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90M donated by the Rogers Foundation to UHN's Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research:

$90-million gift to the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research marks new era in cardiac health

In 2014, the Rogers Foundation made a record $130-million gift to establish the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (TRCHR) – a visionary, collaborative initiative harnessing the strengths of its three institutional partners: The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), University Health Network (UHN

www.utoronto.ca

From the above:

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UHN is having a good month, scoring another 52M donation. This one to build an ER dedicated to Seniors over at the Western Hospital site.
The money comes from the John and Myrna Daniels Charitable Foundation. It is apparently the largest donation to Emergency medicine in Canadian history.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-toronto-uhn-emergency-er-seniors/ (paywalled at time of posting)

From the above:

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A new Canadian precedent (largest ever gift by an individual).

A woman, confessedly, of whom I hadn''t even heard, Miriam Bergen has left 500M to The Winnipeg Foundation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-foundation-endowment-miriam-bergen-1.6667846

I can say this much, her name doesn't appear on any of the Canada's richest lists, which typically bottom out around the 1B mark.

An extraordinary act of generosity, that if even 1/2 matched by Canada's billionaire class would be utterly transformative for the country (at at least could be)

Depending on the list, Canada's Billionaire classes are worth in the range of 250B collectively.

So donating 1/2 would be 125B and if treated as an endowment would throw off 5B annually in perpetuity.

 

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The Irresistible Appeal of the ‘Post-Industrial Park’​

In ‘Parks for Profit’, a sociologist argues that glitzy urban parks that rely on private funders can trigger displacement and drain resources from other public spaces.

The Irresistible Appeal of the ‘Post-Industrial Park’

In ‘Parks for Profit’, a sociologist argues that glitzy urban parks that rely on private funders can trigger displacement and drain resources from other public spaces.

getpocket.com

 

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Humber River Regional Hospital's primary campus will now be known as Hennick Humber Hospital following a 50M donation to the organization.

Humber River Hospital to change name after ‘transformational’ $50M donation

Humber River Health is getting a big injection of cash to improve its services. The hospital network says it has received a staggering $50 million donation from the Hennick Family Foundation -- the largest single donation in the hospital’s history.

www.cp24.com

The details of how the money will be used are a bit blurry, it reads as up to 12.5M for an endowment fund, money for research, and community services and equipment.

So it doesn't read as funding renos or expansion of any scale; but may include, limited renos or larger scale investments in things like ORs or imaging suites, but those are my examples as I see none in their presser.

Hospital Page about the donation:

Hennick Humber Hospital - Home Page

A Transformational Gift to Humber River Health

hennickhumberhospital.hrh.ca

 

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Humber River Regional Hospital's primary campus will now be known as Hennick Humber Hospital following a 50M donation to the organization.

Humber River Hospital to change name after ‘transformational’ $50M donation

Humber River Health is getting a big injection of cash to improve its services. The hospital network says it has received a staggering $50 million donation from the Hennick Family Foundation -- the largest single donation in the hospital’s history.

www.cp24.com

The details of how the money will be used are a bit blurry, it reads as up to 12.5M for an endowment fund, money for research, and community services and equipment.

So it doesn't read as funding renos or expansion of any scale; but may include, limited renos or larger scale investments in things like ORs or imaging suites, but those are my examples as I see none in their presser.

Hospital Page about the donation:

Hennick Humber Hospital - Home Page

A Transformational Gift to Humber River Health

hennickhumberhospital.hrh.ca

HRH helped my uncle towards the end of his life. Hopefully the funding they receive goes towards making the facility even better than it is now.