Desmond Cole takes a look at a year of black activism in Toronto. He covers the colonial roots of Canada, how many of the institutions were built to remove rights from Indigenous peoples, and police black lives. He says that a central responsibility of policing is forcing black and Indigenous lives to conform to the rules that white people desire.

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