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Councillor Michael Thompson remembered the exact moment when his world came crashing down,  a memory that had him breaking down on the witness stand for the first time.

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The six-time Scarborough Centre councillor had missed a call from a 705 number while in a council meeting and a text from an OPP detective. When he returned the call, the officer told him the stunning news: He was being charged with two counts of sexual assault.

“I was just literally shocked. I didn’t know what to do,” he recalled, apologizing as he wiped away tears. “Your whole world, just felt like it was just crushed.”

He remembers asking if it was a joke. He has friends who are police officers and hoped someone was just pulling his leg.

But no. Two women he’d hosted at his friend’s Muskoka cottage over the Canada Day weekend in 2022 had accused him of sexual........

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