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La caverne de Saint-Léonard deviendrait le «Centre de la Terre» La caverne de Saint-Léonard pourrait devenir un site d’attraction scientifique et éducatif, dans la même veine que le Biodôme et le Planétarium, selon la Société de spéléologie du Québec qui compte faire de ce site le «Centre de la Terre». «Alors que le Planétarium permet d’en apprendre davantage sur l’espace […] le « Centre d’interprétation de la Terre » aura comme mission d’expliquer aux visiteurs la formation des calcaires ordoviciens des basses-terres du Saint-Laurent et les mouvements de glaciers», explique le dossier de projet consulté par TC Media. Formé il y a 10 000 ans, le site caverneux qui se trouve en plein cœur de la métropole est géré par la Société de spéléologie du Québec. Chaque année, 1500 à 2500 visiteurs explorent cette caverne longue de 35m. C’est ce succès que l’organisme souhaite utiliser comme rampe de lancement pour mettre en place un projet d’envergure. «Au cours des dernières années, nous n’avons pas réussi à répondre à la demande. Nous voudrions faire quelque chose de plus gros pour mettre en valeur la grande histoire géologique du site», indique François Gélinas, directeur général de l’organisme. La vision Le nouveau centre d’interprétation serait ouvert à l’année et offrirait des salles présentant des expositions permanentes et temporaires. Actuellement, le site n’est accessible que du mois de mai au mois d’août, en raison de la main-d’œuvre, qui est composée de guides étudiants, et des conditions météorologiques. La neige et le froid ne permettent pas d’ouvrir la caverne par temps froid. De nouveaux aménagements, dont une salle étanche et l’agrandissement du pavillon du parc Pie-XII, devraient être réalisés pour permettre d’ouvrir plus de six mois par année. «Il nous faut un sas afin d’éviter que des chocs thermiques cassent la roche de la grotte. De plus, avec l’agrandissement du pavillon, nous pourrions y déménager et y faire de l’animation», explique M. Gélinas. D’autres cavernes qui demeurent inexploitées pour le moment à Saint-Léonard pourraient également être aménagées, dont celle de la rue du Saguenay. «C’est une deuxième étape. La caverne Saguenay est située dans un secteur résidentiel, et nous voudrions sonder les voisins pour nous assurer de ne pas les déranger lors de nos visites», souligne le directeur général. Le coût de la construction de cette structure n’est pas encore connu. Toutefois, l’organisme estime qu’il faudrait environ 250 000$ pour mettre en place les expositions et acheter de l’équipement. Ce montant n’inclut pas les travaux au pavillon ni la construction du sas. Les premiers pas Afin de réaliser son projet, la société souhaite y aller graduellement. Dès cet été, elle doublera son nombre de visites, passant de trois à six visites par jour. M. Gélinas espère atteindre les 30 000 visiteurs si le site est accessible à l’année. L’organisme devrait rencontrer l’arrondissement de Saint-Léonard, notamment pour la question des travaux au pavillon, au cours des prochaines semaines. De plus, il compte également commencer les démarches pour trouver du financement. «Si tout va bien, je nous donne cinq ans pour réaliser le projet», dit M. Gélinas. TC Media a tenté de joindre l’arrondissement de Saint-Léonard, mais sans succès. http://journalmetro.com/local/saint-leonard/actualites/919667/la-caverne-de-saint-leonard-deviendrait-le-centre-de-la-terre/

http://journalmetro.com/local/sud-ouest/actualites/972831/cure-de-jeunesse-pour-des-parcs-du-sud-ouest/ 01/06/2016 Mise à jour : 1 juin 2016 | 17:17 Cure de jeunesse pour des parcs du Sud-Ouest Par André Desroches TC Media Photo: TC Media - André Desroches Baptisé temporairement Parc 3 Nord, le nouveau parc aménagé sur le site des Bassins du Nouveau-Havre, dans Griffintown, est accessible à la population depuis le 26 mai. Une enveloppe de 4 M$ sera consacrée à la réalisation d’une dizaine de projets de réfection et d’aménagement dans des parcs du Sud-Ouest au cours des prochains mois. La part du lion, soit une somme de 1 M$, sera dédiée au projet de legs de l’arrondissement pour le 375e anniversaire de Montréal, qui sera célébré l’an prochain. Tout ce qu’on sait pour le moment c’est qu’il y aura illumination de deux ponts et d’une passerelle enjambant le canal de Lachine avec des projections sur l’eau. Les détails doivent être présentés prochainement. «Ça va être gros, beau, magnifique. Nous avons été chercher des artistes de renommée internationale», lance le maire de l’arrondissement, Benoit Dorais, qui se garde d’en dire davantage. Nouveaux jeux pour enfants Le remplacement de modules de jeu pour enfants qui ne répondent plus aux normes se poursuit. Une somme de 250 000$ permettra d’en installer de nouveaux aux parcs Le Ber, Ignace-Bourget, Campbell-Ouest et Victor-Rousselot. Les travaux dureront une bonne partie de l’été. Dans la Petite-Bourgogne, l’aménagement au coût 650 000$ d’un terrain de soccer au parc Oscar-Peterson doit être complété à la fin du mois d’août. Toujours dans ce quartier, une somme de 325 000$ permettra d’ajouter cet été 500 mètres au parcours piétonnier de plus d’un kilomètre du Sentier de la Bourgogne. Il s’étendra du métro Lionel-Groulx au parc Jessie-Maxwell-Smith, à proximité de la rue Guy. Du côté de Pointe-Saint-Charles, l’aménagement au coût de 900 000$ du Square Saint-Patrick, situé au coin des rues Wellington et Saint-Patrick, en bordure du canal de Lachine, touche à sa fin. «Les travaux avancent rapidement. On devrait être capable de l’ouvrir en juillet», indique Benoit Dorais. Les travaux vont également bon train en ce qui concerne l’aménagement au coût de 425 000$ du parc Madeleine-Parent situé entre la rue Saint-Patrick et le canal de Lachine, près du marché Atwater. Ils devraient être terminés cet été. L’arrondissement souhaite pouvoir l’inaugurer durant la fin de semaine de la Fête du travail.

The Movement presented by AT&T, hosted by former MLS forward Calen Carr, is a new series from MLS Digital that explores the growing soccer movement and soccer culture in North America In Episode 1, Carr visits Montreal to learn about the city’s unique culture and history — on and off the field. Music: ROWJAY “KUNG FUN MARGIELA" A TRAPPIN APE SOUNDCLOUD.COM/ROWJAYCOB Special Thanks Impact Media Pat Vallee Jordano Aguzzi Yvan Delia-Lavictoire

via la Voix Pop 15/01/2016 Mise à jour : 15 janvier 2016 | 13:06 Projet de 135 condos sur la rue Saint-Rémi Par André Desroches TC Media L'immeuble résidentiel de quatre étages serait construit au 767, Saint-Rémi, là où l'on trouve présentement un bâtiment industriel inoccupé, ainsi que sur le terrain contigu. André Desroches / TC Media Un projet résidentiel comptant 135 unités d’habitation, essentiellement des copropriétés et quelques logements sociaux, pourrait voir le jour sur la rue Saint-Rémi dans le quartier Saint-Henri. L’immeuble serait construit au 767, Saint-Rémi, là où l’on trouve un bâtiment industriel inoccupé, ainsi que sur le terrain contigu. Selon ce qu’a appris TC Media, il inclurait 14 logements sociaux et 14 logements abordables. Il s’agirait d’un bâtiment de quatre étages. Le règlement d’urbanisme de l’arrondissement du Sud-Ouest prévoit pour ce secteur des immeubles de 2 à 3 étages. Le projet, qui déroge à cette norme, pourrait faire l’objet d’un projet particulier de construction. La table de concertation Solidarité Saint-Henri a organisé deux rencontres en décembre et janvier pour présenter le projet aux résidents qui demeurent dans le Village des tanneries, là où le bâtiment serait érigé. Le Village des tanneries, cette petite enclave située à l’extrémité ouest de Saint-Henri, est délimité par les rues Cazelais, Saint-Rémi et Desnoyers et la voie ferrée. Opposition du POPIR Bien qu’il ne s’agisse pour le moment que d’une proposition préliminaire, le promoteur n’ayant déposé aucun projet formel à l’arrondissement, le POPIR-Comité Logement affiche d’emblée son opposition. «Notre mandat, c’est zéro condo», déclare Fred Burrill, organisateur communautaire au POPIR. C’est un non catégorique même si le projet prévoit l’inclusion de logements sociaux. «Nous ne sommes pas pour la construction de logements sociaux à n’importe quel prix», souligne M. Burrill. Selon le POPIR, ce type de développement résidentiel ne répond pas aux besoins des locataires de Saint-Henri, dont le revenu médian est de 25 395$. «Nous voulons le plus possible que le quartier demeure un quartier populaire», insiste Fred Burrill pour qui la multiplication de projets de condos ne fait qu’accélérer l’embourgeoisement du quartier. «Nous n’avons pas encore de position», indique pour sa part Shannon Franssen, coordonnatrice de Solidarité Saint-Henri. Le Comité aménagement de la table de concertation doit se réunir au début de février pour faire le point dans ce dossier.

Lire les commentaires sur cette decision sur leur site Facebook qui a 250k abonnés. Nous n'avons pas commenter beaucoup ici, mais l'opinion américain est intéressant. https://m.facebook.com/hyperallergic http://hyperallergic.com/207918/woman-found-guilty-of-criminal-harassment-for-instagramming-street-art/ Woman Found Guilty of Criminal Harassment for Instagramming Street Art by Benjamin Sutton on May 18, 2015 Jennifer Pawluck (photo provided by Pawluck to Hyperallergic), and the street art photo that landed Jennifer Pawluck in hot water with Montreal police. Jennifer Pawluck (photo provided by Pawluck to Hyperallergic), and the street art photo that landed Jennifer Pawluck in hot water with Montreal police Jennifer Pawluck, the Montrealer who was arrested in 2013 for posting a photo of a piece of street art on Instagram, has been convicted of criminal harassment and, on Thursday, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 18 months probation. Her community service must be completed within a year. The 22-year-old college student has also been forbidden from posting any public messages on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and must restrict her use of the social media platforms to private communications for the next year, according to the Montreal Gazette. She had faced maximum penalties of up to six months in jail and a fine of $5,000. Reached via Facebook, Pawluck told Hyperallergic: “I am unfortunately not responding to any media questions … following my sentencing I’d prefer to keep a very low profile.” In late April Pawluck was found guilty for having posted a photo on Instagram of a piece of street art showing Ian Lafrenière, the lead officer for communications and media relations for the Montreal police, with a bullet wound in his forehead. Pawluck did not create the artwork, but merely saw it and posted a photo of it online. The image was accompanied by text that read “Ian Lafrenière” and “ACAB,” an acronym for “All Cops Are Bastards.” Pawluck had seen the piece of street art in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighborhood where she lives and posted it online accompanied by hashtags including “#ianlafreniere” and “#acab,” later claiming that she didn’t know who Lafrenière was. At the time, Pawluck had 81 followers. “On the photo there were links, or hashtags, with Ian Lafrenière’s name written in different ways and allusions like (‘All cops are bastards’) and (‘One cop, one bullet’) to the point where, given the context, there was criminal harassment,” Josie Laplante, lawyer for the prosecution, told the National Post in April following Pawluck’s conviction. “I think we all have to pay attention to what we post because (some people) don’t consider the impact it can have on other individuals.” Pawluck was a participant in the 2012 student protests in Montreal, during which Lafrenière was a very visible spokesperson for the city’s police force. He said in his testimony that he and his children had found the image disturbing, and that his wife had been forced to take a leave of absence from her job because of it. “There is a limit that must not be crossed,” said judge Marie-Josée Di Lallo when delivering her verdict on April 23. “She (Pawluck) felt anger toward the police.” Tagged as: censorship, Featured, Instagram, Jennifer Pawluck, Montreal, Social Media, street art sent via Tapatalk

Ça n'a pas été posté nulle part, me semble? http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/regional/archives/2013/06/20130604-135115.html

Contrôler les propos sur les réseaux sociaux, c'est une mesure complètement dépassée. Que vont-ils faire plus tard? S'attaquer aux applications mobiles parce qu'elles ne sont pas en français? Complètement R-I-D-I-C-U-L-E! Quebec language watchdog targets Facebook page Social media the new frontier for agency probing Ottawa-area retail boutique By Joel Balsam CHELSEA, QUE. — The agency in charge of enforcing the primacy of the French language in Quebec apparently has a new target — social media. Eva Cooper, the owner of a small retail boutique called Delilah in the Parc, has been notified by the language agency that if she doesn't translate the shop's Facebook page into French, she will face an injunction, which will carry consequences such as a fine. "Ultimately, to me, Facebook has nothing to do with Quebec," said Cooper, who uses the social media site to inform customers of new products in her boutique in Chelsea, north of Ottawa. The shop has an all-bilingual staff of fewer than 10 people. "I'm happy to mix it up, but I'm not going to do every post half in French, half in English. I think that that defeats the whole purpose of Facebook," said Cooper, who has requested the agency send her their demands in English. Cooper's case represents a new frontier for the language agency, the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF). The agency says probes of social media complaints, which started only recently, are "not frequent." This all comes amid election talk in the province. Diane De Courcy, Quebec minister of immigration and cultural communities, said earlier this week that if her party wins the next election, they will toughen language laws for small businesses. In particular, the Parti Québécois will crack down on bilingualism, such as the "Bonjour-Hi" greeting used in many areas including Chelsea and Montreal. Traditionally, the language agency has targeted non-Francophone businesses that have signs or promotional material in a language other than French, but there have been some instances of small businesses' websites being targeted as well. In 2011, a smokehouse in Chelsea was threatened with a $1,000 fine if it didn't translate its website into French, and earlier this month, a Montreal-based website called "Provocateur Communications" was told it must comply with the French language charter by translating its page. Still, the question of how the agency is able to dictate what goes on social media in particular is "really murky," said Cooper. "Would I be able to do my text in English on (Pinterest or) Twitter?" The notice addressed to Cooper is dated Feb. 7 — almost a calendar year to the day when the "pastagate" scandal made international headlines after a Montreal restaurant was investigated for having the word "pasta" on the menu instead of the French word "pâtes." The fallout led to the resignation of the language agency's president and the launch of a "triage system" for complaints to prioritize cases that had the most impact. "This is not consistent with what the OQLF said after they evaluated their approach last spring around complaints," said Sylvia Martin-Laforge, director general of the Quebec Community Groups Network, which represents 41 English organizations. "She's in Chelsea. (Her Facebook page) has only 602 likes. There is no gravity to this. This is ridiculous," said Martin-Laforge. Jean-Pierre Le Blanc, spokesperson for the language agency, wouldn't comment specifically on Cooper's notice, but explained how Quebec's language law applies to Facebook. "If you talk to your friends, it's not a problem, but if it's the sale or promotion of a product or service, (it must be in French)," he said. "Our demand is this: if you sell in Quebec, it must be in French." Cooper has until March 10 to respond to the notice before she is hit with the injunction that could lead to a fine. If the language agency goes the route of asking Facebook to take down Cooper's page, it would have to prove the page violates Facebook's community standards, which prohibit the use of graphic content, hate speech, spam or harassment. Facebook does have the power to block the IP address of the page in a specific area or country if it violates the law, but this is reserved for extreme circumstances.

http://www.lienmultimedia.com/spip.php?article33716 Betaville – Un jeu vidéo pour la planification urbaine 27 novembre 2012, 00h05 Avec tous les débats des dernières années à propos de la nécessité de tenir des consultations publiques en matière d’urbanisme, que ce soit dans le cas de l’échangeur Turcot ou de Griffintown, l’implantation de Betaville ne peut pas tomber mieux. Créé par Carl Skelton du Brooklyn Experimental Media Centre et Martin Koplin du M2C Institute for Media Technology and Culture de Brême, Betaville est un outil 3D de planification urbaine gratuit et en ligne, à l’usage des entreprises de design, des architectes, des promoteurs et de la communauté en général.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Deal+would+bring+Citytv+Montreal/6560252/story.html Rogers Media buys Montreal TV station Metro 14 By Steve Faguy, The Gazette May 4, 2012 9:36 AM MONTREAL - Citytv could be coming to Montreal soon. Rogers Media announced on Thursday that it had reached a deal to purchase Montreal multicultural television station Metro 14 (CJNT) from Toronto-based Channel Zero Inc. Rogers plans to turn CJNT into a Citytv station, expanding the national network’s presence. Citytv has stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. The company also announced that it will sign long-term affiliation deals with three stations owned by the Jim Pattison Group: CHAT-TV in Medicine Hat, Alta., CJFC-TV in Kamloops, B.C., and CKPG-TV in Prince George, B.C. All three have been Citytv affiliates since 2009, and are, like CJNT, former members of the Canwest CH/E! network. Rogers also announced in January it would purchase educational regional cable channel Saskatchewan Communications Network from Bluepoint Investment Corp. and rebrand it as Citytv Saskatchewan. “Citytv, up until recently, has only been available in 7.2 million homes, and when we buy and produce programming, the cost of that is similar to what other networks pay when they buy national footprint rights,” Rogers Media president of Broadcast Scott Moore told The Gazette. “It’s essential for us to expand our footprint.” Though the new deals give Citytv good coverage west of Montreal, there are no stations east of the city. Moore said there are no specific plans for expansion into Atlantic Canada, but said it represented a gap in the network and “we’ll continue to work on that in the next six to 12 months.” The deal must be approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission before Rogers Media can take over. In the meantime, Rogers and Channel Zero have signed an affiliation agreement that will see Citytv programming on CJNT as of June 4. Citytv programs include American shows like New Girl, Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother, as well as original productions like Canada’s Got Talent and the upcoming The Bachelor Canada. Channel Zero president Cal Millar told The Gazette the station also will air some programming from Rogers’s OMNI network of ethnic stations. Channel Zero also owns CHCH television in Hamilton, Ont. It purchased CHCH and CJNT from Canwest for $12 in 2009 after the struggling company (which also owned The Gazette) decided to shut down its secondary network of conventional television stations. Moore said he would not comment about the purchase price, but joked that it was “more than double” the $12 Channel Zero paid for it. CJNT’s licence requires it to broadcast 14 hours of local ethnic programming each week and at least 75 per cent ethnic programming from 8 to 10 p.m. But after the sale from Canwest to Channel Zero, the station stopped producing its ethnic programming. It has since been airing reruns – some of them three years old – of its local ethnic shows. The rest of its schedule is made up of music videos, foreign films and some low-rated U.S. programming whose Canadian rights haven’t been scooped up by CTV, Global or Citytv. Moore did not comment on any changes Rogers might propose for CJNT’s licence, or whether it would even continue to be a multi-ethnic station. “We’ll be spending the next couple of months in Montreal, speaking with stakeholders in the community,” he said. As far as local programming, Moore said it was still too early to tell, but it was unlikely the station would produce a daily newscast. “I don’t know that Montreal needs another English-language supper-hour newscast,” he said. Citytv stations outside of Toronto meet local programming requirements with morning shows. Moore said it was “a good bet” that a similar strategy would be used in Montreal. Millar said the sale was bittersweet for Channel Zero, which he said had been making progress building its audience with a new morning show that’s heavy on music videos. He said Rogers has been trying to buy the station since “shortly after we acquired it” and made multiple offers. But this time, “Rogers was more determined than ever to expand their national reach,” Millar said. “It was far more valuable to them at that point than to us.” Channel Zero had been in talks with a local producer to bring back some local ethnic programming this fall. Millar said he doesn’t know if those plans will continue as the company waits for a decision on the acquisition. Rogers said it would expect a decision by the CRTC in the fall. sfaguy@montrealgazette.com Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Rogers+Media+buys+Montreal+station+Metro/6560252/story.html#ixzz1tuid8rb0

Focus Montreal guests include Marc Petit from Autodesk Media and Entertainment, Nicolas Darveau-Garneau from Google Quebec and Loris Krebs from Byond the Rack. Hosted by Richard Dagenais. http://www.globalmontreal.com/video/focus+montreal+jan+28/video.html?v=2192835776&p=1&s=dd#video

Arianna Huffington casts her Net ever wider. Arianna Huffington's life reads like a salacious Vanity Fair profile, the contradictions of her power splayed out on every glossy page, inviting controversy. She's a millionaire who built her Huffington Post online media empire - sold to AOL a year ago for $315 million - on the unpaid work of more than 9,000 bloggers, one of whom is now suing on their behalf for one-third of the value: $105 million. She was a conservative commentator in the 1990s who recycled herself as a freethinking independent (with strong liberal views) for the 21st century. She was married for a decade to a Republican congressman, Michael Huffington, who turned out to be bisexual and started campaigning for gay rights. Author of a dozen non-fiction books, she has been accused of plagiarizing passages for three of them (including biographies of Maria Callas and Pablo Picasso). Since last November, she's being sued by two consultants who say she stole the Huffington Post idea from them back in 2004 (it launched in 2005). What else? She's a woman who has come from far, has hobnobbed with the greats and is known by the company she keeps. A brief sketch of her career arc gives an idea of the distance travelled. Born in Greece (née Stasinopoúlou); educated in England (Cambridge University); longtime lover of the late British journalist Bernard Levin (who was twice her age and, for a spell, a fellow follower of the Indian mystic Rajneesh); a New Yorker since the early 1980s and U.S. citizen since 1990; political TV comedy writer in the 1990s who worked with Al Franken and Bill Maher; unsuccessful indie candidate for California governor in 2003; parent (with her ex, Michael) of two daughters, both now in their early 20s. These days, Huffington is in expansion mode, spreading her media brand - a blend of original reporting and aggregated news and opinion from websites all around the world - to Canada, Europe and beyond. With a staff of 200 employees and its thousands of bloggers, HuffingtonPost.com gets 35 million unique visitors a month, more than the New York Times. Huffington Post Canada, the service's first foreign edition, launched online last May and, with its staff of 20 and bloggers ranging from David Suzuki to Conrad Black, has a monthly audience of more than 1.8 million. A British edition launched last July, Le Huffington Post launched in France last week, Le Huffington Post Québec launches Wednesday, a Spanish edition will begin the third week of March and an Italian one in April. There are also negotiations to start three other foreign editions this year, in Germany, Brazil and Turkey. Huffington, 61, will be in Montreal Wednesday for the launch of the French-language service here. And, true to form, she'll arrive amid a bit of controversy. As The Gazette reported this week, about a dozen Quebec luminaries - politicians like Louise Harel and Pierre Curzi, intellectuals like Normand Baillargeon, environmental activists like Steven Guilbeault - had been lined up to blog for Huffington Québec but have now withdrawn their offers to write for free. Some said they were too busy, but the reason most gave was that they preferred to be paid for their work. When I caught up with her a week ago after the launch in France, Huffington was in a typically upbeat mood, deflecting criticism in her distinctive Greek accent and nasally voice that boomed down her BlackBerry line from Davos, Switzerland. She was attending a supper of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship on the eve of the annual meeting of global leaders at the World Economic Forum. I began by asking Huffington what she plans for the new Quebec site. How will Huffington Post Québec be different from Huffington Post Canada or Huffington Post in France? Every different province or country will be rooted in the culture of the province or country, edited by local journalists. Of course, we are going to be able to leverage the French site and translate stories that are of local interest, like the U.S. election, and lifestyle stories that are more universal. We now have 50 sections in the U.S. and whether it is in style or women or books or parenting, the whole point of the site is very much to embrace the country or the province - in this case, embracing Quebec and the Québécois and what they love. And what do the Québécois love? Do you know? There's isn't just one thing - it's a very varied community. Am I right about that? Yes, but we have certain preoccupations here that are different from the rest of Canada's. Yes, of course, and the Québécois want to read about their own politicians, which is why among the many bloggers we've recruited there's Pierre Curzi (note: who in fact has since bowed out), Yves-François Blanchet, Jamie Nichols, actors like Charlotte Laurier, Évelyne de la Chenelière (note: who has also bowed out), Micheline Lanctôt, musicians. So you know, part of it is hearing from their own people and part of it is addressing their own preoccupations. You're travelling a lot these days? I am, but I think it's worth it. This is the year for us to grow internationally and it's really exciting to be in each country as we launch. We've launched Canada, which is doing incredibly well; we're launching in the U.K., then there's Spain in maybe the third week of March, then Italy in April. We're still talking with Germany, Turkey and Brazil - we don't have finalized partnerships there, but we are in conversations. Tell me about the HuffPost business model - as an aggregator and also producer of original content, including nonpaid bloggers - and what that means for journalism in the 21st century. Well, first of all, the Huffington Post is now both a journalistic enterprise and a platform. You know, we started by doing a lot more aggregating, but now we have almost 400 professional full-time journalists - reporting, breaking stories. We are here, for example (in Davos), with our executive business editor (Peter S. Goodman), who has done some of the best coverage in the States around poverty and how this is impacting the Republican primaries; when we had our political reporter covering the primaries in South Carolina, (Goodman) was covering what was happening with the issue of downward mobility there, which has been one of the issues that hasn't been adequately covered, the fate of the middle class. So what I'm saying is that we don't just do the conventional reporting that we have to do, the bread and butter, covering what everybody's covering, like the State of the Union, or in the case of Quebec, I'm sure covering the Plan Nord, the plan to exploit natural resources in northern Quebec. Whatever the Arianna Huffington issues of the moment are, we'll have to cover them obsessively, because they're of tremendous interest. But we'll need to go to the big issues, and stay on them, and basically generate interest in them. That's what we've done with series like Beyond the Battlefield, which covers the state of the returning vets from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. So my point is that to describe the Huffington Post as just an aggregator now is just behind the times. You plan to have seven employees in Quebec. Will that grow over time? Of course. You know, when we launched the Huffington Post (U.S.) in May 2005, we had five staff. So the whole goal is to start small and grow, become profitable and attract advertising. In our case, that doesn't just mean advertising based on CPMs (cost per mile, or 1,000 visitors), but sponsorships, like an entire section we have now with Johnson & Johnson on global motherhood, and sponsorship of a good-news section, and sponsorship of a video series on social responsibility and, since the launch in France, sponsorships by L'Oréal and Orange. It's a different model. Our content is free, we don't have any plans to charge for anything, but the advertising that we bring in now moves way beyond the usual CPM model. How do you avoid the two coming too close together: sponsorship and what you're actually covering? Well, obviously that is very important and the key here is transparency. If we have a section that is sponsored, it transparently says so; there is no mixing up of the content, so no one is left in any doubt as to whether the section is sponsored or not. Tell me about yourself. Did you ever imagine you'd be flying around the world as a journalism executive? You mean when I was growing up in Athens, did I ever think one day I would become a blogger and that one day the Huffington Post would grow and make more babies around the world? No, I don't think so. Don't forget, I was pretty old when we launched the Huffington Post; I had already written a dozen books; I was 55 and now I'm 61. It shows that it's never too late to get involved with the Internet - or any start-up. What electronic devices do you use? I'm a BlackBerry addict. At the moment I have four BlackBerrys in front of me, because I have one for every provider for where I travel. I'm calling you on one. And of course, I have an iPad. But the one I really depend on is my BlackBerry. I have to send you a piece I wrote on the time I lost my BlackBerry in the Mediterranean. It fell into the sea. You just launched in France. How did the appointment of editorial director Anne Sinclair (ex-TF1 TV news host and wife of disgraced ex-International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn) go over with the media there? Oh, actually, amazing. We were all surprised by how positive the reception was at the press conference, where there were 260 journalists and two dozen cameras and television cameras. She's a professional journalist with tremendous cachet in France, and she herself had developed the business strategy of TF1 when she was there in the 1990s, and then had her own blog during the 2008 presidential race. Beyond that, I think there was something else that we were surprised by: If you go to her Facebook page in France, there are all these dozens of women who, even before we launched, came on her page and went (apropos of the DSK scandal): "Go, Anne, it makes it easier for us to get up after an ordeal and get back into the arena." Very often, especially for women, after a setback or a defeat or whatever it is, we want to hide ourselves under the covers. She instead has entered the arena again and been passionate and incredibly dedicated to learning everything and being involved in every aspect of the launch. You seem to have a knack for finding high-profile people to work for you. Is that part of the secret of your success? Well, we have high-profile people and we have thousands of people nobody had heard of before. And that's another thing that I love: being able to provide a platform to people who may already have their own blogs but who can cross paths with us and amplify their voices. A lot of the blogs we have in France now are people like Catherine Cerisey, who's tracking her own struggle with breast cancer, and suddenly this is getting all this traffic that is attracting attention to her own story. Arianna Huffington will launch Le Huffington Post Québec with a news conference Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Gault Hotel in Old Montreal; she'll be joined by her Quebec editor, Patrick White, and two top executives of parent company AOL Canada. From noon to 2 p.m., she'll attend a luncheon at the Fairmount Queen Elizabeth Hotel and speak on How Social Media Are Transforming the World; the event is organized by CORIM (Montreal Council on Foreign Relations); tickets start at $75 and advance registration is required; for more details, visit http://www.corim.qc.ca. A WINDOW ON LE HUFFINGTON POST QUÉBEC Owned by: AOL Huffington Post Media Group Language: French Headquarters (until April): 24th floor of 1000 de la Gauchetière St., Montreal Editor: Patrick White Staff: 7 Freelancers: 15 Bloggers: 120 Some who will blog for free: Charlotte Laurier, Claude Carignan, Louis Bernard. Some who decided not to blog: Louise Harel, Jean Barbe, Évelyne de la Chenelière Launch date: Wednesday Expected audience: 200,000 unique visitors per month Percentage of Quebecers who have never heard of Huffington Post: 82 (November 2011 poll) Sources: Huffington Post, The Gazette Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Arianna+Huffington+casts+ever+wider/6101339/story.html#ixzz1lQYt06nG

MONTREAL, June 22 /CNW Telbec/ - The head office of Astral Media Inc. (TSX: ACM.A/ACM.B) now boasts a new address at 1800 McGill College Avenue. Astral-one of Canada's largest media companies-also shares its name with this office building that has been part of Montréalers' lives since 1989 and now becomes Maison Astral. Over 400 of the 2,800 Astral employees will occupy many of the building's floors, including Corporate Department employees, as well as a large portion of its French-television team and Sales Department employees. "Our company was founded in Montréal nearly 50 years ago and we take great pride in helping to make our city one of the country's economic and cultural drivers. Today, we are delighted to occupy a choice location at the heart of Montréal's business and cultural district," declared Ian Greenberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Astral. Maison Astral is a 30-storey office building with a breathtaking view of the Mount Royal that overlooks Montréal's most strategic hub at the corner of McGill College Avenue and de Maisonneuve Boulevard. ----------------------------------------------- They have already installed their hideous new logo

(Courtesy of CBC News Montreal)

Sans fil: Quebecor Media aura investi 1 milliard dans Vidéotron

New Year's Eve party à la Times Square in Montreal Thu, 2009-09-10 17:37. Shuyee Lee Montreal is getting its own Times Square-style Rockin' New Year's Eve. Media company Astral Media is organizing a big New Year's Eve party this year on McGill College Avenue downtown. It'll be an annual affair complete with live music and comedy, activities, as well as sound and light performances. The Big Astral Countdown for Mira event will help raise money for the Mira Foundation, which provides over 180 guide dogs and assistance to people with mental, visual, hearing and motor disabilities. Astral Media owns CJAD 800 which will broadcast the event live, along with its sister stations CHOM 97.7 and Virgin Radio 96. http://www.cjad.com/node/990235

Wow, Atral média ne cessera jamais de me surprendre. Déjà qu'ils viennent de changer la radio locale Mix96 à Virgin Radio. Une radio moulé internationale qui n'est rien d'autre qu'une façon de faire du nettoyage dans du personnel et d'ajouter des émissions faites ailleurs à des heures de grande écoute qui dilué dans toutes leur station, coute moins chère et rapporte plus. Même si je n'écoutais pas cette radio, j'ai tout de suite vu une différence dans la qualité du produits local. Le Québec, Franco ou Anglo c'est exactement ça, une personnalité propre à nous même. Je suis un fan de la compagnie Virgin, je trouve que Richard Branson à réussi dans la vie pour les bonne raison, comme Bill Gates ou d'autre "players" qui ont commencé avec rien et qui ont eu des idées! Pourquoi je parle de Virgin Radio? Bien, Astral Média récidive en changeant la station Radio Énergie. Il prennent la radio francophone probablement la plus écouté à Montréal (Que je n'écoute pas non plus) et la transformeront en NRJ, la station française top 40 qui est le penchant de Virgin, c'est à dire, coupé au moule "à la McDonald" pour que peux importe où vous allez, les stations NRJ se ressembles toutes. C'est pas fort, vraiment pas fort, j'aimais bien Astral Média, une compagnie bien de chez nous mais qui franchement fait dure en crisse avec ces annonces. Moi entendre Anthony Cavanaugh (une des vedettes d'NRJ) avec un accent français, ça va me faire chier, putain de merde! Communiqué de Presse:

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