{"id":22919,"date":"2019-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/media-news\/2019-rbc-challenge-centraide\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:12:31","slug":"2019-rbc-challenge-centraide","status":"publish","type":"medianews","link":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/media\/2019-rbc-challenge-centraide\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 RBC Challenge for Centraide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caption\">At centre, <strong>Lili-Anna Pere&scaron;a<\/strong>, President and Executive Director, Centraide of Greater Montreal, and <strong>Nadine Renaud-Tinker<\/strong>, President, Quebec Headquarters, RBC, with athletes who participated in the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> RBC Challenge for Centraide (from left to right),&nbsp;<strong>Andrew Wolfe<\/strong> (figure skating), <strong>Benoit St-Amand<\/strong> (sledge hockey), <strong>Camille Ruest<\/strong> (figure skating), and<strong> Eric Radford<\/strong> (figure skating).<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>RBC Challenge for Centraide: 350&nbsp;000 $&nbsp;to give vulnerable people a step up<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Montreal, November 27, 2019 &ndash; <\/strong>Today, professional athletes and 660&nbsp;corporate employees spent their lunch break taking part in the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> RBC Challenge for Centraide, a relay race up the steps of Place Ville Marie, and raised $350,000 from the event.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge had two goals: break the record up this landmark building in downtown Montreal in less than 2&nbsp;minutes, 38 seconds and raise money for Centraide of Greater Montreal to give people experiencing poverty and exclusion a step up in life.<\/p>\n<p>Organized in collaboration with Place Ville Marie, this year&rsquo;s edition of the sports challenge resulted in $25,000 more than last year.<\/p>\n<p>The professional athletes who joined this year&rsquo;s challenge were <strong>Eric Radford<\/strong> (figure skating), <strong>Camille Ruest<\/strong> (figure skating), <strong>Benoit St-Amand<\/strong> (sledge hockey), and <strong>Andrew Wolfe<\/strong> (figure skating).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23360,"template":"","class_list":["post-22919","medianews","type-medianews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medianews\/22919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medianews"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/medianews"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}