New Democrat MP Svend Robinson has announced he is taking a medical leave and will not be a candidate in his riding after he admitted to stealing a ring from an Auction House on Friday.
Robinson said "something just snapped" when he pocketed the ring at an auction house and says he doesn't know why he did it.
No charges have been laid yet.
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