Hints and Tips on moving to and life in Montréal
Posted in News on Nov 19th, 2009
As winter approaches here in Montréal, one is often reminded of how the city needs to adapt to its particular environment. Planes that leave Montréal’s Trudeau airport often have ice build-up overnight and need to be de-iced before taking off.
Here is a short video of the de-icing procedure at work:
Posted in News on Nov 6th, 2009
Unemployment statistics released today show that Canada has lost jobs in the month of October. However, Québec is an exception to this rule and has seen unemployment fall to 8.5% from 8.8% in September.
In Montréal, unemployment has fallen from 9.5% to 9.3% in a month. Although the economy is difficult throughout the world at the [...]
Posted in News on Nov 2nd, 2009
Gerald Trembaly has won the election for Montréal mayor, although with a more diverse set of councillors than he had before. The big question is: what will he do to clean up city hall, if anything?
Posted in hints and tips on Oct 30th, 2009
It’s here, the list of organizations and people worth following if you’re in or thinking of moving to Montréal:
http://twitter.com/movetomtl/cool-montreal-tweeters
Posted in News on Oct 30th, 2009
This weekend Montréalers will be going to the polls to elect a new mayor. With three days to go before election date the three main candidates are neck to neck. Unfortunately, for most Montréalers the choice will not be an easy one to make.
The three main candidates are:
Gerald Tremblay is the incumbent candidate and is [...]
Posted in Attractions on Jun 30th, 2009
The 30th Montréal International Festival of Jazz will open tonight with a free concert given by Stevie Wonder. There are rumours flying that there will be a tribute to the late Michael Jackson too.
Montréal’s internationally renowned Jazz Festival runs from today for 10 days and takes place at Place des Arts downtown. For more information [...]
Posted in Attractions on Jun 25th, 2009
A storm blew in today. Within minutes the warm sultry weather turned into pounding rain, hail and wind. Five minutes later the calm had returned.
That’s Montréal weather for you.
The government runs a good weather site at http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca. Forecasting in Canada is an art, The weather can be quite changable.
Here are some photographs of the storm:
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Jun 15th, 2009
Once you have your resumé you need to distribute it to people who could be interested in you. The no brainer part of this is using the internet job sites such as Jobboom, workopolis and monster. You post your resumé on these sites and subscribe to job agents that will send you interesting jobs.
However, to [...]
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Jun 10th, 2009
Finding a job in Montréal can take work, in fact it can be considered to be a full time job in itself! The great news is that this is true almost everywhere.
When looking for work, the first thing to fully understand is what you are good at and what your value is for employers. What [...]
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Jun 8th, 2009
Looking for a job can be one of the most stressful and worrying things that one has to do. Our standard of living, security, how we’re perceived by others and our self-respect are intimately tied up with the work that we do.
Add to this a move to a new city or a new country and [...]