Not that we would ever make up the news, but this is the kind of news you could not make up. This month, Toronto City Council voted to rename Yonge-Dundas Square. This was done to rid the place of any association with the 18th Century Scottish politician Henry Dundas, due to his role in the transatlantic slave trade.
The next day, as part of the same meeting, Toronto Council voted to name a stadium after former mayor Rob Ford. Mr. Ford, who died in 2016, was not a slavery advocate, I’ll give him that, but nor was he worthy of being immortalized in bricks and mortar – or bleachers and turf.
