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On Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:23:10 -0500, Rhino
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Dundas Street, a very long street in Ontario, crosses Yonge Street (the
main north-south street in Toronto) in downtown Toronto and is the
location of Yonge-Dundas Square. Dundas Street is named after Henry
Dundas, a British abolitionist. Again, shoddy history was used to
declare him guilty of *delaying* abolition and therefore being
insufferably racist. Activists wanted to remove the name Dundas from >absolutely everything but got a major backlash when the cost of doing so
was calculated. They've settled with renaming Yonge-Dundas Square to
Sankofa Square and the Dundas Street subway stations apparently have new >names now too.
Is THAT what happened? I was kind of wondering if Toronto had a couple
of new stations when I was there in August. I >expected< new stations
since I hadn't been there in 15 years but out in the perpheries not in
the downtown area. (And no question, the GO trains definitely go out
further than when I was a student there 40 years ago)
I well remember back in the 80s when I had to pick up a large box of
9-track computer tapes from a downtown government of Ontario data
center around 11pm and found the hard way it was then a red light
district. The volume of data to be transferred today would of course
have fitted on a USB stick or even just a large e-mail file
attachment.
Or the joy of having a blowout in late evening on the Don Valley
Parkway at 10 pm and having to change a tire when the off-highway
median was 18" wide at best.
Been there done that - and I understand I'm making references that
probably Rhino is the only one here who gets them.
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