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Subject: Re: [OT] Toronto wokesters want to rename Baby Point
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 12:42:42 -0400
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On Sat, 11 May 2024 22:31:42 -0700
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 May 2024 08:48:01 -0400, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
> >https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/why-this-resident-wants-toronto-s-oldest-richest-neighbourhood-renamed-1.7199463
> >
> >I keep seeing signs that the fever dream called "woke" is finally
> >coming to an end and these loonies are being brought to heel by the
> >people with sense but cases like this make me wonder if I'm just
> >imagining these signs of sanity.   
> 
> One thing I have avoided discussing with my sister-in-law (an alumnus
> of said institution) is how she feels about the renaming of Ryerson
> Polytech University in Toronto or for that matter the systematic
> renaming of a lot of places in southern Ontario named for him.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egerton_Ryerson
> 
> (His role in Canada was as the founder of publicly funded education in
> Ontario and elsewhere - but then these days anybody who had even a
> microgram of involvement with the Indian Residential School Program is
> considered far worse than Nathan Bedford Forrest - the Confederate
> general who went on to found the Klan)

I must ask my friend who graduated from there when it was just Ryerson
Polytechnic Institute what he thinks of this. Mind you, he is a pretty
sensible guy so I'm pretty sure he's going to think the whole thing is
deranged. 

As for Henry Dundas and the things named after him, Yonge-Dundas Square
(which was always known as Eaton's Square when I lived there due to the
presence of the flagship Eaton's store at that corner) know has a new
African name. I expect the signage has been changed to use the new name
but I wonder how many people actually refer to it as Sankofa Square and
what it will be called in 10 or 20 years from now? Will people still
call it Yonge-Dundas Square or will everyone know it as Sankofa Square?

Apparently, some subway stops with "Dundas" in the name are being
changed (or perhaps have been changed already) but a public outcry
seems to have stopped them from renaming the whole street, forcing
millions of dollars in expenditures on new signs and the costs of
people and businesses changing their stationery and websites to use
whatever new name they chose. Toronto had a major tax increase in
Comrade Chow's first budget and would have had to raise it even higher
if they were going to do a full rename of everything named "Dundas". 

-- 
Rhino