‘Government can do so much by doing less’: Desmond Cole on shedding discomfiting light on systemic injustices

'When Black or Indigenous or other people of colour get into the political system, it always assumed it’s they who must carry this change for the rest of us,' says journalist and activist Desmond Cole.
Desmond Cole, pictured on Feb. 11, 2020, in Ottawa, says there's immense pressure on elected officials who may enter office wanting to spur change to conform to the political systems.
OTTAWA—Desmond Cole wants Canadians to abandon their reflexive impulse to measure social and racial progress against their southern neighbours.   In 2015, his awarding-winning

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