I always enjoy Montreal! The magic was wearing a little thin at 7 in the morning the Saturday I got to the convention, but it came on again like a carnival in the evening. Here in Ottawa, the parking lots charge you to park during the day, and are usually un-manned in the evening so you can park free of charge and go off pubbing. In Montreal, the parking attendant doesn't come on duty until 8 in the evening! No doubt about it, Montreal is a party town! Nice to see things have really turned around the last few years...6 or 7 years ago everything was for sale or rent south of Place Bonaventure, now its all factories which are working and employing people. I think it is thanks to the Quebec government's policy of rewarding young entrepreneurs with interest free or interest delayed loans to start businesses. The Ontario government could take notice!
Con-Cept is a small fan run convention. Doesn't attract near enough people for its quality. Monsffa is the organizing body, and they are competent. Thats saying a lot! http://www.theendoftheuniverse.ca/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=78
Everthing went smoothly. Nobody cut themselves on the swords or knives, and I made a huge number of contacts. Who knows, I might even get a few seminars in Montreal! I'll have to see what I can do about advertising this event for them some more...the local papers seem to have a problem with it...I think the English language dailies think it is too French, and the French language dailies think it is too English! I wish they got a tenth of the publicity that the animation festival gets. Well, its quarter to ten, time to get to work!
(starting to look forward to going to work these days!)
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