There's a lot of rebranding, logistics and work required for the name change, sounds super expensive to me (is there any legitimate breakdown of how much money this would cost? I saw a website that said "millions of dollars" but I'm not sure it's legit). A name change is likely going to cost a whole lot of money, and guess what? That's NOT going to do anything for indigenous people.

I understand that the Ryerson university is named after Egerton Ryerson, and he committed atrocities against indigenous people of Canada, but how does a name change help indigenous people????

There's a lot of indigenous people who do not have access to clean drinking water in Canada, rather than spending money on a name change, wouldn't it be wiser to donate that money to an organization that could help indigenous people get clean drinking water? Wouldn't it be make more sense to use that money to provide more scholarships for indigenous students?

There's lots of practical ways to help indigenous students/people with that money, ways that would ACTUALLY help them, a name change is performative and doesn't do anything.

After almost a decade as a prof at Ryerson CS, June 30 will be my last day. HUGE thank you to all my students for embracing me! It has been an honour being your instructor/mentor/supervisor. Ryerson was my first faculty position, I'm leaving with many fond memories.

https://twitter.com/CSProfKGD/status/1404477687134044164?s=20

** UPDATE** and my launch pad https://twitter.com/CSProfKGD/status/1404831221281140745?s=20