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Rename Stairs Street

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Dan OBrien
5 years ago

I live on Stairs Street.

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Justin Robichaud
5 years ago

28 Frederick Avenue Apt 201

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Trevor Brumwell
5 years ago

6235 Lawrence Street

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Dawn Schmidt
5 years ago

As a former North Ender, I'm 100% in support of renaming streets named in honour of damaging colonial trauma.

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Keith Lehwald
5 years ago Featured

It's deeply regrettable, but sadly not surprising, that we have streets named after brutal mercenaries whose "greatest" achievement was the racist killing and subjugation of sovereign nations. Thank you for helping to fix that.

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Ben Sichel
5 years ago Featured

I used to live on Stairs St. and I first heard of this story via El Jones. Thank you for bringing this forward.

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Rob Hutten
5 years ago

5528 Stanley Pl

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Cassie Westbrook
5 years ago Featured

I live in an apartment on Columbus St. and I cringe every time I have to tell my street name to anyone. I would be more than happy to see the name changed.

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Andrew Fenton
5 years ago Featured

It’s important to know our history and important to learn from it. Stairs and Stanley were butchers, not heroes. To continue to have streets named after them is a stain on our city.

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Paige Lana Black
5 years ago

Because we are not erasing the past, but we will stop celebrating white supremacists.

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BERNADETTE HAMILTON-REID
5 years ago

162 GRANITE COVE DRIVE

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Carolyn Gurp
5 years ago

As a former resident on one of these streets, I feel strongly that the time has come for these names to be changed.

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Irene Kuhirwa
5 years ago

We need to heal and use more uplifting names.

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Rita Ugbebor
5 years ago

This is a just cause and I believe it will go through.

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James webster
5 years ago

39 Amirault crt

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Joanne Kerrigan
5 years ago

As a longtime resident of Stairs Street, I feel particularly awful about this.

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Bea
5 years ago

9 Candy Courtway

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Serge Samson
5 years ago Featured

I own a home in the area - all 3 streets should be renamed. It's unconscionable that Stairs be memorialized this way.

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Sharon Batt
5 years ago

What a horrific story! I live in the Hydrostone and hadn't heard this before.

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Connie Berman
5 years ago

5869 Cabot Street