Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Marcus Gee
Publication Date: July 18, 2025 - 21:57
A party to celebrate a mistake
July 18, 2025
This week a breathless announcement arrived in my inbox. “Toronto is set to celebrate a historic cultural milestone,” it said. On Aug. 23, the city would hold its very first official “Sankofa Day.” What’s that, you say? You may well ask.Sankofa Square is the obscure new name for Yonge-Dundas Square, the one-acre public space at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, right across from the Eaton Centre. Sankofa Day, its organizers tell us, is another name for the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
Unpublished Newswire
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