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UVic students launch petition to rename Trutch Street
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Four UVic students have put forward a petition to rename Trutch Street in Fairfield. Jade Baird, Ashley Yaredic, Rachel Dufort, and Sicily Fox will be speaking with city councillors on April 22 and presenting the petition for the second time.
The petition started as a group project in James Rowe’s Environmental Studies 407: Mindfulness, Sustainability, and Social Change class. As of April 12 it has garnered 1 330 signatures.
Passionate about the processes of decolonization and reconciliation, Baird and her group want to challenge colonial place names.
“All four of us are settlers, and we believe that decolonization is a settler’s responsibility,” wrote Baird in an email to the Martlet.