[news] A pox on both Campbells

[Resist!ca]

by Charles Demers With the fortnight-old death of Canada's leading myth-maker, Pierre Berton - who somehow rendered heroic the construction of a railway that proved, more than anything, that the easiest way to steal Indian land is to scatter Chinese corpses across it - the time for fantastical legends seems to be coming to an end. In Vancouver, another unreal fairy tale, the marriage of convenience between the thuggish cop-cum-mayor palooka Larry Campbell and the city's left-leaning municipal machine COPE, seems to be coming to a close, with the man once surreally referred to as "The People's Campbell" set to announce any day now his decision to run as an independent mayoral candidate with a "team" of community leaders. READ MORE AT http://sevenoaksmag.com/commentary/43_comm1.html

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/14/3122/9778