Il y a 3 heures, mcgill101 a dit :

The impact on Square Victoria will be enormous. I'm actually glad that it isn't a fully glass-clad building; I think this area is deserving of more contemporary architecture that incorporates some modern elements.

It would be nice to see Broccolini increase their presence in the city. They seem to produce much higher quality projects than the other large firms.

I wish more projects were done by Broccolini. They really seem to care about value-adding their projects. I would pick them over any Mondev, Samcon, DevMcGill, Prevel that have destroyed Montreal's prime real estate with low-cost prefab gray mega block dwarves.

il y a 26 minutes, mark_ac a dit :

What;s important is creating opportunities for companies based in Quebec.

One of the major leads for Quebec based AI (MCKinsey), said that while Montreal leads in AI research, it lags in AI implementation. The ecosystem here has to implementable as well as theoretical

It's a genuine fear that other's have warned about. That we not just become an oversized research center but that we actually benefit from the monetization of the technology. Developing techs and then having them be exploited elsewhere or for the profit of foreign companies that have their profit generating activities elsewhere.... well that's definitely not as good as generating our own spinoffs or making sure that the technologies are exploited here.

il y a 51 minutes, MontréalMartin a dit :

Ce quadrilatère compte déjà 200 ans d'occupation.

Il y a de bonnes chances pour que de vieux artefacts refassent surface suite aux fouilles. 

 

photo 1969. Ouch tout ce qu'on a démolit pour des parkings.

il y a 33 minutes, SkahHigh a dit :

Ne rendons pas ça pire que ce l'est. Est-ce que ça a été fait exprès? Non, mais ils n'y ont pas pensé plus que ça. Est-ce que c'est grave? Pas vraiment, mais vu l'historique des controverses de langue dans cette province, c'est juste vraiment maladroit.

Pas besoin que les anglophones du forum en fassent un plat et il va de même pour les francophones. C'est tout.

Yes. Thanks for that.

Honnêtement, on se connaît assez bien entre nous Montréalais pour savoir qu'il faut respecter l'autre, faire attention aux différents points sensibles et ne pas pomper les situations plus qu'il le faut. Quelque part entre Mathieu Bock-Côté et les Andrew Coyne, il y a un juste milieu. Remember our city's motto. We can't go anywhere if we don't work together. I'm perfectly bilingual and honestly, when I see french getting sidelined, I usually step in to defend it. When I see anglos getting shoved, I'll stand with them. We should all have this attitude rather than staying there à nous gratter le bobo. 

I'm not sure this was official publicity. Probably a re-seller somewhere catering to a very specific clientele (surprise !). In any case, an effort should have been for French. Lesson learned. Let's move on.

According to economic theory, growth can be stimulated by either of the 3:

1. Increasing population (i.e. more babies or .immigration)
2. Increasing capital (i.e. foreign investment)
3. Increasing productivity (we produce more with less, i.e. new technologies)

Toronto has been banking massively on point #1 and getting #2 as a side-benefit. Much of their immigration has been coming from south asia (i.e. India, Pakistan, Bengladesh) and immigrants are usually educated and they speak english meaning that they are good to go from day #1. Here, we opted for people from ex-french colonies and 1) they realized they couldn't find good work without knowing english (!) 2) the whole muslim theme was also a super sensitive matter in Quebec which means there was a backlash against more immigration.

Montreal took off during the days were it was the landing point for immigration from Europe so there's no arguing that this method works. At the time of European immgration (European jews & italians especially), everyone was freaking out because there was no work for them. Everyone did very well in the end. The main issue is the way in which the rest of Quebec "perceive" the immigration happening in Montreal (mostly negatively). It carries an outsized political weight. I'm always amazed how the REQ has such an outsized political power on a place they don't necessarily know very well or even visit very often. In any case, in the absence of population growth, we are left to rely on foreign investment (looks very moderate to me) and on the development of new technologies for our own use (AI would be the lead contender for that).

We shouldn't be expecting miracles. We are doing well given the circumstances. I attribute this mainly to our four universities pumping out trained minds and our overall resilience and grit.

Le 02/10/2017 à 15:10, theodore123abc a dit :

I did yes, from the financial post. They say something along the lines of, "it's not really a boom, I mean the average is on 350k" so bs like that, except the growth is based on progressive increases using percentages as we know. I'm really really unimpressed with them as of late, you should read what else they have to say about Quebec and Bombardier, it's very shortsighted.

Andrew Coyne is a prick and he got schooled in the comment's section of his article on Bombardier. He was essentially saying to kill all of the aerospace..... Sure, and the US should stop bothering with NASA, never mind that the economic fallout from the IP generated there is worth way more than what it costs the US government.

il y a 58 minutes, begratto a dit :

Euh... la série Omerta, qui a eu un grand succès, c'était pas mal ça.  C'était une fiction, fortement inspirée par la vraie mafia montréalaise.  Et ça parlait français et anglais, selon le personnage.  Excellente série, d'ailleurs.

Les télédiffuseurs francophones étaient en avance sur leur temps, faut croire...

Fair enough. Mais là ça fait 20 ans depuis Omerta. On serait mûre pour un update. Le folklore Montréalais s'est grandement enrichi depuis ces années.... Le grand-père Rizzuto qui met des liasses de billets dans ses bas, M. Trottoire qui demande à la commissaire, le plus sérieusement du monde "La mafia? c'est quoi la mafia?", le maire Applebaum qui se faisait payer avec des liasses bourrées dans des coffrets DVD de la série 24h et j'en passe.

Il y a 2 heures, mtlrdp a dit :

Someone should raise $30-40 million (small by Hollywood standards) and have Denis Villeneuve make a movie about the Rizzuto family, this series is pure fiction and pure garbage

I know. It's like an Ontarian's fantasy of what Montreal is. I cringed a lot watching it. The accents are wrong, the dialogues are bad, the story is watered down.... Problem here is that it's Rogers in Toronto who was willing to put the money for this. Here in Quebec, French media would NEVER pay for a series that actually happens bilingually and that would fail to employ the usual clique of Quebecois actors. It's honestly a shame that people from outside Montreal are the ones taking interest in this city's history and are the ones making whatever they want about it. The series got all the advertisement in Toronto where it was being sold as the story of a "Canadian mobster" and actors were going on promotional events saying "it's a 100% Canadian story" yet never set foot in Montreal (funny how when commission charbonneau was happening it was a "Quebec" thing to the rest of Canada but now that it's a TV series, it's "Canadian").

I reeeeeaaaaally dig the idea of having Villeneuve re-do this series proper..... For Netflix. Now that would be awesome.

https://www.citytv.com/toronto/shows/bad-blood/?video=5590830320001

The series tackles corruption in the building industry. Check out minute 12:30. It was filmed at the site of TOM condo and by the dialogue that takes place, it sort of helps explain why the project dragged for so long 

Le 29/09/2017 à 06:32, peekay a dit :

Awesome article. Thanks!

Good find! thanks!

Une série financée par Rogers Media sur le crime organisé à Montréal. Bad Blood raconte la montée et la chute de Vito Rizzuto comme chef de la mafia sicilienne à Montréal. Alain Desrochers produit la série mais il s'agit essentiellement d'une production Torontoise, filmée à Montréal et Sudbury exclusivement en anglais et dont la promotion se fait principalement dans le Canada anglais. La série de six épisodes débute sur CityTV le 21 septembre à 20hrs.

"Bad Blood is a story of family, loyalty, deceit, power, greed and ultimately revenge. Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto is a criminal anomaly – the only man to bring peace among the disparate wings of the Montreal crime world who would serve as a de facto CEO while ensuring a lucrative payday for all. When Rizzuto is suddenly arrested and extradited to Colorado’s Supermax Prison for the 1981 murders of three Bonanno crime family members, the powerful empire he built begins to crumble. Rizzuto watches helplessly as his family and friends are killed one by one. Upon his release from prison in October 2012, a Shakespearean-level revenge tale unfolds, leading to the brutal murders of his closest companions, and ultimately, to the death of Rizzuto himself."

https://www.rogersmedia.com/shows/bad-blood/

Globe and Mail, "Montreal mafia series Bad Blood is bloody good"

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/john-doyle-montreal-mafia-series-bad-blood-is-bloody-good/article36311360/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

JdM, "Montréal, cité du vice"

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/09/20/montreal-cite-du-vice

À lire absolument pour avoir l'heure juste bien que les ville canadiennes soient simplement ignorées.....

Your City Will Lose the Contest for Amazon’s New HQ

No town truly fulfills the company’s demanding wish list.

https://www.google.ca/amp/amp.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2017/09/your_city_will_lose_the_contest_for_amazon_s_new_hq.html

Toronto vs Montreal on this.... it just made me cringe. Could be the definitive renaissance of Montreal or the ultimate humiliation.

Amazon à déjà une bonne connaissance de Montréal. Est-ce que ça va peser dans la balance? 

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/amazon-chooses-montreal-for-its-canadian-data-centre-operations-due-to-cheaper-hydro-costs-than-ontario

il y a 55 minutes, andre md a dit :

Devrait plutot encourager Shopify et Lightspeed pour mettre les commerces existant en ligne pour faire face au rouleau compresseur de Amazon. 

Beaucoup plus que 50 000 emplois qui sont en jeux. 

 

Agree. I personally have a lot of mixed feelings with Amazon.

il y a 59 minutes, Elpi12 a dit :

Le RFP du projet d'Amazon.

https://fr.scribd.com/document/358275664/Amazon

October 19th...... This kind of proposal takes months to prepare. Either we're on the last stretch of finalizing the proposal or we're not bidding at all.....  Who would be taking care of this at the city level?

And btw, it IS open to Canada: "We want to encourage states/provinces and communities to think creatively for viable real estate options"

Il y a 4 heures, yarabundi a dit :

J'ajoute à ton commentaire acpnc : tout le monde sait que je suis guide touristique et que je travaille avec la clientèle touristique. Les touristes ne viennent pas à Montréal parce que nous avons des tours plus hautes que telle ou telle ville. Les touristes partout dans le monde voyagent pour l'histoire, la gastronomie, la culture, les musée mais rarement vont-ils dans une ville pour voir des tours. Les villes qui attirent des touristes à cause de leurs tours, on peut les compter sur les doigts d'une main. Montréal ne fait pas partie et ne fera jamais partie de cette courte liste. 

Permettre des tours plus toujours hautes à Montréal, c'est un fantasme spécifique à deux ou trois membres de ce forum.  La grande majorité des citoyens de Montréal en ont tellement rien à foutre que Toronto ou Calgary -ou même Edmonton !!- possèdent des tours plus hautes que Montréal. 

Just got back from business in Vancouver. The view from Stanley park of the city skyline is truly impressive however things quickly go to hell when you take an actual stroll on the streets where all the glass condos are. Some parts feel like ghost towns with no interaction at the street level. It's a beautiful city but that can't help to feel soulless or generic in many areas. I was glad to be back in Montreal with our old school street/facade interactions that actually have a logic to them (narrow shops on the first floor, clinics/dance schools etc on the second floor, apartments on the higher ones) and which maximize the liveliness at street level.

Le 31/07/2017 à 16:30, Darwiner a dit :

25-07-2017

Bon, dans ce thread tant qu'a y etre, puisque c'est le seul building dans la photo qui semble encore en construction.

 

Il y a le Drummond, en construction, qui joue à cache cache

Pourquoi ne regardons nous pas tous ensemble l'impact sur l'ensoleillement qu'aura le projet sur les voisins? 

http://montrealgazette.com/business/more-venture-capital-invested-in-montreal-than-any-other-canadian-city-in-q2

More venture capital invested in Montreal than any other Canadian city in Q2

JACOB SEREBRIN, MONTREAL GAZETTE
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Published on: July 24, 2017 | Last Updated: July 24, 2017 11:32 AM EDT

Guys...... dans cette vidéo de 2011 ont voit qu'il y a eu une dérogation pour construire en hauteur sur le site adjacent à la bâtisse SNC. Sur la vidéo je vois une bonne quinzaine d'étages de plus que la tour existante. 

Le 31/07/2017 à 07:48, SKYMTL a dit :

After being at the race, I have to say that I enjoyed it immensely.  Much more exciting than F1 even though the cars sound like remote controlled toys.  

There's also something to say about having this downtown instead of on Ile Notre Dame.  Access to the site is 1000x easier, there are multiple Metro options and the public transport to / from the area was well organized.  What turned me off F1 was the fact that you either had to wait hours for a Metro to get off the island or you had to wait hours to get out of the car park.  With the ePrix, you can simply walk to a pick up point, hop on one of two Metro lines or do what we did:  walk down to the Old Port for dinner and some drinks.  I loved it.  

I think it was really great to have the ePrix here. We honestly needed an alternative to the F1. I'm aware that the F1 is a big attraction but it's also associated with all the glitz, the sex-trade, the nightclubs, the money, troves of out-of-province men coming in for "a good time" ..... I really liked how this event was family oriented with activities for children. In my opinion, the easy access to the site was also a big plus. Nascar had brought a more family oriented event to balance out the F1 but unfortunately it didn't stick around..... We needed this sort of event to balance things out. I sincerely hope it stays here for good. 

Il y a 14 heures, MDCM a dit :

Ok, est-ce qu'on peut rester respectueux un minimum et pas agir comme un vrai de vrai TROLL. C'est cool que tu participes à Mtlurb, mais sérieux là, y'a ben des limites???? On peut tu revenir au projet du fil aussi, celui de Brocco.

Fair enough. Retour au sujet.....