several years but virtually nothing had been done to stop it. A dissident voice So all the talk about "early warnings" and "United Nations peacekeeping forces" and "the will of the international community" could be said to amount to little. Local people in front of burnt out buildings in Darfur The US and others have said a genocide is unfolding in Darfur At this point, a controversial scholar intervened with comments which challenged the entire conference. French author Gerard Prunier, like the proverbial ghost at a wedding, said genocides could not be prevented by the international community. "When you see a dictatorial regime heating up, everyone starts talking, talking, talking ... and by the time the talking stops, either matters have quietened down or they have happened." And that is the crux of the matter, according to Mr Prunier - it is difficult for politicians or the military to intervene in a situation that has not yet evolved into a crisis. Give war a chance? So what is Mr Prunier's solution? "Genocides can only be stopped by the people directly involved - and usually that means people involved in the war that accompanies most mass killings." And if it is the government committing the genocide, the solution is "arm the rebels", he says. "It won't be clean - it will be messy," the French author said, "but it is more likely to stop the mass killing than international intervention." To a large extent, Mr Prunier has history on his side. The Holocaust only ended when the allies destroyed Hitler's regime. The killing fields of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge were only stopped when the Vietnamese army moved in. And the genocide in Rwanda only ended when the Tutsi rebels overthrew the extremist Hutu regime. Against this, it could be argued that some interventions have worked - for example the Nigerian intervention in Liberia, which was followed up by a UN peacekeeping mission. It seems that resolving dramatic human rights abuses may require some of the diplomacy and the "international good will" that flowed so freely in Montreal. But as well as what Winston Churchill called "Jaw Jaw", some situations, it seems, may only be resolved by "War War".
  4. Montreal hosts global programming event By: Rafael Ruffolo ComputerWorld Canada (17 Sep 2007) OOPSLA 2007, an international conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications bringing together a wide variety of computing professionals, is coming to Montreal next month. The conference offers demonstration sessions, panel discussions and keynote speeches geared towards industry practitioners, managers and researchers. Speakers will address subjects such as improving programming languages and software development, as well as exploring new programming methods. The event will also host doctoral students who will get the opportunity to interact and present their work to industry researchers. "We have a fair number of managers from various IT organizations coming to the conference," Richard Gabriel, OOPSLA 2007 conference chair, said. "This year's event in particular has a real superstar lineup as we have some keynote speakers that people in the field would try over a ten-year period to see. But, we've got them all." One such keynote speaker is Gregor Kiczales, a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. Kiczales is known for his work on Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and helped lead the Xerox PARC team that developed the AspectJ programming language. He intends to talk about how people work together toward building and using complicated systems. "We have these very scientific and technical theories that account for how people work together versus the social factors that account for how people work together, and everybody knows that the middle is where the action is," Kiczales said. "The thing I want to claim our field should work on over the next 10 years is that theory in the middle of how people work and how technology works and I think that could have a dramatic impact on what we do." Kiczales said that AOP, which is what he's most known for, touches on these same issues. He said it's about how different people see the same thing in different ways. "I've been working with AOP a little over 10 years now and what I'm trying to do now is go back to this set of intuitions that produced AOP and fish out the next idea," Kiczales said. Because the OOPSLA conference is so diverse, he said, both technologists and methodologists will have the opportunity to hear these ideas together; something the specialized nature of most conferences fail to address. "OOPSLA is really about this mix of people from our field trying to see the ideas that are going to be breaking in about five or 10 years from now," Kiczales said. "The thing that truly makes OOPSLA unique is the mix it brings together with practitioners, managers, consultants and researchers. You have people who believe that technology is the answer, people who believe that methods are the answer, and people who believe that management is the answer. And when you mix these sorts of people together you tend to produce insight." Another notable speaker is John McCarthy, an Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) Turing Award winner, whose credits include coining the term "Artificial Intelligence" as well as inventing the Lisp programming language. McCarthy also did work in computer time-sharing technology and suggested it might lead to a future in which computing power and programs could be sold as a utility. "This is going to be a talk from one of the most famous computer scientists ever at the tail-end of his career," Gabriel said, adding that McCarthy is expected to discuss his work on a programming language called Elephant 2000. "He's been working on it for about 15 years now, but he doesn't talk about it much and has not released many papers on it, so it should be an interesting discussion," Gabriel said. Gabriel said what he knows thus far about McCarthy's proposed programming language is that it's designed for writing and verifying programs that facilitate commercial transactions such as online airline bookings. Frederick Brooke, another ACM Turing Award winner, is also speaking at the event and will discuss how companies can collaborate and "telecollaborate" to achieve conceptual integrity. "He's going to deal with the issue of groups of people who are designing systems together, but aren't situated in the same place," Gabriel said. "A lot of his current research deals around the issue of virtual reality." And speaking of virtual reality, two other notable speakers include Jim Purbrick and Mark Lentczner, who are software engineers behind the virtual world of Second Life. The two will deliver keynotes on the event's Onward, which is about trying to look to the future, Gabriel said. "Large companies like IBM and Sun Microsystems have presences in Second Life, so we're hoping some of the higher level, business-type people who attend will be the target of this keynote." OOPSLA organizers expect roughly 1,200 IT and computing professionals to attend the conference, now in its twenty-second year. The event runs from October 21 to 25, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal.
  5. International Privacy Experts Meet in Montreal 9/7/2007 The privacy world will be in the spotlight as international privacy practitioners meet in Montreal to face rapidly changing technologies and heightened national security concerns. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is hosting the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Montreal from September 25 to 28th. Among the topics to be explored are: public safety, globalization, Radio Frequency Identification, nanotechnology, children and privacy, location-based tracking, data mining and Internet crime. Conference organizers say speakers include: - Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, who will give a keynote address on privacy and public security. - Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel. - Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned privacy and security guru and best-selling author of books such as Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World and Secrets and Lies. - Katherine Albrecht, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on consumer privacy for her work as director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), an organization she founded to address retail privacy invasion. - Simon Davies, a pioneer of the international privacy arena and the founder and director of the watchdog group Privacy International. The complete program and speakers list are available at: www.privacyconference2007.gc.ca.
  6. Le maire Tremblay prend le contrôle du centre-ville «Je pense que si le maire est responsable de tous les maux, alors c’est bien et je l’assume, mais partant de là, il faut des résultats et je veux que les dossiers soient réalisés le plus vite possible», a-t-il dit. Cet été, le patron de Juste pour rire, Gilbert Rozon, avait lancé un pavé dans la mare en accusant Gérald Tremblay de manquer de leadership et de mettre des bâtons dans les roues des promoteurs. Parmi la garde rapprochée de Gérald Tremblay, Benoit Labonté était soupçonné d’avoir cautionné cette sortie. Le maire de Montréal a fait cette annonce durant une conférence de presse hier après-midi pour annoncer l’inspection de structures souterraines privées. Benoit Labonté a été prévenu le matin même vers 8 h, tout juste avant le début de la séance hebdomadaire du comité exécutif. Benoit Labonté conserve néanmoins son siège au comité exécutif où il continuera de s’occuper de la culture, du design et du patrimoine. Le maire de l’arrondissement de Ville-Marie n’a pas voulu accorder d’entrevue. Son porte-parole a indiqué qu’il «respectait» la décision du maire. M. Labonté brillait néanmoins par son absence lors de la conférence de presse. Selon des sources bien informées, le maire de l’arrondissement de Ville-Marie s’attendait à subir une rétrogradation en raison de divergences politiques. Son empressement pour accélérer la réalisation du projet du Quartier des spectacles avait dérangé au sein de l’administration Tremblay-Zampino, a-t-on appris. Le maire Tremblay souhaitait aussi mener de front les dossiers du Quartier des spectacles et de la Société du Havre dans le but d’y laisser son empreinte. Le maire Tremblay a tout de même évité hier de critiquer Benoit Labonté. «Je ne porte pas de jugement, je dis simplement que l’on s’est fixé des objectifs ambitieux mais que je considère réalistes et que ça prend la complicité de l’arrondissement de la ville-centre», a-t-il expliqué. Gérald Tremblay fait valoir que ces dossiers ne concernent pas seulement un seul arrondissement, mais l’ensemble de la ville. Gérald Tremblay a donc précisé qu’il comptait désormais piloter les dossiers majeurs comme celui de la Société du Havre, du Quartier des spectacles, des hôpitaux universitaires, de Griffintown, et de la rue Notre-Dame, entre autres. Il estime que le maire doit être responsable du centre-ville étant donné l’importance de ces projets. «On est rendu à un point où il faut concentrer toute la réalisation de ces dossiers pour qu’on puisse le faire le plus rapidement possible», a-t-il déclaré. Gérald Tremblay participe d’ailleurs cet après-midi à l’annonce d’un investissement du gouvernement du Québec dans la Société du Havre en présence du ministre responsable de la région de Montréal, Raymond Bachand.
  7. Big Conference in Town Thu, 2007-07-26 15:30. Shuyee Lee 3700 conventioneers are descending on Montreal starting tomorrow for a four day meeting. And they'll be bringing their expense accounts with them - good news for the local economy. Volunteers wearing bright red polo shirts around the city will be welcoming delegates of the MPI - Meeting Professionals International - people who plan conventions, seminars and business meetings. It's the biggest MPI convention ever held, with 3700 delegates from around the world, generating as much as 100-million dollars in short and mid-term economic spinoffs if all goes well. Charles Lapointe head of Tourism Montreal says word of mouth can spread. "Oh, I had a good meeting in Montreal, maybe I should bring my group to that city because my delegates will like it." Lapointe is not too worried about the soaring loonie affecting business, saying the overall drop in U.S. tourists is only about 5 per cent and that's across the country.
  8. Digital 04 Studios announced the return of its popular conference in Montreal geared toward the digital art industry. Named Advanced Digital Art Production Techniques (//ADAPT), the conference will feature more than 20 digital art masters, world famous film, vfx and videogame studios. This year, the //ADAPT 2007 Conference will once again be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Montreal, on Sept. 24-28. In addition to the master classes, the four-day event will feature new programs and activities such as the //ADAPT Theater and the //ADAPT Art Expo, designed to promote and inspire artists and display the amazing art work developed in leading films, vfx and videogame productions worldwide. "With this announcement, Digital 04 Studios is proud to once again support this vibrant industry of digital art worldwide." said co-founder Jonathan Abenhaim. Throughout the next few weeks, stay tuned to the new http://www.adaptmontreal.com website for program information and registration. Last year, the //ADAPT 2006 conference registered 900 attendees from all over the world, nearly exceeding capacity. Thirty percent of attendees came from Asia, Europe and the U.S., and were made up of artists, students, film and videogame developers. "We were really amazed with the success of //ADAPT 2006. The participation and interest from artists and studios exceeded our expectations and confirmed the need for such an event," said co-founder Jean-Eric Hénault. Master classes were given by numerous world-renowned artists, such as Syd Mead, Scott Robertson, Iain McCaig and Mark Goerner, who featured their work and art production techniques. In addition to the training, attendees had the opportunity to network & interview with major studios, such as, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Industrial Light & Magic, Lucas Arts, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Artificial Mind and Movement (A2M), Beenox and Hybride. Marc Petit, vp, Autodesk, Media and Ent., stated during his address at the Saturday evening cocktail mixer, "Montreal is the center of the CG universe. ADAPT gives the international 3D community the opportunity to learn from a number of leading artists and network within the industry." Digital 04 Studios, created for artists by artists, is the corporate entity presenting and organizing the //ADAPT Conference. Co-founded by Jean-Eric Hénault, president of CGChannel.com, Emile Ghorayeb, formerly at DreamWorks Animation, and Jonathan Abenhaim, formerly of Ubisoft Ent. The //ADAPT Conference was established in 2006 by Digital 04 Studios to teach advanced digital art production techniques and to promote digital artists worldwide.
  9. La Presse Le mercredi 18 avril 2007 À l'échelle internationale, le nombre de personnes de plus de 60 ans surpasse le nombre d'enfants de cinq ans et moins. Et selon le maire de l'arrondissement de Ville-Marie, Benoit Labonté, la société devra changer quelques-unes de ses habitudes de même que le design de plusieurs structures afin de les rendre plus accessibles aux aînés. M. Labonté était présent hier lors de l'annonce de la neuvième Conférence mondiale sur le vieillissement qui aura lieu à Montréal en septembre 2008. «Nous devons revoir le design des transports en commun, des intersections et de certaines résidences», précise Benoit Labonté. Président-directeur général de Tourisme Montréal, Charles Lapointe cite le domaine du tourisme comme un de ceux devant porter une attention particulière à l'accessibilité des personnes âgées. «Quand je vais dans un hôtel, je fais toujours la même remarque : les chiffres et les lettres du cadran du téléphone devraient être plus gros, de même que les caractères des fiches d'inscription. Le tourisme a encore du chemin à faire pour ce qui est de l'accessibilité des aînés», a-t-il mentionné hier, au Centre des sciences de Montréal. En 2006, au Québec, 14 % de la population était âgée de plus de 65 ans et on estime qu'en 2020, ce nombre atteindra les 21 %. «La population au Québec vieillit. Elle est en santé, mais elle vieillit et c'est une réalité à laquelle nous devons faire face», précise Benoit Labonté, également membre du comité exécutif responsable de la Culture, du Patrimoine, du Centre-Ville et du Design. C'est sur le thème de la santé, de la participation et de la sécurité à travers un environnement propice aux personnes âgées que se déroulera la Conférence mondiale sur le vieillissement au Palais de congrès de Montréal. «Le but recherché est d'améliorer la qualité de vie des aînés dans le monde, a expliqué la présidente de la Fédération internationale du vieillissement (FIV), Irène Hoskins. La majorité des personnes âgées vivent dans des pays en voie de développement. Et dans les pays industriels, l'espérance de vie est de 80 ans.» En plus de la Conférence mondiale sur le vieillissement qui accueillera près de 2000 conférenciers selon les organisateurs, il y aura une conférence et une exposition portant sur le design adéquat permettant l'adaptation au nombre grandissant de personnes âgées. Benoit Labonté soutient que la complémentarité des deux conférences avec l'exposition sur l'aménagement et le vieillissement de la population québécoise ont joué en faveur de la sélection de la ville de Montréal pour être l'hôte de l'événement. «Et l'exposition Design pour une population qui vieillit ne se tiendra pas uniquement en septembre 2008 : elle va revenir tous les trois ans, car ce domaine va évoluer très rapidement», souligne-t-il. Il s'agit de la deuxième Conférence mondiale sur le vieillissement à avoir lieu à Montréal, l'événement s'y étant aussi tenu en 1999.
  10. L'Autorité obtient la tenue à Montréal de la 35e Conférence annuelle de l'Organisation internationale des commissions de valeurs Montréal accueillera la 35e Conférence annuelle de l'Organisation internationale des commissions de valeurs en juin 2010, a annoncé l'Autorité des marchés financiers jeudi. Cette conférence accueillera des délégués de haut niveau provenant de plus d'une centaine de pays. Ceux-ci discuteront des enjeux touchant l'encadrement des marchés financiers et poursuivront leurs efforts visant à définir des principes élevés de réglementation acceptés à l'échelle mondiale. Le choix de Montréal a été révélé lors de la 32e Conférence annuelle de l'OICV qui se tient actuellement à Mumbai, en Inde, et à laquelle l'Autorité participe. Créée en 1983, l'OICV est une organisation internationale regroupant les régulateurs des principales bourses et marchés financiers dans le monde. Elle dénombre plus de 190 membres dont l'Autorité des marchés financiers, l'organisme de réglementation et d'encadrement du secteur financier du Québec.
  11. Le Conference Board prédit la plus forte croissance provinciale à Terre-Neuve 23 février 2007 | Presse Canadienne, OTTAWA (PC) - L'économie de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador devrait connaître la meilleure performance au pays cette année, avec une croissance de 5 pour cent, estime le Conference Board du Canada. "Cette vigueur, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador la doit à l'augmentation de la production minière, a expliqué vendredi dans un communiqué Marie-Christine Bernard, directrice associée aux prévisions provinciales. La mine de Voisey's Bay et le champ pétrolier en mer Terra Nova sont à présent opérationnels, et la production pétrolière de White Rose devrait croître." Toutefois, prévoit le Conference Board, l'essoufflement de la production pétrolière en 2008 portera un dur coup à la croissance économique. Terre-Neuve et l'Ouest canadien continueront de dépasser les autres provinces cette année, mais l'année prochaine, la vague de prospérité atteindra les provinces du centre du pays, a indiqué le Conference Board. Au Québec, une hausse du revenu net d'impôt est prévue en raison des augmentations salariales et des dispositions législatives sur l'équité salariale qui entrent en vigueur cette année, amenant de meilleures ventes au détail. Le groupe de recherche prévoit que la croissance du PIB réel québécois sera de 2,4 pour cent en 2007. Selon le Conference Board, l'économie de l'Ontario demeure parmi les plus faibles du pays cette année, avec une croissance du PIB réel d'à peine 1,9 pour cent. La province passe par une restructuration de l'industrie de l'automobile, et les ventes au détail y sont modestes en comparaison avec la moyenne nationale. Après une croissance de 6,3 pour cent l'an dernier, le produit intérieur brut réel de l'Alberta devrait augmenter d'un peu plus de 4 pour cent au cours de chacune des deux prochaines années, notamment en raison des prix élevés du pétrole, estime le groupe de recherche. A l'exception de l'Ile-du-Prince-Edouard, les perspectives pour les provinces de l'Atlantique sont plus encourageantes cette année. Au Nouveau-Brunswick, d'importants projets d'immobilisations entraîneront une croissance de 2,7 pour cent du PIB réel. En Nouvelle-Ecosse, le Conference Board s'attend à ce que la production minière affiche des gains supérieurs à 10 pour cent, ce qui se soldera par une croissance de 2,3 pour cent de l'économie globale de la province.
  12. Conference Board of Canada Report Calls for City Investments Invest in major cities now or pay price, report warns Environment, global competitiveness, arts and culture at risk, board advises Toronto Star 6 February 2007 Failing to boost Canada's cities will damage the environment, cost billions of dollars in productivity and perhaps even kill Canadian arts and culture as we know them, a new report says. A long-awaited study by the Conference Board of Canada released today says Canadian cities have been forgotten for too long and that failing to inject needed capital will hurt the entire country. "The distinctive needs of Canada's six big cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa-Gatineau, Calgary and Edmonton) are being ignored. Chronically short of resources and poorly equipped with governance powers, our big cities are struggling to fulfill their potential as engines of national prosperity. Citizens and leaders alike must recognize that big cities are intrinsically different from smaller cities and towns in both their higher economic potential and their greater needs." Canada has slipped to 12th from third in the world in comparative economic performance in just two years, the board said, and the only way to fix that is to make up for decades of neglect in Canadian cities by making investments now. "Neither our cities nor our economy will be globally competitive" if that investment doesn't take place, the report states in the kind of language that big business and the federal Tories might relate to. "We are also unlikely to sustain the arts and culture that are so important to Canadian identity." The report said 80 per cent of Canadians live in urban areas. But Canada is still using government structures and ideas brought in when most Canadians awoke to the sound of mooing cows or chirping birds and not garbage trucks and car alarms. "We still think of ourselves as a rural nation, and we have to start internalizing the fact that we're urban," Conference Board president and CEO Anne Golden told the Star's editorial board yesterday. While some of the themes aren't new, the fact that the report comes from such a highly respected body - the Conference Board of Canada is a non-profit and non-partisan group - lends further weight to the arguments of those pushing for a new deal for Canadian cities. "Big city mayors are right when they say there's all this talk about fiscal imbalance vertically between the federal government or horizontally among the provinces, but the real fiscal imbalance is at the city level, the municipal level," Golden said. "It's a combination of rising needs and expectations and shrinking resources. It's impossible to ... really compete with the cities in the world that are competing with us, from Tokyo to Glasgow to New York to London, unless we put our own house in order." The report says Ottawa and provincial governments should "work to end the municipal fiscal imbalance for major cities, potentially through such means as granting access to a growth tax, increasing transfers and reassuming responsibility for previously off-loaded services." It also argues that provinces have to give cities wider taxation powers and that cities have to find cost savings and better use the tools they already have. The Conference Board report, titled "Mission Possible: Successful Canadian Cities," found that investing in nine key cities would be a "win-win" proposition for all residents of the country. "New research by The Conference Board of Canada shows that economic growth in each of the nine Canadian 'hub' cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton) generates an even faster rate of economic growth in other communities in their province or region," the report states. "Increasing resources allocated to major cities would have a substantial impact on accelerating national economic growth." "We're not saying invest all money in our major cities," said Golden, who's slated to speak to the Toronto Board of Trade today and will appear with Toronto Mayor David Miller on Friday at an Ottawa gathering of Canada's big city mayors. "We're arguing for strategic investment." The board said a 2004 report found that Toronto was the only Canadian city to make a list of so-called "well-rounded global cities," and it said it will take willpower and co-ordination to boost Canadian cities up the rankings. "At the very least," the report said, "Canadian public policy should focus on ensuring that Toronto has the resources to maintain its singular status among global cities." While the report pushes for major investment in big cities, it also argues that governments must continue to help smaller cities. Among the recommendations: Governments work together to intensify urban growth and cut down on damaging suburban sprawl. The federal and provincial governments prepare a national urban transportation strategy. Federal and provincial governments increase their investments in affordable housing in major cities. Federal and provincial governments "design new approaches to municipal funding to permit the strategic allocation of funds in line with the distinct needs and potential of major cities." The board states that municipalities are hampered because senior levels of government have shifted responsibilities to local governments and that cities don't have access to taxes that grow when the economy grows. In 1993, federal and provincial transfer payments to local governments accounted for 25 per cent of municipal revenues. By 2004, the board said, that had dropped to just 16 per cent. The authors note that citizens expect their municipalities to provide parks, police, garbage collection and snow removal. But cities today also have to manage high-cost security concerns to prevent terrorism and handle a growing array of environmental problems related to energy use, waste management and urban transportation, the board said. Thirty one U.S. states have a local sales tax, the report said, while 3,800 local governments in the U.S. have local income taxes. But Canadian cities rely almost entirely on property taxes.
×
×
  • Créer...