Petition Calls on City of Toronto to Stop the Renaming of Dundas Square

A petition to stop the renaming of Dundas Square in Toronto has garnered about twice as many signatures as a petition that started the city on the name-changing course. The “Stop the Renaming of Dundas in Toronto” petition on Change.org had over 26,000 signatures as of Feb. 16, compared to a petition presented to the city in the summer of 2020, which had 14,000 signatures calling for Dundas Street to be renamed, the city website said. The claim was that Henry Dundas, a Scottish lawyer and politician whom the street was named after, “left behind a controversial legacy,” the city said. Organizers of the new petition say the Dundas name is more than the man....