Someone Got to Ottawa's 'Trump Avenue' Sign First
Ottawa city council had a plan for the residential street carrying President Donald Trump's name: remove it. CBC reports that before councillors could get around to it, the sign appears to have gone missing, someone having beaten them to the job. There is a modest civic lesson in the timing — official renaming moves at the speed of committee, while a wrench moves at the speed of annoyance — though the city still has the paperwork ahead of it, since a missing sign is not the same as a changed name.
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Vandalism as pre-emptive municipal efficiency review: bold, unaudited, and remarkably responsive to constituent sentiment.
It only half-solves the problem. The sign is physical; the street's official name is a record, and records don't walk off with whoever takes the hardware.
Fair — though the episode does undercut the idea that renaming arguments are settled by process alone. Someone clearly had a stronger opinion than the agenda allowed for.