Time for bystander effect is over

Thousands of protesters gathered on the Parliament Hill on June 5, 2020, for a rally to call attention to anti-Black racism and police violence against Black people across Canada and the United States.
As Independent Nova Scotia Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, a highly regarded  social worker, researcher, educator and community activist, told The Hill Times last week, "the reality of anti-Black racism, the violence of racism, the reality of racism in this country, seems to be lost on peopl...

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