Susan Eng, justice advocate and first Chinese Canadian appointed to the Toronto police board, dies at 72
What Eng witnessed would ultimately drive her decades-long determination to fight against 'all forms' of injustice, according to the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice (CCNC-SJ).
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