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SAAQ at La Prairie and Dancing

Posted in News, hints and tips, tagged , , , on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Would you normally associate the SAAQ with dancing? The SAAQ mandataire at La Prairie donates all of its profits to a local organisation that organises dancing classes for children.
Isn’t that nice?

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Blog Moved!

Posted in hints and tips, tagged , on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This blog has moved to: www.movetomontreal.ca

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Avoiding the Queues at la SAAQ

Posted in hints and tips, tagged , , , , , , on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of going to the Société d’Assurance Automobile du Québec, the SAAQ, you know how much fun it is to queue. It’s a delightful administrative complex with, well lots of people. You need to go for your drivers licence, car licensing, driving tests etc.
And you spend a lot of time [...]

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Canadian Thought Leaders

Posted in News, hints and tips, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This week anyone who’s anyone really wants to be in California at this year’s TED conference. If you haven’t yet been introduced to the concept of TED, it’s a big annual meeting of some of the world’s brightest minds on a whole range of subjects. You can watch talks from previous conferences at www.ted.com
Canada of [...]

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Snow Removal in Montréal

Posted in hints and tips, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Snow removal is a very important, and sensitive, part of the winter here in Montréal. A new Snow Czar has just been appointed, Luis Miranda the mayor of Anjou. This part of Montréal has the best record on cleaning streets and pavements/sidewalks.
As soon as there is 2.5cm of snow on the ground, the snow ploughs [...]

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