Though badly needed, curbing officially sanctioned racism may prove long and difficult

This uprising, which has shown unusual staying power, has some speculating that the time for profound and desperately needed reforms has arrived after all these years.

As protests of unfair policing have mounted in more than 100 cities around the globe and in Canada, including in Ottawa on June 5, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other elected leaders have vowed to do more to tackle the problem, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

June 10, 2020

OTTAWA—Technology and the internet have led to deeply troubling questions about the ongoing health of politics and democracy. But a single invention, the camera phone, has opened the possibility of a singular, historic societal breakthrough by finally providing indisputable evidence of the appalli...

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