An ambitious community center for VMR: the winning project finally unveiled

The future Town of Mount Royal Community Centre is taking shape, promising to transform the social, athletic, and cultural life of the people of Mount Royal. The selected project was unveiled Tuesday evening to residents. Among three proposals analyzed based on eleven criteria, the consortium Équipe Sports et Communauté VMR, led by Groupe Geyser Inc…. Voir plus

Horizon Tatamis: fighting for a better life

Seeing young people fighting in a Saint-Laurent park, street worker Nicolas Lachance-Barbeau had the idea of ​​using martial arts as a strategy to intervene with them. This is how Horizon Tatamis, a unique social economy enterprise, was born. “I saw young people doing what we call ‘two-minute fights.’ They form a circle and fight for… Voir plus

Inno-centre, an ally for greening without slowing down

When we talk about sustainable development, everyone agrees that it’s an important consideration. But when you run a company, you juggle so many priorities that reducing GHGs rarely comes first. Yet, more and more businesses are discovering that they can reduce their carbon footprint and, at the same time, improve their business performance. That’s exactly… Voir plus

Levine Bros: Ingenious New Kids on the Block

Saint-Laurent has new neighbors: Levine Bros., plumbing pros. Here’s what they can tell us, those who see beyond our walls… What brings Levine Bros. to the neighborhood? Their old building in Lachine, where they’d been located for eight years, has been sold and will be demolished this summer. Without a roof, the company looked everywhere… Voir plus

“Isolated by cones”: a Saint-Laurent entrepreneur makes a heartfelt plea

A Saint-Laurent entrepreneur has grown tired of the construction sites that have been going on around his business for three years now. “I own a business that has been established in the St-Laurent borough for over 25 years. We’ve been in the industrial park on Guénette Street since the early 2000s, and previously on Henri… Voir plus

Consumption: What do the next turns hold for us?

With the F1 Grand Prix approaching, Montreal is preparing to welcome a flood of visitors… and spending. But what’s really happening with consumer spending here and across the country? In anticipation of a summer where every dollar counts, we asked Moneris, which processes one in three transactions in Canada (five billion transactions analyzed annually!), to… Voir plus