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Pourtant ce projet a gagné un prix d'architecture, non?

Avec un peu de vision et d'ambition, ce projet pourrait devenir le symbole d'une ville qui se targuera d'être le plus grand hub ferroviaire (avec les TGV vers To et NY) au pays.

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Impressionnant, si c'est le cas!

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/11/save-the-planet-and-your-skin-with-the-renault-spa-car/ If there’s anything the French hate more than gas-guzzling Family Trucksters, it’s bad skin. It is therefore with much amusement but little surprise that we learned that the interior Renault’s Zoe Z.E. electric car concept was designed in partnership with cosmetics manufacturer Biotherm. Hinting at a production vehicle that will officially debut in 2012, we first met the Zoe Z.E. battery-electric concept at Frankfurt earlier this year. It’s a hard-to-miss 13-foot long bubble with 20-inch rims and gullwing doors. That whole exterior is coated in a thick polyurethane gel that protects it from minor scrapes and bruises - just like how a good foundation can mask crow’s feet and laugh lines. Renault says the Zoe is ideal “for men and women who want to take care of the environment while taking care of themselves – even behind the wheel.” Since unsightly blemishes and wrinkles are as much an anathema to French sensibilities as Velveeta and Wonderbread, the automaker made the interior into a spa-like experience. According to Renault, the Zoe’s climate control system is worthy of installation in one of Paris’ finest spas. Air conditioning can really dry out skin, which is why Biotherm redesigned the Zoe’s AC to focus on keeping air cool and hydrated. If you get stuck behind a bus that’s belching diesel fumes, the on-board toxicity sensor will close the car’s air vents before free radicals destroy your healthy complexion. In addition to looking good, the Zoe can also help you feel good. With an electric diffuser built into the climate control system, the car can emit “essential oils.” We had a Renault Medallion back in the ’80s that emitted most of its essential oils from the rear main seal, but that’s a whole other story. The Zoe uses specially developed scent oils from Biotherm that, according to Renault, are “exclusive active substances adapted to the needs of the driver: dynamic in the morning, relaxing coming home from work, and awakening vigilance while driving at night.” Spa features aside, the minicar can be charged in 4-8 hours in a conventional European outlet, 20 minutes at a special quick charge station or the batteries can be swapped out in less than 3 minutes. Additionally, solar cells that cover the roof provide a trickle charge on sunny days — the sort of days when any self-respecting Parisian would be wearing SPF 50 sunscreen. Photo: Renault

Toutes les grandes villes du monde ont un problème de corruption. Une ville sans corruption est une ville morte. Il ne faut pas qu'elle devienne un gangrène, c'est tout. Il y en a à Toronto, à Vancouver, mais ces villles ont connu une telle explosion démographique et économique que beaucoup de choses sont cachées sous le couvert de la croissance.

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"Gérald (Goodfella) Tremblay and Louise (Ma Merger) Harel" "In Montreal there are few guns to be seen, just lots of Purell hand sanitizer dispensers." lol

J'ai une amie qui a un compte canadien et un américain avec Verizon. Pour le même montant que le compte canadien, elle obtient un nombre illimité d'appels à travers tous les USA et le Canada, incluant le roaming charge!

Un peu d'ironie pour vous faire part de ma pensée sur ces commentaires.

Les Habs sont-ils vraiment si mauvais que ça cette année?

Est-ce que quelqu'un saurait ou' je peux voir le 1er épisode de V sur internet?

Wow!!! C'est un tour de force! Un autre Montréalais qui s'affirme à l'étranger. Michel Dolbec La Presse Canadienne Paris L'écrivain québécois d'origine haïtienne, Dany Laferrière, a remporté mercredi le Prix Médicis pour L'énigme du retour, son 19e ouvrage publié au Québec par les Éditions Boréal et en France par Grasset. Le romancier l'a emporté dès le premier tour de scrutin par quatre voix contre une à Justine Lévy pour Mauvaise fille et une autre à Alain Blottière pour Le Tombeau de Tommy.Le nom du lauréat a été dévoilé dans un restaurant de la Place de l'Odéon, envahi par les médias. Immédiatement, Laferrière a été happé par un tourbillon d'interviews, qui risque de durer un bon moment. «Un prix, c'est une fête, a déclaré Laferrière, quelques minutes plus tard. Ma vie d'écrivain, c'est une intimité qui se nourrit d'abord d'angoisse et d'inquiétude. Le prix ne peut que me sortir de cette zone d'angoisse, légèrement, mais pas plus. Ça va durer deux jours.» Dany Laferrière est ravi d'avoir décroché le Médicis, prix prestigieux qui nourrit, souligne-t-il, un «certain sens du risque». «Je ne pouvais rêver meilleur prix pour ce livre-là», a-t-il dit en parlant de L'énigme du retour, dans lequel s'entremêlent les rythmes et les formes d'écriture. Mais le romancier garde la tête froide. «Un prix, ça ne change pas la vie d'un écrivain, du moins si on s'en tient à la littérature. C'est mon 19e ouvrage: c'est trop tard pour changer», ajoute-t-il avec malice. Dany Laferrière est le deuxième écrivain québécois à remporter le Médicis, après Marie-Claire Blais en 1966 pour Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel, et le sixième canadien à se tailler une place dans l'implacable course aux prix littéraires français. Les écrivains canadiens, en l'occurrence des écrivaines, qui ont remporté des prix littéraires en France se comptent d'ailleurs sur les doigts d'une main. Gabrielle Roy avait été la première, elle qui avait décroché le Femina en 1947, pour Bonheur d'occasion. Anne Hébert, qui vivait à Paris, avait eu droit à la même récompense en 1982 pour Les fous de Bassan, tout comme Nancy Houston en 2002 pour Lignes de faille. L'Acadienne Antoine Maillet avait reçu pour sa part en 1979 le plus prestigieux des prix littéraires français, le Goncourt, pour Pélagie la Charrette. http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/livres/200911/04/01-918165-dany-laferriere-remporte-le-prix-medicis.php

By Brendan Kelly, The Gazette November 5, 2009 7:02 PM Tammy Forsythe is a recipient of the Canada Council 2009 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards. Photograph by: c/o Tammy Forsythe, MONTREAL - Several Montreal-based artists have won Canada Council for the Arts Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards. The winners include Montreal-based choreographer Tammy Forsythe, who founded her own company, Tusketdance, in 1996 and is currently working on Golpe, which will premiere in Montreal in May 2010. Also on the winners’ list is Montreal-based transdisciplinary duo 2boys.tv, which is made up of Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard. The award winners were announced yesterday. Other local winners include visual artist Adad Hannah, who works at the intersection of video, photography and performance. Another winner is novelist André Girard, whose next novel, Moscou Cosmos, is coming out in the spring of 2010. The awards were also given to Mohawk multimedia artist Jackson 2bears, Toronto saxophonist and composer Kirk MacDonald, and playwright, author and filmmaker Drew Hayden Taylor. The annual awards come with $15,000 each and are given to mid-career artists in different disciplines. Prizes were created with a bequest made by the late Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton. © Copyright © The Montreal Gazette http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Montreal+artists+Canada+Council+prizes/2189443/story.html

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It's 'V' day for sci-fi fans as ABC reboots the alien story Updated 16h 13m ago | Comments 76 | Recommend 18 E-mail | Save | Print | Reprints & Permissions | Subscribe to stories like this Alien leader Anna (Morena Baccarin, right) takes a liking to a newsman (Scott Wolf, left). Enlarge image Enlarge ABC Alien leader Anna (Morena Baccarin, right) takes a liking to a newsman (Scott Wolf, left). By Gary Levin, USA TODAY VANCOUVER, B.C. — Morena Baccarin, stunning in a tailored gray suit, has lined up a group of identically clad aides on her spaceship, demanding to know which of them is a traitor. Except that despite appearances, none of them is actually human: They are reptilian-skinned alien "visitors" with a veneer of attractive flesh. And the spaceship doesn't exist. The actors are standing in front of a 112-foot-long "green screen," peering occasionally at a nearby monitor that displays how the vessel will be digitally inserted behind them. "You feel like you're floating a little bit," she says during a break between scenes. "It gives you a headache after a while, staring at that green." PREVIEW: * * * 1/2 for re-imagined 'V' VIDEO: Get a peek at 'V' She's not the only one with a headache. ABC's V, premiering Tuesday night (8 ET/PT) as a four-week event, with nine more episodes to come later, is a remake of a 1980s pop-culture touchstone. Like others (Bionic Woman, this fall's Eastwick), it's not without behind-the-scenes hiccups. The on-screen drama is about an outwardly benevolent band of creatures who venture from spaceships hovering over 29 world cities, promising to trade technology for water. But their real motives are far more sinister. Some welcome their arrival, but the suspicious form a resistance movement, which leads the visitors' charismatic leader, Anna (Baccarin), to enlist an ambitious TV reporter (Scott Wolf) as a propaganda tool. On their case is FBI agent Erica Evans (Elizabeth Mitchell), a single mom whose teen son, Tyler (Logan Huffman), is enthralled by them. The resistors' ranks include a priest (Joel Gretsch) and a Wall Street whiz (Morris Chestnut). The show, set in New York City, is based on a smash NBC miniseries that drew 40% of the TV audience when it first aired in May 1983, and nearly as many for its sequel a year later. Like other remakes, the title "has a lot of marquee value; certainly a lot of people in my generation remember it fondly," writer and executive producer Scott Peters says, even if their recall is limited to signature moments: the aliens consuming rodents; a human mother giving birth to a forked-tongued reptilian baby. But unlike many alien sagas since then, from Independence Day to ABC's short-lived Invasion, "we don't have aliens landing with giant phasers blowing things up," Wolf says. "We have aliens landing with this incredibly loving posture, saying, 'We're here to help.' Instead of destruction, it's full of possibilities." The original series was a thinly veiled allegory of the Nazis' takeover of Germany, down to the jackbooted visitors who sought to eat the Earth's population until a band of humans intervened, aided by a few alien turncoats. The 'lemming mentality' The new version represents a post-9/11 worldview, against the backdrop of wars, an economic meltdown and enemies hidden in plain sight. "There's a lot of bad news out there and it's really depressing," Peters says. "I thought it was a tremendous wish-fulfillment fantasy, if there was some deity that said, 'Look around, everything's going wrong, and we're going to fix it for you.' "There's a lemming mentality that goes on in our humanity, and the idea of blind devotion, to me, is really fascinating. If you don't ask questions about things you have faith in, it could wind up coming back to bite you." Contemporary viewers may have differing interpretations, as do the show's stars. Mitchell sees V's as a religious cult; Wolf believes they represent terrorists. Others on both sides of the political spectrum may point to the visitors' explicit promises of hope, change and universal health care as a pointed reference to pledges of the Obama administration. But Peters says the show has been in the works since 2007. Reality was "never really a factor," he says. "There's no political message being shoved down anyone's throat." Kenny Johnson, who created the original V, says via e-mail that in any guise, the series offers "a timeless story" in depicting "the struggle of resistance against oppression, how ordinary people react to extraordinary circumstances." Johnson is not involved in the new series and hasn't seen it. But he says "they are using very different characters and stories and style than my original. It's very hard to recapture lightning in a bottle – but I hope the new V team will do well," in part to boost prospects for a V feature film he hopes to make. But the series remake has run into roadblocks. V's pilot episode was well-received by advertisers and critics, but ABC's late-summer decision to start the show two months earlier than planned – in part to dodge American Idol and the broadcast of the Winter Olympics, also in Vancouver – led to script problems, which forced reshoots and a five-week production break. The first of three planned story arcs was condensed from six to four fall episodes. And the show will test viewers' loyalty with a three-month hiatus; remaining episodes won't surface until March. A promotional campaign that called for planes to skywrite red V's over national landmarks was scuttled after publicity over potential environmental effects. And Thursday, in a response to the show's production problems, Peters (USA Network's The 4400) was replaced at the helm of the show by Scott Rosenbaum (Chuck, The Shield), though he is expected to stay aboard as an executive producer. "We had a great pilot, then a couple of great episodes, but we had a disconnect on where we were going from there," says ABC Entertainment Group chief Stephen McPherson. Though no stranger to tinkering (he made extensive changes to the original Grey's Anatomy pilot), "I hadn't had the experience of that before." But McPherson accepts "a little blame for rushing them." Mitchell, who plays hero FBI agent Erica Evans, says the resulting changes merely speed the pace of storytelling to pack a bigger wallop, including big cliffhangers in the Nov. 24 episode. Filming on that episode is set to wrap today, giving actors another unexpected 10-week break as the show is retooled. (Mitchell will trek to Hawaii to shoot new Lost episodes.) "They didn't do anything different. They heightened it, they took it up," she says. The changes are meant to recapture the big-event appeal that started V in a different era. "The idea is to make it a movie, something where we are on the edge of our seats, wondering what's going to happen." Early research and blog chatter indicate the show's core base of alien-conspiracy fans are stoked about a cast that includes alumni of many geek touchstones, not least of them ABC's own Lost, which ends its run in May. Erica is 'more fun' to play Mitchell says Erica is "not as tortured, so that makes it a lot more fun." Juliet "was so deeply, deeply, deeply sad and so deeply angry, to carry that around all the time was quite a bit." Erica is "trying to be a fantastic mother and obviously failing; she's trying to save the world and obviously failing," Mitchell says. "But they're both kind of kick-(butt) ladies, which is fun." Mitchell, a self-described "sci-fi dork," is well aware of the challenges of appealing to such a devoted audience. "I kind of like the fact that people obsessively get into shows; I'm hoping this is one of (them)." But, she says, "I don't think it will ever be hard-core enough for some people, and it may be too sci-fi for others." And wooing the sci-fi crowd alone isn't enough to sustain a major-network drama. A weekly series spawned by the original V was a dud; it lasted just 19 episodes. So ABC pushed producers to develop deeper, rich character stories, much as it did for genre dramas such as Lost and this season's new FlashForward. Wolf's television reporter is "vulnerable because of his own ambition," he says. "He's clearly someone who feels he's being held back. The visitors' arrival has provided him with the opportunity of his lifetime." The show, he says, is "a mind-bender, because things most probably aren't what they seem." Chestnut says: "This was not a science-fiction show that was going to be driven by special effects. This was a science-fiction show that was going to be driven by the characters with special effects as a backdrop, and that was what appealed to me." Says Peters, "If it becomes too magical, too fantastical, the comic-book crowd will love it but no one else will." He concedes it's "difficult not to go over the top with the visitors." So the burden of striking that balance falls to Brazilian-born Baccarin, already beloved by the sci-fi crowd through her roles on Stargate SG-1 and Joss Whedon's short-lived space Western Firefly. "I don't want to go into the land of melodrama and evil and mustache-twirling," she says, wrapping a down coat over her V duds in a cavernous soundstage on this rainy Vancouver day. "I have to be threatening but at the same time nurturing and nice," as Anna's placid demeanor is at odds with a malevolent streak. "There's something so dynamic, scary, sexy, smart; everything about her is a challenge." And though in tonight's premiere she's "more of a powerful political figure," in subsequent episodes "I get a little more down and dirty and deal with some dissension from other people." Or aliens. "Skin him!" she orders in a steely voice, dispatching the turncoat. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-11-03-V03_CV_N.htm

Oh, je ne le savais pas, mais celui qui a réalisé le premier épisode est un excellent réalisateur du nom de ... Yves Simoneau! Simonaque! Bravo Yves! Quant à moi, je suis en train de réaliser ma première web series ici, je prends mon pieds!!!

Moi itou, j'adore ces histoires d'envahisseurs extra-terrestres. Ce pilote fut tourné à Vancouver, je reconnais les tours à condos immédiatement. J'espère pouvoir tourner quelque chose comme ça bientôt! :-)

All of the above, except for the winter.

Montréal m'apparait de plus en plus être un pôle d'attraction pour les créateurs culturels, le IT, et autres sciences. Le secteur financier devrait être le focus maintenant. Il pourrait être plus avantageux d'etre plus généreux envers les centres financiers internationaux. Il me semble qu'ils sont de grands créateurs de capital. Le secteur du capital de risque devrait être encore plus encouragé. On a les créateurs, les inventeurs, faut avoir plus de "cash flow", et Montréal deviendrait un très fort pôle d'attraction.

Un DJ , lors d'une grande première ici à Vancouver, annonçait avec grande fierté à toute la foule rassemblée, que c'était la dernière fois qu'on le voyait pour un bout de temps, parce qu'il déménageait à Montréal. Seulement 1 exemple. Il y en a d'autres. Je n'ai pas le temps de les énumérer.

Vous pouvez voir des images d'une voiture électrique Bolloré ICI

Trois sites intéressants sur MTL... qui révèlent et vous feront apprécier Montréal. http://www.madeinmtl.com/main.php?langval=2 http://montrealstateofmind.com/ http://montrealstartup.com/blog/2009/10/28/are-we-doing-a-good-job/ Je vis à Vancouver depuis quelques mois et je peux vous dire que Montréal est edgy, en ébulition (artistiquement, culturellement ) et que votre ville adorée va se sortir de sa petite déprime récessionniste, j'en suis sûr.

L'idée est peut-être bonne, mais il me semble que les vibrations générées par les palmes et le bruit seraient un problème. Me semble...

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