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Poilievre’s ‘freezing out serious journalists‘ is ‘scary’ in a democracy, but it’s also his strategy, say observers

Pollster Nik Nanos says he thinks the Conservatives believe that the media are 'part of the big reason' they have difficulty making a major electoral breakthrough.

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