Ex-CSIS impersonated scribe in Edmonton mayor's race

A mayoral campaign volunteer — who happens to be a former CSIS mole — has admitted he posed as a journalist to interview those supporting the closure of a city airport.
This month, a freelance reporter from Seattle wrote about a scandal at the centre of Edmonton’s municipal election. It turns out the Seattle journalist, Darren Holmes, was as fake as the scandal he claimed to have uncovered: that Mayor Stephen Mandel was fighting to shut down Edmonton’s City Centre Airport so his friends in the development industry would profit from a massive redevelopment. Darren Holmes is actually Nathan Black, manager of the Envision Edmonton petition — a bid to force the city to hold a plebiscite on the planned closure of the city centre airport. Until Saturday morning, when this story first appeared in the Edmonton Journal, Black was also a volunteer with the David Dorward, mayoral campaign. Dorward’s campaign spokesman, David MacLean, said they’re devastated by the news of their volunteer’s actions.