Talk:Glen Clark

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[edit] Newspaper Article

A day or so after Glen Clark resigned, a great biographical article of him appeared in either the Sun or the Province. I have read the article numerous times, and it is filled with great stuff about Glen Clarks early days. For examples, he talks about his growing up on the impoverished Downtown Eastside, his family, his work with the ironworkers union, and his early football pursuits. Its great reading, and I am going to look it up and add all sorts of goodies to this page when I do. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Raindreamer (talk • contribs) 04:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Missing bits

• Salmon War - surprised this isn't here, so will try and write it.
• Casinogate - pretty much needs a separate article because of complexity of story and the background of the various players and "where they are now" (e.g. Brian Kieran's role in Ledgegate); the story of the scandal is as much about an effort to tarnish Clark's reputation as it is about his allegedly dubious relationship with his back-alley neighbours; ties of senior RCMP connected to the case with a rival casino to the one connected to Clark's neighbour is also an issue, though a dicey one...