Nimby-ism

That's today's watchword.  Now the Stoney Lakoda "Nation" want everything re-named with Indian names here in Alberta.  Really??!!  Calgary, the Bow River, Canmore -- you name it -- everything must be renamed because they don't want "foreign" designations on anything in Canada anywhere near their reserve. 

Hey, if that's the case, the entire country should be "Indian".  Not gonna happen.   

Calgary was not established by the natives, but by James Macleod who named it after the Scottish town in which his sister lived.  It's bad enough idiots want to erase the name of Sir John A. Macdonald -- the Father of Confederation -- from everything because in a well-meaning move the guy tried to educate natives.  Now the demand is for everything to be re-named.  That would mean Montreal would become "Hochelaga"....and on....and on....and on.....

You can't erase history just because fashion has changed.  The revered Langevin Block, named for Hector Langevin, has now been disgracefully re-named "The Prime Minister's Office".  What a joke. 

Margaret Atwood also practices "Nimby-ism".  She recently got into a big fight with developers in Toronto who had the nerve to want to build a not-very-high highrise condo in her tony Annex neighbourhood, which would have spoiled her view.  Eff off, Ms. Atwood.