Man on a mission: How Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative are bringing change to Bay Street

Wes Hall wears expensive suits, drives a fancy sports car, collects art and lives in a yellow-brick mansion in Toronto’s exclusive Rosedale neighbourhood. He is 51, fit and buff, has five kids and a great wife, and is widely respected as a Bay Street power broker, but sometimes none of it matters. Not when he answers the door to the mansion and a contractor asks him to go fetch “Mr. Hall.” Not when a neighbour asks if he...