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Canadian health care properties owner Sunrise Senior Living Real Estate Investment Trust continues to feel the fallout from its brief flirtation with Long Beach's Health Care Property Investors Inc. An Ontario judge last month ordered Sunrise to stick to its earlier acquisition agreement with Ventas Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based REIT, rather than entertain a last-minute offer from Health Care Property in January. But now Ventas has sued Sunrise for breach of contract, citing the increased costs associated with maintaining the deal. Sunrise investors are scheduled to vote on the $1.8 billion Ventas takeover on April 11 ... Kaiser Permanente announced that it has been rated 27th overall on DiversityInc.'s 2007 Top 50 Companies for Diversity. It's the second time that Kaiser has made the list and is one of only two managed care providers on it. In the Southern California region 68 percent of Kaiser's workforce and 52 percent of its staff physicians are minorities, according to the managed care provider. In addition, 78 percent of employees and 33 percent of doctors are women. DiversityInc, a N.J.-based monthly business magazine, said the list is based on a survey that businesses with more than 1,000 employees can request to complete.