College Station to Massey Hall.

Today’s vlog passes through the newly dubbed Sankofa Square. With all the fuss about the name, I had thought that the space had changed since I was last there and had become a city focal point with a variety of activities. There really wasn’t anything going on there except for a lot of weed smoking. Do you think the Mayor and company should spend the better part of a million dollars to change the name from Yonge/Dundas Square, considering the City isn’t going to touch the street name Dundas? I haven’t looked deeply into who this Dundas character was, but I’ve read he was associated with the slave trade. Sankofa is supposed to offer a healing alternative. It is an African word from Ghana, apparently, meaning “it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind.”
There is a strange fenced off area that seems to be just empty in the square. I suspect that between that and the mini-water features, the City is possibly trying to keep tent cities out. If there is another reason, I’d like to know.

In my opinion, it is good to have a place where people can hang out in the urban core, but does it even need a name? I might cost a lot less to just tell everyone the name has changed and then do nothing else.

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