Among the other questions to be answered in British Columbia's municipal elections Saturday is whether a former U.S. draft dodger should replace a mayor who had his own TV show.
Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell, the inspiration for the Canadian television character Dominic Da Vinci, is headed to the Canadian Senate after one boisterous term as mayor of the country's third-largest city.
The lip-shooting cop-turned-coroner became a populist mayor in 2002 but still found time to consult on "Da Vinci's Inquest," a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. series, and leaves left a fractured civic party for longtime ally Jim Green, who is running to succeed him.
"I'm the guy that asked Larry to run for mayor," said Green, 62, who came to Canada as a U.S. draft dodger during the Vietnam war. "I was considering it myself, but I thought Larry would have a broader appeal than I would... |