by Adelaide Z | March 6, 2014
The construction period for the international FIRST Robotics competition came to an end on Tuesday, February 18th. For the students of team 3985 (LaSalle Community Comprehensive High School) and their Vigilant Global mentors, the construction of the robot went on right down to the wire. The...
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by Adelaide Z | January 17, 2014
Last summer, a writer from Concordia University took a trip from the school’s downtown campus to Vigilant’s headquarters to talk to a few Concordia graduates now on staff at Vigilant. While Vigilant recruits at and hires from all of Montreal’s universities, a little over 40% are Concordia...
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by Adelaide Z | December 23, 2013
The 2013 Spirit of Giving campaign will be remembered as the year the cafeteria was occupied by skids of canned soup and countless boxes of lots of other non-perishable goods and toys. What was pegged as the 14th floor versus 15th floor competition between Vigilant Global employees essentially...
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by Adelaide Z | December 4, 2013
For the last four years, 10 to 20 Vigilantes have donned sweats and sneakers for one day in November to race up the 41 flights of stairs at Place Ville Marie tower for the RBC Challenge.
The Scrambled Legs & Achin team almost broke the PVM relay race record this year – only three seconds...
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by Adelaide Z | November 15, 2013
Vigilant Global announced this week its partnership with Montreal-based Lufa Farms – builders of the first commercial rooftop greenhouse with the vision of changing the way the world eats.
Every Tuesday, Lufa Farms will deliver Vigilant-subsidized grocery baskets of rooftop-grown organic...
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by Adelaide Z | October 1, 2013
Vigilant Global donated some much needed new books to four Montreal-area public schools this week through the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation and their ‘Adopt-A-School’ program. The schools will all receive the books for their library with the goal of replace aging and outdated books, many of...
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by Adelaide Z | August 26, 2013
Do you know TED? More specifically, do you know TED Talks? Ted talks is a nonprofit organization devoted ‘Ideas Worth Spreading’. TED Talks bring together some of the world’s most mesmerizing thinkers and present a topic for no longer than 18 minutes. The conferences typically happen on the West...
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by Adelaide Z | August 14, 2013
This Sunday, August 18, Vigilant Global employees will take to the soccer pitch at the Lachine soccer-plex in support of Goal Lion’s Cup Soccer Tournament organized by the Pub Burgundy Lion – one of Montreal’s favourite watering holes.
Each year, soccer aficionados and local Montreal celebs...
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by Adelaide Z | July 18, 2013
The weekend of July 6th, Vigi 4 Cure took to the Quebec countryside to make its way from Repentigny to Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, a small town just outside of Quebec City, all in the span of two days.
The weather on their side, the 15 riders from our Vigilant Global team beat the sunny...
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by Adelaide Z | July 4, 2013
The Ride to Conquer Cancer is nearly upon us, and Vigilant’s Vigi 4 Cure team now boasts 15 members, who are ready to cross the starting line in the early hours of this coming Saturday. After weeks of preparation and fundraising, these 15 members successfully made it to their individual 2,500$...
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