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  1. Habfanman
    Casinos are what governments turn to when they've run out of ideas. Every bumfuck bankrupt jurisdiction in the U.S. has a casino or 3 these days so the tourism value is practically nil, they just suck money out of the local economy. I would like to see a permanent Cirque show here but not if it meant having to have a cheesy MGM 'resort' as part of the deal. The HQ, school, training facility, athletes residence, reputation etc. is much more important than having just a show.
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    If they were going to move the head office anywhere it would be in Las Vegas by now. They have 7 resident shows running there. They also have resident shows in Los Angeles, Orlando, and have plans for Dubai and Moscow. I suppose they will be moving the head office to one of these cities as well? This is the same paranoia that surfaced when Just For Laughs expanded to Toronto and Chicago. How did that turn out?
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    Beautiful job! That's the way to do heritage preservation.
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    lol! Craptastic!
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    And don't forget mark_ac. Ask him about all the money that blows across the lake from Toronto (people can't fit it all in their pockets). It washes up on the shore in Hamilton and people scoop it up with big fishing nets!
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    I'd tell them "Please, please, PLEASE PULL THE PLUG!!"
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    There's a joke that's popular in Ottawa*: Q: What's the best thing about Ottawa? A: The highway to Montréal! *For people under the age of 100 Seriously, Burlington? Burlington?? My girlfriend used to live in Burlington. I lived next door in Oakville. There's absolutely no reason to ever go to either place. No. Reason. At. All.
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    If you assume the government did their homework then why did you bring up the IRIS study in the first place? The IRIS study is not duplication it's an independent analysis, and saying that Québec has never united on anything is simply idiotic. And yes mark_ac, one look around the world today will tell us that governments are infallible and always do their homework. We should never question them or their motives. They always do the right thing...
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    Bell : actualités

    Habfanman a répondu à un sujet de Philippe dans L'actualité

    If anything, this should solidify Bell's presence in Montréal. Toronto media outlets occupy their days by rebroadcasting American content to anglophone Canadians. They would be way out of their depth if they had to create original content for francophones.
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    You're rather tiresome. Your first reaction is to shit all over the idea that Plan Nord has great potential by bringing up a study- which you have not read and do not understand- that has misgivings about the plan. Then, in order to achieve a double negative, you shit all over the study that you cited. Amazing! You infer that both the plan and the study that criticizes the plan both suck! Either way- everything sucks according to you. I know very little about mining but it's clear that there is immense potential in Plan Nord. With billions of dollars of public money on the line I would hope that a few 'pseudo-intellectuals' who are experts in the field get involved. Blindly plowing ahead on a project with such mammoth implications would be hugely irresponsible.
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    Growth in mining sector reshaping Quebec economy BARRIE MCKENNA OTTAWA— Globe and Mail Blog Posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:48PM EDT http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/daily-mix/growth-in-mining-sector-reshaping-quebec-economy/article2370299/ Think of the Quebec economy, and the traditional drivers are energy, forestry and manufacturing. But there’s a new engine in Quebec – mining – and it’s reshaping the economy of both the province, and the country. Investment in the province’s mining industry is expected to reach $4.4-billion this year, up 62 per cent from 2011. That’s nearly equal to the capital that will be poured into manufacturing ($5-billion), a remarkable 27 per cent of all business investment in the province and represents half of all mining investment in the country, according to a National Bank of Canada analysis of recent Statistics Canada figures. “That’s never happened before,” National Bank of Canada chief economist Stéfane Marion said in an interview. “It’s a huge growth driver for the province this year, and in the future.” It’s not the only first. Quebec will lead the country in mining investment this year, outpacing Ontario, Mr. Marion said. Mining investment is expected to hit $3.7-billion in Ontario, $2.8-billion in B.C. and $500-million in Alberta. For Quebec, the money pouring into dozens of iron ore, gold, copper and other mining projects could add a full percentage to GDP this year and cause an unexpected boost in royalty revenue for the cash-strapped government. It will also have spinoff benefits for Montreal-area manufacturers, who will help supply mining-related equipment. But Mr. Marion said there are broader implications. The Quebec economy is starting to look a lot more like the booming resource-rich provinces of the West. “This is a material change in the industrial structure of Quebec,” Ms. Marion said. “It brings the interests of Western Canada and Quebec into line. It’s not just a pure Western Canada story now. It’s spreading to Eastern Canada.” Quebec is also positioning itself to capitalize on the growing resource appetite in China and other fast-growing emerging economies, he said. And the good news: The mining boom is just getting started as Quebec plots its 25-year “Plan Nord” strategy.
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    Goo to see SAT getting some well deserved exposure (outside of Québec) DISCOVERIES The future of cinema? JAMES MARTIN Globe and Mail Update, clarified version Published Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 6:02AM EST Last updated Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 10:42AM EST INFOGRAPHIC How the 360-degree movie experience works VIDEO Space adventure fun in Quebec Now a new technology, being developed on a sketchy block of downtown Montreal, promises viewers an immersive film experience to out-plunge the Lumières’ train or Scorsese’s masterful 3D. No glasses required. No chairs, either. The Satosphere is an experimental cinema located in a building that began life as an actual meat market, before that particular stretch of lower Boulevard Saint-Laurent took a turn for the carnal. The shiny new glass façade stands in stark contrast to the neighbouring porn theatre and transvestite burlesque club, but what truly marks the Satosphere as a new kind of spectacle is the massive dome protruding from the roof. Eighteen metres in diameter, the three-month-old Satosphere is a round cinema, but—unlike similar planetarium theatres of old—it uses a hi-tech network of eight video projectors and 157 speakers to completely surround (save the floor) up to 400 people with lifelike sound and images. The effect isn’t 3D in the comin’-at-ya! sense recently back in vogue. Rather, it gives viewers the sense of moving inside the images—even, during particularly kinetic sequences, verging on motion sickness. “It’s like being in a transparent bubble that’s floating through an environment,” says Louis-Philippe St-Arnault, the director of production and immersive development for the Society for Arts and Technology, the digital arts research, training and performance centre behind the Satosphere. The 32-year-old started his career as a set designer for stage and film, but found himself increasingly drawn into the SAT’s science-for-art’s-sake milieu. Five years ago, he joined SAT full-time. “People have made domed theatres before,” admits Mr. St-Arnault. “But, strangely enough, they still tried to make the viewer look only at the front, like in a regular cinema. We’re trying to move away from that by not having fixed seating. We want people to be able to walk around, to choose their point of view, both by their body position and what captures their interest.” [...] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/the-future-of-cinema/article2301207/
  13. Habfanman

    Vidéos sur Montréal

    Habfanman a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité

    This will go viral for sure!
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    It's right here: And would replace the grey building on the right. And the 3 storey buildings on the left. I hope it's not a serious proposal. Like I said, I can't find any information on the web.
  15. Habfanman
    Fantastic film! The children deserve their own Oscar. Check out 'Café de Flore' by Jean-Marc Vallée. Brilliant film.
  16. Habfanman
    This POS was posted on SSP, does anyone know anything about it? I can't find any information on the web. SE corner of King and Wellington. I think it sucks.
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    Le jeudi 12 janvier 2012 Bell Helicopter pourrait décrocher un important contrat avec la police nationale de Turquie pour la fourniture de 20 appareils Bell 429, a-t-on appris mardi. L'entente avec la Turquie n'est pas encore officielle, mais Bell a été choisie parmi plusieurs fabricants pour les négociations finales. Le contrat porte sur l'achat de 15 hélicoptères incluant une option pour 5 autres exemplaires. L'entreprise n'a pas révélé le montant du contrat, mais, compte tenu du fait que le 429 se vend environ 5 millions $ l'unité, il pourrait atteindre les 100 millions $. [...] http://argent.canoe.ca/lca/affaires/quebec/archives/2012/01/20120110-114758.html
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    What a disaster! I guess they didn't like what their fortune cookie had to say.
  19. Habfanman
    Cool! I love the metro.
  20. Habfanman
    I have 3 OPUS, one registered for myself (came in handy when I lost it and they replaced it with my remaining balance) and 2 others for visitors. I've never been able to do the double metro either but it works as a 2 hour transfer on any combination of bus-metro-bus or metro-bus-bus etc. A good one to buy is the soirée illimitée. It costs 4$ and gives you unlimited travel from 18:00 to 05:00. Buy it from the machines, perfect if you're going out at night. What I do when I don't have a monthly pass is take the metro one way and the bus back- or the reverse. As long as I'm less than 2 hours, it only costs 1 fare!
  21. Habfanman
    He makes an error when he says "Montréal is the capital of Québec" but it's a really good show. Interesting how Bourdain highlighted St-Viateur Bagel and Zimmern chose Fairmount. The battle for bagel supremacy continues!
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    This aired 5 months before Anthony Bourdain's show. Andrew visits the multi-cultural city of Montreal and eats duck livers and horse-heart tartar. Andrew digs into the culture and traditional dishes that represent the city's heritage and modern chefs with food-forward ideas. http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/bizarre-foods/episodes/montreal [video=youtube;PmYcZ0-LWeE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmYcZ0-LWeE
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    IAIN MARLOW From Friday's Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 6:40PM EST Last updated Monday, Jan. 02, 2012 12:32PM EST http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/how-a-montreal-company-won-the-race-to-build-the-worlds-cheapest-tablet/article2282337/ Fantastic story! [...] "Datawind’s main office is located in a bland concrete tower block on René-Lévesque Ouest in downtown Montreal. There’s no sign of the company in the building lobby. The only indication of Datawind’s presence is a white sheet of paper taped to an 11th-floor door that reads, “Datawind Net Access Corporation.” Even that had only been posted for the benefit of a visitor. Behind the door, around 50 of the company’s 150 employees—many of them engineers—toil and tinker with motherboards and mobile operating systems. Datawind was founded in 2000 by Suneet and his brother, Raja, who is two years his senior and holds the title of chief technology officer. The pair have had modest success building and selling wireless devices like the PocketSurfer (a small, clamshell mobile device) and the UbiSurfer (a mini-netbook), mainly in the United Kingdom for use on Vodafone Group’s network. The company has an office in London, and another in Amritsar, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, where it operates a call centre and handles some engineering, testing, accounting and HR duties. Although Suneet and his brother are Canadian citizens—born in India, they arrived when they were 12 and 14, respectively—Datawind is registered in the U.K. Suneet says this is largely because of Canada’s notoriously conservative venture capital market, the U.K.’s funding support for innovation and the fact that Canada’s wireless industry—dominated by just three companies—has had little incentive to supplement its own high-margin smartphones with the kinds of inexpensive Internet devices Datawind designs." [...] "Behind the paper sign on the door, and down a hallway lined with overflowing cardboard boxes, Datawind’s Montreal headquarters becomes a dizzying blur of after-hours engineering. It is the kind of scene more common to bootstrapping Silicon Valley start-ups than a decade-old company run by a pair of seasoned entrepreneurs who have already listed two companies on the NASDAQ. Technicians like Cezar Oprescu, a heavy-set Romanian who not only wears two collared shirts but two pairs of glasses at the same time (they double as a microscope), work in rotating shifts, some lasting more than 36 hours, at desks littered with soldering irons, spare computer parts, discarded motherboards and fast food wrappers. Their monitors flicker with the drip of neon green code that looks like something from The Matrix. While one staff member, seated at an impossibly cluttered desk, sets about re-engineering the piece of hardware responsible for receiving WiFi signals, a colleague, stationed just a few feet away, adjusts the software drivers that will interact with it. Elsewhere, programmers are still testing the code that dictates how the touchscreen user interface deals with the drivers. The pace is unrelenting. Not only are employees ordering in dinner, they’re ordering in breakfast, grappling in real time with the allergies and dietary restrictions of an incredibly diverse staff of Eastern Europeans, Indians, Chinese, Russians and French Canadians, several vegetarians and one person who is allergic to green peppers." [...]
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