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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Canada’s Ryerson University has changed its name to Toronto Metropolitan University after concerns over of the institution’s namesake, Egerton Ryerson, who was one of the architects of the country’s residential indigenous school system. Ryerson, an educator and Methodist minister, was an architect of a system that had aimed to assimilate indigenous children so that they would lose their ties to their families and cultures. The new name of the university was approved unanimously on Tuesday by the board of governors. “Today marks the first page of a new chapter in o…