[OT] Speaking of typos....

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Date : 15. Jan 2025, 23:59:34
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It seems that Coors put up a huge billboard in Toronto touting their beer in anticipation of the Superbowl but they goofed up the spelling:
https://nowtoronto.com/culture/get-it-together-coors-light-huge-spelling-error-on-toronto-billboard-causes-double-takes/
In case you're wondering about "Sankofa Square" that name is the result of the wokesters in the Toronto government responding to pressure from a few activists about the old name, Yonge-Dundas Square which is at the corner of Yonge Street (the main north-south street in the city) and Dundas Street (the main east-west street). Dundas Street was named after a British parliamentarian who some activists claim delayed the freeing of the slaves in the British Empire in the late 1700s. (Actual historians say that Dundas was a champion of ending slavery who simply made a pragmatic calculation that any bill to abolish slavery at that time would have failed so he softened the bill slightly by deferring the starting date and thereby got the bill passed.) This made the name "Dundas" intolerable to the activists and City Council spent months arguing about what to do. The leftists in the council wanted to rename the entire street and force everyone on the street to use a new name, at great expense to businesses, but the outcry over the hundreds of millions in extra costs at a time where taxes were going to have to rise substantially already, persuaded council to limit the name changing to just Yonge-Dundas square and the associated subway stop.
"Sankofa" is apparently a word in an African language that means "place of remembering". I suppose people are supposed to remember the slaves (but forget Henry Dundas who helped free them). I must ask my Toronto friends if anyone actually calls it Sankofa Square or if the old name is still the only one used.
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Rhino

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