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With Montreal reopening, STM to hand out free masks to commuters

While the STM is strongly urging passengers to wear a face mask or face covering at all times, it won't be mandatory, said chair Philippe Schnobb.



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Shields, fences and hand sanitizer: New reality for Montreal's public markets

Jean-Talon market has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, there are controlled entrances, someone making sure you douse your hands with sanitizer and another with a clicker in hand, counting the number of people who enter.



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New projections find deconfinement in Montreal could lead to sharp increase in deaths

The current deconfinement plan in the Montreal area could lead to a rapid increase in deaths in the city, according to findings by Quebec's public health institute. 



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8M substandard masks from Montreal supplier did not make it into health-care system, Trudeau says




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World figure skating championships in Montreal face cancellation over virus concerns

Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann says the government is evaluating whether to allow the world figure skating championships to go ahead next week in Montreal.



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World figure skating championships cancelled in Montreal

The world figure skating championships, scheduled for March 18-22 in Montreal, have been cancelled because of the spread of COVID-19.



  • Sports/Olympics/Winter Sports/Figure Skating

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Codesigning care improvements for women living with HIV: a patient-oriented deliberative dialogue workshop in Montreal, Quebec

Background:

Care services have not been sufficiently adapted to meet the comprehensive care needs of women living with HIV. Our study objective was to engage patients and providers in codesigning care recommendations to improve care for this population in the province of Quebec.

Methods:

We conducted a 5-hour deliberative dialogue workshop in April 2019 in Montréal as the final phase of a mixed-methods study investigating comprehensive care for women living with HIV. The study drew on data from the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS). Recruitment was guided by a purposive maximum-variation sampling strategy to ensure an appropriate mix of participants and was facilitated by our existing CHIWOS networks. Participants included patients (women living with HIV) and HIV care providers (doctors, nurses, pharmacists). The workshop was facilitated professionally and included a synthesis of the evidence, small- and large-group deliberations, and voting on care improvements.

Results:

Eight patients and 8 HIV care providers participated. Drawing on identified care priorities, the participants identified 4 relatively rapid care improvements and 3 longer-term improvements. The rapid care improvements included delegating medical acts to members of multidisciplinary care teams; greater involvement of HIV community members within care settings and health care decision-making; creating a women’s health information booklet; and increasing HIV education among all health care providers and raising awareness of women’s care needs beyond HIV-specific care among HIV care providers. The longer-term care improvements included advocating for complete financial coverage of antiretroviral therapy within the government-sponsored Medicare program, facilitating access to allied care providers (e.g., physiotherapists and psychologists) and launching a population-wide campaign to increase awareness about the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) initiative and other HIV advances.

Interpretation:

The deliberative dialogue workshop yielded evidence-based, stakeholder-driven recommendations to improve the comprehensive care of women living with HIV in Quebec.




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Mysterious inflammatory syndrome in children potentially linked to COVID-19 reported in Montreal

As Quebec prepares to reopen schools, doctors are poring over 15-20 cases of children with what seems to be the same illnesses reported in U.S. and Europe




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Projections show COVID-19 deaths could soar if confinement lifted in Montreal

MONTREAL - Quebec's public health institute says deaths could spike in the greater Montreal area if physical distancing measures designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 are lifted. New projections posted to the institute's website show deaths could rise to 150 a day by July in the city and its...




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COVID-19 death toll at Montreal long-term care home hits 40

The death toll at a long-term care facility in Montreal, the epicentre of COVID-19 in Canada, has jumped to 40 as health officials admit they failed to reach the lofty goal of conducting 14,000 tests per day in the city.




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Innovation Districts Appear in Cities as disparate as Montreal and London

For years, corporate campuses like Silicon Valley were known for innovation. Located in suburban corridors that were only accessible by car, these places put little emphasis on creating communities where people work, live and go out.

But now, as the economy emerges from the recession, a shift is occurring where innovation is taking place. Districts of innovation can be found in urban centres as disparate as Montreal, Seoul, Singapore, Medellin, Barcelona, and London. They are popping up in the downtowns and midtowns of cities like Atlanta, Cambridge, Philadelphia, and St. Louis.

These are places where advanced research universities, medical complexes, and clusters of tech and creative firms are attracting businesses and residents.

Other innovation districts can be found in Boston, Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Seattle, where older industrial areas are being re-imagined and remade, leveraging their enviable location near waterfronts and city centres and along transit lines. Innovative companies and talented workers are flocking to these areas in abundance.

Even traditional science parks like Research Triangle Park in Raleigh-Durham are scrambling to urbanise to keep pace with their workers' preference for walkable communities and their companies' desire to be near other firms.

In these districts, leading anchor institutions and start-ups are clustering and connecting with one another. They are coming together with spin-off companies, incubators, and accelerators in the relentless pursuit of new discoveries for the market.

These areas are small and accessible, growing talent, fostering open collaboration, and offering housing and office space as well as modern urban amenities. They are both competitive places and "cool" spaces.

The growth of innovation districts is being driven by private and civic actors like universities, philanthropies, business associations and business improvement districts. Yet local governments play an important role in accelerating the growth of districts and maximising their potential . Three roles stand out:

1) Mayors are leading efforts to designate districts

Barcelona's former mayor Joan Clos set his eyes on transforming his city into a "city of knowledge". Through extensive, focused public planning and investment, Clos designed an innovation district from the debris of a 494-acre industrial area, which was scarred and separated from the rest of the city by railroad tracks. His vision included burying these tracks, increasing access via a new public tram, designing walkable streets, and creating new public spaces and housing.

Today, the area is a 21st-century urban community with 4,500 firms, thousands of new housing units, and clusters of universities, technology centres, and incubators.

Across the Atlantic in Boston, former mayor Tom Menino declared the South Boston waterfront an innovation district in 2010. Menino persuaded innovators like MassChallenge to move to the district and exacted important concessions from developers (including land for innovation-oriented retail, shared labs and other spaces, and micro-housing) to help realise the district's vision.

2) Changing land-use laws to build spaces with a mix of facilities

Barcelona and Research Triangle Park, for example, developed bold master plans encouraging the "mixing" of large and small firms, research facilities, housing, restaurants, and retail and outlining where to create open spaces for networking. Cambridge, Massachusetts, by contrast, has allowed incremental moves from rigid, antiquated rules to encourage similar outcomes in Kendall Square .

3) Supporting scarce public resources with large private and civic investments

In New York , former mayor Michael Bloomberg deployed $100m in municipal capital to prepare the infrastructure necessary to lure Cornell and Technion universities to Roosevelt Island. In other cities, including St Louis and Seattle, local resources are financing infrastructure improvements to buttress and accelerate private growth.

Given that many innovation districts are adjacent to low-income neighbourhoods, cities like Philadelphia are considering smart use of school investments to prepare disadvantaged youth for good jobs in the Stem (science, technology, engineering, and math) economy.

As this decade unfolds, we should expect more cities to use their powers in the service of this new model of innovative, inclusive, and resilient growth.

This opinion originally appeared in The Guardian

      
 
 




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The Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances is already saving your skin

Hopefully someday we can say the same thing about an effective effort to combat greenhouse gas emissions.




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Super-fun bike adventures in Montreal! (videos)

What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?




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Montreal's 2014 Tour de l'Île: 25,000 people on a 50km bike ride around the city! (video)

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!




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Montreal reveals plans for an electric car sharing service, aims for 1,000 EVs by 2020

The city wants to become a leader in electric transportation, part of a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third.




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Montreal's impressive food recovery program will expand throughout Quebec

A partnership between Moisson Montreal and the largest grocery chains in the province will continue to salvage hundreds of tons of food that would otherwise be discarded.




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World's largest Cross-Laminated Timber apartment complex being built in Montreal

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.




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Why did Montreal get those twisty deathtrap stairs?

They are one of the most iconic features of the city, but some of them are really scary.




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Montreal design studio exchanging free coworking space for food donations (Video)

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.




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Montreal supermarket opens huge organic rooftop garden

Talk about slashing food miles; 'fresh from the roof' is as local as it gets.




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Montreal considering separate traffic laws for cyclists

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality




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Montreal couple shows how to take a voyage à vélo électrique

Electric bikes are the great leveller; a lot more people will be doing this.




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Montreal may ban wood-fired ovens. Is this the end of the classic Montreal bagel?

Wood smoke is a huge source of particulate pollution and really shouldn't be in residential neighbourhoods. But the flavour...




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Montreal duplex is simple and elegant

This is the kind of gentle density we need.




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Deep Performance Dwelling built in Montreal for Solar Decathlon China 2018

It's urban, Passive House and prefab. What's not to love?




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Montreal to charge more for parking for bigger vehicles

But what is the best criterion?




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When it comes to Montreal's "ugly" Christmas tree, we're TreeHuggers.

Because it is really a Solstice Tree, and it is all about life in a harsh climate.




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Pop-up playground for adults built in Montreal square

Shipping containers are the base for an instant "lush urban oasis."




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Chinese action on Montreal Protocol violators

After evidence that China violated the treaty intended to protect the earth's ozone layer, the country has leapt into action.




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Montreal's swoopy Olympic Tower renovated as office space

Anyone who says that a building has to be demolished because the plan doesn't suit modern uses is either lying or incompetent. Just look at this.




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Canada: Leveraging Training and Skills Development in SMEs - An analysis of two urban regions Montreal and Winnipeg

This paper looks at a study carried out among 80 small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in two Canadian cities, Montréal and Winnipeg, based on a survey and case studies, which show the importance of innovation among Canadian SMEs. These innovations in turn create new demands for skill development, both through formal training and in informal activities.




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Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, in Montreal, 9-11 June 2014

Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, will be in Montreal to attend the International Economic Forum of the Americas, where he will present the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Canada, and the OECD Review of Employment and Skills Strategies in Canada.




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OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría in Canada on 13-14 June - Economic Survey of Canada and Employment and Skills Strategy in Montreal

The latest OECD Economic Survey of Canada, to be published on Monday 13 June, discusses how the Canadian economy is adjusting to the fall in commodity prices. The Survey assesses future growth and employment prospects as the economy shifts toward non-resource-based activity, including policies for accompanying this transition.




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Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, in Montreal from 12 to 15 June 2016

The Secretary-General attended and made remarks at the Conference of Montreal “Shaping a New Era of Prosperity”, organised by the International Economic Forum of the Americas. He presented the 2016 OECD Economic Survey of Canada, alongside Mr. William Francis Morneau, Minister of Finance of Canada, and released a report on employment in Montreal with Mr. Denis Coderre, Mayor of Montreal.




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Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, in Montreal on 13-15 May 2018

Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD, was in Montreal from 13 to 15 May 2018 to attend the OECD Ministerial Meeting on Social Policy where he delivered remarks on Social Policy for Shared Prosperity: Embracing the Future and the OECD Policy Forum where he delivered remarks on The Future of Social Protection.




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Death of Lady Gaga video model Zombie Boy Rick Genest ruled an accident by officials in Montreal

Coroner Mélissa Gagnon of the Bureau du Coroner said that the 32-year-old's fall from a third-story balcony in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal on August 1, 2018 was not intentional.




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Thierry Henry is desperate to make an Impact at Montreal... he reveals desire to make it as manager

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY CRAIG HOPE IN ORLANDO: The players of Montreal Impact tell us he still has that 'swagger'. And of course he does - he is Thierry Henry.




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Transfer news: Montreal Impact sign Bojan Krkic following forward's departure from Stoke

Montreal Impact signed Spanish free agent forward Bojan Krkic on a deal through to the end of the 2020 season on Wednesday. He left Stoke City by mutual consent on Tuesday.




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Montreal Protocol: The unfinished agenda


The replacement of CFCs by more benign HCFCs and HFCs has removed the risks linked to ozone depletion, but these gases continue to contribute to global warming. Darryl D'Monte reports.




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Women's Vote in Australia. Extracts taken an article in the Canadian Magazine of June, 1907, written by Professor R. E. Macnaghten, of McGill University, Montreal, who lived for some years in Australia; headed A Plea for Woman Suffrage in Canada.

[London] : [Published by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 25, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.], [November, 1908]




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Fluid-structure interactions: slender structures and axial flow / Michael P. Païdoussis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Barker Library - TA357.5.F58 P35 2014




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10th ACI/RILEM International Conference on Cementitious Materials and Alternative Binders for Sustainable Concrete (ICCM 2017): Montreal, Canada 2-4 October 2017 / editor, Arezki Tagnit-Hamou

Barker Library - TA438.I58 2017




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Introduction to optimization and Hadamard semidifferential calculus / Michel C. Delfour (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada)

Online Resource




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Iron control technologies : proceedings of the third International Symposium on Iron Control in Hydrometallurgy, Montreal, Canada, October 1-4, 2006 / editors, J.E. Dutrizac and P.A. Riveros

International Symposium on Iron Control in Hydrometallurgy (3rd : 2006 : Montréal, Québec)




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Promote the progress of the Pacific-basin region through space innovation: proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Pacific-basin societies (ISCOPS) held July 10-13, 2018, Montreal, Canada / edited by Arun K. Misra, Li Ming, Yasuhiro Morita

Barker Library - TL787.A244 v.166