Montreal reneges on naming street after Daisy Sweeney, proposing park

When Daisy Peterson Sweeney died last August at 97, then-mayor Denis Coderre promised to name a street after the piano teacher who nurtured jazz greats like her brother, Oscar Peterson, and Oliver Jones.
But a year later, the promised honour has turned into an insult, members of the Peterson-Sweeney family say.
In May, the city of Montreal informed the family that instead of a street, Guy-Paxton Park, a 25-metre-by-50-metre green space at Guy and Paxton Sts. in Little Burgundy, would be renamed