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    #817 Bots Have Feelings Too
    A recent encounter between Pierre Poilievre and David Akin of Global News demonstrates the tactics politicians have been using to avoid accountability. And how the popular #TrudeauMustGo campaign is being dismissed as bots and treated as if it doesn't exist. Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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    A recent encounter between Pierre Poilievre and David Akin of Global News demonstrates the tactics politicians have been using to avoid accountability. And how the popular #TrudeauMustGo campaign is being dismissed as bots and treated as if it doesn’t exist. Nora Loreto co-hosts. 

    Links:

    • Video of David Akin and Pierre Poilievre
    • CBC Manitoba piece re: Homelessness
    • Dean Blundell piece re: #TrudeauMustGo
    • National Post piece re: Trudeau’s divisivenese

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