The 2011 Red Herring 100 North America will be announced on June 15 in Hollywood, but in the meantime, they’ve short-listed their top 200 and Vigilant Futures is one of those on the prestigious list. We’re very proud and honoured to make it to the top 200 and look forward to the final round!
Last weekend, Vigilant Futures was lucky enough to be one of the Gold-level sponsors for Concordia’s first time hosting the CS Games. What a weekend! We were surrounded by incredibly talented students from across Canada and the northeastern U.S.
Congrats to the team from the University of Rochester for their 1st place overall finish. It was great to be there.
Every year LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School holds a canned food drive around the holidays to benefit those facing a tough holiday season.
This year’s canned food drive happens to be today, with our city streets filled with snow, several more cm continuing to fall, with city crews out trying to clear the existing snow from the roads, and with the sidewalks and walkways still icy and bumpy in many neighborhood homes! I’ll be driving some of the kids around and it’ll be interesting to see them fight the elements in their quest to collect food for the needy.
Snowy Montreal streets
The plan is to get as many volunteers as possible to chauffeur the LaSalle High students from door-to-door in the neighborhood to collect non-perishable food items. They then bring everything back to the school gym and an “all-hands on deck” sorting of the collected goods takes place.
Neighbors know what to expect. The kids do this every year. And a few weeks ago, as always, the LaSalle High students mailed out flyers to everyone in the borough to advise them of the date and time they could expect a ring at the door by smiling students eagerly anticipating donations!
I’ll be tweeting about what I see tonight, so follow me @VigilantFutures!
Visit the LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School website and learn about their events: http://lcchs.lbpsb.qc.ca/
Tonight, the streets of downtown Montreal will be deserted between 7 and 10 PM because Montrealers will either be at the Bell Centre, at a local sports bar, or at home with friends to watch the Habs’ home opener against the Tampa Bay Lightning. We live, eat and breathe hockey here.
At the end of the game, as always, is the announcement of the “the three stars”, a great way to spotlight the three players that outshined their teammates. True puckheads always stick around after the game to see who the “stars” will be. For tonight’s game, we are going to see new added little twist from the usual magic on ice. And at the end of the game, a new system will be introduced that will allow the fans to choose who those three stars are.
How, you say?
Yup, there’s an app for that too.
As of today, Smartphone users can download a new Canadiens app to vote for their three stars…a first in club history. It’s totally the fans call tonight.
It was a glorious and sunny fall Sunday morning at De Maisonneuve Park. My three friends and I were happy to be up early on one of the last crisp fall days in Montreal. Trees were gently swaying in the gentle wind littering the ground with a rainbow of colored leaves, orange, yellow, brown…
But the color that stood out most was… PINK. This Sunday was the kickoff of the CIBC Run for the Cure, and boy was it an unbelievable event. Over 20,000 runners/walkers/volunteers/supporters overwhelmed the Park.
Everyone was wearing some shade of pink, the “awareness” color for breast cancer research. Very cool event to have been at!
According to the Montreal Gazette, the Run for the Cure raised $2.1M for breast cancer research.
Statistical analysis, when done right, can help us dissect data, understand trends and get us to answers which otherwise would have seemed unattainable or foggy. One of the most creative, informational, and entertaining videos that I have ever seen about statistical analysis is shown here by Hans Rosling, who in this clip shows us the power of merging great tools with relevant data.
Amongst the hundreds of amazing speakers, talks, and intelligent ideas that are found on TED, this is one of my favorites. Rosling uses world data to show us some powerful stuff about developmental economics, flushes out some captivating concepts and leads us to draw some interesting conclusions about the need for further widespread availability of useful data. If you have 20 minutes to spare to learn something really cool, it’s worth the time.
Marianne St. Gelais’ unbridled, no-holds-barred cheering for her boyfriend Charles Hamelin’s 500m skate for Olympic Gold has to be one of the most heart-lifting moments from the Games.
Paul Henderson’s goal as Canada defeated Russia in the 1972 Summit Series is now deeply entrenched in Canadian lore. Foster Hewitt’s call on the frantic goal is etched into the memories of a generation of hockey fans, and almost everyone who was in Canada in 1972 can answer, “Where were you when Henderson scored?”
In due part to USA sniper Zach Parise, perhaps our current generation has its own “Henderson moment”… For it weren’t for Parise’s frantic tying goal with 9 seconds left, Sid would never have had the chance for our ‘golden goal’, as eloquently announced by CBC’s Chris Cuthbert. If it weren’t for Parise, we might never have had the chance to answer, “Where were you when Crosby scored?”…
So thank you again Zach Parise, we will forever be grateful to you…
