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__UofToronto
student paper _The Varsity_
article
of 2012-10-01,
headline
"U pof T and The Dunlap Observatory:
'A
breachof public trust'?",
byline
"Zane Schwartz Varsity Contributor"
__has
several factual errors on points of detail
(_e.g,
erroneous claim that at DDO were discovered
other
"solar systems")
__some
key assertions (these may or may not be accurate):
+
((QUOTE))
Accordint
to an account given to
the
_National Post_ in 2008, Donalda
and
her husband, Richard Robarts
(cousin
of John. P. Robarts, the Ontario
premier
after whom the central
library
at U of T is named) were
courted
during dinners at the Royal
Canadian
Yacht Club, and were offered
one
million dollars for each of
the
Robarts' seven children.
((/QUOTE))
+
((QUOTE))
The
lawsuit was settled out of
court
in 2007 and the records of the
case
are sealed.
((/QUOTE))
+
((QUOTE))
A
2007 article in the _Toronto Star_
quoted
an unnamed unviersity official
as
saying the land was worth
$100
million. Ultimately, the university
sold
the property to Corsica for a price
tag
of $70 million.
"I
would be interested to know why we settled
for
$30 million less," said PC Choo, a Governing
Council
member representing administrative
staff,
in an interview with _The Varsity_. Choo was
one
or two governers to vote against the sale.
((/QUOTE))
+
((QUOTE))
"The
telescope cost $800,000 annually to operate;
it
was no longer cost effective" said professor
Peter
Martin /.../
((/QUOTE))
+
((QUOTE))
According
to testimony by Dr. Tom Bolton,
professor
emeritus in the Department of Astronomy
&
Astrophysics, at an August hearing
before
the Ontario Municipal Board, it "cannot
be
understated" that the decision taken by the
U
of T was a "business decision, not an academic
one."
Bolton
noted that the U of T did "not consult with
the
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics"
and
that they were simply "told" by the unviersity
that
a decision had been made to sell the site.
"It
is viewed by us, by Donalda, by anybocy
who
knows this story as a breach of public
trust,"
concludes Cilevitz.
((/QUOTE))
__IMPORTANCE_RANKING=65outof100
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UTC=20121025T235959Z
__statement
of funds donated to RH Nats
and
funds paid out to RH Nats, in respect of 2012 OMB hearing
__very
likely a private communication from RH Nats to Kmo
__detailed
breakdown, and also a summary which sez inter alia
((QUOTE))
$148,000.00
donated
((/QUOTE))
((QUOTE))
Needed
$48,028.95 plus Virginia
((/QUOTE))
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__photopy
of handwritten lttr from Kmo to
Biosphere
Conservation Foundation
__((QUOTE))
Please
find herewith a cheque, RBC#542,
dated
2012-11-02,
to
Biosphere Conservation Foundatoin, for 49,514.38 CAD /.../.
I
write this cheque in accordance with a
computation
given me this morning by Gene Denzel.
((/QUOTE))
[_this
is one of various such payments from Kmo to
Biosphere
Conservation Foundation,
not
necessarily all documented in Kmo's pile of papers]
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UTC=20121120T003000Z
__Liberal
2012-11-22
report
of the week's Council deliberations,
headed
"Town
to fight OMB parkland ruling in court"
__does
not directly mention DDO&P
__relevant
as background, as context
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UTC=20121201T233000Z
__paper
documenting Kmo protest-with-placard
at
inagural meeting of Town Council,
Richmond
Hill Centre for the Performing Arts:
+
the business cards of the two YRP plainclothes officers
who
supplied Kmo with some backup,
against
the conceivable contingency of
unpleasantness
directed against Kmo:
-
Glenn Wright, B.A.Jus., Detective #927, 2 District, CIB
-
Jamie Kolarsky, Detective Constable # 1688, Criminal Investigations
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__Liberal_
article "Newsmakers 2012",
mentioning
inter alia the DDO&P case
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