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Hospital auxiliary closes gift shops

Partners for Care is a registered charity but now provides no actual charitable services. However, with $7.45 million in parking fee revenue last year, it paid out over a quarter-million dollars in consultant fees, and its two executives were collectively paid over $200,000 in salary and benefits.

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Partners for Care, the non-profit group which ran half a dozen gift shops at the QE2 Health Sciences Centre for 25 years, abruptly closed the doors at its remaining four locations Tuesday. A charity without charitable activities to operate raises some interesting questions, particularly as Partners for Care evolved from the QE2 Health Sciences Centre…

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