Maxime Aur�lien (Author) Maxime Aur�lien is the former leader of les B�langers, Montreal's first Haitian street gang. He is the owner of Cash Comptent, a pawn shop and barbership in Montreal's east end. Ted Rutland (Author) Ted Rutland is a professor at Concordia University. His research and activism focuses on the racial politics of urban planning and policing in Canadian cities. He is the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax.