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Au Pied de Cochon 536 Duluth Est Montréal (Québec) H2L 1A9 Tél: 514.281.1114 A must try is the PDC Melting Pot, which has a lot of different types of meat from the pig. It is really filling thats for sure. The most well known dish is the duck in a can! I really need to try that out next time. I find it is reasonably priced for something quite unique. Also if you do go, please make a reservation. I will be posting other interesting restaurants later on Also if you like you can post some here also.

C'est arrivé! http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/ Il me fait grand plaisir d'annoncer le lancement de notre quatrième édition internationale. Le Huffington Post Québec, en tandem avec le HuffPost Canada, couvre désormais l'actualité de ce grand pays voisin et ami des États-Unis. C'est la première fois que deux éditions du HuffPost paraissent à l'intérieur d'un même pays. Soyez sans crainte: il n'y aura pas de lutte fratricide, mais bien une collaboration étroite entre les deux équipes éditoriales, ce qui favorisera l'accomplissement de notre mission. Nous sommes motivés à devenir l'épicentre du reportage, des blogues participatifs, de l'engagement social et de la curation de contenu d'un océan à l'autre. Et puisque le développement de communautés fait partie de notre ADN, l'équipe du Huffington Post Québec sera en contact régulier avec celle du Huffington Post France, de manière à apporter aux Québécois les contenus d'outre-Atlantique les plus susceptibles de les intéresser, et vice versa. Cette édition de langue française sera dirigée par une équipe chevronnée, bien enracinée dans la réalité québécoise au plan personnel et professionnel. On y couvrira tout ce qui fait du Québec un endroit unique : sa langue, son architecture typique, ses partis politiques et -- bien entendu -- sa scène artistique en ébullition. Comme l'écrivait récemment Francisco Toro dans le New York Times, «le Québec peut compter sur ses propres vedettes de la télé et de la chanson, sur des chefs talentueux et bien d'autres créateurs qui semblent nullement importunés par leur manque de notoriété dans le reste du Canada.» Il n'y aura pas de tabou au HuffPost Québec. Nous y discuterons avec passion -- et dans les limites de la civilité -- des questions de langue, de culture et d'identité qui font du Québec une partie intégrante du Canada... et entièrement différente à la fois. Nous espérons que la variété des modes d'expression regroupés au sein du HuffPost saura rejoindre les Québécois, et surtout, les convaincre d'y participer pour partager leur version des faits. Au cours des trois derniers mois de 2011, le Québec a perdu près de 70 000 emplois, ce qui constituerait la chute du taux d'activité la plus brutale survenue depuis trois décennies. Au mois de décembre dernier, le taux de chômage a atteint un pic de 8,7 pour cent. Après avoir fait bonne figure par rapport à l'Ontario, le Québec dépasse désormais cette province par un point de pourcentage. Par ailleurs, l'état des infrastructures de la région montréalaise inquiète. L'effondrement d'un paralume de béton sur l'autoroute Ville-Marie et la décrépitude du pont Champlain -- qui doit être reconstruit incessamment -- ont plus que jamais alimenté les conversations l'été dernier. Nous vivons des temps incertains. C'est pourquoi nous soulignerons le travail de gens et d'organisations qui améliorent le quotidien des plus démunis par leur créativité, leur empathie et leur persévérance. Il sera question de Jeunesse au Soleil, qui fournit des services éducatifs, sportifs et sociaux depuis 1954. Il sera également question de Centraide, qui lutte contre la pauvreté à Montréal, Laval et sur la Rive-Sud, ainsi que de Moisson Montréal, cette banque alimentaire d'envergure qui approvisionne des centaines de milliers de personnes. Il sera également question d'entrepreneurs qui -- par leur sens de l'innovation -- bâtissent le Québec de demain. En guise d'exemple, Steve Couture, Philippe Bégin et Christian Daigle ont fondé le studio Frima en 2003 et ont depuis positionné leur firme parmi les chefs de file en matière de création de jeux vidéo multiplateformes. «Nous voulons employer le talent local au maximum, afin d'exporter des œuvres intellectuelles partout dans le monde», affirmait M. Couture l'an dernier. À la rencontre du monde politique et des technologies numériques, le député Henri-François Gautrin, siégeant à l'Assemblée nationale depuis 1989, se creuse les méninges pour déterminer comment le gouvernement du Québec utilisera les outils en ligne, incluant les blogues, pour devenir plus transparent et efficace. Le rédacteur en chef du Huffington Post Québec est Patrick White, un natif de la Vieille Capitale possédant plus de 20 ans d'expérience en journalisme. Diplômé de l'Université Laval, M. White s'est illustré auparavant chez Canoe.ca, un acteur majeur des médias interactifs. Quant au chef des nouvelles Jean-Philippe Cipriani, il s'est joint à l'équipe après 10 ans à Radio-Canada. Enfin, l'éditrice des blogues Tamy Emma Pepin a pris du galon au Journal de Montréal, le quotidien au plus fort tirage de toute la province. En ce jour de lancement, notre reporter Nils Saryas décortique les plus récentes données du recensement; Caroline d'Astous explique comment la Société des casinos du Québec entend utiliser les logiciels de reconnaissance faciale pour éloigner les joueurs compulsifs; Nicolas Laffont suit des militaires lors d'un exercice dans la région Chaudière-Appalaches; Rachel Nadon couvre en direct la Semaine de mode de Montréal, accompagnée de l'auteure Marie-Sissi Labrèche (Amour et autres violences); Catherine Matusiak nous présente les films québécois sélectionnés à la Berlinale; et enfin, nous ne dérogerons pas à la fièvre du hockey puisqu'il sera question du match d'hier soir entre les Penguins et les Canadiens. Nos blogueurs ne sont pas en reste, puisque le président d'Haïti Michel Martelly souligne l'importance d'attirer les investissements étrangers dans son pays; l'animatrice de radio et de télévision Anne-Marie Withenshaw reçoit le cinéaste Xavier Dolan; la documentariste Francine Pelletier partage ses impressions au sujet de la chanteuse Cœur de Pirate; le directeur de la fondation David Suzuki, Karel Mayrand, publie une lettre ouverte au premier ministre Stephen Harper; et l'acteur Sébastien Dhavernas propose des solutions au problème éthique soulevé par ces députés qui ont récemment «reviré leur veste». Dans la même veine politique, le professeur Louis Balthazar, de l'UQÀM, déplore la perte de crédibilité du Parti républicain; la députée Fatima Houda-Pepin insiste sur la nécessité de protéger les femmes de certaines pratiques religieuses pouvant contrevenir à leurs droits; le spécialiste des communications numériques Bruno Guglielminetti aborde la question de la censure dans Twitter; et enfin, le député Yves-François Blanchet nous explique pourquoi il a décidé de bloguer pour Le Huffington Post Québec. Bref, les Québécoises et Québécois sont cordialement invités à consulter Le Huffington Post Québec. Nous sommes persuadés que les francophiles et francophones de partout au Canada y trouveront aussi leur compte. Merci de publier vos commentaires dans la section appropriée pour partager vos premières impressions.

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

(Courtesy of the Financial Post) RBC is pulling out, yet BMO and TD are expanding. Lets see what happens.

If you want to laugh a little bit, read this news story and the comment section! http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/12/02/park-avenue-pharmacy-arson-suspect-lights-himself-on-fire.html P.S.: I titled this thread "Arson" so other members can post stories about arson that do not necessarily involve the projects in the "Projects" forum.

Didn't know where to post this, but it makes the most sense here... Trudeau Airport was mentioned on Jeopardy last night... here's the link to youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hHKgaqL5d8 The category was International Airports... they were given the name of the airport and they had to answer the city it is located in. The category begins at 7:08. Trudeau was worth $1000.

Interesting little article in the National Post on street food. You have to wonder why Montreal is so stubborn on insisting to not allow street food in this city. Ca fait plutot provinciale non? http://www.nationalpost.com/Hungry+Change/3356184/story.html

Montreal 1 out of 10 places choosen to be the Happiest Place in The World. (Courtesy of Huffington Post)

Un article plein de préjugés sur Montréal et le comparant au New York des années 70. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/is-montreal-headed-toward-a-new-york-style-crisis/article1643336/ J'ai rarement vu un article aussi sévère envers une ville.... Montréal n'a peut-être pas la santé financière de New York mais ce n'est pas Beirut non plus... Mais dans le fond, pourquoi accorder autant d'importance a un tel torchon?? Pire journal anti-francophone du pays... Le National Post suit de pas trop loin....

Couple of old projects that never saw the light of day as they were planned ...Cite Concordia was drastically downsized and redesigned... Dashed projects - 1968 Two downtown projects that never happened. The Eaton-Mace project was a $125,000,0000 building slated for the area bounded by St. Catherine and Sherbrooke between University & Mansfield. It was guided by Brigadier-General Gordon Dorward de Salaberry Wotherspoon. The Montreal Trust mortgage group took it over after Mace ran out of cash. The Place de la Concorde was a $250,000,000 project to be plopped between Milton and Pine, Ste. Famile and Hutchison, roughly the area of what they tried to do a couple of years later with the La Cite project which would have levelled much of the McGill ghetto had it not it not been largely blocked by protests. I was not able to post it in cancelled projects!!

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=3015281#ixzz0ngTRvIDJ

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I will post pics when I get more of them. Leaving in about 30 hours for almost 3 weeks Only reason I have this thread open so I have some sort of foundation.

Hi! I hope this post is not miscategorized. Since I moved to Montreal I have been looking forward to seen these old garbage cans replaced: They are too small, break easily, are always leaking, and most of them have lots of garbage under them which looks really bad (I don't even know how it gets there though I have a few theories). Anyway, in 2007 I found out that Michel Dallaire (the BIXI industrial designer) was to design new benches and garbage cans for downtown: http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/12/17/168881.html In 2008, renderings of the new designs appeared on his website: http://www.dallairedesign.com/flash/index.html And after that nothing happened. Is there any way to know what happened to this? Are they ever going to be replaced?

Selon le Washington Post, le plan de restructuration de GM, qui a déjà reçu 15,4G$US en aide publique, prévoit que de moins en moins de véhicules vendus sur le marché américain seront fabriqués aux États-Unis. Pour en lire plus...

Voilà qui illustre bien la crise des médias imprimés. --------------------- Pour la durée de l'été Le National Post annule son édition imprimée du lundi 29 avril 2009 - 17h18 LA PRESSE CANADIENNE TORONTO -- Le quoditien National Post, propriété de Canwest Global Communications (CGS), a annoncé mercredi qu'il n'imprimerait pas son édition du lundi pendant neuf semaines à partir du 29 juin, même si ses articles continueraient d'être publiés sur son site internet. Canwest espère ainsi réduire ses coûts de papier journal.

Les objectifs de supervision ne sont toujours pas remplis, rapporte jeudi le Washington Post. Pour en lire plus...

La fermeture de DHL Express aux États-Unis n'affectera pas les activités de la division canadienne de l'entreprise appartenant à la Deutsche Post. Pour en lire plus...

Le géant allemand de la logistique, la Deutsche Post, a annoncé lundi qu'il mettra fin à ses activités de livraison express aux États-Unis et y supprimera 9500 emplois. Pour en lire plus...

Morgan Stanley veut réviser son modèle d'affaires 3 octobre 2008 - 07h31 Agence France-Presse La banque américaine Morgan Stanley (MS) cherche à modifier en partie ses opérations dans un effort pour renforcer son bilan face aux inquiétudes persistantes entourant le secteur bancaire, affirme le New York Post vendredi. «Morgan Stanley est en train de réajuster certaines parties de son activité, y compris de réduire ses activités de courtage», indique le quotidien, citant des sources anonymes proches du dossier. La presse financière rapportait à la fin de septembre que l'activité de courtage de Morgan, qui apporte des services financiers aux fonds spéculatifs, avait perdu un tiers de ses actifs. Les fonds ont été effrayés par les rumeurs entourant sa solidité financière et ont préféré se tourner vers des banques concurrentes. Par ailleurs, Morgan Stanley «cherche aussi à racheter une franchise de banque de détail et/ou à trouver un moyen de profiter à moindre frais des dépôts de 1300 G$ US de Mitsubishi Bank UFJ», poursuit le New York Post. La plus grande banque japonaise a payé 9 G$ US pour acquérir 21% des parts de Morgan Stanley. «Les détails des plans de Morgan Stanley ne sont pas encore définitifs», précise le New York Post, ajoutant que «la banque réfléchit à un certain nombre d'alternatives pour se redresser, y compris vendre des actifs ou acheter une banque régionale en difficultés». Tout comme Goldman Sachs (GS), l'autre dernière banque d'affaires indépendante aux États-Unis, Morgan Stanley a renoncé en septembre à son statut pour devenir une simple holding bancaire, ce qui lui permet, en échange de règlements plus stricts des autorités, d'avoir accès aux facilités de soutien financier de la Fed si nécessaire.

La Scotia cherche à acquérir une participation importante dans CI Financial en échange de sa division de fonds communs, rapporte le Financial Post. Pour en lire plus...

Postez des images des projets qui n'ont jamais étés construits à Montréal dans ce fil. Post images of projects that were never built in Montreal in this thread. Nouveau Station Bonaventure (1900) - Pour remplacer l'ancienne station:

Selon le quotidien New York Post, le fondateur d'Apple serait apparu amaigri en plusieurs occasions, ce qui inquiète son entourage et les investisseurs. Pour en lire plus...

Je vais mettre plusieurs photos de villes d'Allemagne ici. Mais avant que je poste, est-ce qu'il y a quelqu'un qui peut me dire comment je peux rapetisser les photos dans le post pour pas qu'elles prennent toute la largeur de l'écran?