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When the Conservative Party of Canada’s national convention kicks off in Calgary next weekend, all eyes will be on the vote that decides Pierre Poilievre’s fate as party leader. But there’s another development the party has quietly approved already: a new “content creator” category of media accreditation that gives right-wing influencers the same access as the press.
A month after losing the election, Pierre Poilievre made personal phone calls to a number of right-wing influencers who’d helped fuel his campaign. He wanted to thank them for their work — and, presumably, get them to start talking about him again. These are the political content creators with tens or hundreds of thousands of followers on Youtube, X, TikTok...
The West Block of Parliament is a great place to hide. A labyrinth of hallways and alcoves, committee rooms and stairways, it’s the architectural expression of Ottawa’s sprawling bureaucracy. At the heart of the maze is the House of Commons, a cavernous room where parliament sits while the years-long renovation of their original seat in Centre Block, next door, is...
A cheerfully brash bald guy cavorts among the thousands at a Poilievre rally in Windsor, Ont., livestreaming his antics from a pole-mounted iPhone. “Hi, hi, let’s go!” I hear him call. “Do you believe the polls?” “Not for a second,” comes the answer. It’s The Pleb, a right-wing YouTuber and darling of the Freedom Convoy movement who’s been following Poilievre...
ON JANUARY 23, when federal judge Richard Mosley ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet had overstepped their authority by invoking the Emergencies Act, I thought back to that terrible February when “angry fringe groups” sparked a national debate over how elected authorities should deal with widespread civil disobedience. I’m speaking, of course, of the Wet’suwet’en protests...
ONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS across Canada spent the final weeks of 2023 escalating their war on the environment. They focused most of their artillery on climate—a striking denouement to the worst year of extreme weather in human history.