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  1. 11 hours ago, Calvin said:

    Est ce que ça chiale vraiment ou est ce que les journalistes ont rien d’autre à se mettre sous la dent en ce moment ?

    Ça fait bien beaucoup d’articles récemment pour un projet de transport.

    Je suis à 100% pour le REM même si je suis impacté par l'éventuelle fermeture de la ligne DM et je peux vous dire que le chialage est réel parmi les utilisateurs qui ne considèrent que le côté négatif. Pour palier à ça, la CDPi et RTM devraient avoir bientôt un plan de mitigation qui soit claire et très bien communiqué. 

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  2. Avez-vous vu cet article? Ils parlent d'un arrêt du service du train DM pendant deux ans.

    http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/02/19/travaux-de-construction-du-rem-des-perturbations-a-prevoir-pour-les-trains-de-banlieue

    J'ai hâte au printemps pour connaître les plans et calendriers précis pour qu'on arrête la manipulation de l'information. J'étais là quand ils distribuaient les pamphlets et ils se servent des problèmes du service actuel pour faire avancer leur cause. 

  3. On 24/01/2018 at 6:56 PM, ChrisDVD said:

    Montreal leads Canada in venture capital dollars

    Montreal-based companies raised US$800 million in venture capital (VC) in 2017 — more than companies based in any other Canadian city, according to a report released by PwC Canada and CB Insights, a market intelligence firm, on Tuesday.

    Those investments were spread out over over 63 deals. 

    While that’s only three more deals than last year, the value of VC investments in Montreal rose 64 per cent when compared with the US$487 million invested in 2016. (The report cites figures in U.S. dollars, as most venture capital deals are denominated in that currency.)

    The two largest VC investments made anywhere in Canada in 2017 went to Montreal companies, the US$166 million raised by point-of-sale software-maker Lightspeed in October and Element AI’s US$102 million raised in June.

    Across Canada, investments in artificial intelligence were up, said Christine Pouliot, a deals partner at PwC. 

    “Montreal is becoming a hub for artificial intelligence internationally,” Pouliot said. “Definitely, it’s part of the reason why those investments have increased from 2016 to 2017.”

    Also up were investments in data centres and financial technology, or fintech.

    “Montreal has been able to position itself in those sectors that were very promising a couple of years ago and now those promises are becoming reality, and those technologies that were deadlocked a couple of years ago are now really becoming working technologies and technologies that can be commercialized,” Pouliot said. 

    Also pushing up the overall capital raised in Montreal is the fact that local companies that raised money a few years ago are growing and now raising bigger investment rounds, Pouliot said. 

    “There’s two trends that we’re seeing: we’re seeing bigger and later-stage deals being done. If you look from a distance at that $800 million, there’s a few really big deals in there, like the Element AI $100- million deal. That’s certainly a sign of maturity and progression of our ecosystem in Montreal,” said Sylvain Carle, a partner at Real Ventures, a Montreal-based venture-capital firm.

    He said interest in starting companies is also growing. The 2016 Montreal Startup Ecosystem Report, which Carle helped create, identified about 2,000 startups in Montreal. He said that’s approximately a tenfold increase over 10 years. 

    “We have depth, but we also have a much wider base of companies getting started,” Carle said. “Startups matter now in this city.”

    But Montreal’s startup “ecosystem” is still relatively small, Carle said. 

    “We’re probably at year 10 of a 20-year cycle,” he said. The increase in VC and startup activity has not yet resulted in any major IPOs, and Montreal still doesn’t have any “unicorns” — startup companies valued at more than $1 billion.

    “We’re still not at a level where we have sizeable exits, and that’s a piece that’s missing,” Carle said.

    Quebec companies raised $940 million in 2017, with $140 million raised outside of Montreal.

    Across Canada, companies raised a total of $2.7 billion in 333 deals.

    By the numbers

    Canada’s top five cities for VC in 2017

    1. Montreal, $800 million, 63 deals
    2. Toronto, $779 million, 115 deals
    3. Vancouver, $372 million, 51 deals
    4. Waterloo, $181.9 million, 16 deals
    5. Ottawa, $79 million, 20 deals

    Top five VC investments in Canada in 2017

    1. Lightspeed, Montreal, $166 million
    2. Element AI, Montreal, $102 million
    3. LeddarTech, Quebec City, $101 million
    4. eSentire, Cambridge, Ont., $100 million
    5. ROOT Data Center, Montreal, $90 million

    http://montrealgazette.com/business/montreal-leads-canada-in-venture-capital-dollars

    Good to see this numbers from CB insights. I think it is the first time that Montreal ranks first in VC investment in Canada. Anyone know the numbers from previous years ?

    Having Unicorns in Montreal would be good, but it's also very important to have a sound ecosystem of decent size firms working in high tech supporting  that industry locally. 

  4. On 12/01/2018 at 9:30 PM, mtlfan said:

    ''it was a difficult week''... c'est peu dire!! Je dirais plutôt que c'était une semaine particulièrement pénible sur la ligne Deux Montagnes. Depuis que Bombardier a le contrat d'exploitation, les retards sont plus fréquents qu'avant. Cette semaine ressemblait un peu à ce qu'on a vécu en 2009 (si ma mémoire est bonne), avec plus de trains en retard que de trains à l'heure

    Et ça continue cette semaine! Aujourd'hui après une attente de 40 minutes à -30, j'ai décidé de retourner chez moi puisque les prochains trains étaient tous en retard. Que peut-on faire? 

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