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  1. D'après leurs rapport, RBC ont 7700 employés au Québec sur 65 000 au Canada. Donc presque 12% de leur "workforce".
  2. According to one of my contacts, McGill may be purchasing the remainder of 680 Sherbrooke which would force Industrial Alliance to move out. Also, Ogilvy Renault will be moving out of 1981 McGill College and Industrial Alliance would take up 180k square feet in that building. This is a two year plan/forecast.
  3. So we lose another head office. Medtronic buying CryoCath 9/25/2008 9:25:48 AM Comments (0) Post-Bulletin and news service reports Medtronic Inc. is paying about $400 million to buy a Canadian medical device company that has worked with Mayo Clinic. This morning, Minneapolis-based medical device maker Medtronic announced that it is buying Montreal-based CryoCath Technologies Inc. CryoCath has accepted the offer of $8.75 per share, about $380 million total. CyroCath makes a heart catheter used to treat atrial fibulation. Mayo Clinic participated in a clinical study, along with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, of CryoCath's Arctic Front catheter. Dr. Douglas Packer of Mayo Clinic presented the results of the study at the Annual International Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium in 2006. In today's announcement, Medtronic explained why it is interested in CyroCath. "Medtronic estimates that up to five million patients worldwide are impacted by atrial fibrillation," said Pat Mackin of Medtronic. "Medtronic and physicians are interested in procedures that are safer, faster and less complex so that more patients can benefit from treatment."
  4. Sans tambour ni trompette, le géant Internet agrandit son équipe à Montréal. Google Montréal a discrètement déménagé au 1253, avenue McGill College, il y a deux mois. La société de Mountain View, en Californie, occupe la moitié du deuxième étage de cet immeuble patrimonial construit en 1927 et appartenant à Polaris Canada. Une vingtaine de personnes travaillent actuellement dans les bureaux de 8 000 pieds carrés. « Nous prévoyons faire une ouverture officielle dans environ un mois, a indiqué la réceptionniste qui nous a accueillis. Nous tentons de faire coïncider l’événement avec le lancement d’un nouveau produit. » Le directeur du marketing et de location chez Polaris, André Cassis, ne nous a pas rappelé, non plus que la direction de Google Montréal. En novembre 2007, le journal Les Affaires révélait que Google négociait avec Polaris l’installation de ses bureaux montréalais sur l’avenue McGill College, l’une des plus prestigieuses du centre-ville de Montréal. On parlait alors de la location de 10 000 pieds carrés dans un premier temps, avec des options sur d’autres étages, pour une superficie pouvant totaliser 100 000 pieds carrés à terme. « Google a des options, dit un expert immobilier au courant du dossier. Elle a de grands plans. Mais je ne sais pas jusqu’où et comment elle les mettra à exécution. C’est une entreprise qui agit de façon très confidentielle », a-t-il expliqué. Une entreprise fort discrète En effet, on sait peu de choses sur les activités de Google au Québec. Selon nos informations, l’antenne montréalaise du géant Internet est dirigée par Johann Tomas Sigurdsson, à qui nous n’avons pu parler. Une recherche faite sur le Web avec Google indique que M. Sigurdsson a déposé au moins deux demandes de brevet au nom de son employeur depuis 2005. Les inventions portent sur des méthodes et processus de recherche sur Internet. Par ailleurs, M. Sigurdsson a acquis une maison à Westmount le 14 février dernier, selon le journal The Westmount Independent. Le déménagement sur l’avenue McGill College constitue la deuxième étape du développement de Google à Montréal. Un premier pas avait été franchi en janvier 2007 avec l’ouverture d’un bureau au centre d’affaires Regus, au 1000, rue de la Gauchetière. À ce moment, l’équipe comptait sept personnes.
  5. Ca ne reduira pas le traffic sur le Pont Champlain, ce reduira la vitesse de l'augmentation du traffic.
  6. September 24, 2008 Infrastructure Nouvelle Autoroute 30, S.E.N.C. signs 35-year partnership agreement PETER KENTER correspondent mONTREAL The Governments of Canada and Quebec have signed a 35-year partnership agreement with Nouvelle Autoroute 30, S.E.N.C. for the design, construction, financing, operation, maintenance and repair of Highway 30. The project is designed to provide Greater Montreal with a southern bypass to relieve traffic congestion on the Island of Montreal. The private partner will also be responsible for maintaining, operating and repairing about 32 kilometres of roads, under a traditional arrangement, for the same contract period. Nouvelle Autoroute 30, S.E.N.C. is comprised of Acciona Concessions Canada Inc., Iridium Concessions Canada Inc., Acciona Infrastructures Canada Inc., Dragados Canada Inc., S.I.C.E., Arup Canada Inc., Construction DJL Inc. and Verreault Inc. “This PPP project will ensure that the work is done on schedule and without any cost overruns,” says Monique Jérôme-Forget, Quebec Minister of Finance. “This approach will provide the best value for Quebeckers.” Construction is expected to begin next year, with completion anticipated in 2012. The highway has already been partially constructed with various segments completed as early as 1968. The 42-kilometre western section that forms this project extends from Vaudreuil-Dorion to Châteauguay and includes a section that connects to Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. A 13-kilometre eastern section, south of Candiac, Delson and Saint-Constant, is currently being completed under a traditional contract by Transport Quebec. New construction will join all of the segments into one continuous route. The project is expected to generate 18,900 jobs, with about two-thirds of them directly related to construction. “The construction work for the 42-kilometre, two-lane stretch is budgeted at approximately $1.5 billion,” says Miguel Sanchez Praena, Project Manager with Acciona USA. “Some of the more interesting elements of the construction include two important bridges. “One of them is 1,860 metres long over the St. Lawrence River and the other is 2,550 metres long over the Beauharnois Canal.” Other projected structural features include overpasses, underpasses, a tunnel of 72 metres under Soulanges Canal, and more than 12 junctions with other freeways and roads. “At this point we’re going trough a massive number of legal documents, deeds for the lenders, credit agreements, consortium agreements and all of the paperwork leading up to the signing of the contract,” says Paul Fournier, Project Director for Autoroute 30. Although the original proposal for the highway specifies asphalt construction, unstable oil prices may change those specs. “If there’s an economy in switching to concrete in the final proposal, we’ll benefit from those gains,” says Fournier.
  7. There is a bylaw for minimum height - you have to reach 80% of the allowed zoning height allowance.
  8. GDS

    Bell : actualités

    On a somewhat side note, I was doing some unrelated research and discovered that the Bank of Montreal has moved its largest subsidiary Bank of Montreal Holdings Inc. to Calgary. Obviously the banks main headquarters are still listed as being in Montreal with the operational headquarters listed in Toronto. The only major subsidiary of the bank headquartered in Montreal is BMO Nesbitt Burns where once again operation head office is in Toronto. The Royal Bank on the other hand lists its headquarters in Toronto but has Royal Bank Mortgages Corp (900M) and the Royal Trust Co. (450M) operating out of Montreal. CIBC operates TAL Global Assets out of Montreal, interestingly they are not in the CIBC tower, but actually in 1000 la Gauchetiere. ScotiaBank still operates MontrealTrust and TD Bank runs Meloche Monnex (1.1B) out of Montreal.
  9. McGill bought the building last year for 30M. It will be integrated into the Glen Yard project and act as a metro entrance.
  10. I use Grubb-Ellis which list Montreal class A asking at 35,32 and Toronto class B asking at 33 even. http://www.grubb-ellis.com/PDF/natmrkttrnd/markettrendoffice.pdf
  11. Le Class A a Montreal est moins cher que le Class B a Toronto. A 40$ il y aura des chances de construction.
  12. Tu as quand même raison mais ils ont reduit le projet de 8 a 6 tours à cause de l'autoroute.
  13. THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL–Cadillac Fairview has announced a $52-million investment to "bring elegance and luxury to the shopping experience" at Carrefour Laval in suburban Montreal. The renovation, starting immediately and set for completion by the autumn of next year, includes relocating the shopping centre's food courts into a new 1,200-seat complex, adding more stores and ``harmonizing the common areas with the garden court." Cadillac Fairview, owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, said Wednesday the design is "inspired by the urban trend seen in shopping centres of leading international cities." The upgrading of the 34-year-old mall, now with about 300 retailers in its 1.3 million leasable square feet, will include new flooring, ceilings, lighting and soft seating areas, with construction planned to minimize inconvenience for shoppers. Other properties in Cadillac Fairview's $16-billion portfolio include the Toronto-Dominion Centre and Eaton Centre in Toronto and the Pacific Centre in Vancouver
  14. Je sais que Morgan Stanley a commencer leur recrutement pour le bureau de Montreal. Ils seront a Concordia le 19 septembre et à McGill le 30 septembre. Ils ont aussi commencer a mettre des annonces sur les sites comme Monster, Career Builder, Workopolis etc...
  15. GDS

    Bell : actualités

    Bank of Montreal Royal Bank of Canada Sun Life Canadian Pacific Seagrams IMASCO Brookfield Properties Zellers C-MAC Dominion Textiles Montreal Stock Exchange Northern Telecom Oups wrong type of list http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919616,00.html
  16. GDS

    Bell : actualités

    Well all these articles are quoting 77 HQs in Montreal. I would think they are referring to the largest 500 companies in Canada, so I don't think Pomerleau but maybe IATA counts. But when they say 71 in Calgary and 77 in Montreal what are they talkining about?
  17. GDS

    Bell : actualités

    Anybody have this list of 77 HQs in Montreal. I only come up with close to 50.
  18. Secularism is a religion. People can be just as fanatical about it.
  19. Almost nobody could name the last cities to host Expo - it is a forgotten festival and pointless one to host again.
  20. Montreal hospital expansion gets conditional OK Aaron Derfel, The Gazette MONTREAL - Montreal's Office of Public Consultation is reluctantly recommending the expansion of the Montreal General Hospital, but has attached a number of new conditions to the project. In a report released this morning, the office raised concerns about the potential impact of the expansion on traffic in the area as well as "any increase of the Montreal General's visual mass in the landscape." The 250-million expansion calls for the addition of seven storeys to the complex's main pavilion, the construction of a five-storey building to house the emergency room and operating suites and a six-level underground parking lot. An outdoor parking lot would also be paved along a stretch of Pine Ave. "We believe, like many participants at the hearings, that the combined impact of development in recent years has been considerable, that the slopes of Mount Royal are already overcrowded, and that we must question the mountain's capacity to (accommodate) new construction." Among the new conditions that the Office would like to be attached to the project: - That the McGill University Health Centre, which runs the Montreal General, submit a more detailed landscaping plan for the area around the outdoor parking lot on Pine. The Office wants more trees and shrubs planted in the area. - That the city of Montreal re-evaluate the visual impact of the seven-storey addition of the main pavilion, the so-called C wing. - That the draft bylaw that would allow for the expansion be reviewed and "tightened to ensure its power to prevent further construction on an already crowded site." - That the number of parking spaces should not exceed 945. Arthur Porter, executive director of the MUHC, said the MUHC will review the office's recommendations in the coming days. However, he added: "Mount Royal is an invaluable part of Montreal's heritage, as is academic medicine. That is why we have worked diligently with the city, the borough and community groups to endure that our project would strike the necessary balance between protecting the area around Mount Royal and putting in place what is essential to provide a healing environment our community deserves." Mount Royal is classified as a projected heritage zone by both the city and the provincial government. The office's report will be submitted to city council on Sept. 22. Ultimately, the council will be responsible for approving the bylaw that would amend the zoning heights to permit the expansion. The MUHC is hoping to start construction next year.
  21. Le CUSM sera une institution française comme toute les autres hospitals au Québec. Les services seront en français. C'est le centre de recherche qui sera anglophone, pour le CHUM aussi BTW - car toute recherche est publier en anglais meme si les rechercheurs sont anglais, français, chinois ou autres.
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