The fight for equality: A conversation with Don Oliver, the 1st Black man appointed to Senate

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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.

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Oliver’s memoir — A Matter of Equality: The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver — is now a reality

It chronicles

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