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Originally Posted by counterfactual
Fenwick, you should consider sending this email to Ramia et al. I'm not sure of the basis of his lawsuit-- media reporting on its details have, as usual, been crap-- but this is no doubt helpful.
Again, does anyone have a link to a story with more details on the lawsuit? I've seen it described as Ramia asserting HT is going "beyond its mandate".
That's a much different thing that arguing that Pacey et al are guilty of libel.
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Maybe the libel lawsuit is just wishful thinking on my part (I removed the reference to a libel suit from my post). However in a Chronicle Herald story the following is written:
(source: http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1218047-taylor-ramia-sues-heritage-trust-for-damages)
The company is also seeking general damages arising from the defendants’ “negligent actions and intentional intimidation of the defendants as it relates to the project.”
Additionally, Argyle is asking the court for punitive damages “arising from the unlawful acts of the defendants by ignoring the mandates and objectives of the Heritage Trust and instead embarking on an intentional campaign to hinder, delay, interfere and obstruct the project.”
Representatives of the heritage organization have maintained that the height of some Nova Centre structures will be violating the heritage views of Halifax Harbour from Citadel Hill.
Ramia has maintained that the Nova Centre complex has been designed to comply with viewplane rules and that people who say otherwise are misrepresenting the facts.
I think that spreading false statements is part of the Heritage Trust's strategy to turn public opinion against the convention centre as shown in the following screen capture from the Save the View website. I previously posted the screen-capture images from the WHW report to show that the convention centre does not violate the view-plane by-laws, and it was not put in the Land Use By-Law at the request of Rank Inc but that the convention centre and hotel/office complex idea originated with a WHW study conducted for the municipality.
(source: -
http://www.savetheview.ca/)
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