A former chief coroner for B.C. and mayor of Vancouver from 2002 to 2005, Larry Campbell oversaw the establishment of North America's first legal injection site. He co-authored A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future (Greystone, 2009) with Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert. Campbell was appointed to the Canadian senate in 2005. His work as a coroner was the basis for a popular Canadian television drama DaVinci's Inquest. A former chief coroner for B.C. and mayor of Vancouver from 2002 to 2005, Larry Campbell oversaw the establishment of North America's first legal injection site. He co-authored A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future (Greystone, 2009) with Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert. Campbell was appointed to the Canadian senate in 2005. His work as a coroner was the basis for a popular Canadian television drama DaVinci's Inquest. ...more