A Saskatoon street is one step closer to a new name. The new proposed name for John A. Macdonald Road in the city’s Confederation Park neighbourhood is miyo-wâhkôhtowin Road – Cree for “you elected a Council of leftist retards, Saskatoon.”
A Saskatoon street is one step closer to a new name. The new proposed name for John A. Macdonald Road in the city’s Confederation Park neighbourhood is miyo-wâhkôhtowin Road – Cree for “you elected a Council of leftist retards, Saskatoon.”
Because mischief is important: “…and then turn left on wackjob road.”
saskatoon street names are going to get as bad as hawaii’s or wale’s.
Leftist retard is the new two spirited.
Did they ask the people of Saskatoon what they thought?
Probably not. That’s how left wing pigs role.
What’s infuriating is that the people of Saskatoon won’t do anything about it anyway.
miyo-wâhkôhtowin: it really means ‘a good start’ in Cree.
I thought it meant … “we never invented an alphabet, so we’re using the white man’s letters and punctuation marks” … ?
Oh … and we never invented; roads, streets, or cities either …
Yes, it is no small irony that the Cree language only has an alphabet* thanks to a 19th-Century Methodist missionary originally from Kingston-upon-Hull in the UK.
* And it’s an excellent alphabet too, based on syllables. So good that by the end of the 19th Century, the Cree had achieved incredibly high rates of literacy.
(Though “miyo-wâhkôhtowin” is a transliteration of course. By the way, few English speakers are likely going to read that road sign in anything approaching the Cree pronunciation so the name is sure to be anglicized and even bowdlerized.)
Talk about cultural appropriation!
” … sure to be anglicized and even bowdlerized …”
As long as it’s not bidenized.
Or the wheel.
Actually never really invented anything. Having said that I admire indigenous cultures for surviving in a very harsh environment, but that is all they did – survive. And many didn’t even manage that, between disease (not brought by the white man), on-going wars with other bands for prime hunting/trapping and water, and environmental disasters such as drought, wild fires, snowstorms and extreme cold. It was only after white settlement, that there was a significant growth in indigenous populations
I once had a debate with an indigenous member of a committee I was volunteering on as she proclaimed that the white culture destroyed the great horse culture of the plains and it was just another example how whites had destroyed their culture. I told her that there was only a great horse culture because the Spanish Conquistadors failed to keep the horses that they brought with them secure. The indigenous culture took good advantage of that sloppiness (and bravo to them) but they only had a great horse culture because of that; if the Spanish had bypassed North America, there would be horses but much, much later. If the Spanish had not come, indigenous cultures would still be using dogs and women as pack animals, as there is NO pack animal indigenous to the western hemisphere except the llama in South America and they are not nice animals. Furthermore, because the Spanish lost some horses, rather than herding hundreds of buffalo off of cliffs (Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump for example) and using only a few, they were better able to hunt with more precision and probably extended the buffalo herds by at least a hundred years if not more. She was not happy to hear that, but one of the other indigenous members of the committee had to hide his smirk – he understood what I was saying.
Glad I didn’t buy a house in Saskatoon. Jeez! Just how are we supposed to learn how to pronounce that name? I guess you just have to learn the language… Hmmm… You don’t suppose…? Naw… Couldn’t be! That would really be polishing my tin-foil hat to a shiny sparkle.
And let me be clear … I also respect native North American cultures for the same reasons, and for their artistry and adaptation to the myriad of local micro climates across North America. But I have grown weary of the revisionist deification of their culture and denigration of mine.
Sorry, but my people were like the “alien spacecraft” the Congress is investigating … chunks of metal spacecraft that are “not of this earth” … indicative of massively advanced alien civilizations. That’s what my European ancestors were to the Native peoples of North America. And don’t get me started on Africa …
Wack it to win – some sort of masturbation contest?
The problem with these names is that they are not easily remembered, or spelled. Try telling the 911 dispatch operator that you live on a road with a name like this, and you’ll have to spell it out. When someone has had a heart attack, this will not be reconciling.
Even worse when they use characters that weren’t part of the phonetics we learned in grade school. Wail until we get to using Japanese characters to reconcile with those who were badly treated in World War 2.
Exactly. “I’d like to report a carjacking in progress at the corner of…???”
Kind of had the same thing over here…self loathing council Einsteins decided it’d be cool to rename some creeks, streams and puddles with totally unpronounceable, consonant heavy, indigenous names. What they mean is anyone’s guess and quite frankly no one cares.
Locals just shrug it off with an eye rolling “whatever”.
“good relationships will bring us together.” – Oh stop. That’s a trope used by grifters after they’ve finished brow beating smooth brained whites into submission over a past sadz.
Might Wanna Wipe Your Own Ass Road?
Change the name of Saskatoon City Council to Buncha Dumb Bastards.
That’s it for me. I am now naming my house “Sir John A. MacDonald Memorial Manor”. All 1600 square feet of it.
Every city council in this sad exvuse for a country has a council like this. As does every school board. It always ends in violence. Ask anyone in Sarajevo, Nicossia, or a dozen other cities.
They are doing the same in Ottawa with the Sir John A. parkway– changing to something unpronouncabie. Sir John A. is being vilified because he is an important National symbol. It is part of the agenda to destroy nation states. Canadisns are being duped.
Still haven’t figured out how to pronounce it, let alone remember what exactly the new name is going to be. All I know is it doesn’t exactly roll off the tip of your tongue. Glad I won’t be around to try to figure it all out. I’ll be long gone by then.
The city is facing a 10’s of million dollars shortfall in their next two years budgets and they still maintain an “Indigenous Initiative” department? Just what part if civic responsibilities does this fall under? fire-fighting, policing, road maintenance, “make the city council feel emotionally satisfied with its sense of morals”
It’ll sure make the drive-time traffic update challenging for the reporter.
“Traffic is backed up on Me Whack It To Win Road . . . “
Have a look at Edmonton’s municipal ward names. Most cities number them for ease of reference. Edmonton, however…
I’m sure that goes a long way towards reconciliation. Everybody appreciates a name and language they can’t pronounce.
Has anyone thought to ask the people who actually live on that street what they think?
They’re the ones who actually bear the most brunt of this virtuous nonsense. Imagine having to change all your mailings, cheque blanks, name tags etc.
Should call it ‘pistaway-monay’ Dr.
They put a priority on this, yet take a drive around Circle Dr in Saskatoon. I spotted 9 locations (and took pictures), where the overhead directional signs that have shields with highway numbers are so badly faded they cannot be read. I sent the pictures, with an attached map to show the locations, to the City, and got back some bs about museum and RV park signs having to be paid for by that customer! They didn’t even comment on the highway number signs.
As if Saskatoon wasn’t already bad enough when you have to drive through/semi around the place going somewhere you want to be.
Circlejerk Dr east, d’oh
Yorkton was fun on the Yellowhead too
Having moved here from… well… elsewhere… I always get a kick out of long time locals complaining about Saskatoon traffic. “Oh no! It’s rush hour! There are six other cars on the road!”
Saskatoon is an ideally sized city – everything really is about 10 minutes away from wherever you are. The only problem traffic-wise is that people really don’t understand how to merge into traffic – on ramps and lane reductions really break y’all.
Think of the Wah-ter! Eh.
When teaching navigation and use of maps will get easier..
As no one,not even the natives being pandered too,will know how to pronounce this,let alone spell it,the locals will refer to it as “Shitholia” with a number.
Can Ahh Duh will have an endless stream of the locations,little pockets of oblivion,within larger areas of decay..
Shitholia,coming to you,everywhere Gang Green seizes power,
And yet the City of Saskatoon wonders why they are having trouble balancing their budget and they are out of money. It truly is a mystery.
I still remember when the incumbent mayor, Cliff (my brother really likes to pave the Idywyld Freeway) Wright, was almost beaten out by the Rhino Party’s candidate, a German Shepherd owned by Hugh Arscott. The third candidate was John Fink (no, I am not making that up) an anti-nuclear Greener who owned nothing better than a pair of overalls. And even that level of chutzpah has nothing on the current Saskatoon City Council.
Just like the city of Edmonton renaming all of the wards to Injun names you can’t pronounce, let alone remember. Virtue signaling on steroids. An easy solution would simply be numbers, not names for streets.
Ignore the unpronounceable name and continue calling it John A MacDonald. I still refer to the Queen Charlotte Islands by that name. Become ungovernable.
“Ignore the unpronounceable name and continue calling it John A MacDonald. I still refer to the Queen Charlotte Islands by that name. Become ungovernable.”
Yup, same here. I also use miles and feet as measurements.