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The Rogers family makes a huge donation

By Steve Kupferman
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$130,000,000

—The amount of money donated by the Rogers family to support the founding of a new heart research centre in Toronto. (The family patriarch, former Rogers CEO Ted Rogers, died of heart failure in 2008.) According to the Globe, this is the largest-ever private donation to a Canadian health-care institution or university. The funds will be matched by contributions from the Hospital for Sick Children, the University Health Network and the University of Toronto.

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