Opinion

For my entire life I've had to conform to society in order to succeed. I've become a chameleon. Change will happen when the people in power are no longer afraid to put people of colour in key decision-making roles.

Spoiler: it didn't go well. At the end of 2019, I left the Globe and Mail, convinced that no one with real power there was ever going to pursue true equity, either inside the newsroom or in its coverage.

Your kids get to play with Lego police sets and watch Paw Patrol and imagine the police officers as superheroes. Mine don’t.

Esi Edugyan: For true systemic shifts to occur, everyone has to recognize that the whole underlying structure is so irreparably broken that no one can afford to live like this anymore.

Denise Balkissoon: It's clear that COVID-19 and racism are a dangerous combination. We need better information about how Indigenous, Black and other racialized people interact with Canadian health-care systems.