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If he had won the 1969 provincial election, Tom Berger would have been the first socialist premier in B.C. history.
But Berger’s NDP lost to W.A.C. Bennett’s Socreds. So Berger left politics and became one of the great Canadian legal figures of his time.
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Berger was the original lawyer for the Nisga’a Nation in the landmark Calder case in the 1960s and early ’70s, which established Aboriginal title in Canadian law.
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Place your bets.
If I told you I’d lost a ring at the swings in Stanley Park on a fine sunny Saturday afternoon, what sort of odds would you have given me that I’d find that ring? If I told you I’d lost it in mid-afternoon and was now returning to the park, long after dark, to look for said ring, then what chances would you give me?
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At the time, I was told the odds were slim to none. Being bad at math, I threw my lot in with slim.
He was also a walking encyclopedia.
“Do you know how he did the New York Times crossword puzzle?” asked playwright John MacLachlan Gray. “He read the whole puzzle through, solved all the clues in his head, put one letter for each solution in the crossword puzzle, threw away the clues and then filled in the puzzle.
“He was complaining two weeks ago that when he was watching an old movie he couldn’t remember who everyone on the screen credits was.”
His encyclopedic knowledge extended to his native Vancouver. He remembered all the people, buildings, bars and restaurants, and had a knack for being in the right place at the right time.
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VICTORIA As the first entrant into the race for the B.C. Liberal party leadership, Skeena MLA Ellis Ross could not be accused of overselling his candidacy this week.
“If B.C. is looking for a different path, a different attitude, a different mentality then maybe I should throw my hat in the ring,” he told Richard Zussman of Global TV Thursday. “It’s out there now. So I will be putting my name in.”
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Man who murdered friend s Tsawwassen mother, grandmother gets overnight leave on parole He is serving a life sentence for the first-degree murders of Sharon Huenemann, 47, and her 69-year-old mother, Doris Leatherbarrow.
Author of the article: Louise Dickson • Victoria Times Colonist
Publishing date: Jan 15, 2021 • January 15, 2021 • 3 minute read • A Victoria man who murdered a friend’s mother and grandmother for inheritance money 31 years ago has been granted a bit more freedom. Derik Lord, who has been on day parole for 10 months, will now be able to spend some nights with his family. Lord is shown in a 2001 file photo. Photo by JOHN MCKAY /VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST