ProjectEnd said:
No surprise here:

The secret Bondfield files: Records outline alleged kickbacks between former executives over St. Michael’s Hospital bid

For six years, The Globe investigated the relationship between Bondfield and Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. The result was a $125-million libel lawsuit from the construction company. Now, thousands of unsealed e-mails and transcripts show alleged kickbacks between former executives over the...
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The hospital believed it had just the man for the job – an executive with a background in health care and construction.
Vas Georgiou had been the chief administrative officer of Infrastructure Ontario, the agency responsible for all of the province’s major public-sector building projects, and before that, a senior executive at another Toronto hospital, St. Joseph’s Health Centre.
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Mr. Aquino did not specify when the work began, but suggested it started while Mr. Georgiou was a senior executive at Infrastructure Ontario – the procurement agency that had awarded Bondfield several contracts, including multiple hospital projects and some of the facilities for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Mr. Georgiou worked at Infrastructure Ontario from 2006 until he was dismissed in 2012, after he was implicated in a false invoice scheme at Toronto’s York University.
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IO looks remarkably inept relative to investigations by either the Globe or Zurich. And the cherry on top? The guy was the CAO for IO previously.

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ProjectEnd said:
No surprise here:

The secret Bondfield files: Records outline alleged kickbacks between former executives over St. Michael’s Hospital bid

For six years, The Globe investigated the relationship between Bondfield and Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. The result was a $125-million libel lawsuit from the construction company. Now, thousands of unsealed e-mails and transcripts show alleged kickbacks between former executives over the...
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WOW! That's quite a messy story that implicates St Mikes, IO and, of course, Bondfield. The last paragraph says a lot! Top two floors STILL unfinished. WOW, just WOW!

In its statement, Unity Health characterized Zurich’s lawsuit as an “attempt to get out of its obligations under the surety bonds,” and noted that the healthcare network has countersued the insurer.

For its part, Zurich said, through its lawyer, that it disagreed with that assertion. “This litigation is about corruption in a publicly funded procurement process.”

As for the project itself, St. Michael’s has opened six floors of the new tower for patient care, as well as a COVID-19 vaccination clinic. The top two floors remain under construction, Ms. Divell said.
 
DSC said:
WOW! That's quite a messy story that implicates St Mikes, IO and, of course, Bondfield. The last paragraph says a lot! Top two floors STILL unfinished. WOW, just WOW!

In its statement, Unity Health characterized Zurich’s lawsuit as an “attempt to get out of its obligations under the surety bonds,” and noted that the healthcare network has countersued the insurer.

For its part, Zurich said, through its lawyer, that it disagreed with that assertion. “This litigation is about corruption in a publicly funded procurement process.”

As for the project itself, St. Michael’s has opened six floors of the new tower for patient care, as well as a COVID-19 vaccination clinic. The top two floors remain under construction, Ms. Divell said.
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I wonder what, if any, punishment did the board and CEO of SMH at the time receive for their failures? And IO also need to answer for their ineptitude in their investigation.

re: Last two floors - not sure if it was part of this project ( I think it is the new MS centre).

The other thing I want to know is how much will this project finally cost - relative to the high bid from PCL (which apparently has superior design, per the article, as well).

AoD
 
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As for the project itself, St. Michael’s has opened six floors of the new tower for patient care, as well as a COVID-19 vaccination clinic. The top two floors remain under construction, Ms. Divell said.
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- Opened six floors

- Two under construction.

- 17 storey tower

- What happened to the other 9 floors?
 
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AlvinofDiaspar said:
I wonder what, if any, punishment did the board and CEO of SMH at the time receive for their failures? And IO also need to answer for their ineptitude in their investigation.

re: Last two floors - not sure if it was part of this project ( I think it is the new MS centre).

The other thing I want to know is how much will this project finally cost - relative to the high bid from PCL (which apparently has superior design, per the article, as well).

AoD
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IO also needs to look at its procurement decisions and safeguards going back (as well as forward). It is also interesting that St Mikes hired someone fired by York University for corruption. Did they not ask for references? Did York not tell them? Did nobody in the field know? I suspect this is just the tip of a huge iceberg to do with construction and development in Ontario. The revelations last week in Star about the 'links' between the Tories and various construction/development companies are part of this saga.

See

https://www.thestar.com/news/invest...nce-behind-the-push-to-build-highway-413.html

and, of course, Mr Van Loan at:

www.thestar.com

Former politician working for developers on Hwy 413 issues violated Ontario lobbyist law, complaint alleges

Registered lobbyist Peter Van Loan says he violated no rules and represents his clients as a lawyer. He registered as a lobbyist out of “an abundance ...
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A minor accounting "error"?
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If floors were thought of as money; and more than 1/2 were unaccounted for...........

I don't think 'minor' would be the most apt term to describe the error!
 
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The last paragraph says a lot! Top two floors STILL unfinished. WOW, just WOW!
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...and they're probably needed now more than any other time. This reeks of /fail as well as corruption. /bleh
 
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Slowly, but surely, units continue to move in to the new tower.

Respirology apparently moved in this past June.

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“Everything has a place now” — Respirology Unit moves into the Peter Gilgan Tower at St. Michael’s

For some patients, a stay in the Respirology Unit at St. Michael’s Hospital can last for months at a time. Now, after the unit’s highly anticipated move to the sixth floor of the Peter Gilgan Patient…
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The in-patient part of this unit serves extended-stay patients w/CF.

Nice to see them get private rooms, private bathrooms and amenities unique to their circumstances such as an in-room exercise bike.
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
The HP designed MS Centre - from Architectural Record by @AlexBozikovic:

www.architecturalrecord.com

A Hariri Pontarini–Designed Toronto Clinic Provides a Calming Ambience for MS Patients

Hariri Pontarini designs a multiple sclerosis clinic in Toronto that responds to the experience of patients.
www.architecturalrecord.com www.architecturalrecord.com

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Looks fantastic and I sent the article to two friends who both go to that Clinic - both say they have yet to see it as their docs are still only doing Zoom consultations!
 
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