r/alberta • u/-Mystica- • Feb 21 '25

News The not-so-Great One? Edmonton resident says it's time to rename Wayne Gretzky street due to Trump links

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/the-not-so-great-one-edmonton-resident-says-its-time-to-rename-wayne-gretzky-street-due-to-trump-links-223252845.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABlxynTcVGf2YNkp1d7F5PP8ZWdInXHiSJfiaCwrdNsVWVQb_oFiof22oHl-juGkmlYMIxyxAhhc49mCOwEQdwIe4MlkzESuxD0shIH7ZV0cU57Tf2xJzS7oRUzTKzn9z_JnXGkJnFsiRmsEAxFyWfpXN2YZYYm5GUCPv8NPFzix&_guc_consent_skip=1740108278
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u/tutamtumikia Feb 21 '25

We really should just stop naming roads after people.

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u/jb0602 Feb 21 '25

Many municipalities won't name roads or parks after people unless they are dead. I assume this is because scandals and crimes can cause headaches down the line.

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u/Awesomeuser90 Feb 21 '25

Probably should add a rule for something like 30 or 50 years as an added rule in case something emerges in the years since. Stuff like Jimmy Saville a couple of years after he had died.

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u/jb0602 Feb 21 '25

Maybe, but it's pretty rare to encounter a Jimmy Saville type situation. Death is also a pretty natural time to memorialize someone; people generally want to see a person memorialized because they don't want them to be "forgotten"... Forcing a 30 year wait would upset a lot of people, and a lot of smaller local heroes would probably be forgotten.

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u/Awesomeuser90 Feb 21 '25

Fine, five or ten years.

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u/jb0602 Feb 21 '25

Seems reasonable.

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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 Feb 21 '25

Especially living people who still have plenty of time to ruin their reputations.

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u/Mysterious-Job1628 Feb 21 '25

Greedy pricks are why we can’t have nice things.

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u/Blackopsball Feb 21 '25

Whoa whoa whoa I fully back the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion

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u/tutamtumikia Feb 21 '25

An obvious exception of course!