Jack Layton to make a 'personal announcement' at 2 PM EST.

HeresyLives

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Fri Feb-05-10 12:13 PM
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Jack Layton to make a 'personal announcement' at 2 PM EST.

Edited on Fri Feb-05-10 12:38 PM by HeresyLives

This just in
by Aaron Wherry on Friday, February 5, 2010 11:45am -

The NDP has announced that Jack Layton will make an �announcement about his personal status and his immediate future as NDP leader� at 2pm in Toronto.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/05/this-just-in-4/#idc-container

On edit:

Karl Belanger, Layton�s press secretary, said in an e-mail to Canwest News Service that Layton is not stepping down. He also said he was not running for Toronto mayor.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Jack+Layton+outlines+political+future/2526913/story.html

G&M is saying he's had a back injury recently, so maybe it's about surgery.

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Fri Feb-05-10 01:27 PM
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1. This doesn't sound good:

***Sources say the 59-year-old Layton, who has been leader for seven years, says his personal health is not good, but refused to say what it is exactly.

Layton had been complaining of a sore back from what he thought was a strained muscle from working out at the gym.

�It�s more than that,� a source told the Star.

Layton�s wife Olivia Chow, also a NDP MP, waged a successful battle against thyroid cancer and has been cancer-free since 2005.***

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/761113--layton-to-make-announcement-about-immediate-future

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HeresyLives

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Fri Feb-05-10 01:38 PM
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2. Could be any number of things.

Edited on Fri Feb-05-10 01:47 PM by HeresyLives

Cracked vertebra and so on, which could require surgery.

Update: CBC now reports that Layton will announce he has prostate cancer

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Lucy Goosey

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Fri Feb-05-10 02:31 PM
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3. So prostate cancer it is, then.

That sucks. I hope they caught it early, and that treatment will be successful.

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