Sankofa Square

[Skoob]

The city and TMU university have temporarily stopped crying poor and found a lot of money to allocate to this...hopefully the homeless refugees sleeping in the square will appreciate the effort put into the name change and everyone will be happy now.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/yo...cle_6855de9e-9a8a-11ee-95ed-8348aef070b4.html
The total cost of the city's new renaming plan is pegged at $2.7 million but TMU has agreed to pay the $1.6 million cost of rebranding Dundas station. After the reallocation of funds from other city initiatives, council will have to find about $700,000 during upcoming 2024 budget deliberations to cover the remaining costs.

 

[Dutch Oven]

The city and TMU university have temporarily stopped crying poor and found a lot of money to allocate to this...hopefully the homeless refugees sleeping in the square will appreciate the effort put into the name change and everyone will be happy now.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/yo...cle_6855de9e-9a8a-11ee-95ed-8348aef070b4.html
The total cost of the city's new renaming plan is pegged at $2.7 million but TMU has agreed to pay the $1.6 million cost of rebranding Dundas station. After the reallocation of funds from other city initiatives, council will have to find about $700,000 during upcoming 2024 budget deliberations to cover the remaining costs.

This city council can't do anything right. There will be years (and there will be countless dollars) trying to explain how the name has anything to do with Toronto, it will fail to draw tourists or Torontonians (who will see it for what it is - a disembodied monument to virtue signalling), and then the renaming process will start all over again.

Grow a backbone Torontonians. Fire your incompetent councillors.

 

[SaturnFan]

So how does one get to Ryerson University from Yonge Dundas Square?? I need to get to Sir John A MacDonald school as well.

 

[Skoob]

So how does one get to Ryerson University from Yonge Dundas Square?? I need to get to Sir John A MacDonald school as well.

You just follow the virtue signals and they'll get you there.

 

[Dutch Oven]

So how does one get to Ryerson University from Yonge Dundas Square?? I need to get to Sir John A MacDonald school as well.

Here is your answer, direct from the future - "You can't get there from there!"

 

[RZG]

You just follow the virtue signals and they'll get you there.

So they get rid of the name of a guy who was against slavery and felt that immediate abolition of it would drive it underground and into the hands of foreign nations, making it far worse. Let`s use a word connected to Ghana, a major African slavery shipping port where millions left through the " Door of no return". What about the African Kings who provided millions of slaves to traders? Makes perfect sense. If you`re a Toronto politician or Trudeau.

 

[1kevin]

What a dumb name.

 

[Frankfooter]

So much more wasteful than say paying $500 million for a parking lot.
I can see why so many people are triggered.

 

[Anbarandy]

So much more wasteful than say paying $500 million for a parking lot.
I can see why so many people are triggered.

Well, they always manage to spin themselves dizzy in a tizzy and soil their diapers in uncontrollable impudent wokey indignation all the while joyously bathing and flip-flopping to their hearts content in the toxic sewage of repeated multi-billion dollar conservative/private sector corruption and waste.

 

[explorerzip]

What a dumb name.

Agreed. They couldn't even come up with a name that originated in this country. IMO, Yonge-Dundas Square wasn't a particularly good name. Toronto Square or maybe York Square would have been a better name.

 

[Dutch Oven]

Agreed. They couldn't even come up with a name that originated in this country. IMO, Yonge-Dundas Square wasn't a particularly good name. Toronto Square or maybe York Square would have been a better name.

Sorry, but Wakanda already has a Toronto Square.

Rob Ford Square has a nice ring to it. He had a lot in common with those who hang out there!

 

[Anbarandy]

Agreed. They couldn't even come up with a name that originated in this country. IMO, Yonge-Dundas Square wasn't a particularly good name. Toronto Square or maybe York Square would have been a better name.

The 'Druggsie Fraud Flip-Flop Square' or the 'Oops, There Goes Another Druggsie Corruption Scandal, Oops There Goes ... Square" would be more apt.

 

[shack]

A name that represents Toronto and its' values:

TERB Square.

 

[anon1]

I thought it was to be Gordon Lightfoot Square.

 

[Twister]

I'd appreciate a Canadian name.

 

[bazokajoe]

Well Toronto you voted in an NDP politician. Learn to live with your choice. More virtual signaling to come at your expense..

 

[shack]

Well Toronto you voted in an NDP politician. Learn to live with your choice. More virtual signaling to come at your expense..

TBH, I'm not a huge fan of the NDP or Chow. But choosing between policies to help the average person and the name of a miniscule piece of land is not a difficult choice.

Sorry, that this upsets you so much. How much does this change your life.

 

[explorerzip]

The 'Druggsie Fraud Flip-Flop Square' or the 'Oops, There Goes Another Druggsie Corruption Scandal, Oops There Goes ... Square" would be more apt.

Doens't exactly roll off the tongue though

 

[Skoob]

The 'Druggsie Fraud Flip-Flop Square' or the 'Oops, There Goes Another Druggsie Corruption Scandal, Oops There Goes ... Square" would be more apt.

It warms my heart to know that DoFO lives in your brain 24/7. Must be exhausting for you especially when you skip your meds.

 

[explorerzip]

I thought it was to be Gordon Lightfoot Square.

That would have actually been a great name. Or maybe even Simcoe Square for the man that founded the site of York later known as Toronto? On the other hand, I'm sure someone will unearth something distateful about him. Sooner or later, we'll have to rename anything relating to Simcoe like Lake Simcoe, Simcoe Day, Simcoe Street, John Street, etc.