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Canada's Ryerson University to be renamed after months of pressure

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After months of continued calls to change Ryerson University’s name due to its namesake’s connection to Canada’s former residential school system, the institution’s board of governors have voted in favour of removing references to Ryerson.

In addition to renaming the university, the task force called for reconsidering the school’s mascot (“Eggy”), not replacing a statue of Egerton Ryerson toppled by demonstrators in June, creating educational materials that speak to Egerton Ryerson’s legacy, advance initiatives aimed at supporting Indigenous and Black students and faculty, creating new public spaces and instituting a new university-wide land acknowledgment policy.

Erica Vella reports.

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