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...political science professor and former federal environment minister that then Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien recruited as his national unity crusader following the nearly disastrous Quebec independence referendum of 1995. Dion and Kennedy, a 46-year-old former Ontario education minister, are battling it out for third place. A Decima Research poll on the eve of the convention found that Rae led all four when respondents were asked which candidate they thought would do better against Harper in an election. Other polls, however, have shown that many Rae and Ignatieff supporters would be unwilling to vote for their main rival...
...Canadian newsweekly, only 37% are satisfied with the Prime Minister's performance, vs. nearly 60% a year earlier, when he had been in office only three months. "The biggest challenge facing the government is classical leadership, to define where the government wants to go," says Allan Gregg, whose Decima Research, Ltd., conducted the Maclean's poll...
Most of the paraphernalia in the room conjures images of kidnap, persecution and torture. A leather body bag crumples in the corner; block and tackle dangle overhead. A lonely stainless-steel dog bowl sits inside a cage just big enough for an adult human. But Decima insists it's all for fun. "I find the idea of one person hitting another absolutely abhorrent - unless it is part of a consensual, adult experience," she says. Decima always makes sure customers have a prearranged "safe word" that will stop the scene if it goes too far. She goes...
That's the prevailing philosophy, and the vast majority of Decima's clients are powerful men wanting to be manhandled by women. Psychiatry professor Ng Men-lun of the University of Hong Kong says that the desire to be submissive is not uncommon among bigwigs. "Sometimes a person has this need," he explains, "because he has dominated other people so much, he or she is bored and wants to be dominated." Remorse can be a factor too. "There may be a lot of things someone has done in a position of power that he or she feels guilty about...
...skilled dominatrix choreographs the entire session deploying a war chest of music, scents and lighting to create a scene with a beginning, middle and end, along with well-placed crescendos. Former drama-coach Decima says the mistress must be the one to begin each scene, and must be in character from the start...