An election, then a trial, poses unusual test for Surrey’s Mayor McCallum

SURREY, B.C. — Incumbent Mayor Doug McCallum of Surrey, B.C., is facing consecutive challenges — one at the ballot box and the other in a courtroom.
It’s an unusual turn of events for McCallum, who was elected on a law-and-order platform in 2018 that included a flagship promise to scrap Canada’s largest RCMP detachment and create a Surrey police force. He now awaits trial on a public mischief charge.
McCallum is being challenged for the top job by seven contenders, includ