If the city of Winnipeg goes ahead with the proposal to rename Bishop Grandin Boulevard, one can just imagine what a future 911 call might sound like:
“911. What is your emergency?”
“I need an ambulance on the corner of St. Mary’s and Bishop Grandin. We have….”
“I’m sorry sir, but St. Mary’s and what street?”
“Oh, um,… Abino,…, Abinjoey, Mika…ugh, you know, the street that used to be called Bishop Grandin….”
“I need to remind you sir that street is no longer called by its hurtful colonial name. Do you mean Abinojii Mikanah Boulevard?”
“Sure. That sounds about right.”
Referring to the old street name will be considered “dead naming” by the authorities and will be a crime.
Where the streets have no names….U2eh
Oh, count on that happening.
BTW, they never take my idea for a compromise.
So, the “City” of Vaughan for instance wants to get rid of the terrible name (can’t disagree), but instead of changing it, why not just “rename” it after Sarah Vaughan?
In this case, why not rename it for famed Autistic Temple Grandin?
And I try to explain to the “2+2=5” crowd that they would never get on a plane where the pilot calculates fuel to get across the Atlantic needing 5 units of fuel as “2 in the left wing, 2 in the other left wing (no right wing allowed), that makes 5, wheels up!”
Well, some of them would, like those fake lemmings.
The Always-Wrong-But-Never-In-Doubt crowd down at City Hall is going to have a minor crisis of confidence if they don’t pull off a simple name change.
I don’t know who Bishop Grandin is and nor did I ever care, but I can pronounce and spell it.
Seems a likeable person.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/24/bishopgrandin.shtml
There were Bishop Grandin schools in Calgary, Edmonton & St Albert until recently. All renamed…
Here on the Left Coast, you have to be able to sound like a clucking Raven to pronounce the unpronounceable.
They’re still trying this Injun naming thing on a lake in Minneapolis. It isn’t really going well.
911: can you repeat that address?
Me: Ok, how about I just drag the victims over to elm street?
Reminder: Killer Louis Riel is still revered in the, often statistical proven, Murder Capital of Canada.
I wouldn’t be so sure that Louis Riel wouldn’t have been a heck of a lot better for Manitoba than the succession of doofuses they have now.
When WEXIT happens, just leave Manitoba to the east. They’re lost, and dead weight. Second largest winner of the equalization lottery. 3.5 billion last year, and yet rich in hydro power, minerals, lumber, oil, and land. They’re so bad with money, they could manage the oceans and be out of water by spring.
Leave the “postage stamp” that is Murderpeg. The rest of us want in….
Ditto.
We have one of the largest populations of grifters and government scam artists in Winnipeg so it stands to reason that we’re deep into the transfer payment money.
The last time a Conservative government acted like conservatives, they balanced the budget and started chipping away at the massive NDP debt. Next election, they announced that they could start easing up on the cost savings measures and the the grifters came out of the woodwork and elected the NDP for another ruinous 13 years.
We’re only recovering from that stint at the trough now but the gimme generation has grown fat and comfortable with all the free stuff, so they, along with the Blood red Winnipeg Free Press are beating the war drums good and loud about how horrible the PCs are for wanting to (GHASP!) not run a permanent deficit.
Lucky for Manitoba, we have our savior and wife beating/racist in chief, Wab Canoe, who will save us all by spending public dollars by the truckload to “fix” healthcare. Just like they did last time the NDP got in and “fixed” hallway medicine in 90 days by renaming hallways “waiting areas” where you could rest and recuperate in comfort with orderlies and patients walking past you 24/7, until you gave up and died.
Good old Wab will save us this time and it won’t cost us anything because it’s all government money.
I graduated from Bishop Grandin High School in Calgary. When I heard that the Calgary Catholic School Board was considering renaming the school after the Kamloops graves issue arose, I contacted the board to outline why I felt the name should not be changed and asked them not to give in to the mob. I mentioned that many of my family members felt the same. The person I spoke with asked how many family members there were, he wanted an exact number. That’s when I realized the decision would be made based on the “numbers” on each side, not what was right or wrong. They changed the name. Cowards.
Numbers might not have carried the decision. Narrative is always the trump card!
“Native is always the trump card!”
FTFY…
Glad you tried, though. As we’ve seen with the covid fiasco, the light starts to come on eventually.
They need to hear from us otherwise there’s little chance
Shitholia
Whatever the new name is deemed to be,ignore it.
First ,calling an ambulance is pointless,the poor victim will just wait in the que at the nearest emergency..
Second..No need to remember the new name,within a few weeks it will be known as something else..So just use “Shitholia” it covers them all.
Except when getting parking or speeding tickets.then argue that you were lost on Wokie land or in a foreign country,as reasons you can’t be bothered paying.
I would of gone with a route number in Roman numerals.
Giiwashkwebiishki Anishinaabe Trail
… seems correct…
911 operator: Can you spell that location, please?
I’ll drag him over to Oak