In 2015, Don Oliver was given six months to live.
“It was the biggest shock I’ve ever received in my life,” said the 83-year-old Oliver.
But the retired senator from Nova Scotia didn’t accept the prognosis that came with his heart condition — cardiac amyloidosis — and sought experimental treatment
“It worked because I’m still here, and since I’m still here … I wanted to use my brain as long as I could so I decided to write a book,” he said.
Oliver’s memoir — A Matter of Equality: The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver — is now a reality.
It chronicles
