Man petitioning against Yonge-Dundas Square renaming speaks on dismissive City Council response

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Rebel News journalist Sarah Stock speaks with Daniel Tate, the man behind a petition against the renaming of Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square.
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[@vosilerg]

Renaming Yonge-Dundas square to Snakofa square will do nothing to improve the lives of black Canadians.

[@No_name860]

Snakofa?? That’s the name they want?! 🤣🤣🤣

[@RivvyB]

no one cares about the name spend the money on cleaning it up

[@WhiteRaven12773]

@@No_name860 yep

[@kingofparadise4173]

How many legendary black Toronto candidates did Chris Noise place before Council? Answer: Zippo.

[@mebscharania9946]

Ghana has nothing to do with Canada. Raise taxes while the council milks taxpayers money

[@mogznwaz]

It’s Canada not Africa. If you don’t like Canada or Canadian history don’t go live there. Simple!

[@MollyMarine]

God bless this patriotic Canadian. The behavior of the Council and Moise was disgusting. Moise should be removed immediately

[@johnwhitney6736]

Henry Dundas organized the money to be paid to slave owners in the British Empire in place of having slaves. He was instrumental in the Abolition of Slavery. The man is a Hero for freeing the slaves !!!

[@zoidmo3388]

and who is here to argue what Henry Dundas was up against trying his best to abolish slavery in 1700/1800's when all those democrats that owned slaves would not listen to him. Yes folks, it was democrats that thought slaves were their property. Just for interest sake-J. Biden's mentor is KKK Robert Byrd.

[@No_name860]

Don’t expect morons to learn history. But then again, this is not about the name its Marxism. They need to change our traditions, and our history.

[@waynemclaughlin96]

Shhhh ! They don't want to hear about the good things Henry Dundas did for the Black people. 😉 😜 They want to continue being racist themselves.

[@herbfodor3206]

Don't vote for these councillors next election.

[@Hugo-nw2su]

Clowncillors 🤡

[@donduggan798]

Renaming it is racist

[@Shirleygirley]

I was thinking the same...exactly.

[@kingofparadise4173]

Money down the toilet gives Toronto City Council a sense of power.

[@Thekurseofkommonsence]

Does anybody ever do any fact-checking on anything in this country!? If you're offended by Dundas or any other street name that's been around for 100 years, then get the hell out of the city and keep going ontil your right the hell out of the country!

[@Evil_Neptune]

No because that requires brain cells 😂

[@mrshmuga9]

Right? Loterally no country is gonna have something named after some kind of flawless saint, because none exist. They’re named after important figures that did well more for the country or even their local community than these mouth-breathers ever do for renaming them.

[@ricknichol3688]

Time to vote all those Counselors out the next election

[@Xenia9]

not next time, but right away ....

[@mkultrawhatever1791]

They are all the real racists...ironic, isn't it?

[@roleplayingpain4349]

they were installed. And voter apathy made it not apparent to anyone

[@kingofparadise4173]

Suburban counselors are just as corrupt as their city core cousins.

[@1ABNDT]

You're all welcome to leave if Canada is so racist, bye.

[@TotodrivesspdTanker]

Yes..Leave Canada...you came here...Canada didn't ask you

[@Tomfoolery1972]

Interesting how it's always the crowd who renames squares and tears down statues that accuse others of trying to erase the past 🤔🤷‍♂️

[@No_name860]

They’re Marxists

[@kingofparadise4173]

TEAR DOWN A STATUE AND GET AN ATTABOY FROM CHOW. RENAME A SQUARE JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT AND GET A THUMB'S UP FROM OLIVIA CHOW. THIS IS LEADERSHIP LIKE VULTURES ARE VEGETARIANS.

[@seektruth983]

I’m still calling it yonge and dundas square

[@Hugo-nw2su]

And I still call it the Sky Dome.

[@TotodrivesspdTanker]

Yes!!

[@CJMay-zt6wt]

@@Hugo-nw2su FOREVER!! I check people on site when they say the other name

[@Hugo-nw2su]

@@CJMay-zt6wt it’s up to Torontonians what we want to say.

[@GG-vq6ro]

​@CJMay-zt6wt but that is different. Roger's paid for the new name. Even if you don't like it it's Roger's center legitimately. Sankofa is just nonsense.

[@frankzivic5915]

Chow is not our Boss. You dont get to change our history. You dont like it leave. So much Bs

[@davidspinney2023]

that council is a bunch of ignoramuses

[@quonslecn7755]

When you pull "its racist" card, proves you have zero reasoning or rational.

[@lalani888blue]

We don't need to comply to this constant messaging of shaming and guilt tripping. Enough of this BS already! The people of Toronto should switch the street signs back to the original themselves!!

[@RivvyB]

I watched the entire presentation to the Mayor, she is pathetic and it was clear they already made their decision. VOTE LIBERALS OUT.

[@ravcreed]

They're not even Liberals, they're full on Marxists and NDPers

[@tooter4u271]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. George Orwell

[@Hugo-nw2su]

Toronto has become dystopian.

[@juliaschneider8909]

Waste of taxpayers money

[@MekongRick]

The childish, insulting behaviour of some councillors is unforgivable.

[@ce3547]

A street name change isn't going help coloured people "feel" safe and if did then they need to check their mental health. It's obvious that the council members need to have a few Mental Health days OFF without pay.

[@kingofparadise4173]

It's Mental Illness Day on every single day of the year at Toronto City Council.

[@chadinontario3910]

The public needs to be reminded of these councillors actions in 2026.

[@rontyler1234]

This gentlemans presentation to city council and the mayor was reasoned, fact based, and respectful. What he received in return was the polar opposite. It was rigged from the very beginning. The mayor and her council behaved like bullies in the schoolyard. Interested in amplifying their virtue and little else.

[@dalisllama]

Perfect example of a government fighting an enemy that doesn’t exist

[@1ABNDT]

Drake has left his mark on Toronto with all the shootings. I vote for him to be jailed.

[@Hugo-nw2su]

Yes. Stop wearing OVO clothes.

[@1ABNDT]

@@Hugo-nw2su 👍

[@mikehallman5028]

Yonge Dundas square is not racist . Stop making everything about race.

[@GG-vq6ro]

Next they're gonna cancel everyone in history because they didn't approve of gay marriage lmao

[@mdlaura1]

Thank You Daniel for All Your Time and Effort

[@m.t.1616]

Sounds like slander to me if he doesn’t know him and nothing explicitly racist was said. I’d look into litigation. We need to stop people from making a mockery of our laws by making false accusations.

[@KingTrump2024]

WTF is a Sankofa ? Does not sound Canadian to me !

[@kingofparadise4173]

Sanka = a Popular Brand of Instant Coffee

[@GG-vq6ro]

​@@kingofparadise4173sancoffee?

[@sammunday29]

Oh my waste of money. They work for people.

[@Shirleygirley]

So many better ways to spend that money! Especially in today's economic times! Olivia was whining they don't have enough money in their coffers. If it ain't broken, don't fix it! Leave it alone. More security in the square sounds like a better investment to me. Invest in people, jobs and safety.

[@BoochBanner]

Racism and discrimination against Catholic and Jewish men in BC has become a serious issue.

[@mrshmuga9]

Why not fix crime? Complete waste of money.

[@patriotparty6344]

Real mature on the elected council members

[@saccorhytus2728]

If they want to commemorate slavery by using a word from Ghana, a center of pre-colonial slavery that still has child slavery today...I guess it makes sense? Those abolitionists ruined their economy!

[@redneckroy8947]

Plot twist; the evil libs are just preparing for the site of the future slave market!

[@resiliencyinstitute]

Victimology.

[@arleneirvine1526]

it would be like struggling to feed your family and put a priority on getting a 100 dollar manicure - ridiculous!!!!

[@sleeplessonterra9845]

Shout out to Dundas /Spadina old school cz church goers!

[@morph8326]

I love how Everyone plays the race card. Play the race card with me and see what happens

[@kingofparadise4173]

Spend an entire year getting 33,000 signatures on a petition and get treated like dirt by the Toronto City Council.

[@bankai1234561]

We grew up on dundas so its stays dundas despite the history its dundas man 😢😢😢

[@homedad3324]

Anyone who wants to change the name needs to be gone.

[@zoidmo3388]

Excuse me! the fact that all races, all torontonians, all cultures YES even the indigenous have been represented at performances, in the arts and events at the stage at Dundas Square! So take Gord Perks rude narrative about 'WELCOMING'.... IT HAS BEEN COVERED FOR DECADES! Thank you Sarah for covering this story.

[@kingofparadise4173]

People are flooding into Toronto by the millions but Perks insists this is not a welcoming city. Perks is the worst of the worst.

[@jasonrumsey5299]

Politicians haven’t been tarred n feathered in way long n it shows !

[@Exotic3000]

Leave the name Dundas! Toronto is crazy!

[@kingofparadise4173]

Toronto is not crazy, but its councilors are unhinged.

[@theforeman1097]

You got a woke mayor sooooo.......

[@Hugo-nw2su]

A woke hijabi mayor

[@GG-vq6ro]

Exactly. I told people to Vote Saunders but they chose the communist lmao

[@sydvisser5067]

This is why I will probably never go to this city again

[@kingofparadise4173]

Humiliation thy name is Toronto City Council.

[@pimpin183s]

What a waste of money when government starts renaming things!

[@user-lg2ve8wp4u]

Nothing better to do with it?!

[@James-cm8vt]

I’m still gonna call it Yonge & Dundas Square. EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM THESE DAYS.

[@russgarthwaite4566]

Wow what a bunch of bullshit

[@j.p.4734]

Great courage and action against wokeness

[@mrbeanmrbean9047]

"The function of Government is to take Public Money and place it into Private Hands" ✋️-Julian Assange

[@user-lg2ve8wp4u]

If you want to have a name to honour another group of people, then make a new street and name it that. Much more sensible and cheaper. Dundas Street will always be Dundas Street to those who knew it as that.

[@edwardst-pierre1020]

The cost of everyone who has to change their address is big and undemocratic. Have a referendum and let the people speak. The mayor of Toronto is making things worse.

[@fredbaron2603]

Chairman chow

[@maily2245]

This is crazy why would we Canadian in Canada have to rename a street after a Ghana language it got nothing to do with Canada and it people's and our language period !!

[@FreshCutFrenchFries]

Laughable. After traveling throughout various cities and countries lately, Canada and especially Toronto is laughed by all. Embarrassing

[@northdetroit7994]

There is not much left of the "Great White North".

[@rolandsutter2451]

Cry baby politics as low as playing handball against the curb

[@astelbele]

Leave if you don't like the names of our streets.

[@propheteyebert7063]

Impurina Cat Chow Square, in honor of fake feline food.

[@Iamblack34]

I'm black no not change it

[@kingofparadise4173]

You're a fake black according to Olivia Chow.

[@user-lg2ve8wp4u]

Changing names just creates confusion.

[@David-ek4fh]

What have the black people in Canada experienced that warrants including them with what natives still experience?

[@Wren1]

Just continue to use the real name. The name doesn't change if nobody acknowledges it.

[@monicapushkin3274]

Pretty soon they will be asking citizens to recite a "land acknowledgement" before you step through your own front door. That is the level of madness of these people.

[@johnathongough7754]

I am born in Scarborough, relocated to Alberta in 2012/2019 and my company had a history of doing work at Reilly's 3rd Floor that was at Dundas Square. You change that name, I'm coming home to rip those signs down 🖕🏻

[@maily2245]

Maybe tried to ask more store on dundas to oppose this renaming because obviously the store tax money is proberly going to be paying for the name changing !!

[@turnleftrighthere2605]

This City Council under Mayor Chow has turned everyone I know into political activists across the spectrum of Toronto. Every week there’s a petition to sign or letter to write. I was born in this city and all we want our municipal politicians to do is not break stuff, listen to what people want and don’t waste money. I beg everyone living in the city to please start paying attention to all the angry groups that have surfaced and the lack of community consultation involved in making their decisions. People who lived here all their lives and love this city are moving out. We can’t have our voices silenced. Oct 26, 2026 is the next election - everyone must vote! Get informed now! 🗳️📣

[@andishehkherad9678]

I am asking if there is any place in Ghana renamed after Canadians ?!!

[@marchadwick]

Total waist of money . Solman

[@notoriousj_]

Communits always destroy history!

[@cherishd.8451]

it is always a small group of people with the biggest mouths and rather than ignore the small group political leaders just cave...check your history, and stand up for the majority of Torontonians. Just because you have a differing opinion does not make a person a racist...disgusting smear on someone who feels compelled to stand up a such a huge waste of tax payer money when Toronto has more compelling issues to deal with.

[@user-qs7gx7rp7m]

Leave 'Dundas' alone !

[@pepperfly984]

Chairwoman Chow is also the problem.

[@monicapushkin3274]

Olivia Chow and Chris Moise are being willfully ignorant and/or deliberately deceptive regarding the history of Henry Dundas. At the end of the day, they don't even care about Dundas. The goal is the RE-NAMING.

[@coreyslater2801]

Why would u pick a word from a vicious tribe (the Akan) of slave traders? Not only did they enslave surrounding tribes they enslaved their own people. Where is the logic in this choice when there are multiple First Nations tribes who orignally occupied Toronto. Why not name it after them? The only racist I see here is the city council, naming something after slave traders. Digusting

[@WhoTube277]

Yeah, I'm NEVER calling it that stupid word.

[@TotodrivesspdTanker]

Rebel News Rocks!!!

[@doeeyes2]

NOBODY is going to call to "Sankofa Square"

[@edwardst-pierre1020]

Remember that everyone who is on any committee meeting is paid for their time in the meeting and the perks when attending a meeting. Possibly the free food and coffee.

[@IvyNicole-j1o]

Can't stand this government!!! !

[@brenden9755]

Great work we need to get people involved in grassroot movements to spur on a sense of community and repair what is being destroyed

[@MariaAlvesRego1935]

As far as I’m concerned, it will always be called Dundas Square. I was raised on Dundas as a small child, so that’s the only name I will call it. 🥰

[@user-xy4uj9ph8j]

Liberals and ndp gotta go now

[@deesmith6363]

Just to put the left into context, the four basic food groups are racist. Math is racist. Saying "The White Race" is racist and I heard somewhere that being against the beliefs of Islam is also racist. That last one still has me laughing because religions encompass many races.

[@user-lg2ve8wp4u]

In Heaven there will be people from every tongue, and nation, and kindred.

[@Tbone1492]

Bring the facts. Ghana sold them. People who live there know that. Why are we rewarding them!

[@edwardst-pierre1020]

This is the way a colonizing people do by changing the name of streets because those who live there.

[@johnnyguitar1422]

Don't care. It's still Yonge-Dundas Square, Skydome, Air Canada Centre, Maple Leaf Gardens and anything else they wanna change.

[@jody-ne7xs]

Wow pressing issues canada has. One in four canadian familys living in poverty.

[@gordonwelcher9598]

Voter turnout is usually low It should be easy to make a cleanup come election day.

[@jayeffsixteen]

they couldve gave all money spent on changing the name to all the people who sleep there every night instead

[@TheGreatestHandle]

The original name is representative of the people who actually built the square and the city

[@josephlawson9704]

So the original petition to change the name had around 13 thousand signatures and the petition to keep the Dundas name had over 30,000 names.. how does that work ?

[@jokermp1150]

how about beavis and but head square or or Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street square

[@user-ip5yk8pf2i]

It will never be known

[@sean367]

Glad I left the city

[@Bolter024]

Sarah the new Lauren ? Nice! 😍

[@glendekoker3682]

Good work

[@t1_d2_g3]

Those Toronto councillors are incredibly poor and weak politicians. Be a real leader by using your big words instead of throwing out childish insults, yelling and shutting people down. Right or wrong you should always listen to your constituents. Learn to have a real engaging conversation from both sides of the aisle. I blame our divisive PM for being the epitome of what you shouldn't do as a leader.

[@redhen2123]

While we're at it, let's rename Kitchener back to Berlin !

[@randalsavage182]

waste of money ☠