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	Tooker Gomberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tooker Gomberg (1955 – 2004) was a Canadian politician and environmental activist.
		Gomberg was often controversial as an environmental activist, having been arrested numerous times.
		On March 4, 2004, Gomberg was reported missing and presumed dead, after leaving his partner a suicide note stating that he had lost his chutzpah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tooker_Gomberg (323 words)

	Sad News - (Richard)Tooker Gomberg : IMC Maritimes
		Halifax - Tooker Gomberg - an environmental activist, failed Toronto mayoral candidate and high-profile thorn in the side of Alberta Premier Ralph Klein - was missing and presumed dead Friday.
		Gomberg is known mostly for his vociferous and unconventional sense of political theatre.
		Gomberg was arrested at a rally protesting the war in Iraq for using a megaphone without a permit.
	maritimes.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=7426 (616 words)

	Socialist Worker / www.socialist.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tooker’s campaign was truly grass roots, funded not by the big businesses and real estate developers who owned Lastman, but by folks who forked over $5 of $10 because they believed a different kind of city was possible.
		Before that election Tooker was smack in the middle of the fight to defeat the proposal to dump Toronto’s garbage in Adams Mine, in northern Ontario.
		Tooker made a difference with his life, and left this city and this country with a legacy of creative struggle that will be long remembered by all of us who knew him.
	www.web.net /~sworker/En/SW2004/422-04-Tooker.html (390 words)

	Earth Partners - Author Announcements
		Tooker Gomberg, 48, took his own life, jumped from a bridge in Halifax.
		Tooker had brought his ever-present bicycle with him on the GO bus from Toronto, having to argue his way past newly enforced regulations outlawing bikes from being carried in the storage compartment of the bus.
		Tooker’s death is of course a tragic loss for those who knew and loved him.
	www3.sympatico.ca /aseverin/earthpartners/TookerGomberg1955-2004.htm (549 words)

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		Activist Tooker Gomberg is restrained by a police officer as he tries to get to Alberta Premier Ralph Klein in Toronto back in 2002.
		She said Gomberg had moved to Halifax from the Toronto-area in September when Bischoff was hired by a local group to improve the bicycle transportation system.
		In 1990, when Klein was Alberta's environment minister, Gomberg led a group of placard-waving activists up on the stage at a hearing into a northern Alberta pulp mill and accused Klein of betraying the environment.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/scfcn/CTVNews/20040306/gomberg_dead_040305/CTVNewsAt11 (734 words)

	SEE Magazine: March 11, 2004
		Once, Tooker got a hold of a great picture of Chahley on a bicycle and mounted it on his office door with the caption "soon we will all be riding bicycles." All the councillors, even Leroy, chuckled when they passed by Tooker's door.
		As was often the case with Tooker, he proved his point, and caused a huge uproar in the process.
		Though Tooker was known for his attention grabbing stunts, there was substance with the style.
	www.seemagazine.com /Issues/2004/0311/front4.htm (531 words)

	Tooker Gomberg remembered in Toronto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gomberg, 48, suffered from depression during the past two years, and is believed to have died March 3 after jumping from a bridge in Halifax.
		Gomberg devoted his life to fighting for the causes he believed in, friends and family said.
		Gomberg once covered a road with sod to promote earth-friendly transportation, and buried a car to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first pedestrian killed by a car in North America.
	observer.thecentre.centennialcollege.ca /news/gomberg032304.htm (612 words)

	Tooker Gomberg -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tooker Gomberg (1955 – 2004?) was a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian politician and environmental activist.
		In June of 2000, he was arrested at the (Click link for more info and facts about World Petroleum Congress protests) World Petroleum Congress protests in (The largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center and a technology center for Alberta and most of western Canada) Calgary.
		On March 4, 2004, Gomberg was reported missing and presumed dead, after leaving his partner a suicide note stating that he had lost his ((Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity) chutzpah.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tooker_gomberg.htm (290 words)

	NOW: Farewell, Tooker, Mar 11 - 17, 2004
		Tooker Gomberg, (1955-2004) who is presumed to have died last week in Halifax from depression-induced suicide, was one of the most optimistic and zestful social change activists I ever met.
		Tooker coined the term "greenspiration" to define his approach to public education, because he believed that environmentally friendly changes were also people- and economy-friendly, so change just required a liberating rethink, not suffering.
		Tooker, who never met an icon he couldn't spoof, filled a hollow moose with garbage to show what he thought about the impact of the Adams Mine proposal to haul Toronto's garbage to real moose habitat in Northern Ontario.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2004-03-11/news_story2.php (1127 words)

	CANADIAN ACTIVIST TOOKER GOMBERG PRESUMED DEAD : Cleveland IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 2000 Gomberg took on Toronto incumbent mayor Mel Lastman, in a mayoral campaign filled with humour and publicity stunts.
		Gomberg became famous for his vociferous and unconventional sense of political theatre.
		Gomberg’s term on Edmonton city council was marked by his advocacy of bicycling.
	cleveland.indymedia.org /print.php?id=9464 (362 words)

	EPL.ca: Biographies of Mayors and Councillors - G
		Gomberg ought to wear a tie in council chambers." Established the computerized BusLink 24-hour information line, fought the expansion of the E.L. Smith water treatment plant in favour of conservation, and laid the groundwork for the composting plant by mobilizing public opinion against a plan to irradiate sewage sludge.
		Gomberg became known for theatrical acts of protests such as attaching himself to equipment bound for Suncor Energy in Fort McMurray (March 2000) and locking himself in a vault in Ralph Klein's Calgary office to protest Alberta government's opposition to the Kyoto Accord (December 2002).
		Gomberg was missing and presumed dead in Halifax on Friday, March 5, 2004 after a long battle with depression.
	www.epl.ca /Elections/Results/EPLBiographies/G.cfm (2022 words)

	Planet Oz - Eco Freako: Profile of a wired activist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tooker Gomberg sits in a comfy chair at a Second Cup in downtown Toronto, drinking his coffee from a large mug.
		Gomberg was also charged for activism-related incidents leading up to and during his Toronto "Tooker for Mayor" campaign.
		It's almost six o'clock, which means Gomberg is running late for the talk at U of T. As a final question I ask if he has any advice on how would-be activists can survive in a world that, at times, won't take them seriously.
	magazines.humberc.on.ca /poz/webpages/tooker.html (1692 words)

	The Parkland Post - An Activist's Life: Honouring the Legacy of Tooker Gomberg by James Kosawan.
		Tooker Gomberg, a former Edmonton City Councillor and tireless environmental and social justice activist, succumbed to depression by taking his own life.
		Tooker also fully understood that activism in and of itself was not going to radically alter society and result in better stewardship of the planet.
		Always up to a challenge, Tooker also found the time to run federally for the NDP in Montreal in 1997, for mayor of Edmonton in 1998, and he took a run at Toronto’s mayoralty race in 2000, where he finished second with over 50,000 votes.
	www.ualberta.ca /PARKLAND/post/Vol-VIII-No2/05kosawan.html (712 words)

	[ebbc-talk] Tooker Gomberg presumed dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tooker was a high profile activist in Canada who successfully used direct action techniques to advance the cause for bicycling.
		Tooker's younger brother Ben is head of the Chicago DOT bicycling program and is a good friend of mine.
		Gomberg protested at the World Petroleum Congress in Calgary and in March of that year he and other Greenpeace members chained themselves to a 447-tonne piece of oilsands equipment being shipped to Suncor Energy Ltd. in Fort McMurray, Alta.
	listserver.dreamhost.com /pipermail/ebbc-talk-ebbc.org/2004-March/000172.html (875 words)

	Tooker's last column - Alternatives Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Within minutes the sofa was on the street and Tooker and Angela were hard at work relaxing on it, having a pleasurable afternoon conversing with passersby about the need to reclaim streets for people rather than automobiles.
		Tooker once said of his current activities, “we’re cross-pollinating like bees.” Certainly many of his projects have gone to flowers, and often abundantly.
		Tooker was a great hit with the students and, despite wearing only a rather dumpy suit and light shoes in very cold weather, happily crawled into a quinzee or igloo constructed for a protest against tuition fees and curled up for the night.
	www.alternativesjournal.ca /special/tooker_tribute.htm (920 words)

	Greenspiration! Home
		Angela Bischoff is an activist and partner of the late Tooker Gomberg.
		Tooker's Letter to an Activist, written during his own depression, Earth Day 2002.
		Tooker (Le Monde à Bicyclette) is a song written and performed by Mike Ford (ananda at interlog.com).
	www.greenspiration.org (697 words)

	[ebbc-talk] Tooker Gomberg presumed dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tooker with a big smile: "Is this okay?" Tooker miming station agent, shaking head energetically: "Oh yes, that's fine!" > I met Tooker at the Break The Gridlock conference a > few years back and found his breakout session to be > incredibly inspirational.
		Gomberg led a group of placard-waving > activists up on the stage at a hearing into a northern > Alberta pulp mill and accused Mr.
		Gomberg's term on Edmonton city council was marked > by his advocacy of bicycling.
	listserver.dreamhost.com /pipermail/ebbc-talk-ebbc.org/2004-March/000174.html (988 words)

	Varsity Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It’s Saturday night and mayoral candidate Tooker Gomberg is sleeping out on the streets in front of city hall.
		Gomberg has a bone to pick with the current mayor Mel Lastman, and virtually every other city councillor and Member of Parliament.
		Gomberg has faith in his stunt antics, claiming they helped him win a three-year term as city councillor in Edmonton back in 1992.
	varsity.utoronto.ca:16080 /archives/121/oct30/feature/tooker.html (1237 words)

	Eulogy for Tooker - by Craig Hubley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tooker put his body between helpless things and harm: between loggers and ancient trees, between nuclear weapons and children, between cops and homeless people.
		Tooker believed in democracy, and in people becoming educated in the issues that affect their own lives most deeply.
		Tooker was true to reality, never fantasized any better world than the one he lived in: he took what was given, and worked from that.
	www.greenspiration.org /Memorial/EulogyCraigHubley.html (1184 words)

	Eye - What Tooker taught us - 03.11.04
		It's a moving symbol for us, the bicycle and helmet, partly because some of our most vivid memories of Gomberg are of him travelling the city by bicycle during the 2000 mayoral campaign with a "Tooker for mayor" flag attached to his seatpost, while his opponent toured the city in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac.
		If for nothing else, Gomberg deserves to be memorialized and thanked for that campaign, in which he stood up to (and jumped around and threw things at) Mel Lastman, trying to hold him accountable when no one else would.
		Meslin notes that Tooker was possessed of (or by) a brand of "positive idealism and hope that you're supposed to lose in your twenties...
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.11.04/op/editorial.html (812 words)

	Tooker Gomberg - a Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tooker's methods of drawing attention to an issue were sometimes a little unorthodox, and occasionally the media focus would appear to be more on the method and less on the issue, but we should remember that it was he who put himself on the line, while most of us watched from the sidelines.
		From my personal perspective as organizer of this Festival for many years, Tooker and Angela are the only people who would phone after the event - every year without fail - say 'thank you for doing it' and discuss the event in the most supportive way possible, which I will never, ever forget.
		We tried to do this for this year but everything had already been printed for the awards ceremony, and the last thing Tooker would have wanted was for it to be wasted.
	www.greenspiration.org /Memorial/EulogyPeterJansen.html (408 words)

	Bow. James Bow: Journal: Tooker Gomberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For many, Tooker Gomberg will be remembered as the environmental activist with the odd name who took on Mel Lastman in a no-hope campaign for the mayor of Toronto in November 2000.
		Gomberg, while seen by some as an eccentric activist, still managed to make himself into a respected member of the environmental movement though plain hard work.
		Gomberg was a regular contributor to Alternatives Journal, the magazine to which I am now circulation manager.
	www.bowjamesbow.net /2004/03/10/tooker_gom.shtml (1215 words)

	So long, Tooker / Atomiq
		This guy did a lot of positive things while he was on council, and it's a shame that he's often remembered for suggesting that we flood the streets in winter so people can skate to work.
		On a personal level, I was saddened that Tooker's death was the outcome of a long battle with depression.
		Tooker's best legacy is the bike racks on the Edmonton city buses--a truly useful no-brainer of a policy move which emerged accidentally from his brainless eco-philosophy.
	atomiq.org /archives/2004/03/so_long_tooker.html (503 words)

	Questions & Issues Concerning Tooker Gomberg's Disappearance : IMC Maritimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a response to a direct question I posed to Sgt. Spicer by telephone, the primary investigating Officer on the Tooker Gomberg file answered, "There is no evidence to suggest this person commited suicide." Remember, no body has been found.
		On Friday March 5, Susan Aitken of Canadian Press reported that Tooker Gomberg was missing and presumed dead.
		Her report suggested that Tooker had taken his own life by jumping from a bridge in Halifax.
	maritimes.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=7536 (195 words)

	CBC News:Controversial environmentalist, politician dead at 48
		HALIFAX - Tooker Gomberg, a controversial environmental activist and former politician, died Wednesday.
		Gomberg was often the centre of controversy, grabbing headlines for his arrests in various political causes.
		Gomberg had been living in Toronto where he ran a worm recycling project from Toronto's Metro Hall.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/03/05/canada/gomberg040305 (191 words)

	Activist Tooker Gomberg Dies - Natural Life Magazine May/June 2004
		Tooker Gomberg, a well known environmentalist and activist, died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in early March.
		Gomberg’s passions took him and his partner Angela Bischoff around the world on their bicycles (an odyssey that they wrote about for Natural Life) but he believed the most important changes happened at a local level.
		Moving to Alberta, Gomberg sought and won a term on Edmonton city council and was long a high-profile thorn in the side of Alberta Premier Ralph Klein.
	www.life.ca /nl/97/tooker.html (272 words)

	rabble.ca - in her own words
		Although I thought I knew Tooker a little — we were certainly often together in the small space of the office that I share with Angela — it has become clear that the Tooker I met here was an eclipsed version of the Tooker whom Angela and so many others knew.
		Tooker had a brilliant idea; it involved a cargo bicycle, a giant solar powered PA system and a CD with race car sounds on it.
		Gomberg started his term on council with controversy, earning the wrath of some councillors by not wearing a jacket and tie to his swearing-in.
	www.rabble.ca /in_her_own_words.shtml?x=30913 (1122 words)

	Eye - Tooker's for real - 11.02.00
		BY first met Tooker Gomberg in Kyoto during the global warming debate, when the world came within a hair's breadth of doing absolutely nothing to prevent disaster.
		Gomberg is invariably identified as a worm composter, as though such a lowly occupation precludes his being able to function at the level of municipal politics.
		Gomberg points out that the election will be held on the same day as the Sixth Conference of the Parties in the Hague, the most important international meeting on climate change since the Kyoto Protocol was (barely) adopted.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.02.00/news/enviro.html (781 words)

	babble: Tooker Gomberg missing, presumed dead
		I had never heard of Tooker Gomberg in 2000 when Mel Lastman, with an inexplicable 80% approval rating, was cruising towards a second term, with no high-profile challenger in sight.
		Tooker Gomberg, an icon of environmentalism and activism in Canada, died in Halifax on Wednesday night.
		Spicer, who has investigated Tooker's disappearance, told me by phone on March 16 that the activist may not be dead, that he may have entered a car, voluntarily or involuntarily, while he was on the bridge.The many reports of Tooker's suicide due to depression are premised on nothing but pure speculation.
	www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=005761 (4831 words)

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