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Oct. 20th, 2008 08:58 pmDion resigns
It was one of those disorienting Stephane Dion displays of brutal honesty, naivety, optimism, defensiveness and self-assurance.
"The factor why is because I failed," the Liberal leader stated Monday - in typically befuddling English - when asked how he'd been persuaded that a change of party leadership is necessary. "In my consultations it became very clear that in the door-to-door (election) canvassing, my colleagues, my friends were told 'We don't like your leader,"' Dion matter-of-factly explained.
At the back of the over-capacity national press theatre, tears welled in the eyes of a Dion policy adviser and she snuffled and glanced at a colleague for support.
HIV-positive man on trial for having sex with women
The unprecedented murder trial of a man accused of having unprotected sex with numerous women despite knowing he carried the virus that can lead to AIDS began Monday with the prosecution saying he lied to his partners about his health status.
Johnson Aziga, 52, of Hamilton, faces two counts of first-degree murder because two of his girlfriends died of what the Crown says were HIV-related cancers, along with 11 counts of aggravated sexual assault.
It was one of those disorienting Stephane Dion displays of brutal honesty, naivety, optimism, defensiveness and self-assurance.
"The factor why is because I failed," the Liberal leader stated Monday - in typically befuddling English - when asked how he'd been persuaded that a change of party leadership is necessary. "In my consultations it became very clear that in the door-to-door (election) canvassing, my colleagues, my friends were told 'We don't like your leader,"' Dion matter-of-factly explained.
At the back of the over-capacity national press theatre, tears welled in the eyes of a Dion policy adviser and she snuffled and glanced at a colleague for support.
HIV-positive man on trial for having sex with women
The unprecedented murder trial of a man accused of having unprotected sex with numerous women despite knowing he carried the virus that can lead to AIDS began Monday with the prosecution saying he lied to his partners about his health status.
Johnson Aziga, 52, of Hamilton, faces two counts of first-degree murder because two of his girlfriends died of what the Crown says were HIV-related cancers, along with 11 counts of aggravated sexual assault.
