I'm not going to start calling Toronto (the capital of Ontario) another name. I like knowing the history and original meaning of the name. But, I'm not militant about Indigenous politics or decolonization.

You can't change history without a time machine, a lot of careful planning and good luck. Really, the animals were here before the native people. The plant life was here before the animals if you really want to feel obligated to honouring the past. I respect the native people, as we call them and they seem to call themselves, but not more than I respect the pioneers, settlers, traders and the current population in general. None of us were born more than 150 years ago. So who can you really feel apologetic to now? People need to live in the world now, as it is. Remembering and learning about history is wonderful. Preserving some of it is great. But, you can't live your life looking backwards, behind you. The past isn't going to change but you might walk into traffic and change your future.

This is why more people are now referring to Toronto as Tkaronto

Tkaronto is a Mohawk word meaning “where there are trees standing in the water,” according to several Mohawk speakers and aboriginal language expert John Steckley.

The marker was originally ascribed to The Narrows, between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching, but later became associated with Toronto because it was there that the passage between Lakes Ontario and Simcoe existed.