Blessed be Mike Lazaridis:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 4, 2008 - In a new and generous act of personal philanthropy, Mike Lazaridis has provided an additional $50 million (Canadian) to Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI). This private donation increases his personal contributions to $150 million in the research institute.
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