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TransForce va vendre son secteur de la gestion des matières résiduelles à GFL Environmental Inc. pour 800 M$ MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - 29 oct. 2015) - TransForce Inc. (TSX:TFI)(OTCQX:TFIFF), un chef de file nord-américain du secteur du transport et de la logistique, a annoncé aujourd'hui qu'elle avait conclu une convention définitive d'achat d'actions avec GFL Environmental Inc., société dont le siège social est situé à Toronto, en Ontario. Aux termes de cette convention, TransForce vendra son secteur de la gestion des matières résiduelles à GFL pour 800 M$. Dans le cadre de cette opération, Gestion TFI Inc., une filiale en propriété exclusive de TransForce, vendra 100 % des actions de Services Matrec Inc. et des autres filiales en propriété exclusive indirectes comprises dans le secteur de la gestion des matières résiduelles de TransForce. La clôture de l'opération devrait avoir lieu le 1er février 2016, sous réserve des certaines conditions usuelles, y compris l'obtention des approbations requises des organismes de réglementation et l'absence de changement défavorable important touchant le secteur de la gestion des matières résiduelles. "Nous sommes très heureux d'avoir conclu cette entente avec GFL. Cette vente devrait permettre à TransForce de réaliser la pleine valeur du secteur de la gestion des matières résiduelles, dont la valeur n'a jamais été pleinement reconnue", a déclaré le président du conseil, président et chef de la direction de TransForce, Alain Bédard. "Au nom de nos clients et de nos actionnaires, j'aimerais remercier sincèrement les employés du secteur de la gestion des matières résiduelles pour leur dévouement", a ajouté M. Bédard. La convention d'achat d'actions prévoit qu'une tranche de 100 M$ du prix d'achat pourra être acquittée par l'émission à TransForce d'actions de GFL, sous réserve du respect de certaines conditions à la satisfaction de TransForce. Si TransForce choisit de ne pas être payée au moyen d'actions de GFL, GFL paiera 775 M$ à TransForce à la clôture et règlera le solde du prix d'achat au moyen d'un billet à ordre de 25 M$ payable quatre ans après la date de clôture et portant intérêt au taux de 3 % par année. ---- L'équivalent d'une perte de siege social

Website: http://www.veredgroup.com/gouin and http://www.cielocondos.com Description and pictures below taken from http://www.cielocondos.com: The Vered Group’s next upcoming project will be located in a stunning setting along the riverfront, in the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro. Facing the water and surrounded by beautifully landscaped grounds, this refined residential condo building will be the perfect address for those seeking a peaceful suburban environment while enjoying easy access to everything urban life has to offer. Location: 14750 Gouin Blvd West, Pierrefonds (Quebec) H9H 1B2 The project will feature: - 60 stylish 1, 2 and 3 bedroom condos - Scenic waterfront location with direct views of the river - Professionally landscaped grounds - Indoor and outdoor amenities for residents’ exclusive use - Modern minimalist lobby and lounge - Unique indoor, outdoor garden experience - Indoor garage and visitor parking, - Elevator - Spacious balconies and patios - High ceilings - Storage locker available - Open concept designer kitchen - Hardwood floors (engineered) - Most units offer 2 luxurious bathrooms, featuring separate baths and showers

Montreal's tempest in a beer cup A summertime deal between Labatt and the city's Gay Village raises questions about private interests dominating public spaces From Tuesday's Globe and Mail August 5, 2008 at 3:57 AM EDT MONTREAL — Stéphanie Dagenais didn't mind the Bud Light parasols and cups she was forced to use on her restaurant patio in Montreal's Gay Village. It's when the brewery started telling her Bud Light had to go in those plastic cups that the manager of Kilo bristled. "I think it's an aggressive way of doing a sponsorship," said Ms. Dagenais, who was forced to sell the beer under an exclusive deal struck between Labatt, which brews the beer in Canada, and the Gay Village business improvement group. The business association sold the right to sell beer on 54 new patios along a stretch of Ste-Catherine Street to Labatt, part of a summer-long festival that will see cars banished from the street. Owners say the $100,000 deal came with minimum sales quotas for each bar and restaurant, including a healthy sample of Bud Light. Patrons at a bar on Ste-Catherine Street in Montreal drink Molson Export out of the Bud Light cups required through Labatt’s sponsorship of the area. (John Morstad for The Globe and Mail) The Globe and Mail The deal irks restaurateurs like Ms. Dagenais, who doesn't sell much beer at her small restaurant, best known for tasty desserts, and others who try to tempt palates with fine dining, wine and specialty ales. A representative of the business group even suggested Bud Light is a popular beer among gays in the United States. While the banishment of cars from the street has been good for many businesses and great for pedestrians, the sponsorship is triggering a broader tempest in a beer cup over how much control private enterprises should have over public space. "I guess everything has a price," said Ms. Dagenais, who has several cases of Bud Light collecting dust. "But should it be that way? I don't think so, but it seems to be the way we work in North America." Christopher DeWolf, a writer for Spacing Montreal, an urban affairs website affiliated with the Toronto magazine Spacing, questions how corporate interests were allowed to take over a public street. "The closure to cars has created a destination, it creates an ambience that is impossible with cars," Mr. DeWolf said. "But here you have a product foisted on merchants and their customers. It raises the question of how far we should allow private interests to have such control over our public spaces. I think it's a burden on merchants and it restricts public choice." Bernard Plante, director of the Gay Village business association, said the deal is no different than exclusive beer rights negotiated at other city venues. He pointed to the privately owned Bell Centre where only Molson beer is sold. Mr. Plante brushed aside complaints about the use of public space, saying his business group is provincially legislated and democratically run. "These are the decisions we made on behalf of businesses on the street," Mr. Plante said. Merchants could shed the restraints of sponsorship when the deal runs out after the summer of 2009, he added. But they will have to agree to pay for the street closing, including the cost of street decor and rent to the city for having patios on public streets and sidewalks. Across North America, summer festivals run by private entities take over parks and streets, often with exclusive rights to allow access and to sell products. Many of the examples are more intrusive than the Montreal beer sponsorship. In one infamous example in the United States, Washington's National Mall was fenced off for a Pepsi product launch and concert - a 2003 scene described by the Project for Public Spaces as "singularly shocking for its sheer scope and audacity." Steve Davies, a vice-president of the New York-based group that encourages sensible integration of private business in public spaces, says sponsors get in trouble when they start constraining normal commercial activity. "It goes too far when they use a sponsorship to start telling dozens of private businesses what to do on public land over an entire summer," Mr. Davies said. In Montreal, big chunks of major downtown streets are regularly closed to traffic for short periods for everything from the Jazz Festival to Just for Laughs. The Gay Village pedestrian mall will last 2½ months. Mr. DeWolf said Montreal has one big thing right: The city usually emphasizes free public access, even if access to products like food and drink are often restricted. Labatt officials could not be reached yesterday. But Jean-Luc Raymond, owner of La Planète, which specializes in international cuisine, says he's noticed a little more flexibility from his brewery representative since the controversy broke out. Mr. Raymond has managed to get a little more of the fashionable Stella Artois and a little less Bud Light. "The Bud Light is still languishing," he said, "but I'm not like some others who have to try to sell Bud Light and cheesecake."