We publish an article by Flavio Volpe, from last Thursday’s edition of the Toronto Star.
TORONTO – Eighteen years before my grandfather Luciano emigrated from postwar Italy and settled in Kensington Market, Italians and Jews in Toronto stood together to fight racism and bigotry in the famous Christie Pits riot of 1933. Long a legend of Toronto race relations, that anecdote was on the minds of many of the attendees of the derailed Italy-Canada friendship reception at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on Saturday night.
