Hip check

Despite what his sister said, Jack Layton says his hip was not replaced, merely repaired.

“Some people have hip replacements—I didn’t have a hip replacement,” Layton, 60, told the media after touring the Halifax Farmers Market on Sunday morning. “There’s some metal there ... to strengthen, but that’s very, very common when you have a fracture.”

This can obviously only be settled once and for all with a national televised x-ray. Possibly as an opener to that Harper-Ignatieff debate we’re all still waiting for.