Amazon donation to UofT follows 'greenmail' strategy of media companies – Canadian Dimension
A covert level of influence peddling lurks just beneath the surface of public discourse in academia, which is subject to what have been called “greenmail” endowments designed to legitimize one side of a debate or the other. It has badly infected my field of study and my role in exposing it may help to explain why my teaching career has been spent mostly outside Canada.
Source: canadiandimension.com