2 Officials Resign From Yonge-Dundas Square Management Board After Vote on Name Change

Two members of the management board responsible for Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS) in Toronto have announced their resignation following a decision to change the name of the public space. Board general manager Julian Sleath said the resignations were not related to the name change. “I can confirm that the chair and vice chair [resigned] over a number of governance issues and not the naming of the square,” Mr. Sleath told The Epoch Times. “They and the full YDS board has been supportive of the work by the community advisory committee on the renaming of Dundas Street.” Chair of the Yonge-Dundas Board of Management Michael Fenton and Vice-Chair Jan Mollenhauer resigned on Dec. 20, days after Toronto’s city council voted 19–2 to rename Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square....