Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line of the AVE tunnel near Barcelona, a number of nearby buildings suffered damage from a sinkhole that appeared near a commuter rail station, damaging one of its platforms. The construction committee of Barcelona's famed Sagrada Familia church lobbied for a re-routing of the tunnel - it passes within metres of the massive church's foundations. It also passes equally near the UNESCO-recognized Casa Milà also designed by Antoni Gaudí. Furthermore, until 2005 both Siemens and Talgo/Bombardier train sets failed to meet scheduled speed targets, although in a test run during the homologation tests of the new S102 trains of RENFE, a
Whose University Is It? known each other in the 1980s while both were attending Trent University. They got back in touch after meeting at the Hot Docs film festival and began talking about what was happening at their old Alma Mater. They first brought the project to CBC TV and were turned down because the subject matter was considered to be "too boring" for audiences who "would not understand" the issues. They then decided to fund the movie themselves. "Whose University Is It?" was released to theatres in Ontario in 2003 but received little notice in the media at the time, although the few