death_place death_date birth_place nationality party birth_date alma_mater spouse article_title name occupation death_cause
halifax , nova scotia 04 march 2004 montreal , quebec canadian new democratic party 12 august 1955 hampshire college angela bischoff tooker gomberg
 tooker gomberg environmental activist suicide
tooker gomberg

tooker gomberg -lrb- august 12 , 1955 -- march 3 or march 4 , 2004 -rrb- was a canadian politician and environmental activist .
a native of montreal , quebec and a liberal-arts graduate of hampshire college -lrb- 1980 -rrb- , gomberg founded one of canada 's first curbside recycling programs in montreal , and later moved to edmonton , alberta , where he created educational materials for alberta 's energy ministry and headed the ecocity society , an environmental agency .
