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  1. s McGill University becoming the Donald Trump of higher education? First the school purchased the Renaissance Hotel on Park Ave. in 2003 to turn it into a dormitory, and now it’s apparently in the market to buy the Four Points Sheraton on Sherbrooke St. W., two blocks east of the downtown campus. Science student Billi Wun, vice-president of the First Year Council, told the students’ society newspaper The McGill Tribune this week that FYC president Sean Husband confirmed the news. Husband, whom Wun described as the liaison with the First Year Office, informed the council there are negotiations between McGill and the hotel. Spokespeople for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., parent company of the 196-room Four Points, didn’t return calls to headquarters in White Plains, N.Y. “McGill has a policy of not discussing real estate transactions in public,” university spokesman Doug Sweet said on Thursday. Maintaining that no-comment rule, the executive director of residences and student housing did acknowledge that McGill operates at a 97.5 per cent occupancy rate. “We’re generally full and over at the beginning of the year,” Michael Porritt said, referring to the approximately 2,800 mostly first-year students housed annually. Porritt said the former Renaissance Hotel that McGill transformed into a 700-bed dorm in the the fall of 2003 is regularly at 99 per cent occupancy. There is other off-campus housing at McGill-owned Selwyn Hall in St. Henri as well as property leased at the Presbyterian College on University St. and an apartment building on Ste. Catherine St. W. Jean Lortie, president of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux’s commercial wing that represents hotel workers, said he is skeptical about such a deal. A search by the union found no proof of a transaction or request with the city for a zoning change. Instead, he suggested it’s an employer pressure tactic to end a labour conflict at the Four Points – where about 90 workers have been on strike since last Aug. 25. Lortie recalled that when there was a walkout at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal further west on Sherbrooke in 2005, “there were rumours it was being sold to McGill.” The university never disclosed what it paid for the Renaissance, but it did cash in a $150-million, 40-year bond for the acquisition. mking@thegazette.canwest.com
  2. Je ne crois pas que vous calculer correctement. Ils ont perdu 26% de leur valeur net comptable. Vos pourcentage reflète que vos investissements.
  3. Moi, je privatiserai la SAQ avant Hydro. Ils l'ont fait en Alberta et eu un augmentation de revenu avec meilleur choix et service.
  4. Let me guess - Ilot Voyageur came in second?
  5. GDS

    Expos de Montréal

    The is one of the best history leasons I have read. How Jeffrey Loria Destroyed The Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals by Farid Rushdi Editorial February 02, 2009 http://bleacherreport.com/articles/118868-how-jeffrey-loria-destroyed-the-montreal-exposnationals
  6. C'est evident que tu n'as jamais été viser par la police. Je te guarantie que si tu faisais parti du "profile" favori de la police de façons systematique tous les jours, tu n'aurais jamais ecris tel. C'est le prix a payer pour pas êtres "ordinaire"? Tu n'as aucune idée du pourvoir qui ont les policiers et de la maniere qu'ils abuse.
  7. GDS

    Canadiens de Montréal

    He's practicing with the team. The All-Star game is glorified practice, and the fans will love it. Plus, as a goalie, he only plays one period.
  8. GDS

    Canadiens de Montréal

    I think we need a defencemen too. So I made a list Darryl Sydor, 2.5M Dallas Francois Beauchemin, 1.6M Anaheim Jay Bouwmeester, 4.9M Florida - (I think he sucks) Derek Morris, 3.9M Pheonix - (this would be my pick) Dennis Seidenberg, 1.2M Carolina
  9. Ca fait deja 10 ans que le Salon D'Auto n'est plus au Stade. A ce temps la, ont avaient plus de visiteurs que celui de Toronto. Avec les autres salles, le Stade avait 800k pieds carrés
  10. Le centre de congres de Toronto à 600,000 pied carré (Metro Toronto Convention Centre). Construit en 1984 + 1997- on avait du temp en masse de construire plus gros ici. Il est le double du Palais du Congres. Ils ont aussi le Toronto Congres Center et le International Center en banlieu qui ont 1,000,000 pied carré chaque. Vancouver aura 1,200,000 pied carré en 2009. McCormick a Chicago a 2,700,000 de pied carré. McCormick avait 300,000 pied carré en 1971 (La Place Bonaventure etait plus gros)- ce que nous avons maintenant. Le Salon de L'Auto de Montreal aimerai avoir 600k pied carré, celui de Toronto utilise 850k. En effet, il y plusiers "Salons" qu'ont partage qui pourraient etres plus gros. Toronto Home Show - 600k Boat Show - 400k Bridal Show - 850k Golf Show - 350k FlavourFest - 500k etc.
  11. GDS

    Canadiens de Montréal

    Tickets for Feb go on sale today at 10am. They have a few thousand seats total for all the months games.
  12. http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1999/102899/news5.html
  13. Drummond Tower - faissait parti du YMCA. Démoli en 2001 quand le YMCA a déménager dans l'édifice Norris.
  14. Right (question was rhetorical) - but anyways - Candiac grew 21% in the same time frame and they only got a train in 2005. Blainville grew 21% from 96-01 and they only got a train in '99. Terrebonne grew 18% since 01 with no train. All with around the same travel time to downtown. Rigaud is obviously further - but had the train. Rigaud has had a commuter train since the 1950's. It could have been a city of 60,000 instead of 6,000. The point being that adding the train won't do much unless the community itself has an interest in become denser. Look the the stations in the West Island like Senneville, Beaurepaire, Cedar Park etc.. There has been virtually no construction around them in decades. Those communities have no interest in becoming more dense.
  15. Hotel Jaro - its a company that is from Quebec City. The lot is next to the original Sun Life Headquarters.
  16. True - but when push came to shove, he did back away from all his proposals. The opposition had won, but they didn't want to stop, Harper blinked and they went in for the kill. They could have claimed a major victory and instead I think they are much weaker because they will have a hard time making gains in western Canada, while the Conservatives have already made gains in Ontario and should be able to maintain their seats in Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
  17. Moi. Je suis anglophone au Quebec. Il y autant de Quebecois qui m'haisse qui il y en dans le ROC qui haisse les Quebecois.
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