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Or you could just search for it yourself.

http://www.samcon.ca/main.cfm?p=04_120&l=fr&ProjetID=91

There appears to be a lot of misinformation. Here's an excerpt from: http://columbiavalleynews.com/news/2009/11/10/bill-c-391-to-abolish-the-long-gun-registry/

"Despite unsubstantiated claims to the contrary, the Handgun Registry and strict licensing provisions in the Firearms Act will be unaffected by this amendment and public safety will not be compromised.

The dissolution of the registry will free up scarce resources which can then be committed to combat the ever increasing problem of gang wars fueled by illegal firearms smuggled into Canada by drug gangs and organized crime.

As approximately 85% of firearms used in criminal activity are smuggled into this country, Canadians will benefit from the reallocation of resources to combat this threat to public safety rather than having the government and police continue to waste time and energy regulating law-abiding citizens."

Let's post naked pictures of Rosey in the Gazette. Is it right? who cares other than Rosey. Will it sell more copies? Yes. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:silly:

If naked pictures of me help sell more copies of the Gazette I'll take that as a compliment

My main point is yes it is outright wrong, but I don't think it should be taken too personally as some people are. If Winnipeg or Calgary or any other city were having similar issues I think the cover would have been just about the same thing.

I don't think we're whining here. If the journalist wants to attack the administration for corruption, he can go to town. But to outright call any city in this country a disgrace is irresponsible..

rufus, isn't that exactly what Habsfan just did by stating "What more can you expect from english canada!". Not that I'm trying to point a finger at Habsfan; moreso just stating that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Cataclaw, should we call him a lying douchebag as well?

Maclean's wants to sell magazines. Plan and simple. Is it wrong? Yes. But, lets not make it out to be some covert opertaion to destroy Montreal. Look how much buzz this has already started and it's not even available for sale yet. Watch an increase in sales for next month's issue. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

*stretch and yawn

In other news: I'm taking French lessons soon!

Looking at Clark and Ste. Catherine...does this mean no more LADMMI project?

Je vais y croire quand l'administration de CSL va vouloir se déghethoiser...

 

(ps: je fais référence que la ville de CSL ne veut pas se connecter aux autres villes autour)

I thought so too. But what about this written on Spacing Montreal (written just after you had replied to a post in 2008):

In addition I do not believe it would be fair to blame CSL or its citizens for the current situation. Cote Saint Luc has long requested that kildare be connected to jean talon. this route would provide direct access to decarie and the namur metro station . CSL actually traded a piece of its land (the area around decarie square and a neigbhorhood called north of hampstead) to montreal in exchange for the construction of the road. Montreal took the land and reneged on its promise to build the road. Eventually CSL took the land back in a lawsuit and nothing else has occured.

I also know that CSL has been pushing for the Cavendish extension in recent years, but since demerger Montreal has put it on the back burner.

p.s. I'm not trying to defend CSL or its residents, just presenting the other side of the equation.

Here's a map I created based on what I think the CSL area should look like years down the road, looking at various projects that have been discussed and a few of my own 'wants' for the area. I'm no expert at urban planning or urbanity so feel free to comment and critique.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=108856777922929088479.00046d1191982597c7992

http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/maison-du-festival-online/default.aspx

This page has info on concert dates until the end of November in the Maison du Festival's concert venue L'Astral, many renovation photos, as well as some videos discussing how the project came to be and its overall purpose.

Bumbaru needs to figure out his priorities.

 

On one hand, he's anti-buildings because he wants to preserve the views of the mountain. This suggests he's anti-construction, pro-nature, etc.

 

On the other hand, he wants to preserve the views of buildings, so he likes buildings, he wants buildings, because they provide nice stuff to look at from parks.

 

Whaaaaaat?

 

Bumbaru is an idiot.

Il a aussi glissé un mot sur la tour au coin Sherbrooke/Hutchison (Hilton Garden Inn...) et en a parlé de façon défavorable.

As I see it, his frame of mind goes something like this "what has already been created is heritage, what is yet to be created is garbage that will badly affect that already established heritage".

Hence, in ten years, he'll likely consider the Hilton Garden Inn as a Montreal relic that must be protected, including it's penthouse view of who knows what.

$443 307!! Yet another example of why government should be involved with less, not more. While I have not seen the project with my own eyes, I can pretty much guarantee it is not 73 times better than this project on Duluth http://spacingmontreal.ca/2009/06/22/parking-lot-turned-garden-on-duluth/ which was done privately and cost less than 1/73 of that price tag ($6000).

As well, as an aside, it's another reminder of how the principles of conservatism need not only apply to megalomaniac pseudo-capitalists who try to take advantage of the system and screw people left, right and centre, but can actually be applied to projects and initiatives that help society as a whole; "progressive" society need not equate to "government-backed socialist" society.

I think a superhospital should be a must for any teaching hospital university in this city, translating into one more superhospital if UQAM or Concordia happened to have a medicine faculty as well that had its own repective teaching hospitals. I don’t buy the two superhospitals is excessive argument because by the same logic one superhospital could be considered excessive as well. If having a superhospital has any benefits, then having two should provide the same benefits for both the institutions involved as well as the city. Nor do I buy the French hospital – English hopsital crap, which in my opinion is a way of thinking that only diminishes this city’s potential . The MUHC will have no problem serving patrons in French, and the CHUM will have no problem serving people in English, as it did when someone I know from Toronto had a lot too much to drink one night and ended up spending the night at St-Luc. Furthermore, freeing up the Royal Victoria, the Montreal Children's, Hotel Dieu, and Notre Dame from their current vocations is likely to have great impact on the areas in which they are located. The Royal Victoria building will add ample additional on-campus space for McGill, which it could use for a plethora of different things. Converting the Montreal Children's into living space is likely to have a profound positive impact on Shaughnessy Village. As well, Hotel Dieu and Notre Dame, which are both located in housing areas that is in high demand, could also become living space, helping U of M pay for its ambitious Outremont Campus project.

Vivent les méga-hôpitaux!

Phase 2: Parkland between the Champlain Bridge and Old Montreal

My dream:

Phase 3: Turn the 15/20 between the Turcot interchange and Nun's Island into an urban boulevard and develop the surrounding area.

Quand on ne connait pas les dossiers ni les projets comment savoir si l'argent est bien investi? Que le maire met vraiment ses culottes? Quand on connait tout le magouillage dans la construction comment peut-on être sûr qu'à Laval il n'y a pas de fraude ou de détournement de fond et que vous en avez réellement pour votre argent?

 

Pourquoi une administration sans opposition et qui fait tout en secret serait plus crédible qu'une administration ouverte où les journalistes et la population en général ont le loisir de fouiller les dossiers et de dénoncer les abus et les erreurs souvent courantes?

 

The lack of opposition comes from Vaillancourt's record. Two elections ago there were 4 political parties in Laval and one party won all 21 city counselor seats and the mayor's seat, Vaillancourt's 'Parti Pro des Lavallois'. We have entrusted our city with M. Vaillancourt year after year because he has provided Laval with results though out his tenure. If we were to choose the Montreal route and as citizens nitpick and investigate every dossier that hits the mayor's desk, all we'd have is a lot of paper on the mayor's desk. Kind of like the situation we have in Montreal today. Countless viable projects get discarded because there will always be someone who is unhappy. I don't believe any Montreal mayor, whether it be Tremblay, Harel or anyone else, will be able to truly give the city of Montreal the progress it needs until the populace starts to give more rope to the city to play with. Do administrations make mistakes? Yes. But we elect administrations to do a specific job. Once given that mandate they should be able to act, and if something is truly unsatisfactory to the general public and inconsequential to progress (ie Parc Avenue name change) then the populace should be able to step in.

I have visions of pieces of Turcot falling and citizens being injured because we'll wait too long to take action and go ahead with the project (in whatever form that may be) since no plan will make everyone happy and some group somewhere will be complaining and protesting at all times.

As I see it, low voter turnout, a lack of opposition and a lack of knowledge about the city's dossiers on behalf of Laval residents do not represent voter apathy as much as they show that the citizens are pleased with their leadership and have faith that they will use their tax dollars wisely. (Not to mention, taxes are so much cheaper here than in Montreal that the use of public funds are likely one of the last things on municipal voters minds.)

Pity this project never took off. Another place I'd like to see this type of project, although we're talking 20 + years down the line would be Rue de Havre/Ontario (Metro Frontenac) down to the port (assuming the recreotouristic/residential portion of the port is extended to this point), from the port to the tip of Ile Sainte Helene and from there to what would be Cataclaw's vision (or at least the beginnings of) of downtown Longueuil.

From GOAL the NY Times Soccer Blog:

May 18, 2009, 11:18 am

Montreal Back in M.L.S. Expansion Picture

By Jack Bell

Montreal is again being considered for a Major League Soccer expansion team, possibly for the 2011 season when teams in Portland, Ore., and Vancouver are also scheduled to enter the league.

Joey Saputo, who runs the Montreal Impact of the United Soccer Leagues’ First Division, was in New York last week to discuss expansion with Commissioner Don Garber and the league president, Mark Abbott. Saputo told reporters Friday in Montreal that the league was seeking a $35 million expansion fee and that his 13,034-seat downtown soccer stadium could be expanded with a modest financial commitment from the provinicial government of Quebec and from his own money.

“We’ve had the first face-to-face meetings with the people at M.L.S. last Thursday, we went down to New York and we spoke about the potential of Montreal as a future franchise and the meeting went very well,” Saputo told reporters Friday, before the club’s match against visiting Charleston. “The fact that there’s an opportunity for the government to get involved by increasing the capacity of the stadium to 21,000 for $25 million has definitely helped with the potential for us to get a franchise. Whatever happened in the past, we kind of turned the page and it’s time to move forward.”

Montreal was among eight cities that applied for the two expansion slots for 2011. But during his state-of-the-league address in November, Garber said Saputo had withdrawn his bid. Saputo disputed that, but what actually happened has never been explained.

“One of the issues they have is bringing in four teams in the matter of two years,” Saputo said, referring also to the Philadelphia Union, which will begin play next season. “My point is I don’t look at Montreal as an expansion franchise. I don’t need to turn around and pick up 22 players. I think everyone is in the work mode to make this thing happen.”

In an e-mail message Monday morning, Dan Courtemanche, the league’s senior vice president for communications, confirmed that the meeting had taken place and also referred to Garber’s weekly blog on the league’s Web site in which he wrote: “Joey Saputo is working with a variety of local government entities on a plan to expand the capacity of Stade Saputo. I believe Montreal is a very viable M.L.S. market and I plan to keep in regular contact with the Saputos as we continue to develop our future expansion plans.”

Courtemanche added that league officials would discuss expansion on July 29, during the All-Star weekend in Utah. In addition, Courtemanche said the $35 million expansion fee Saputo mentioned was not accurate and that, although M.L.S. viewed the meeting as positive, it did not discuss a specific timetable for Montreal.

I really wonder if any of the people who are opposed to this project have ever even visited the grounds of Marianopolis. It is more an extension of Westmount then it is of Mont Royal. The project fits really well in the area, will provide a much needed increased tax base (unless of course you all prefer that those taxes go to the suburban mayors instead) and still does an excellent job of protecting green space. Not to mention, pretty much wedged between this area and the mountain (a bit to the east) there already exists plenty of homes and condos, many of them luxury ones (on des Pins, Cedar and Docteur-Penfield). Increased densification will help harmonize the area and better connect Westmount to the Mille carré doré (or at least what's left of it). This would also make for a nice precursor to projects catered to similar-income people on Lincoln helping to revitalize that area while still keeping other parts of Shaughnessy Village dedicated to students and income earners of all types.

La piétonnisation de la rue Sainte-Catherine a coûté 430 000 $ à Stationnement Montréal

Worth every penny lost. It made the area a lot more appealing, not to mention the positive effect on local businesses.

Je prévois simplement un hôtel dans le bâtiment de la gare Windsor. Rien de majeur comme rénovation.

I've been crossing my fingers for some time that it could become the St. Regis Montreal.

I passed by a couple days ago and it looked pretty black to me. I think the charcoal colour might just be from the sun reflecting off of the panels.

Call me crazy, but personally I really like this material. Glass, stone and brick are being used in enough new buildings these days that I think this is a refreshing change, even if it's used on several projects around the city. And materials like the stucco look of the Lepine Simpson usually only work for buildings with "classic" architecture.

Not to mention, with the rest of the world going glass, glass, glass with all their new skyscrapers it's nice to be a bit different. For all we know in a couple years it could be praised as the "style montrealais" .

Here it is, a BIT of a pipe dream, but not impossible. (And I repeat, this would not be the downtown-airport shuttle train. It is supplementary to it, and just so happens to use the CN tracks)

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108856777922929088479.0004678b26181bac73b2c&ll=45.495278,-73.686676&spn=0.242101,0.4422&z=11&lci=transit

Uh? It would actually have stops between the airport and downtown?

 

That I don't get; the point of a shuttle is to be fast. As some have said here; business people need comfort. But they will also need efficiency (speed) and point to point service. Otherwise, they'll always opt for the cab and that would be a shame.

The line I'm talking about using the CN rails has nothing to do with the rail link. Sorry for the confusion. It's my own idea, supplementary to the airport-downtown link, regardless of whether they use the CN or CP tracks. I agree, even if they use the CN tracks so many stops would not make sense. My idea is supplementary to an express airport-downtown train. In fact the Aeroport stop I mentioned, which I only put in because it's already on the link anyways, wouldn't even stop at the terminus built under the Marriott. It would stop just west of the airport. I'll post a picture of the line as I envisioned it soon. Sorry for the confusion.

Excuse the poor quality.

The top one is the CP route, the bottom the CN.

For a better quality photo: http://www.montrealgazette.com/pdf/Airport_train.pdf

Here’s a part from a feature written in the Gazette last weekend:

CP route

- It is the shorter and therefore quicker route between downtown and the airport.

- While final cost estimates are still being worked out, early estimates pegged the CP option at 10- to 20-per-cent cheaper than the CN option.

- Choosing the CP corridor would dramatically improve links between the West Island and the proposed McGill University Health Centre superhospital. The new English-language teaching hospital is to be built on the Glen Yards beside Vendôme station. More frequent train service outside rush hours would also improve rail travel between the West Island with the Loyola campus of Concordia University, which is near Montreal West station.

- Westmount originally had strong reservations about an airport shuttle on the CP line but municipal leaders have been shown that the kind of trains and tracks that would be used would result in less noise than is currently the case. Even so, new noise barriers are under consideration.

- As for Montreal West, selection of the CP option would provoke major changes in and around Montreal West station. All rail lines into and out of the station would be lowered, so that they would pass through the area in a trench, sort of like the Décarie Expressway. Westminster Ave. and Elmhurst Ave. would become overpasses above the lowered rail lines. Montreal West Mayor Campbell Stuart says it hasn't been decided yet whether the trench would be covered or uncovered. Overall, the changes would make the area safer.

 

CN route

- Putting the shuttle train on this route would mean bringing commuter-train service to new neighbourhoods. New train stations could be built, sparking a new round of commercial and residential development in the old industrial neighbourhoods southwest of the downtown core. The proposed Griffintown development, in particular, would benefit.

- On the other hand, the CN route, being the longer of the two options between downtown and the airport, would require more track and be more expensive to build. And it would make for a longer ride between downtown and the airport. The city of Montreal is said to be pushing the CN option, according to insiders, although city official Darren Becker says it has not officially taken a position.

- Choosing the CN corridor would mean the airport shuttle would end up in a "real" downtown train station, Central Station; it's a lot nicer than the Lucien L'Allier terminus beside the Bell Centre. Although some sort of new terminal would be built west of the Bell Centre if the CP corridor is chosen, there's a lot of support within the hotel industry for a Central Station terminal. (An early proposal to have the shuttle run along the CP right of way, then loop around the Bell Centre on a new elevated rail line to Central Station, has been erased from the drawing board. )

- The big risk with the CN option is that it would fail as a development catalyst, leaving Montreal with a slow and expensive airport shuttle. Another potential problem is political: local politicians and residents are wary of the potential for accelerated gentrification near the new stations. Choosing the CN route could displace poor families.

- There are other downsides with respect to costs. A lot of money would have to be spent to rebuild and widen existing rail viaducts so a new set of tracks for the shuttle line could fit underneath. As for operating costs, they'd be higher, too, as the CN route, longer than the CP route, would mean higher fuel costs.

On a side note, both the CP lines and the CN lines have their pros and cons, but regardless of which track is chosen for the airport link, I have a quasi- pipe dream I’d love to see become reality: a fifth metro line that would be above-ground and would ultimately connect the CN line to the Doney Spur through the bit of rail that goes south, just west of the Technoparc St Laurent. The West Island would finally have its metro line, as would a huge neglected part of the Havre de Montreal which, crossing our fingers, will look ultimately different in 20 years time.

The stations would be as follows, but would ultimately depend on the level of development in these areas:

Stillview (West Island Terminus: end of the Doney Spur and close to Blvd. St. Charles)

St. Jean

Delmar

Des Sources

TechnoParc

Aeroport

Dorval

Lachine

Saint Pierre

Lac à la loutre

Saint-Remi

Place Saint Henri

Saint Patrick

Pointe Saint Charles

Wellington (corner Bridge)

Griffintown (stop at rue William)

Bonaventure