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The article could have stood for more vigorous fact-checking.  For instance, I do believe that the Perimeter Institute is home to the "Stephen Hawking Centre" and not the "Stephen Hawkins Institute".

At least the caption for the photo on the top right is correct, "Completed in 2011, the Stephen Hawking Centre by Teeple Architects is a major expansion of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo that more than doubles the size of the existing facility."

What would you consider to constitute contributions to the social fabric of the Region? ...

IMO the vision to see beyond a few years (or in the case of politicians, to the next election) has been an even more fundamental contribution. Back in the 1950s and 1960s new universities were popping up everywhere in Ontario and elsewhere. But only Hagey and Needles were able to see the need for a new university based on a co-operative education model that needed a parcel of some 1,000 acres of land. 

It must be in something like the DNA or the drinking water because that early vision has been refined and expanded over the years by many others, including David Johnston, Mike Lazaridis, Carl Zehr, et al. 

I wonder who's going to carry the torch forward.