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  1. http://francais.mcgill.ca/channels/announcements/item/?item_id=154297 http://francais.mcgill.ca/channels/announcements/item/?item_id=163571
  2. Je ne crois pas qu'on avait de fil pour ce projet. Nouveau projet de Développements McGill http://www.habiter.com/lachine/fr/
  3. McGill Residences expands with the purchase of third hotel Set to open fall 2011, Courtyard Marriott will be converted to student housing By Emilio Comay del Junco and Stephen Davis Published: Apr 28 McGill has bought the Courtyard Marriott at 410 Sherbrooke O. to convert into student housing for fall 2011. A member of the Board of Governors – the University’s highest governing body – as well as Doug Sweet, director of McGill’s Media Relations Office, confirmed the purchase. The Marriott will join converted hotels New Residence Hall and Carrefour Sherbrooke, opened fall 2009. The financial details of the transaction are currently unavailable. An official announcement from the University is rumored to be scheduled for tomorrow, when the hotel is also set to stop its current operations. http://mcgilldaily.com/articles/30548
  4. Couple of old projects that never saw the light of day as they were planned ...Cite Concordia was drastically downsized and redesigned... Dashed projects - 1968 Two downtown projects that never happened. The Eaton-Mace project was a $125,000,0000 building slated for the area bounded by St. Catherine and Sherbrooke between University & Mansfield. It was guided by Brigadier-General Gordon Dorward de Salaberry Wotherspoon. The Montreal Trust mortgage group took it over after Mace ran out of cash. The Place de la Concorde was a $250,000,000 project to be plopped between Milton and Pine, Ste. Famile and Hutchison, roughly the area of what they tried to do a couple of years later with the La Cite project which would have levelled much of the McGill ghetto had it not it not been largely blocked by protests. I was not able to post it in cancelled projects!!
  5. Publié le 17 août 2009 à 05h00 | Mis à jour à 08h12 La chaleur urbaine gagne la banlieue Charles Côté La Presse Les centres commerciaux et les parcs industriels qui se multiplient en banlieue créent de plus en plus d'îlots de chaleur urbains, selon les plus récentes images réalisées par le département de géographie de l'UQAM. Selon les relevés satellitaires effectués par l'équipe de l'UQAM, que La Presse a obtenus en primeur, il peut y avoir des écarts de plus de 15°C entre une zone «fraîche» et un îlot de chaleur voisin. Les îlots de chaleur urbains sont un problème de santé publique grandissant. Ils surviennent quand la végétation est remplacée par des constructions ou de l'asphalte. Ils aggravent les problèmes de santé qui surgissent lors des vagues de chaleur. «Si on vit près d'une telle zone, on sent son influence, affirme James A. Voogt, professeur à l'Université Western Ontario. La chaleur se transmet à l'air qui se déplace.» De 2005 à 2008, des nouvelles zones de chaleur intense ont apparu à quatre intersections d'autoroutes: celle de la 640 et de la 25, à Terrebonne et Mascouche; celle de la 640 et de la 15, à Boisbriand; celle de la 30 et de la 15, à Candiac, et bien sûr celle de la 10 et de la 30 à Brossard, où est installé le centre commercial DIX30. Cependant, dans la région métropolitaine, c'est l'usine de Bombardier, dans Saint-Laurent, qui s'illustre comme l'îlot le plus chaud. Au moment du relevé de 2008, réalisé le 5 juillet à 10h25, il faisait 41,9°C sur les terrains de Bombardier, comparativement à 21,7°C non loin de là; c'est un écart de plus de 20°C. Mal conçus, des quartiers résidentiels en apparence verts peuvent aussi donner chaud à leurs habitants, ce qui entraîne des dépenses supplémentaires de climatisation. Pourtant, quelques détails dans la planification et les plantations d'arbres peuvent faire toute la différence, selon le professeur de géographie Yves Baudouin, qui a réalisé l'étude de l'UQAM avec ses étudiants. «On a observé deux quartiers à peu près du même âge, un à Ahuntsic et l'autre à Pointe-Claire, où il y a de grandes différences de température. À Pointe-Claire, les rues sont beaucoup trop larges et il n'y a pas suffisamment d'arbres.» Les îlots de chaleur urbains à Montréal. Vaste problème La carte montréalaise des îlots de chaleur urbains donne l'impression que le problème est trop grand pour s'y attaquer. Une équipe d'étudiants en urbanisme de l'Université McGill a voulu trouver une façon de cibler les priorités. Ils ont croisé les relevés satellitaires de l'UQAM avec les données sur l'âge et le revenu des habitants. Ils ont constaté que les coups de chaleur frappent plus durement les enfants et les personnes âgées, d'autant plus s'ils sont à faible revenu. «La Ville devrait se préoccuper du problème là où il touche vraiment des gens exposés à des problèmes de santé, dit l'une des étudiantes, Julia Lebeveda. S'il y a des personnes seules et âgées, par exemple.» Dans un rapport remis en 2007 à la Ville de Montréal, l'équipe de McGill a dessiné une carte de la vulnérabilité aux îlots de chaleur urbains. Deux quartiers ressortent comme particulièrement vulnérables: Parc-Extension et Saint-Michel. En regardant de plus près un secteur de Saint-Michel, l'équipe de McGill a trouvé des rues comme la 12e et la 13e avenue entre les rues Émile-Journault et Robert, où le risque lié à l'effet des îlots de chaleur urbains est extrême. Il n'y a pratiquement pas d'arbres et le béton, l'asphalte et les toits goudronnés sont omniprésents. Le fait que de nombreuses personnes âgées à faible revenu y vivent en fait une zone où une intervention serait prioritaire, selon eux. Comme casser l'asphalte et planter des arbres. Nécessaire verdissement «Nous recommandons d'augmenter la végétation et de réduire les surfaces noires, dit Chen F. Chan, étudiant à McGill. Les rues à Saint-Michel sont trop larges. En réduisant les surfaces, on peut en plus économiser en déneigement l'hiver.» Clément Charrette, conseiller en aménagement de l'arrondissement de Saint-Michel, affirme que le pouvoir d'intervention de la Ville «est limité pour ce qui est déjà construit». «Cependant, dans nos projets, on s'assure qu'on a un plan d'intégration et d'implantation architecturale qui intègre des éléments pour contrer la chaleur.» Cela vaut aussi pour l'ancienne carrière Francon, où un autre centre commercial doit être construit. «Ils ont l'obligation de présenter un projet de développement durable et d'augmenter le verdissement», dit-il. La Ville de Montréal travaille à un Plan de verdissement et continue ses plantations d'arbres: il y en a eu 10 000 en 2008. La Soverdi, organisme qui collabore avec la Ville, en a cependant planté beaucoup moins en 2008: 600 au lieu de 6000. «On n'a pas eu de grands espaces pour planter, dit Pierre Bélec, de la Soverdi. Par contre, le programme de verdissement des ruelles a vraiment pris son envol. On en a fait une quinzaine et on devrait atteindre la trentaine.» Les actions de la Ville de Montréal, bien que nombreuses, manquent d'envergure, dit Coralie Deny, du Conseil régional de l'environnement de Montréal. «À Montréal, on doit mettre l'accent sur les stationnements "frais", dit-elle. Il faudrait un règlement pour les nouveaux stationnements. Pour les existants, c'est déjà plus compliqué, mais il y a des choses à faire.»
  6. Projet pilote pour la piétonisation de la rue McTavish Du 3 août au 6 novembre 2009, la section de la rue McTavish entre la rue Sherbrooke et l'avenue Docteur-Penfield sera réservée à la circulation locale seulement, dans le cadre d'un projet pilote pour l'éventuelle piétonisation de ce tronçon. Ce projet de piétonisation s'inscrit dans le cadre du "Projet vert de McGill", un vaste programme de l'Université visant le développement de son milieu naturel et comportant plusieurs initiatives durables, dont l'aménagement paysager et la piétonisation du campus central. Pour assurer le suivi du projet pilote, un comité composé de représentants de l'arrondissement de Ville-Marie, de l'Université McGill, du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal et de résidants sera formé. Un projet de piétonisation de cette section de la rue McTavish sera examiné au printemps 2010. Outre l'idée de contribuer au renforcement de l'identité de l'Université McGill, le projet de réappropriation de l'espace urbain situé sur la rue McTavish par la clientèle universitaire et les gens du quartier permettra la création d'un milieu de vie complet et convivial axé sur les déplacements actifs et sur la mise en valeur des espaces verts
  7. FRED

    Le concept Müvbox

    Au Quai des Éclusiers, dans le Vieux-Port de Montréal (angle McGill et de la Commune) http://www.muvboxconcept.com
  8. s McGill University becoming the Donald Trump of higher education? First the school purchased the Renaissance Hotel on Park Ave. in 2003 to turn it into a dormitory, and now it’s apparently in the market to buy the Four Points Sheraton on Sherbrooke St. W., two blocks east of the downtown campus. Science student Billi Wun, vice-president of the First Year Council, told the students’ society newspaper The McGill Tribune this week that FYC president Sean Husband confirmed the news. Husband, whom Wun described as the liaison with the First Year Office, informed the council there are negotiations between McGill and the hotel. Spokespeople for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., parent company of the 196-room Four Points, didn’t return calls to headquarters in White Plains, N.Y. “McGill has a policy of not discussing real estate transactions in public,” university spokesman Doug Sweet said on Thursday. Maintaining that no-comment rule, the executive director of residences and student housing did acknowledge that McGill operates at a 97.5 per cent occupancy rate. “We’re generally full and over at the beginning of the year,” Michael Porritt said, referring to the approximately 2,800 mostly first-year students housed annually. Porritt said the former Renaissance Hotel that McGill transformed into a 700-bed dorm in the the fall of 2003 is regularly at 99 per cent occupancy. There is other off-campus housing at McGill-owned Selwyn Hall in St. Henri as well as property leased at the Presbyterian College on University St. and an apartment building on Ste. Catherine St. W. Jean Lortie, president of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux’s commercial wing that represents hotel workers, said he is skeptical about such a deal. A search by the union found no proof of a transaction or request with the city for a zoning change. Instead, he suggested it’s an employer pressure tactic to end a labour conflict at the Four Points – where about 90 workers have been on strike since last Aug. 25. Lortie recalled that when there was a walkout at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal further west on Sherbrooke in 2005, “there were rumours it was being sold to McGill.” The university never disclosed what it paid for the Renaissance, but it did cash in a $150-million, 40-year bond for the acquisition. mking@thegazette.canwest.com
  9. Looks like the outside is getting a face lift.
  10. L’Industrielle-Alliance investit 100M$ à Montréal Denis Lalonde, lesaffaires.com 7 octobre 2008 Pour en savoir plus Autres textes : Industrielle-Alliance 1981 McGill College Articles de l'industrie L’Industrielle-Alliance a acquis une participation de 50% dans la société Edifice 1981 McGill College, propriétaire de l’édifice du même nom situé au centre-ville de Montréal, pour un montant de 100 millions de dollars. La société acquiert l’immeuble qui regroupe deux tours à bureaux inter-reliées avec un partenaire financier dont l’identité n’a pas été révélée. Construit en 1981, le 1981 McGill College est un édifice de classe A qui comprend deux tours de 16 et 20 étages totalisant 625 000 pieds carrés de superficie locative. L’avenue McGill College est l'une des artères les plus prestigieuses de Montréal, au coeur du milieu des affaires. Cette acquisition porte à 28 le nombre d'édifices dont l'Industrielle Alliance est propriétaire au Canada, pour une superficie locative totale de 4 millions de pieds carrés et une valeur marchande de quelque 600 millions de dollars. Dans la région de Montréal, l'Industrielle Alliance est propriétaire de plusieurs édifices, dont la Tour L'Industrielle-Vie et le 2200 McGill College, deux édifices à bureaux situés en face du 1981, avenue McGill College.
  11. Cominar achète le 2001 McGill College Le 2001, McGill College. 2 octobre 2008 - 11h12 Presse Canadienne Le Fonds de placement immobilier Cominar (CUF.UN) a annoncé jeudi qu'il avait acquis, pour 165 M$, la tour de bureaux de 24 étages située au 2001, avenue McGill College, à Montréal. Le nom du vendeur n'a pas été précisé. Pour financer la transaction, Cominar a conclu une entente à long terme d'environ 97,2 M$ avec une compagnie d'assurance canadienne. Le solde du prix d'achat sera réglé par prélèvement sur les facilités de crédit courantes de Cominar. L'immeuble, d'une superficie de 528 532 pieds carrés, est situé du côté est de l'avenue McGill College, au coin de la rue Sherbrooke Ouest. Il est relié à des immeubles historiques en pierre grise de quatre étages situés sur la rue Sherbrooke. Click here to find out more! L'immeuble a un taux d'occupation actuel de 90%. La clôture de l'acquisition est assujettie à la procédure usuelle d'enregistrement des immeubles, qui doit suivre son cours dans les prochains jours. Cette acquisition, jugée importante par Cominar, porte la valeur des actifs de l'entreprise à environ 1,7 G$. Michel Dallaire, président et chef de la direction de Cominar, a affirmé, jeudi, au moment de l'annonce de cette transaction, que la compagnie était activement à la recherche d'un immeuble de bureaux à acquérir à Montréal depuis que le Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) a entamé en juin 2006 une procédure d'expropriation à l'égard d'un de ses immeuble de bureaux situé au 300, avenue Viger Est, à Montréal. Cominar est le plus important propriétaire et gestionnaire d'immeubles commerciaux au Québec. L'entreprise possède un portefeuille immobilier composé de 213 immeubles comprenant 37 immeubles de bureaux, 39 immeubles commerciaux et 137 immeubles à caractère industriel et polyvalent qui couvrent une superficie totale de 18,1 millions de pieds carrés dans les régions de Québec, de Montréal et d'Ottawa.
  12. Canada falls behind in basic worker benefits: McGill study Doesn't measure up to other countries on sick leave, vacation time and breastfeeding breaks MIKE KING, The Gazette Published: 6 hours ago mike king the gazette Canada is perennially a top-10 finisher in United Nations rankings as one of the best countries in the world to live in. But a new McGill University study indicates that Canada lags behind many other countries on some basic worker benefits. The school's Institute for Health and Social Policy conducted recently an international survey that is the first research of its type to measure Canadian laws and practices vs. those of 180 other countries in such areas as maternity leave, annual paid vacations, sick leave and breaks for breastfeeding mothers. The Work Equity Canada (WECan) index, conducted by the institute's Jody Heymann, Martine Chaussard and Megan Gerecke, found Canada scores well for having policies that guarantee paid leave to care for dependents with serious illnesses. But Canada fared worse in other areas. The 78-page report notes: - In nearly 90 other countries, workers are guaranteed three weeks or more of paid leave a year, while most Canadian workers with a year's tenure are guaranteed only two. In Ontario, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon, even workers with long service are guaranteed just two weeks of vacation. - At least 156 countries provide leave for sick workers, 81 of them offering full wage replacement. Canada guarantees just more than half as much, 55 per cent of insurable income, with most provinces and territories not guaranteeing job protection during leaves of more than 12 days. - More than 100 countries officially provide new mothers in the formal workforce with complete wage replacement during maternity leave. Most women in Canada are only guaranteed 55 per cent of their insurable income during maternity leave. Quebec is the exception, with women receiving 70 to 75 per cent of their insured income. - Since breastfeeding has been proven to dramatically reduce illness and death among infants and toddlers, 114 countries have laws guaranteeing women the right to a break to breastfeed at work. Not a single province guarantees the same benefit. On leave for dependents with serious illnesses, Canada is one of 39 countries with such leaves with pay and among them one of only 16 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development members making the guarantee. Institute director Heymann notes there's a wide variation in laws and practices from province to province, especially when it comes to helping parents handle pregnancy and childbirth. "Quebec offers parents more choice, higher wage replacement rates and five weeks paternity leave for men's exclusive use," Heymann said. "In addition, Quebec allows self-employed workers to opt out into parental benefits," she added. "No such provisions exist for self-employed workers in the rest of Canada" - a group that makes up 15 per cent of the employed workforce. René Roy, secretary-general of the Quebec Federation of Labour, said he's studying the McGill report and isn't ready yet to comment on it. To view the full report, visit http://www.mcgill.ca/ihsp mking@thegazette.canwest.com
  13. UQAM's financial fiasco is a major problem for Montreal The university is key to educating our local workforce HENRY AUBIN The Gazette Tuesday, June 10, 2008 I'd argue that the No. 1 short-term problem that the Montreal area faces today is the financial fiasco at the Université du Québec à Montréal. (Long-term problems such as decaying infrastructure and adapting the region to climate change are another story.) It's easy to overlook UQAM's importance. Its not the most prestigious of the four universities that are the four pillars of the region's knowledge economy. Yet UQAM's role in forming an educated local workforce is arguably greater than that of the most internationally renowned school, McGill. That's because a greater share - far greater - of its graduates actually remain in the metropolitan area and make their careers here. UQAM's real-estate expansion has rung up a debt costing $50,000 a day in interest. It could reach half a billion dollars by 2012. To reduce costs, the university cut its operating budget by 10 per cent, hiked student fees and announced the elimination of 30 specialized programs (each of which typically contains four courses). In all, it's cutting $41 million per year for five years. But this is hardly enough. To be sure, the Charest government would never let the university downsize drastically. UQAM is too valuable economically. The political cost to any government would be too great. But there has been profound damage to the institution's reputation - which is ironic, given that the aim of the expansion, centred on the construction of two glittering new downtown campuses, was in large part to lend UQAM prestige. More important, however, will be the damage to the calibre of the education itself. How many professors will not be hired? How many more courses will be dropped? How many potential students will decide against going to university because of spiralling fees and slipping quality? The crisis raises two questions. The first: Who ought to pay for whatever is needed to bring the university back to health? The bill could come to about $300 million. Should the university pay? Or should Quebec taxpayers pick up this hefty tab? The argument in favour of the university paying for itself would be that it is the author of its misfortune. No one told it to build the science campus (completed between Sherbrooke St. and Place des Arts) and the humanities campus (unfinished at the Voyageur bus terminal). UQAM's new head, Claude Corbo, who has the unenviable job of cleaning up UQAM's finances, made the case last week that Quebec taxpayers should pay. I have deep respect for Corbo's record of public service over the decades, but his argument is weak. He said that since Quebec paid for the Laval métro's cost overruns, it should now pay for UQAM's. That would bolster the idea that planners of public projects can toss prudence to the winds. Indeed, as Quebec's auditor-general showed last week, accountability was dysfunctional at every level. UQAM's head at the time, Roch Denis, kept real-estate details from UQAM's board of governors, the board placed too much trust in Denis, the body that oversees the Université du Québec's six universities across the province was asleep at the switch and so was the person at the top, then-education minister Jean-Marc Fournier. The problem for his successor, Michelle Courchesne, however, is this: If she does the principled thing and makes UQAM pay for its errors, this could further harm the institution's quality. No one wants that. The second question is: How do you change the culture of laxity the is at the root of this project? The UQAM and Laval métro debacle are examples of a trend. Major projects in Montreal tend to elude serious study. McGill and the Université de Montréal wasted years dreaming up grandiose hospitals that, even now that their scale is smaller, keep climbing in cost. Highway 25 and U de M's Outremont campus have never received adequate study. And two big projects of the day, Quartier des spectacles and the private Griffintown mega-project are also avoiding credible scrutiny. I've written about this absence of checks and balances for four years. The void is as glaring as ever. True, the arrival of public-private partnerships (in the case of the hospitals and the highway) could keep taxpayers from getting hit by cost overruns. But PPPs address the management of projects, not their justification. The core problem remains After the Olympic Stadium fiasco, a provincial inquiry headed by the late Judge Albert Malouf urged screening of major projects by independent experts. How many more clinkers must Quebecers endure before politicians accept that common sense? - - - The knowledge economy's four pillars The Université du Québec à Montreal produces the second most diplomas and certificates of Montreal's universities. The figures are from 2006. University Baccalaureat Masters Doctorate Total* Concordia 4,379 1,080 72 5,833 McGill 4,665 1,499 345 7,608 UQAM 4,466 1,542 115 10,303 Univ. de Montréal 5,030 1,433 257 11,286 Source: Ministry of Education *including certificates http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/viewpoints/story.html?id=c694a84a-2719-4a9b-ac0c-b290eb76b092
  14. Top Asian team at global business challenge 31 March 2008 NUS' MBA team beat more than 270 Asian teams to emerge the best in the continent at Cerebration 2008, with DBS as principal sponsor. The Competition is an annual global business challenge organized by the NUS Business School. The team finished second overall among the more than 450 participating teams from 200 business schools worldwide. HEC Montreal team emerged the champion, with the London Business School and McGill University completing the final field of four. Now in its fourth year, the competition gives MBA students a chance to devise global business expansion strategies for participating Singapore companies -- Brewerkz Restaurant and Microbrewery, Expressions International and Qian Hu Corp. Each team had to study its chosen firm and come up with strategies based on the firm’s unique profile and target market. This is the second straight year that the NUS team has finished second in the competition, reflecting the School’s global ranking of the top 100 business schools for its MBA program.
  15. John Molson Sir George Simpson Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal Crystal Pub pour Standard Life Tour assez spéciale sur Sherbrooke(le camion de Videotron est de trop) Roc Fleury 1200 maisonneuve Crystal (bis) ETS Lowney Viaducs McGill Ouest Québécor Place de la cité internationale Tour de la Bourse Quebecor (Bis) Westin
  16. McGill takes 12th spot in global ranking ELIZABETH CHURCH From Thursday's Globe and Mail November 8, 2007 at 5:05 AM EST An international ranking of universities has put Montreal's McGill University in 12th spot, the highest rank to be reached by a Canadian institution. The annual rating, done by London-based Times Higher-QS World University Rankings, moved McGill up from its 21st placement last year. Ten other Canadian universities made the top 200 list, with the University of British Columbia finishing in the 33rd spot and the University of Toronto in the 45th. "This is such a source of pride for us. It shows that McGill is moving in the right direction," principal Heather Munroe-Blum said. The placement means McGill is now the top-ranked public university in North America, she said. It also demonstrates that the practice of concentrating resources on areas of excellence such as neuroscience, developmental biology and law is showing results, she added. "We have chosen our spots very carefully in areas where we can be leaders in the world." The rating, which was to be released this morning in London, comes at an important time for McGill as it looks to tap its network of alumni for a major fundraising campaign and is striving to increase its profile. Harvard University once again was placed at the top of the international ranking, which was conducted by an independent firm, sold off by the owners of the Times of London in 2005. Oxford, Cambridge and Yale all shared second place. The survey considers a number of factors in its rankings and gathers input from more than 5,000 academics around the world.
  17. Finance guys all have Montreal roots Despite similar backgrounds, paths never crossed Elizabeth Thompson, Gazette Ottawa Bureau Published: 5 hours ago OTTAWA - They grew up only a few miles apart, when Montreal reigned as Canada's financial centre. All are products of English Montreal schools, born within five years of each other. They had newspaper routes - two hauling The Gazette; the third the Montreal Star. All three have sons. In all cases, their mothers have survived their fathers. All saw major changes to their careers at about the same time, in 1994-95. Before they were handed the finance portfolio by their respective parties, Conservative Jim Flaherty, Liberal John McCallum and New Democrat Thomas Mulcair's paths had never crossed. Now, as MPs prepare to deal with the mini-budget Flaherty is to deliver Tuesday, the paths of the three Montreal anglos will cross often. If you include Bloc Quebecois finance critic Paul Crete, who hails from Herouxville, all four MPs tasked with the finance portfolio grew up in Quebec. Typical of Montreal's anglo community, two of them - Flaherty and McCallum - headed down the 401 for better opportunities and now represent ridings in the Toronto area. However, all three say the experience of growing up as English Montrealers still influences how they approach life - and finance. Born Dec. 30, 1949, the finance minister is the oldest. Sixth of eight children in an Irish Catholic family, Flaherty grew up in a modest house on Broadway Ave. in Lachine. "I look at what my own kids expect today, their own rooms and so on," the father laughed of three sons. "We dreamed about that kind of thing." It was also in that neighbourhood the man who is now responsible for raising revenue for the government had his first job, delivering copies of the Star. "I had to go out and collect from people." After elementary school, Flaherty went to Loyola High School. While there, his family moved to N.D.G. in a house where his mother still lives. A hockey scholarship took him to Princeton University at age 16 in the mid-1960s. From there he did his law degree at Osgoode Hall in Toronto. Flaherty said his upbringing in Montreal and his years at Loyola are reflected in some of the measures he has introduced, such as his ground-breaking registered disability savings plan. "Those are part of the values that I grew up with. That you look to see if there is uneveness and try to level the playing field. Not to make everyone the same but to make sure everyone has equal opportunity. I think that comes from growing up in Montreal." Watching Canada's financial centre shift from Montreal to Toronto also influenced Flaherty. "We grew up thinking of Montreal as a financial centre. Of course, later Toronto grew as a financial centre and now Calgary. So it teaches me the dynamism of the movement of capital." Studying the movement of capital is what took McCallum to Toronto when he left his job as a professor at McGill University in 1994 to become chief economist for the Royal Bank. Born April 9, 1950, one of four children, McCallum's upbringing was perhaps the most privileged. He was raised in Pointe Claire, Senneville (where he delivered The Gazette) and then Westmount, where he attended Selwyn House. From 14 to 18, McCallum boarded at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ont., then studied in Cambridge and Paris before returning to do a PhD at McGill. He worked in Manitoba and British Columbia from 1974 to 1982 before teaching at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, then McGill. McCallum said his time at UQAM had a lasting effect. "That experience of being at UQAM, which is not only French but kind of sovereignist, influenced my thinking quite a lot about Quebec, about Quebec and Canada. Being an anglo Montrealer but also being immersed in the franco world has influenced my thinking quite a bit." While McCallum has never met Mulcair, he knows a number of the people Mulcair worked with at Alliance Quebec. His three sons are about the same age as Mulcair's two, and both men worked for the Manitoba government - Mulcair only a few years after McCallum. Born Oct. 24, 1954, Mulcair is the youngest, and the newest arrival to Parliament, elected in last month's Outremont by-election. The offspring of an Irish-Canadian father and a French- Canadian mother, Mulcair, like Flaherty, grew up in a large family of 10 children where he had to learn to fend for himself. Like Flaherty, one of his first jobs was a paper route. "That's how I had spending money through high school and into CEGEP. I had a really big route. I had over 100 Gazettes on Saturday." His years at Laval Catholic High School "probably gave me a little bit better preparation for the rough and tumble," he says. Mulcair, who studied law at McGill, took the leap into politics in 1994, only a few months before Flaherty did, getting elected as a Liberal to the National Assembly. Like Flaherty, he went on to serve in cabinet. Like his counterparts, Mulcair says his background as an anglophone Montrealer will play a role in how he approaches his new job as NDP finance critic. "It gives me a lot of sensitivity to the priorities of Quebecers." ethompson@thegazette.canwest.com
  18. Un éléphant blanc en devenir??? Une vue un peu plus rapprochée... détail des deux tours de l'îlot voyageur La ruelle de la bibliothèque aménagée... Ruelle en direction de la Rue Saint-Denis Aile de l'hôtel Viger en démolition Solano - partie avant complétée Détail de la partie arrière du Solano Solano - Vue de côté Détail de la façade Projet d'hôtel sur la rue Saint-Jaques Hôtel Westin presque au niveau du sol Une nouvelle vue de la tour Vidéotron Détail de la tour Vidéotron Vue éloignée de la tour Vidéotron Restauration d'un édifice rue McGill Le Square des Frères Charon Vue opposée du Square des Frères Charon Détail du Square des Frères Charon Observatoire - Square des Frères Charon Développement McGill Ouest - Vue d'approche Dévelopement McGill Ouest - Vue Rapprochée Un projet qui est mort??? Face au M9 Mur de végétation - fonderie Darling
  19. Hi, I have been reading SSP for about 5 years now and most recently, I have joined MTLURB so I could read that too, so I am quite familiar with all the projects. My question is this: Does anybody know what the two giant metal semi-circles in front of the Telus Tower are and why they move? Sometimes they're down, sometimes one is up, or the other... I asked a security guard and he had no idea. Thanks. p.s. I am bilingual, however my writing skills are far better in English than in French, but please feel free to reply in either language. Also, I work in the McGill University Planning Office (hence the nickname) so I can be a resource for all McGill related construction questions.
  20. J'ai fait une petite tournée aujourd'hui. Résidences Gouverneur Élogia Stade Saputo Îlot Voyageur 801 Signature Le Rigaud Prenez une pause... 333 sherbrooke Montmarte 400 sherbrooke ouest Concorde Bleury/maisonneuve Sir patente....lépine Concordia Crystal Merveille architecturale... Lowney McGill Québécor Westin
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  22. 1912 1911 1911 1910 1911 1913 La réception ducale à Montréal : Les décorations : 1) L'édifice de La Presse ; 2) Arc de triomphe McGill ; 3) Arc des citoyens, angle Peel et Sherbrooke ; 4) Arc, angle Windsor et Dorchester ; 5) Arc, angle St-Denis et Sherbrooke ; 6) Vue de la rue St-Jacques ; 7) Rue Windsor, près Ste-Catherine ; 8) Arc, place Jacques-Cartier ; 9) La gare Windsor ; 10) Rue Sherbrooke, près St-Laurent
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