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Anti-Black racism protesters, pictured June 5, 2020, on Parliament Hill. Taking money away from a problem is sometimes no better than throwing money at it, writes Hill Times publisher Jim Creskey. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JIM CRESKEY

June 10, 2020

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson complained that he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t join the thousands of people who marched for racial justice on Parliament Hill in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. As it turned out, he did attend and won more praise than cr...

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