Tooker Gomberg was a Canadian politician and environmental activist.
16 Facts About Tooker Gomberg
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Tooker Gomberg served on the Edmonton city council from 1992 to 1995.
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Tooker Gomberg's stand was in line with his belief in built-up, not sprawling, urban centres.
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Tooker Gomberg ran for the position of Mayor in the 1998 municipal election, placing fourth with 15 percent of the vote.
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Tooker Gomberg then moved to Toronto, Ontario, where he ran for mayor in the 2000 municipal election.
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Tooker Gomberg received over 51,000 votes, but finished a distant second behind Mel Lastman who garnered over 80 per cent of the vote.
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Tooker Gomberg had been endorsed by urban guru Jane Jacobs, a longtime and influential resident of Toronto's Annex neighbourhood.
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Some of Tooker Gomberg's platform included advocacy of provincial powers for Toronto and tolls for downtown traffic, policies that re-emerged in the successful 2003 campaign of David Miller.
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Tooker Gomberg was often controversial as an environmental activist, being arrested numerous times.
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Tooker Gomberg was held for a couple of hours, then released.
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Tooker Gomberg's was one of only three arrests at the WPC protests - the others being a street youth with outstanding warrants, and a woman who, when leaving the convergence centre was followed by police for several kilometers, stopped, and arrested for traffic violations.
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Tooker Gomberg locked himself in a safe in Alberta premier Ralph Klein's constituency office as a protest against the province's stance on Kyoto.
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Tooker Gomberg was arrested in the Netherlands after breaking into the Volkel NATO Air Force base with 9 other anti-nuclear activists working to expose the presence of nuclear weapons in that country.
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On Thursday, March 4,2004, Gomberg was reported missing to police, who later stated that he appeared to have jumped off the middle of the Angus L Macdonald Bridge, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the early hours of the morning.
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Tooker Gomberg had left his partner a suicide note stating that he had "lost his chutzpah" and his bicycle and helmet were found on the bridge.
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Tooker Gomberg had become increasingly agitated in his final weeks and his Remeron dosage had been increased to the maximum amount two days before his death.