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Tooker Gomberg was a Canadian politician and environmental activist.He founded one of Canada's first curbside recycling programs in Montreal, Quebec, and later moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he headed the environmental agency EcoCity Society. In 1992, he was elected to Edmonton's city council. He later ran for the mayor's chair, but was not elected.
He then moved to Toronto, Ontario, where he ran for mayor in 2000. He was the second-place finisher in that election, although the winner, Mel Lastman, garnered over 80 per cent of the vote.
Gomberg was often controversial as an environmental activist, being arrested numerous times. He locked himself in a safe in Alberta premier Ralph Klein's constituency office, and was arrested in The Netherlands after breaking into a NATO base north of Amsterdam.
On March 4, 2004, Gomberg was reported missing and presumed dead. It is alleged that he jumped off a bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia but his body has not yet been found.
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