City council votes to rename Yonge-Dundas Square to ‘Sankofa Square’

Toronto city council voted Thursday to rename Yonge-Dundas Square to "Sankofa Square," and recommended a host of other landmarks be stripped of the Dundas name over connections to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.The move comes over three years after council first received a petition raising concerns about the name at height of Black Lives Matter protests catalyzed by the police killing of George Floyd in the U.S.In a late council session Thursday night, councillors voted 19-2 to rename Yonge-Dund