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  1. bxlmontreal
    As The Hill reports, Royal Jordanian posted on Twitter Monday that “following instructions from the concerned U.S. departments, we kindly inform our dearest passengers departing to and arriving from the United States that carrying any electronic or electrical device on board the flight cabins is strictly prohibited." http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/03/15/20170319_jordan.jpg
  2. MTLskyline
    Vote for Montreal to be the sole Canadian city on the board! Only 20 cities will be included. We are currently 18th!
  3. IluvMTL
    http://www.ledevoir.com/sports/soccer/401521/le-voile-et-le-turban-officiellement-autorises-dans-le-football <header style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">[h=1]Le voile et le turban officiellement autorisés au football[/h]</header>1 mars 2014 10h31 | Agence France-Presse | Soccer <figure class="photo_paysage" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.846em; line-height: 1.2em; padding: 2px 0px 15px;">Photo : Agence France-Presse (photo) Archives / Amir PoormandDes joueuses de l'équipe nationale iranienne féminine de football en échauffement, en 2009. Le port du voile ou du turban a été avalisé samedi par la FIFA.</figcaption></figure>Zurich — La possibilité de porter le voile ou le turban a été officiellement intégrée samedi dans les règles du football, ce qui devrait contribuer à lever la barrière religieuse à son développement dans plusieurs pays du globe. L’International Football Association Board (IFAB), l’organe garant des lois du ballon rond, avait autorisé à titre d’essai le port du voile sous certaines conditions strictes il y a deux ans, à la demande de plusieurs pays musulmans. Le Board avait ensuite accepté d’étendre cette expérience aux joueurs masculins après qu’un conflit autour du turban par des Sikhs déborde sur les terrains de football au Québec. «Une expérience a été menée et la décision restait à prendre. Cela a été confirmé: les joueuses peuvent avoir la tête couverte pour jouer», a déclaré le secrétaire général de la Fédération internationale de football (FIFA), Jérôme Valcke, lors d’une conférence de presse. «Nous ne pouvons faire de discrimination. Ce qui s’applique aux femmes peut s’appliquer aux hommes. Les hommes peuvent aussi porter dans les différents compétitions un couvre-chef», a ajouté Jérôme Valcke. Consignes à respecter Le Board a jugé ne plus avoir de raisons valables de l’interdire si les consignes fixées sont bien respectées. Car ce couvre-chef autorisé sur les terrains n’aura rien à voir avec le voile ou le turban de tous les jours. Il doit en effet être collé à la tête, être en accord avec la tenue du joueur, ne pas être rattaché à son maillot, ne pas constituer un danger pour celui qui le porte ou pour autrui, et ne doit avoir aucune partie qui dépasse. Les épinglettes pour le faire tenir aux cheveux sont aussi bannies. Il doit encore être défini précisément et une circulaire sera envoyée dans la foulée aux différentes fédérations pour expliquer les détails. La question du voile avait agité la planète du ballon rond ces dernières années. L’Iran était allé jusqu’à porter plainte contre la FIFA parce que les joueuses de son équipe nationale, faute d’être autorisée à couvrir leurs têtes, avaient dû faire une croix sur les qualifications pour les Jeux olympiques de Londres en 2012. Le débat avait ressurgi au Canada en juin 2013, quand la Fédération québécoise de football s’était opposée au port du turban par des Sikhs sur les terrains. La Fédération canadienne, qui y était favorable, avait décidé de suspendre la branche québécoise avant que la FIFA ne calme le jeu, en étendant aux joueurs masculins le champ de son expérience. Choix sportif plutôt que religieux Pour les instances dirigeantes du ballon rond, c’est l’aspect sportif qui a primé sur le débat autour du symbole religieux. «C’était une requête qui venait d’un groupe de pays et d’un groupe de joueurs qui disaient que cela contribuerait au développement du football et ce fut le principal argument qui a poussé l’IFAB à dire oui», a souligné Jérôme Valcke. Si l’autorisation d’avoir la tête couverte sur les terrains est valable pour le monde entier, cela ne veut pas dire qu’elle sera appliquée partout. En France, où le débat sur le voile fait rage dans toutes les strates de la société depuis plusieurs années, la fédération nationale de football avait déjà interdit, il y a deux ans, à ses licenciées le port du voile afin «de respecter les principes constitutionnels et législatifs de laïcité» qui prévalent dans l’Hexagone. Samedi, la FFF a rappelé que ces mêmes principes restaient valables y compris «en ce qui concerne la participation des sélections nationales françaises dans des compétitions internationales» et maintenu «l’interdiction du port de tous signes religieux ou confessionnels» dans le pays. L’IFAB a aussi amendé les règles concernant les tenues des joueurs afin d’interdire plus clairement tout slogan, déclaration ou image à caractère politique, religieuse ou personnelle sur la partie visible ou sur les sous-vêtements. Que leurs intentions soient bonnes ou non, les joueurs qui soulèvent leur maillot pour montrer au public un message écrit s’exposeront ainsi à des sanctions. Par Stéphanie Pertuiset
  4. IluvMTL
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Realtor+lose+Montreal+listings/9285009/story.html Realtor.ca to lose Montreal listings BY ALLISON LAMPERT, GAZETTE REAL ESTATE REPORTER DECEMBER 13, 2013 7:10 PM Starting Jan. 1, Montreal brokers will only be able to list homes for sale on Centris.ca, a real estate website unique to Quebec. Photograph by: DAVE SIDAWAY , The Gazette MONTREAL — The Canadian Real Estate Association’s popular Realtor.ca website — widely known as the MLS — will no longer list Montreal homes for sale. The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board said Friday its brokers have voted in favour of separating from CREA. Starting Jan. 1, Montreal brokers will only be able to list homes for sale on Centris.ca, a real estate website unique to Quebec. Real estate brokers who favoured separating from CREA won by 66 votes out of 3,826 votes cast. Montreal’s 9,700 brokers will no longer be able to list homes for sale on Realtor.ca — also known as the Multiple Listing Service — or on CREA’s ICX.ca, which features commercial properties. “We were disappointed when we saw the decision,” said CREA spokesperson Pierre Leduc. Leduc could not say how many listings were generated by CREA’s Montreal membership. Quebec’s 17,000 brokers currently generate 80,000 listings on Realtor.ca. Brokers from four real estate boards located in Montreal, Quebec City, Granby and Drummondville have voted to leave CREA, while brokers from the Saguenay and the Laurentians will make a choice on whether to separate next week. The votes follow a lengthy dispute over rising fees for members, duplication of services like the Realtor and Centris websites, along with a brewing turf war over the listing of Quebec homes for a flat fee by out-of-province brokers. The Montreal board has objected to instances of brokers from Ontario — who are not subject to Quebec’s strict professional rules — listing a home in the Belle Province for a flat fee. CREA said it cannot stop its members from Ontario, or other provinces, from listing homes for sale in Quebec. Citing October data, the Montreal board said Centris was the fourth most popular real estate website geared at buying or renting a residential property in Quebec, with Realtor.ca ranked ninth. The most popular site was Kijiji. However, several Montreal brokers told The Gazette they were concerned about the decline in visibility that comes with losing access to Realtor.ca at a time of a softening Montreal real estate market. Leduc said Montreal-area brokers who are unhappy with the “yes vote” can join one of Quebec’s eight boards that are still members of CREA. He said he’s also heard of a “partitionist” movement among brokers who want to set up a separate Montreal real estate board that would remain part of CREA. “CREA will support these endeavours.” alampert@montrealgazette.com Twitter: RealDealMtl
  5. jesseps
    Read more: http://www.individual.com/storyrss.php?story=162672499&hash=8cbfa3d2d7c896026b4c8b257fa9270a
  6. GDS
    MONTREAL, March 29 /CNW Telbec/ - Mr. Michel Leblanc, President and CEO of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal, is pleased to invite media representatives to the Strategic Forum of the Board of Trade, which will focus on major projects in Montréal, on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at 7:30 a.m. With the Mayor of Montréal, Gérald Tremblay, to be on hand, along with a number of experts and nearly 500 participants, this unique event will enable to learn more about how various key and shaping Montréal projects are advancing. The major development projects will be on-hand: The Montréal of tomorrow, an overview of the city's major projects Emilio Imbriglio, Partner, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton TOWARDS MAJOR PRIVATE PROJECTS The impact of condo development on the Montréal landscape Jacques Vincent, Co-President, Prével Urban renewal, from Angus to Quadrilatere Saint-Laurent: The need for a territorial approach Christian Yaccarini, President and CEO, Angus Development Corporation The Windsor sector: Major developments for the Bell Centre and its surrounding area Salvatore Iacono, Senior Vice President, Development, Eastern Canada, Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd. LARGE-SCALE HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURES Sainte-Justine UHC - Grandir en santé: Innovation in personalized medicine for mothers and children Dr. Fabrice Brunet, Executive Director, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center MUHC Normand Rinfret, Associate Executive Director and COO McGill University Health Centre The Jewish General Hospital Dr. Hartley Stern, Executive Director, Jewish General Hospital and Philippe Castiel, Director of Planning and Real Estate Development, Jewish General Hospital CHUM Christian Paire, Executive Director, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal MAJOR INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS A space for life Charles-Mathieu Brunelle, Executive Director, Montréal's Nature Museums The UdeM's Outremont Campus Guy Breton, Rector, Université de Montréal The Innovation District: Progress report and guidelines for its implementation Yves Beauchamp, Director General, École de technologie supérieure and Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University The redevelopment of the CBC/Radio-Canada site Maryse Bertrand, Vice-President, Real Estate, Legal Services, and General Counsel CBC/Société Radio-Canada The Quartier des spectacles Jean-Robert Choquet, Director, Department of Culture and Heritage, Ville de Montréal and Stéphane Ricci, Coordinator, Quartier des spectacles project, Ville de Montréal The Silo No. 5 and the Bassins du Nouveau Havre: Major revitalization projects for Montréal Cameron Charlebois, Vice-President, Real Estate, Quebec, Canada Lands Company Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Time: From 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Where: Palais des congrès de Montréal 1001 place Jean-Paul Riopelle Room 710 The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal has some 7,000 members. Its primary mission is to represent the interests of the business community of Greater Montréal and to provide individuals, merchants, and businesses of all sizes with a variety of specialized services to help them achieve their full potential in terms of innovation, productivity and competitiveness. The Board of Trade is Quebec's leading private economic development organization. Contacts RSVP with Sylvie Paquette Advisor Media Relations by phone at 514 871-4000 ext. 4015 or by email at sylvie.paquette@ccmm.qc.ca.
  7. jesseps
    (Courtesy of The Globe and Mail)
  8. jesseps
    (Courtesy of The Montreal Gazette)
  9. CFurtado
    NEARLY $630 MILLION IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND TWO NEW INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ATTRACTED; HELP TO OVER 1,000 SKILLED FOREIGN WORKERS TO ESTABLISH IN GREATER MONTRÉAL MONTREAL, April 15 /CNW Telbec/ - On the occasion of its 14th Annual Meeting held today with 200 members and partners attending, Montréal International (MI) presented its results for the year 2009. Among the highlights were the metropolitan economic development organization's success in contributing to attract nearly $630 million in foreign investment, two new international organizations and over 1,000 skilled foreign workers into Greater Montréal. On the innovation front, MI supported five promising projects in high-tech industries in Metropolitan Montréal. As for promoting the region's advantages on the international stage, some 40 activities were undertaken in foreign markets. At the event - which welcomed Mr. André Lauzon, Executive Producer and Head of Electronic Arts Mobile Montréal as guest speaker - the Acting President and CEO of Montréal International, Mr. Luc Lacharité, emphasized: "The competence and dedication of MI's staff, combined with the support and collaboration of the organization's members and partners, once again has generated further substantial benefits for the metropolitan region's economic competitiveness and international status, in spite of difficult world economic conditions." Foreign investment In 2009, MI helped attract $626.3 million in foreign investment into Greater Montréal. This investment, nearly three-quarters of which is in high-technology sectors and will create or maintain over 2,900 jobs in the metropolitan region, comes 56% from North America, 32% from Europe and 12% from Asia. A further indicator of the added value of MI's results is that over half (55.3%) of the projects were new set-ups. International organizations In terms of attracting international organizations (IOs), the MI 2009 Activity Report mentions the decision of two IOs to set up in Montréal, as well as the official opening of the secretariats of two other IOs in the metropolis. Various international promotional and networking activities were also organized among the IOs community during the year. Skilled foreign workers In 2009, the International Mobility team handled 1,025 files of skilled foreign workers on behalf of 262 businesses, institutions and international organizations in Greater Montréal. In total, 1,784 individuals benefited from MI help and career counselling to settle in the region. The impact of this specialized foreign workforce is very positive for Greater Montréal, as their combined earnings will represent more than $155 million over three years. This qualified workforce also boosts the region's expertise in key sectors. Innovation Last year, MI supported five promising projects in innovation development in Greater Montréal: - Research and innovation initiative in computer-generated images, a Québec Film and Television Council project; - Mobility Alliance, a TechnoMontréal project in cooperation with Alliance numérique to develop and market new applications and new content for mobile platforms; - ScienceAffaires meetings, in cooperation with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), a pilot project to maximize sharing among scientists, artists, economic development players and the business world; - A market intelligence study in the medical drug sector, in cooperation with the Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery (CDQM); - The 2009 Aerospace Innovation Forum, organized by Aéro Montréal. International promotion of Greater Montréal At the top of the list of MI's key promotional achievements in 2009 is its upgraded website. The 2009-2010 edition of "Greater Montréal's Attractiveness Indicators" has also drawn keen interest. This annual MI publication also won an APDEQ (Québec Association of Economic Development Professionals) award in the best information tool category. Lastly, numerous promotional events were organized last year, including a mission to New York in which MI partners participated. MI Board of Directors The 2010-2011 Board of Directors of Montréal International is made up of the following members (N=new member, R=renewal): Private Sector Members: - Mr. Luc Benoît, President, AECOM Tecsult; - Mr. André Boulanger, President, Hydro-Québec Distribution ®; - Mr. Jean-Jacques Bourgeault, Vice Chairman of the Board, Montréal International, and Corporate Director; - Mr. Pierre Brunet, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Montréal International, and Corporate Director; - Mr. Renaud Caron, Principal Vice President, Strategic Development, CGI Group; - Me C. Stephen Cheasley, Treasurer, Montréal International, and Partner, Fasken Martineau ®; - Mr. James C. Cherry, President and Chief Executive Officer, Aéroports de Montréal ®; - Mr. Richard Filion, Director General, Dawson College, and President, Regroupement des collèges du Montréal métropolitain (Metropolitan Montréal College Alliance); - Mr. Michel Guay, Chairman of the Board, TechnoMontréal ®; - Mr. Luc Lacharité, Acting President and Chief Executive Officer, Montréal International; - Mr. Guy LeBlanc, Managing Partner, Montréal Office, PricewaterhouseCoopers (N); - Me David McAusland, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault ®; - Mr. Andrew T. Molson, Vice Chairman, Molson Coors Brewing Company ®; - Mr. Marc Parent, President of the Board of Directors, Aéro Montréal, and President and Chief Executive Officer, CAE; - Ms. Louise Roy, Chancellor, Université de Montréal, Chair of the Board, Conseil des arts de Montréal, and Cirano invited Fellow ®; - Mr. Jean-Pierre Sauriol, President and CEO, Dessau; - Mr. Hubert Thibault, Vice President - Institutional Affairs, Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec ®; - Ms. Sylvie Vachon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Montréal Port Authority ®; - Dr. Judith Woodsworth, President, Concordia University. Public sector Representatives: - Mr. Michael Applebaum, Mayor of the Borough of Côte-des-Neiges - Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the City of Montréal, responsible for Services to citizens, Relations with the Boroughs and Housing, Member of the Agglomeration Council and the Board of Directors of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) (N); - Mr. Richard Deschamps, Member of the Executive Committee, responsible for Major Projects 2025, Economic development, Infrastructures and Roads, City Councillor, LaSalle Borough, City of Montréal ®; - Mr. Claude Haineault, Mayor of the City of Beauharnois ®; - Mr. Luis Miranda, Mayor of the Anjou Borough, City of Montréal ®; - Ms. Sylvie Parent, Member of the Executive Committee, City of Longueuil ®; - Mr. Jean-Marc Robitaille, Mayor of the City of Terrebonne and Warden of MRC Des Moulins ®; - Mr. Jean Séguin, Sous-ministre adjoint à la Métropole, Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire (MAMROT); - Mr. Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of the City of Montréal and President of the Board, Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) ®; - Ms. Rita Tremblay, Vice President, Policy and Planning, Canada Economic Development for Québec Regions; - Mr. Gilles Vaillancourt, Mayor of the City of Laval and Vice President of the Board, Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) ®. A full report of Montréal International's 2009 activities is available on its website: http://www.montrealinternational.com. About Montréal International Montréal International (MI) was created in 1996 as a result of a private/public partnership. Its mission is to contribute to the economic development of metropolitan Montréal and to enhance its international status. Its mandates include attracting foreign investment, international organizations and qualified workers, supporting the development of innovation and metropolitan clusters, and promoting the competitive and international environment of Greater Montréal. Montréal International is funded by the private sector, the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (Montréal Metropolitan Community), the City of Montréal and the Governments of Canada and Québec. Since its creation, Montréal International has helped to attract more than $7.5 billion in foreign investment to Greater Montréal. From these investments, more than 43 000 jobs have been created or maintained. To date, MI's activities have also allowed more than 25 international organizations to establish themselves in the city and attract more than 4 000 qualified foreign workers. To learn more, please visit MI Web site at: http://www.montrealinternational.com. For further information: Benoît Lefèvre, Communications Advisor, Montréal International, (514) 987-9323, benoit.lefevre@montrealinternational.com http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2010/15/c2834.html
  10. CFurtado
    Montreal is the top Canadian city in non-car commuting, with 29.5 per cent of people using public transit, walking or cycling to work, according to a Toronto Board of Trade report that compares global cities. Four other Canadian cities are not far behind, but the rankings were a little different when it came to commuting times, according the report, titled "Toronto as a Global City: Scorecard on Prosperity - 2010." The report, released Monday, compares a variety of urban issues among 21 cities in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. It looked at urban economic health, affordability, education, immigration and lifestyle and was created with research support from the Conference Board of Canada. Montreal ranks at the top among Canadian cities for non-car commuting, but was No. 11 overall. Hong Kong ranked first with 89 per cent of commuters not using cars to get to and from work. Paris was second at 73.7 per cent. In Toronto, 28.8 per cent of commuters take public transit, walk or cycle to work, the report said. In Vancouver, that rate is 25.3 per cent. In Halifax it's 24.1 per cent and in Calgary it's 23.2 per cent. With the exception of New York, seven American cities that were measured in the rankings placed in the bottom quarter for non-car commuting. Rates ranged between 21.6 per cent for San Francisco to just 4.6 per cent for Dallas. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/03/30/consumer-commuting-times.html#ixzz0jhNPYITA
  11. MTLskyline
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Mayor+media+with+program/2704842/story.html
  12. jesseps
    (Courtesy of CTV Montreal)
  13. jesseps
    (Courtesy of The Guardian UK) I wonder if anyone from the PQ or BQ heard or read about this Probably not seeing they dislike the English language. So I guess Canadian / Quebec history is safe for now, until one of them comes out of their narrow-minded shell and sees this
  14. ErickMontreal
    La hausse du PIB de Montréal devrait être de 2,5% en 2010. Olivier Schmouker . les affaires.com . 27-01-2010 Québec devrait être l’une des villes canadiennes a tirer le plus profit de la reprise économique en 2010, selon le Conference Board du Canada. L'an dernier, le produit intérieur brut (PIB) de Québec n'a reculé que de 0,2%, soit une des meilleures performances au Canada. Seules quatre villes avaient affiché une croissance économique en 2009 : Halifax, Saint-John, Winnipeg et Regina. Du coup, elle est mieux positionnée que d’autres pour renouer avec la croissance économique. «Cette année, les villes canadiennes reprendront des forces, mais à un rythme qui variera considérablement. La championne canadienne de la croissance sera Vancouver (+4,5% de son PIB en 2010), et Québec arrivera en tête au Québec», dit Mario Lefebvre, directeur, centre des études municipales, du Conference Board du Canada. Ainsi, le PIB de Québec devrait croître de 2,6% en 2010, et ce en grande partie grâce aux secteurs de la fabrication, du commerce de gros et de détail, de l’immobilier ainsi que des finances et de l'assurance. La récession laisse des traces Pour la première fois depuis 1991, l'économie de Montréal a affiché l’an dernier un repli. Mais, bonne nouvelle, l'activité a commencé à s'intensifier au troisième trimestre de 2009, et le taux de croissance dans la plupart des secteurs devrait s'accélérer en 2010. Du coup, la hausse du PIB de Montréal devrait être de 2,5% en 2010. Idem à Sherbrooke, l'économie s'est repliée l'année dernière pour la première fois depuis 1991. La reprise en cours devrait, là aussi, se traduire par une progression du PIB de 2,5%. 2009 a été une mauvaise année également pour Trois-Rivières, avec le pire recul économique en 13 ans. Les prévisions du Conference Board avancent un retour de la croissance cette année, de l’ordre de 2,1%, grâce notamment aux secteurs manufacturier et de la construction non résidentielle. De son côté, l'économie de Saguenay croîtrait pour la première fois en trois ans, et ce au rythme de 1,4%. Mais attention, la reprise ne pourrait y être que de courte durée, le Conference Board y prévoyant une stagnation de l’emploi pour les deux prochaines année
  15. MTLskyline
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Gazette+exclusive+EMSB+pitches+tout+fran%C3%A7ais/2414008/story.html This is much needed. And not all of it should be spent on grammar reciting either (as is often the case). I think a big part is just being able to learn to get use out of it. Practice comprehension and conversational skills first, then worry about written skills. Although I had great French teachers in school, how was I (or anyone else) to become fluent by spending only 4-5 hours a week on it? This compared to living the rest of the week entirely in English (except for the Habs/Expos game back in the day). Having said that, English instruction should be toughened up as well. The quality of written English of a good portion of university peers is downright abysmal. They should have to pass a stringent English exam to get accepted into a regular program (if they fail, they should take a year-long mini program designed at teaching them proper written and spoken English). From what I have heard, they offer English-Second-Language courses that are taught by immigrants with heavy accents (notably from Ukraine and China). WTF?
  16. MTLskyline
    http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2413317
  17. ProposMontréal
    Surfing a River When the Wave Doesn’t Move Source: nytimes TO the uninitiated, the scene on a recent morning along the St. Lawrence River in Montreal might have inspired confusion. Behind the striking modular apartment complex known as Habitat 67, a crowd of surfers slipped into wet suits and waxed up their boards, 500 miles from the nearest ocean beach. They were preparing to surf a standing river wave in the St. Lawrence, where high-velocity water roars over a steep river-bottom depression, pitches back and upward, and creates a waist-to-overhead breaker. Surfers paddle into it or swing out by rope to catch the green-faced wedge, rewarded by a seemingly endless ride. “Once you’re carving, it’s exactly the same feel as on an ocean wave,” said Chris Dutton, the founder of the Web site SurfMontreal.com, “except that instead of going straight down the line, you carve a little bit, flip around, carve back, and can go all day.” Modern river surfing on standing waves evolved on the Eisbach River in Germany in the mid-1970s. Tidal bores have been ridden for years on the Severn in England; in Bordeaux, France; and on the Amazon. New standing waves are being pioneered almost daily in rivers in places like Colorado, and in Ontario and Alberta in Canada. Corran Addison, an Olympic kayaker and three-time world freestyle kayak champion, was the first to tackle the Habitat wave with a surfboard, in 2002. Mr. Addison’s river-surfing school, Imagine Surfboards, has taught 3,500 students since 2005, and has expanded to include a surf shop and board line. A second Montreal river-surfing school, KSF, has hosted 1,500 students a year since 2003. From fewer than 10 original surfers, Mr. Addison estimates the current participants to number around 500. The wave quality was low on my first day at Habitat 67, Mr. Addison, my instructor that day, explained. Instead of the usual method of getting into the wave — starting upstream and allowing the current to draw me into place — I would start downstream from the wave lying flat on the board, and use a rope to counter the river’s flow, swinging out into position, popping up into a surf stance, and then making my way into the wave. After scrambling down a steep embankment to the edge of the river, I got my first close-up look at the wave; a humplike wall of water surrounded by a torrent of rapids, with a lone surfer rocking back and forth just below the peak. The locals made the approach look fluid and easy. Of course, it wasn’t. Even with a wide, seven-foot-long “fun shape” board, all the forces — raging waters, the tension of the rope, my own weight — conspired against gaining balance and stability, and I lost the rope and was flushed down the rapids, repeatedly. Still, unlike at the ocean, where I would have faced a battering shore break and a lineup of experienced surfers anxious for the next set, all I had to do to try again was climb the riverbank and walk up the path. “In the river you’re going against the current — that dynamic itself makes it more complex,” said Costas Kanellos, a Montreal native who started river surfing in 2005 and has since taken to ocean surfing in Maine and Florida. “But having a consistent wave allows a lot of people to improve at a quicker rate than they would in the ocean.” Mr. Dutton was my instructor for my second crack at Habitat 67. First he demonstrated how to maximize the rope with body positioning: like a water skier angling far out from behind the boat, I had to remain upright to leverage the strength and weight of the torso as a counter to the force of the rope. In the water, Mr. Dutton had me start out on my knees, so I didn’t have to get up from a prone position. Despite the fatigue in my arms, I stood up, leaned with all my body weight, and carved away from the riverbank. Nearing the wave, I turned the board upstream and released the rope when I was inside the wave. A dense, solid but fluidly dynamic water surface rushed beneath my board. It was a moment of mild vertigo, depth and perspective hard to pinpoint in such an alien environment. I lasted a few fleeting seconds before washing out the back, long enough to feel the potential. When we left at 6 p.m., there was a five-person lineup forming, with a parking lot full of more surfers, off work and getting geared up. Though river surfing is in its infancy, the familiar complaints of overcrowding are already being heard. On a peak summer weekend with ideal river conditions and good weather, Mr. Addison said, the lineup can grow to 50 people. “The bad thing would be if surfing continues to grow in popularity,” he said, “and you show up in March to a 50-person lineup, never mind August.” Mr. Addison and others have turned to creating their own river waves using artificial obstacles. In 1997, he helped design a wave park in Valley Field, Quebec, now an Olympic kayak-training center. A similar whitewater park on the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colo., has become a destination for river surfers. Mr. Addison proposes to use sunken concrete blocks to engineer four more standing waves in Montreal, at an estimated cost of 40,000 Canadian dollars each, though he has so far received little governmental or corporate support. “Ultimately,” he said, “we need more waves.” IF YOU GO Habitat 67 is at 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy in Montreal. From Autoroute Bonaventure 10, take Avenue Pierre-Dupuy north. Park in the pull-off to the right, just past the street address. Walk behind tennis courts and down a dirt path; the wave itself is easy to spot, just down the embankment. Some information is online at http://www.surfmtl.com and http://www.surfmontreal.com. SURF SCHOOLS Imagine Surfboard, (514) 583-3386; http://www.imaginesurfboards.com/eng/surfschool.html. KSF School of River Surfing and Kayaking, (514) 595-7873; http://www.ksf.ca (in French).
  18. ErickMontreal
    Toronto a suburb? It's begun RENÉ JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR Apr 08, 2009 04:30 AM Vanessa Lu city hall bureau chief Toronto is at risk of becoming a bedroom community for the booming 905 regions, warns a new report by the Toronto Board of Trade. Cities that were once outer suburbs are now growing employment areas as more businesses have pulled up stakes in the downtown core for cheaper real estate. Meanwhile, the city itself faces increasing disparity between the wealthy, who buy downtown condos where factories once stood, and the poor who inhabit the increasingly deprived inner suburbs. So Toronto remains an attractive place to live, but struggles to keep up with its neighbours on key economic indicators such as employment, productivity and income growth. "It's a tale of two cities," president and CEO Carol Wilding said at yesterday's release. "We see the reverse, or mirror images, from the city proper versus the 905." Wilding agreed with a release for the report that said Toronto has become a "magnet for living, while the surrounding municipalities form the more powerful economic engine." "If you stand back, the data shows that at this point," said Wilding. "Given the employment growth that isn't there in the city centre – yet it is a hugely attractive place – suggests the doughnut effect. ... People flock to and live in the city ... but are actually travelling outwards in the region for employment opportunities." The split between the two regions is reflected in a prosperity scorecard that compares the Toronto region with 20 others around the world on 25 important indicators. While the Toronto region scored very well overall – tying for fourth place with Boston, New York and London, but behind Calgary, Dallas and Hong Kong – the findings show a growing gap between the city itself and surrounding communities. (The study is based on the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area, a tract that includes most of the GTA except Burlington and Oshawa.) If the 416 and 905 area codes were ranked separately, the suburban regions would have taken second place on the world list – after Calgary – and Toronto would have fallen into the bottom half. But Wilding credited Toronto city hall for taking steps to counteract the trend and boost economic growth, including a policy of gradually shifting more of the property tax burden from commercial and industrial property onto homeowners. "I think from a policy perspective, we've put in place many of the changes the data would have suggested we do ... two years ago. We didn't wait," Mayor David Miller said yesterday, reacting to the report. However, he said, "Toronto starts from a very good place" as Canada's financial capital and the third biggest centre of information communications technology in North America. "Council adopted a strategy two years ago because we didn't believe we could take success for granted," he added. "And I think the underlying data says we took the right step and we're on the right path." He noted both the tax rate cuts and the creation of two new agencies, Build Toronto and Invest Toronto, to lure business and investment to the city. Given that traffic is now jammed both ways on the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway in the morning rush hour, it hardly comes as a surprise that employment growth has been strong outside Toronto proper. But the data shows the gap is "far larger than people would have expected it to be," Wilding said. Employment in the suburban regions grew by an average of 2.8 per cent a year between 2002 and 2007, compared with 1.1 per cent in the city of Toronto. In fact, most of the employment growth over the past two decades has occurred outside Toronto. "That's a significant divide. Until we start to narrow that, then we aren't serving the interests of the region as a whole," Wilding said. Average real GDP growth during the same period was just 1.2 per cent in Toronto – compared with 4.2 per cent in neighbouring cities. After-tax income growth over the same period was 3.5 per cent in Toronto, compared with 5.9 per cent outside. Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone said the report's data is already a couple of years old and doesn't reflect recent actions the city has taken to stem the flow of jobs. The report cites a 10.2 per cent growth in non-residential building permits in the surrounding regions, versus only 8.9 per cent in the city. But Pantalone pointed out that today, 4 million square feet of office buildings are under construction in Toronto, compared with only 1.5 million square feet in the 905. "That's a historical reversal. It shows those policies are working," he said. "We have established new trend lines to correct that. And it seems to be working." As Miller pointed out, the report isn't all bad news for the city. It notes that Toronto is "a study in contrasts, struggling to keep pace on the economic fundamentals but scoring well on all the attributes of an attractive city." Using research from the Conference Board of Canada, the report points out the city is doing well on indicators such as commuter travel choices, a young labour force, university education and percentage of jobs in the cultural industry. New infrastructure investments by the province, notably in transit, will also help make Toronto more competitive. Some 44 per cent of Toronto residents walk, bike or take transit to work, while only 13 per cent of residents outside Toronto do. One of Toronto's biggest advantages is its diversity, with immigrants making up close to half of the city's residents. That puts it at Number 1 among the 21 global cities, above Los Angeles at 41 per cent and New York at 36 per cent. But Board of Trade chair Paul Massara warned that the talent that exists among newcomers must not be squandered – and their integration has to be ensured. "It's absolutely essential that we get this productive part of the economy working and enhance that," Massara said, noting governments have been working to improve settlement services. With files from Paul Moloney
  19. ErickMontreal
    Les consommateurs américains reprennent confiance * Anne Robert, Lesaffaires.com * 10:54 L’indice de confiance des consommateurs américains que tient le Conference Board a grimpé plus de 12 points en avril. L’indice du Conference Board est passé de 26,9 points en mars à 39,2 points en avril, soit un bond de 12,3 points. Lynn Franco, directrice du centre de recherche sur les consommateurs du Conference Board estime que ce sont surtout les perspectives de court terme qui se sont améliorées. Les consommateurs pensent que l’économie se rapproche du plancher», dit-elle, tout en avertissant que le niveau actuel de l’indice reflète malgré tout une conjoncture de récession. Quoique nombreux à dire que les affaires vont mal et que les emplois sont durs à trouver, le nombre de consommateurs pessimistes est en baisse par rapport à mars dernier.
  20. ouaouaron
    Montreal faces uphill battle in new economic order KONRAD YAKABUSKI Report on Business April 9, 2009 MONTREAL -- The Montreal Exchange, now part of TMX Group, is forwarding journalists' calls to Toronto. The new head of BCE Inc. has not taken up residence in the city that, officially anyway, is still home to the telecom giant's headquarters. Alcan's "head office" is shrinking under parent Rio Tinto. AbitibiBowater answers to its bankers in Charlotte, N.C. When Michael Sabia had a getting-to-know-you lunch last week with Quebec Inc.'s grands fromages, the new head of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec found himself talking to a sparser crowd than any Caisse chief before him would have likely faced. The ranks of Quebec Inc., that Quiet Revolution embodiment of Quebec's French-speaking business class, are thinning. Where will this all leave Montreal if, as Creative Class guru Richard Florida recently predicted in The Atlantic magazine, "the coming decades will likely see a further clustering of output, jobs and innovation in a smaller number of bigger cities and city-regions"? Can Montreal aspire to be one of them? Or has its fate already been sealed? Prof. Florida, now director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at University of Toronto, warns that "we can't stop the decline of some places, and we would be foolish to try. ... In limited ways, we can help faltering cities to manage their decline better, and to sustain better lives for the people who stay in them." Let's be clear: Montreal is not Detroit. St. Jude himself could not save Motor City. The unemployment rate there now stands at 22 per cent. When only one in 10 Detroiters has a college degree, the jobless rate won't be coming down any time soon. If ever. The current economic crisis, as Prof. Florida notes, will "permanently and profoundly" alter the economic geography of North America. Montreal needs to get busy if it is to carve out a place for itself in this new economic order. It has a lot going for it: A vibrant inner city, a deep talent pool of "knowledge" workers, a diverse population and creativity to burn. Its problem is just that Toronto has even more of these things. Toronto also has the support of its provincial government. Montreal's provincial masters seem at best indifferent to it, if not chronically at war with it. How else do you explain why, despite decades of promises, the current Liberal government has yet to proceed with the construction of two new mega-hospitals in Montreal to replace a complex network of antiquated institutions spread over multiple sites? If the new hospitals do get built - delivery is now promised between 2013 and 2018 - will there even be enough doctors to work in them? Quebec pays its general practitioners and specialists about a quarter less than Ontario, and a new interprovincial labour mobility agreement will make it easier for them to practise elsewhere. But Montreal can't afford to lose any more of its "brain surgeons," regardless of their profession. In 1976, Montreal and Toronto had nearly identically sized populations, each with about 2.8 million people living within its Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). Since then, the population of the Toronto CMA has doubled to 5.6 million; Montreal has only managed to reach 3.7 million, a 30-per-cent increase in three decades. In its latest Metropolitan Outlook, the Conference Board of Canada predicted that Montreal will post the weakest growth of any major Canadian city over the next half-decade. Though its economy will not contract as much as Toronto's this year, Montreal's output will expand much more slowly once the recession lifts. Part of the explanation for this may lie in another report out this week, this one also supported by Conference Board data, on Toronto's status as a global city. Though the Toronto Board of Trade's Scorecard on Prosperity highlighted Toronto's shortcomings when compared to the 20 other cities studied, it provided even grimmer news for Montreal. Toronto ranked fourth over all. Calgary was first. Montreal was 13th, the poorest performance of any Canadian city on the list. There are grounds for optimism. The proposed Quartier des Spectacles - the redevelopment of a run-down downtown intersection into a hub for the arts - will help Montreal catch up, or at least decline more slowly relative to Toronto's now superior cultural infrastructure. But it's hard not to be disheartened when the top news story in city politics these days is how Mayor Gérald Tremblay's former right-hand man vacationed in the Caribbean on the yacht of a construction magnate just before the latter's consortium won a juicy municipal contract to install water meters. When this much energy gets absorbed in damage control, how much is left for the kind of creative thinking needed to ensure Montreal's position in Prof. Florida's new economic landscape? Or is it already too late for that? kyakabuski@globeandmail.com http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/GAM.20090409.RYAKABUSKI09ART1924/TPStory/TPComment
  21. monctezuma
    Menée par le Conference Board Montréal est au 13e rang d’une étude sur la prospérité des villes 8 avril 2009 - 07h07 LA PRESSE CANADIENNE< Une étude commandée par le Toronto Board of Trade sur la prospérité urbaine globale classe la ville de Calgary au premier rang et Montréal au treizième rang. Menée par le Conference Board du Canada, l'étude a mesuré des indicateurs tels que le produit intérieur brut, la productivité, le taux d'emploi, la criminalité, le revenu disponible, l'éducation, le climat et le temps de déplacement. Première au classement, Calgary a reçu la note «A», alors que la ville de Québec est arrivée en dixième position avec une note globale de «C». Treizième au classement, la ville de Montréal a pour sa part obtenu un «D». Toronto est quatrième au classement avec la note «C», tout comme les villes de Boston, London et New York. Au huitième rang figure Vancouver, qui a obtenu la note «C». Selon l'étude, qui est basée sur des informations recueillies avant le ralentissement économique, Toronto est une ville attirante et habitable, mais qui est languissante sur le plan économique et pas très concurrentielle.
  22. ErickMontreal
    Québec évitera la récession, mais pas Montréal Publié le 01 avril 2009 à 06h47 | Mis à jour à 06h49 La Presse (Montréal) Saskatoon et Regina font souvent sourire en raison de leur climat rude et de leur vie nocturne peu animée. Ces deux villes de la Saskatchewan feront toutefois des jalouses parmi leurs rivales canadiennes cette année. Le climat sera toujours aussi peu accueillant et les soirées finiront toujours aussi tôt, mais les deux villes des Prairies devraient connaître la plus grande croissance économique au pays en 2009. Leur secret afin d'éviter la récession? L'immigration - principalement celle en provenance de l'Alberta, la province voisine. «Saskatoon et Regina ont fait une campagne de charme auprès de leurs anciens résidants partis s'établir en Alberta afin qu'ils rentrent au bercail, dit Mario Lefebvre, économiste au Conference Board du Canada. Elles font valoir que bien des gens partis en Alberta pourraient vendre leur maison à profit et revenir s'établir en Saskatchewan, où les possibilités d'emploi sont intéressantes et le coût de la vie moins élevé.» Selon les prévisions du Conference Board du Canada, seulement six des 13 grandes villes du pays devraient éviter la récession en 2009: Saskatoon ("1,7%), Regina ("1,6%), Winnipeg ("1,1%), Québec ("0,6%), Ottawa-Gatineau ("0,2%) et Halifax (0,0%). Sur ces six survivantes, cinq ont un point en commun: leur statut de capitale et, surtout, la fonction publique qui vient avec. «Les capitales ont généralement une économie plus stable et moins sensible aux soubresauts économiques», dit Mario Lefebvre. Vancouver déchante Alors que la ville de Québec évitera la récession en raison du poids de la fonction publique, Montréal vivra son premier recul économique depuis 1991. Le Conference Board prévoit 25 000 pertes d'emplois dans la métropole québécoise, comparativement à aucune à Québec. À l'échelle canadienne, 300 000 personnes devraient perdre leur emploi en 2009. Avec un recul prévu de 0,5%, Montréal arrive 10e rang sur 13 du classement du Conference Board. Seules les villes de Vancouver (-0,9%), Toronto (-1,6%) et Hamilton (-1,9%) devraient connaître une année plus difficile sur le plan économique. Si les déboires de l'économie ontarienne n'étonnent personne, ceux de Vancouver sont plus intrigants à moins d'un an des Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2010. L'aventure olympique devait engendrer un boom économique dans la métropole de la Colombie-Britannique. Cette dernière vivra plutôt sa première récession depuis que le Conference Board a commencé à publier la croissance économique des villes en 1987. «La plupart des travaux sur les sites olympiques sont déjà terminés, dit Mario Lefebvre. C'est positif d'un point de vue logistique, mais pas d'un point de vue économique.»
  23. ErickMontreal
    Québec et Ottawa-Gatineau afficheront une croissance en 2009 Publié le 31 mars 2009 à 13h02 | Mis à jour à 13h06 La Presse Canadienne Ottawa Cinq régions métropolitaines seulement, dont celles de Québec et d'Ottawa-Gatineau, afficheront une croissance positive de leur économie cette année au Canada, selon un rapport publié mardi par le Conference Board du Canada. Pour Québec, la croissance devrait être de 0,6%, alors que la croissance du produit intérieur brut de la région de la capitale fédérale devrait s'établir à 0,2%. Ces deux régions ne seront toutefois pas les plus performantes cette année, selon le rapport de l'organisme qui indique que trois villes des Prairies enregistreront les plus hauts taux de croissance. Saskatoon arrive en premier avec une croissance de son PIB attendue de 1,7% cette année. Regina est deuxième avec un taux de 1,6%, alors que Winnipeg est troisième avec une croissance prévue de 1,1%. Le rapport du Conference Board tient compte de 13 régions métropolitaines au total. Les moins performantes de la liste en 2009, selon les prévisions de l'organisme, devraient être Toronto et Hamilton, avec des reculs prévus de 1,6% et 1,9%, respectivement. Montréal devrait afficher un recul de 0,5% de son PIB réel cette année, selon le Conference Board du Canada.
  24. mtlurb
    Le pays va entrer en récession en 2009 selon un rapport publié mercredi par le Conference Board du Canada. Pour en lire plus...
  25. mtlurb
    Les entraves à la mobilité des gens d'affaires limitent les possibilités de commerce et de croissance économique au Canada, selon le Conference Board. Pour en lire plus...
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