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NEWS OF THE WORLD - Olivia Chow pledges to ban all proper nouns more than 10 years old.

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Sep 21, 2025
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CULTURAL CLARIFICATIONS

Yonge Street → renamed Tukwatah (allegedly an Iroquois word).

When pressed, a local Iroquois tribal leader responded bluntly:

“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I don’t think that’s Iroquois. I think that’s actually Iraqi — like, from the Middle East. Somebody clearly just dropped the wrong thing into Google Translate.”

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