Posted AT 3:14 AM EDT on 31/07/06
Peterson hears jarring notes of intolerance
TORONTO — In his 81 years, Oscar Peterson has seen and heard his share of racism.But what the legendary Canadian jazz pianist has been hearing outside his Mississauga home for the past month has left him disheartened and shocked -- he says he and his family have been subject to racial taunts and obscene slurs -- because he never expected it to follow him home to Canada, "a fair and tolerant country.
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