The big number
166
the number of days in 2023 in which Yonge-Dundas Square — recently rechristened Sankofa Square — hosted events.
A confession, and maybe an unpopular one: I don’t really care what we call the square at the corner of Yonge and Dundas Streets.
I get that a lot of people are mad about the move Toronto city council made in December to rechristen the space as Sankofa Square. I watched a few of them line up last week to make the case against the name change at a meeting of Mayor Olivia Chow’s executive committee at city hall, during a public deputation session …