#817 Bots Have Feelings Too

September 22, 2022

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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.

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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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