{"id":12850,"date":"2011-04-30T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2011-04-30T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:11:18","slug":"no-happy-ending-for-jack-layton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/no-happy-ending-for-jack-layton\/","title":{"rendered":"No happy ending for Jack Layton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TORONTO\u00a0–\u00a0What Jos Chiu remembers most is the sign. A long, red, illuminated sign with big white letters: MASSAGE. The sign was for years vertically attached to number 787 Dundas St. W.<\/p>\n

It was a massage parlour, but no ordinary massage parlour.<\/p>\n

It was the kind suspected by police as one of the many in the city where women were offering the “extra service” of masturbation — a place known on the street as a rub-and-tug.\u00a0 It’s the same massage parlour where in January 1996 Toronto Police say they walked in on NDP Leader Jack Layton — then a Metro councillor — with his pants down — literally.\u00a0 In a statement Friday night, Layton said he was there for a massage and that he was told by police he had done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n

“It was a big vertical sign on the side of the building,” said Chiu, who has owned and operated a custom T-shirt shop across the street for over 20 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The question is, should anyone who is daft enough to go into a massage parlour that advertises its services on a long, red, illuminated sign<\/em> and na\u00efve enough to expect his protestations of innocence to be believed, be put in charge of running a country?<\/p>\n

Perhaps, as his wife says, “Sixteen years ago my husband went for a massage at a massage clinic that is registered with the city of Toronto. He exercises regularly; he was and remains in great shape and he needed a massage.”<\/em> Or perhaps Olivia Chow’s desire for vicarious power is sufficient to temper her outrage at her husband’s desire to graze in other pastures – publicly, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here: TORONTO\u00a0–\u00a0What Jos Chiu remembers most is the sign. A long, red, illuminated sign with big white letters: MASSAGE. The sign was for years vertically attached to number 787 Dundas St. W. It was a massage parlour, but no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":84,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[918,2227],"class_list":["post-12850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-jack-layton","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}