CHOWMEGGADON IS PROCEEDING APACE
-- "A Toronto City Council resolution dictates that Yonge-Dundas Square will be renamed Sankofa Square. The name refers to a Ghanan concept of reflecting on and reclaiming the past. Dundas West and Dundas subway stations will also get new names, as will the Jane/Dundas library." --
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it gets better... -- "When city staff first recommended renaming Dundas Street in the summer of 2021, they pegged the cost to the city at around $6 million. But the price tag has now more than doubled to almost $13 million." --
WAIT JUST A COTTONPICKIN' MINUTE... -- "While Dundas was, in fact, an abolitionist, the Akan people of Ghana, from whom the word 'sankofa' comes, were active participants in the slave trade." --