Opinion: To shape the future, look to past Black Canadian activism

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movement in the new millennium, Canada has been shaped by the sociopolitical actions of Black people in this country.Regis Korchinski-Paquet’s death while in police presence in Toronto

Myrtle Donaldson and others march down St. Clair Ave. in Toronto protesting against the police shooting of Lester Donaldson, on Aug. 14, 1988.In 1988, Lester Donaldson, a Black man with schizophrenia living in a Toronto rooming house, was shot dead by Constable David Deviney while holding a small paring knife.

 

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