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And if you have to explain who a street was named after and why we now find him odious, it saps a lot of the righteous indignation out of stripping his name from that street.
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Such is the case in Toronto, where city council has voted to de-name Dundas Street, a major east-west thoroughfare.
Dundas Street takes its name from a pretty-well forgotten British politician who, 229 years ago, led a charge to delay British abolition of slavery.
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Publishing date: Jun 25, 2021 • 2 days ago • 4 minute read • A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald is shown torn down following a demonstration in Montreal in August 2020. Toppling Macdonald’s statue or stripping Egerton Ryerson’s name from a university doesn’t improve society any more than does yet another politician’s apology, writes Tom Mills. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Chief Cadmus Delorme, of Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan, described the discovery of 751 unmarked graves near a former residential school as “horrific and shocking.”
I have no difficulty sharing his feelings of horror. But I’m having a hard time mustering shock at unidentified graves being found at a residential school site.