McGill Redmen: Tensions mount as students vote on controversial name

Even if students vote Monday to keep McGill University’s controversial team nickname, the campaign to change it will rage on.
Tomas Jirousek is a student athlete leading the fight to change the McGill Redmen’s name because he says that, throughout the university’s history, it’s been used to dehumanize Indigenous people.
Whether or not his side prevails in a campus-wide referendum to change the name Monday, he says the fight goes well beyond McGill’s boundaries.