Acknowledgements

• Author: Howard Epstein
• Pages: 15-15

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ACK NOW LED GEM ENTS

My thanks to various people for various forms of support leading to

the writing of this book. For early legal inspiration, thanks to Stan M

Makuch of Cassels Brock, and formerly of both Dalhousie University

and the University of Toronto law schools; the late Robert HN Blois QC,

sometime-chair of the Nova Scotia Planning Appeal Board (predeces-

sor to the NSUARB); Ed Tollefson, formerly of the Federal Department

of Justice; and to Martin Loughlin, now professor of public law at LSE

with whom I brief‌ly taught at Osgoode Hall Law School when we were

both young. Later, John Mascarin of Aird Berlis and editor of the Muni-

cipal and Planning Law Reports published a number of my articles. My

thanks to planners Julio Maff‌ini, a stellar witness; and Professors Jill

Grant and Frank Palermo of the School of Planning at Dalhousie Uni-

versity. My thanks to architect Professor J Grant Wanzel of the Faculty

of Architecture at Dalhousie University. My thanks to re aders Professor

Philip Girard of Osgoode Hall Law School; planner Jennifer Powley;

Ontario Government planner Linda Tam; the late Professor Philip

Pacey of Dalhousie University Department of Chemi stry, and dedicated

advocate for protection of built heritage; and Professor (retired) Dianne

Pothier of Dalhousie University Law School. Finally, especial apprecia-

tion to Alan Ruffman, marine geologist, polymath, and quintessential

citizen. Several of those thanked have offered me good advice, some of

which I have ignored, making all shortcomings entirely my own.