{"id":16690,"date":"2015-12-10T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16690"},"modified":"2015-12-10T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:24:52","slug":"montmorency-students-win-start-up-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montmorency-students-win-start-up-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Montmorency students win start-up capital"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"In<\/a>
In order from, left to right: Marc Duplantie, vice pr\u00e9sident of Co-operateurs, Christophe Gagn\u00e9, Olivier Brodeur, Kevin Lussier, Jol\u00e8ne Durocher, Gabriel D\u00e9ry-Reid, J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Larouche, comedian,
Photograph courtesy of Luc Belcourt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week a team of students from Montmorency College in Laval won $3,000 to set up a company to offer trips to people with mobility issues. The company will be a workers\u2019 cooperative known as Mobilitas.<\/p>\n

There is no such company in Quebec, but in France, this is a product that sells very well,\u201d said Lise St-Arnaud, the very proud teacher who taught them the class within which they developed the project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Please read the rest of my story, which appeared on page 13 of the Laval edition of The Suburban yesterday and on the Suburban<\/a> website yesterday.<\/p>\n

Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week a team of students from Montmorency College in Laval won $3,000 to set up a company to offer trips to people with mobility issues. The company will be a workers\u2019 cooperative known as Mobilitas. There is no such company in Quebec, but in France, this is a product that sells very well,\u201d said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[797,800,798,799],"class_list":["post-16690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hundredmilecircle","tag-montmorency","tag-start-up-capital","tag-students","tag-win","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4lc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1808,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/electric-bus-laval\/","url_meta":{"origin":16690,"position":0},"title":"Public Trials of New Electric Bus Now Underway","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"May 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Quebec's first standard-sized electric bus began operating in city streets in Laval last month and will continue its test run until August 25. 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