Hamilton city council candidate Kojo Damptey (right) campaigns with school board candidate Anona Mehdi for the Oct. 24 municipal election in a handout photo.Handout/Kojo for Ward 14 via The Canadian Press Kojo Damptey’s campaign expected one of his ads at a Hamilton bus station would be defaced well before a sticker that read “white people first” was found placed over the poster of the city council hopeful. The first-time candidate often encountered anti-Black racist messages and threats in his former role as executive director of Hamilton Center For Civic Inclusion, he said in a phone interview. His campaign planned to...