Martin Patriquin: McGill Redmen should keep their name

McGill’s men’s varsity sports teams were first referred to as the Red Men in the late 1920s, in yearbook and newspaper accounts of the day. Later shortened to Redmen, the new name was catchy, punchy and short enough to fit on the back of a varsity jacket. It has stuck for nearly a century.
Until now.
Last year, the Provost’s Task Force on Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Education recommended that McGill immediately adopt a team name “that breaks with the associations th