BREAKING: Vancouver just renamed Trutch Street to Šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmsəm Street to be inclusive pic.twitter.com/sdKAXj2iky
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 22, 2025
What are you going to do with these people?
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Clarissa's Blog 
Every revolution topples statues and renames streets.
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Renaming streets stuff that nobody who lives there can spell or pronounce seems like a guarantee they’ll keep calling it whatever it was before.
When I was a kid, our town took a main road with a one-syllable name that described *where the road terminated* (like out “airport road” is the one that goes to the airport, you know?)… and they renamed it “Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard”. Ten syllables. They have to amputate it to fit it on the road signs. Locals are divided on what to call this road now. Oldsters call it by its old name. Everyone else refers to it as “Mulkjer Bulvd”.
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my grandmother lived in several different countries and cities without ever moving. renaming is very disruptive and erases the history of a place, which is the goal of that exercise.
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Public stocks.
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Remove the Indian Act funding and Chief Catchembigbucks and his forty eleven councillors will finally seek useful employment.
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Good thing email has replaced letters: can you imagine the nightmare of writing the address on an envelope?
Still, I wonder what happens with legal documents: or are addresses not required on those in the US?
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It’s not in the US.
The legal name will be the new name and will have to appear on all legal documents.
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Oh sorry, for a moment I confused Vancouver with Seattle. My bad, as Americans say.
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New York should have stayed New Amsterdam. At least New Zealand kept its original Dutch name.
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