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  1. SKYMTL
    Love the name actually.
  2. SKYMTL

    Le Réveil de Montréal

    SKYMTL a répondu à un sujet de IluvMTL dans L'actualité

    Another interesting element from Statistics Canada: All things considered, we are on a major upturn! Let's hope this stays together!
  3. SKYMTL

    Le Réveil de Montréal

    SKYMTL a répondu à un sujet de IluvMTL dans L'actualité

    I 100% agree with this. It's why I cancelled my Gazette subscription and no longer listen to CJAD. Even though French isn't my language of preference, I'm subscribed to La Presse and listen to Radio Canada.
  4. SKYMTL
    The center elevator shafts are pretty much topped out, right?
  5. SKYMTL
    Its this lack of future vision that brought us to the current situation with the Metropolitan; "build for the now and let tomorrow's generations think of the future".
  6. SKYMTL
    Care to expand on that?
  7. SKYMTL
    To me I believe this will be partially a communal office space like Fabrik8 or WeWork. Those solutions are increasingly being used by young online entrepreneurs and meshes well with the demographics of this area of town.
  8. SKYMTL
    Seconded! 100%!
  9. SKYMTL

    Le Réveil de Montréal

    SKYMTL a répondu à un sujet de IluvMTL dans L'actualité

    The ranking has nothing to do with deals but rather takes into account things like access to skilled labor, the business environment for financial companies and some other areas where Montreal and Canadian cities as a whole excel relative to their size.
  10. SKYMTL
    Are you freaking kidding me? ANOTHER committee? Are these folks serious?
  11. SKYMTL
    Aedifica should be bloody well ashamed of themselves.
  12. SKYMTL
    Excavation begins for second 50-storey Canadiens condo tower | Montreal Gazette Interesting point: He added that, contrary to what some people expected, virtually all buyers in Tour 1 were local. In Tour 2, they represent about 95 per cent of buyers so far. So much for those "foreign buyers" everyone was speculating about.
  13. SKYMTL

    Le Réveil de Montréal

    SKYMTL a répondu à un sujet de IluvMTL dans L'actualité

    My uncle is already working on this project through Sidel. They RE-hired a few drafting people and installers after layoffs earlier this year. Only in Montreal do we make a big deal about rehiring people that were just laid off (Bombardier anyone?).
  14. SKYMTL
    I see all the piggies are lining up at the trough.
  15. SKYMTL

    Le Réveil de Montréal

    SKYMTL a répondu à un sujet de IluvMTL dans L'actualité

    No. The jobs are already here. Tetra's Laval-based Sidel division takes care of Molson, Labatt and Coors bottling lines: Sidel - A Better Match
  16. SKYMTL
    There were survey crews just west of Saint Charles on Friday and again this morning. Also a number of vehicles with drilling machinery in the forseted area next to Fairview. Looks like things are moving forward slowly but surely. The stop next to Fairview will be a great boost for the Quartier Evolution!
  17. SKYMTL
    Wow, an active retirement home that doesn't look like a communist block!
  18. SKYMTL
    There's always a few idiots who want to make political gains or grab headlines, even if a project is great for their populace. We are now seeing some....
  19. SKYMTL
    The answer to that is: Absolutely. Take a look at Ericsson's new $1.3 billion datacenter in Vaudreuil, Amazon's new AWS facility and Stratacache's expansion.
  20. SKYMTL
    Everyone talks about taxes but let me tell you another story based on personal experience. Basically, it all boils down to WHAT you expect / need from society based upon your situation. One of my best friends was transferred by Manulife from Waterloo to Montreal last year. The debate about take-home salary versus end of year expenses for basic needs came up since, while he lived in Ontario when he was a young professional, he now has two young kids and a third on the way. As a young professional, especially one who may want to start your own company, Montreal and Quebec in general has a long way to go when it comes to appealing to startups. The red tape, taxes (both personal and professional), forms, government intervention and so on can be oppressive, specifically if you aren't bilingual but even uni-lingual French speakers have a very hard time starting their business. In addition, those high taxes lead to the point he brought up: Taxing single professionals making good salaries at an abhorrently high levels (this goes for BOTH Canada and Quebec, though the latter is particularly bad) funds generous social programs that come in handy down the road when those same professionals start having families. While his take-home salary is quite a bit lower now -even though pre-tax his salary hasn't changed- the amount he's left with at the end of the month has increased dramatically after daycare, medications and other partially government-funded programs are taken into account. Its ironic this was brought up since the Canadian Payroll Association just published a study (PDF!!!!) showing Quebec has the LEAST number of households living from paycheck to paycheck. The situation is very much yin / yang depending on your situation.
  21. SKYMTL
    Sorry, THAT'S the presentation for a $40 million project? Are you kidding me? One that's only supposed to last for a decade? This 375th anniversary is becoming very typically Montreal: a case study in excess spending for minimal returns.
  22. SKYMTL
    Interesting aspect here. Typically limited supply + high demand = price increases. Toronto has seen this happen on a massive sale. Hence, their upwards spiraling prices and never-ending building boom. In Montreal it looks like we have plenty of supply based on the pure number of properties available and less demand (that last sentence is particularly interesting) and yet we are seeing record increases. It makes me wonder if we're seeing a statistical oddity or that "record" is simply a return to some semblance of normalcy for a Canadian metropolitan area of Montreal's size. It seems like +/- 10% is the Canadian average this year so we're right in line with much of the remainder of the country...even though its a 5-year record for us.
  23. SKYMTL
    By killing the large parking lot at the Ste Anne's station north of the 40 and using it as an "arrivals" stop they've just given the middle finger to everyone living off the western tip of the island. Really horrible news for us folks who would have used that stop to park and then get into town. Public transport options between Kirkland and Vaudreuil are simply non-existent and this doesn't help at all. Let's all wait for the complaints of chronic over-crowding at that Kirkland stop's parking lot in.....5, 4, 3, 2..... Another thing I don't understand is why these folks seem confused about adding more parking to some existing stations. NOT ONE has a multi-level lot, an approach that should be a no-brainer for a company looking to boost ridership. Charge $5 per day with spots for 2,000 cars; That's $10K per day, $2.6 million per year. ROI on the structure would be what? 3 years at most?
  24. SKYMTL
    Isn't this a demolition of the facade?
  25. SKYMTL
    They were required to put a minimum number of windows on the podium's West side since it is next to a residential tower (YUL #2). Once / if that second tower is built, it won't be apparent at all.
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