at present, Canadian media is non-stop sanctimonious moralizing about anti-hate but condones and even praises hate crimes against symbols of Canadian heritage e.g beheading of statue of Egerton Ryerson, an important and liberal figure in formation of 19th C Ontario 
the supposed rationale for the symbolic beheading of Egerton Ryerson is the discovery of graves at a residential school in western Canada founded after Ryerson's death and thousands of miles away from Toronto.
the message of the beheading is hate and revenge. But the president of Ryerson University, instead of standing up against the hate expressed in the beheading of the Egerton Ryerson statue, eagerly accepted the hate statement. Re-naming university will be next.
as someone who's traveled widely in my life, especially when I was young, I've always been proud of the diverse and relatively tolerant society of modern Toronto. I believe that institutions created by Scots-Irish-English of 19th century had important role in its creation.
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