Last Updated Wednesday, July 14, 2021 6:31PM EDT Dundas Street, a major thoroughfare in Toronto named after a Scottish politician who played a role in delaying the abolition of the slave trade, will have a new name. Toronto City Council voted Wednesday 17-7 in favour of renaming street and other civic assets with the name Dundas, including parks, TTC stations, and Yonge-Dundas Square. Before the vote, Mayor John Tory, who supports the renaming, told the council that stripping the name Dundas from city properties will reaffirm Toronto s values. This is the right thing to do. Because yes, it has symbolic importance to particular communities, but I think to all the people as a reaffirmation of what it is we re trying to build the kind of city we re trying to build, the kind of people we are, who we are, what we are here in Toronto, Tory said.
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