‘He doesn’t play by the rules’: local Ontario media’s interactions with Poilievre gain national attention

'Local reporters seem to be doing a fairly decent job of asking fairly tough questions,' says Carleton University journalism professor Randy Boswell after interviews with the Conservative leader in two Ontario cities went viral.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's team appears to be 'really interested in getting these sorts of viral clips of Poilievre ‘owning’ reporters or owning people who oppose him,' says Sudbury.com editor Mark Gentili.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

August 26, 2024

Sudbury.com normally doesn’t attract national attention. But an early August visit to the Northern Ontario city by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre changed that.

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