New landmark erected in Uptown

The Cord

Amanda Steiner
August 18, 2011

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CIGI celebrated the installation of a bell tower over their growing campus

Five beautiful handcrafted bells were hoisted earlier today at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) campus as a marker of CIGI’s Canadian-based internationally focused research and contributions in international affairs.

Where before, the CIGI site located at Erb St. West and Caroline St. displayed a pyramid of whiskey barrels, the new monument is now welded on top of the bell tower. Fred Kuntz, vice president of public affairs at CIGI, said that the bells were supposed to represent “a marriage between the old and the new.”

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