Pierre Poilievre News

2022 - 10 - 6

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Poilievre faces calls to apologize, explain misogynist YouTube tags ... (CBC.ca)

YouTube videos uploaded to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's YouTube channel included a tag associated with a misogynist men's rights movement — and ...

The SPLC defines MGTOW as men "who present themselves as male separatists and have chosen to remove themselves from the negative influence of women entirely." This is the minimum expected from a leader. [Reddit banned a MGTOW community](https://www.reddit.com/r/MGTOW) last year for violating the website's rules on hate speech. He has experts and he has professionals, he has people who know what to do ... "This is unacceptable! Speaker, I call on the Conservative leader to stand in this House, take responsibility and apologize." Why is he attractive to [the MGTOW] community?" They share experiences in which they have been allegedly treated badly or rejected by women and as a result wish to live alone or among male peers. "When Global News brought it to his attention, Mr. [Internet Archive's Wayback Machine](https://archive.org/web/). Speaker," Poilievre said. "These are anti-women movements and they have had devastating real-life consequences.

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Conservatives call off probe into misogynistic tags on Poilievre's ... (Globalnews.ca)

The Conservative leader said Thursday he rejects 'all misogyny and all acts of extremism' after Global News revealed a hidden misogynistic tag on his ...

In a statement to Global News on Wednesday, Poilievre’s office said that he was unaware of the #mgtow tag in his videos “which were initially set up and automated to accompany each video” since March 2018. A fourth source close to Poilievre agreed that the Conservative leader is intensely involved in scripting his social media messages and personally approves most of them. Where the ‘men going their own way’ feel that they need to be separate and work on their own masculinity,” Celestini told Global News in an interview. Poilievre has had many staff upload videos who have passwords over the years, including in 2018, his office is unable to determine who exactly added the tag.” “According to Youtube records, the tag in question was added in early 2018 and it has remained there since that time. Poilievre had the tag immediately removed and condemns the group in question along with all misogyny,” wrote Anthony Koch, a spokesperson working with Poilievre’s team, in a statement.

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Justin Trudeau demands Pierre Poilievre apologize after ... (Toronto Star)

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre refused to apologize Thursday and tried to turn the tables on his Liberal critics after it was revealed tags had been ...

The leader’s office has yet to say whether any further investigation will take place. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanded during question period that Poilievre apologize for “purposely using his videos to appeal to far-right, misogynistic online movements.” Anthony Koch, a spokesman for the Tory leader, said in a statement Thursday that YouTube records show “the tag in question was added in early 2018 and it has remained there since that time.” Poilievre has had many staff upload videos who had passwords over the years, including in 2018, his office is unable to determine who exactly added the tag.” Poilievre did not do that but said he corrected the problem as soon as he was informed of it and disavowed the sentiment behind it. OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre refused to apologize Thursday and tried to turn the tables on his Liberal critics after it was revealed tags had been embedded in his YouTube videos designed to reach out to those in the “male supremacy” movement.

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Poilievre condemned for use of YouTube tag targeting 'misogynistic ... (CTV News)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are accusing Pierre Poilievre of 'using his videos to appeal to far-right misogynistic online movements,' ...

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LILLEY: Poilievre gives Trudeau something he wasn't expecting, a ... (Toronto Sun)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went on the offensive on Thursday against Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, but Poilievre fought back.

Poilievre threw that all back in Trudeau’s face and said he has nothing to learn from the Liberal Leader. From firing Jody Wilson-Raybould, losing Celina Caesar-Chavannes, elbowgate or the Kokanee Grope, Trudeau has his own issues. Let’s be honest, this was an own goal by Poilievre and his team – this hashtag should never have been there. “We condemn all that behavior. He repeatedly, in fact, so many times he can’t even keep track, dressed up in racist costumes for which he has not ever come fully to account. “The Conservative Leader has been purposefully using his videos to appeal to far right misogynistic online.

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Opinion | Pierre Poilievre a rising star for the world's far right (Toronto Star)

Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recently said he's a big fan of Poilievre, calling him part of a global movement of far-right leaders.

It needs to be constantly called out. True, Poilievre isn’t spewing lies and hatred on a scale like Jones. and around the world, including in Canada. Are we going to continue to concentrate power in the hands of fewer and fewer politicians, bureaucrats and elites, or are we going to disperse that power and put it back in the hands of the people by making Canada the freest country Earth?” Poilievre said. [Poilievre has been courting](https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2022/09/08/pierre-poilievres-callous-courting-of-canadas-deplorables.html) the same body of extremists, conspiracy theorists and far-right activists that Jones has been firing up for years. [Jones told his audience](https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-waiting-for-poilievre-to-denounce-bad-people) that he’s a big fan of Pierre Poilievre, calling him part of a “rising” movement of far-right leaders “all over the world.”

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Pierre Poilievre's YouTube Channel Hid Misogynistic Tags in Videos (Complex)

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre's official YouTube channel hid misogynistic tags in its videos dating back to 2018, according to Global News.

Global News verified the use of the tag using publicly-available software and by checking the video’s source code. Poilievre condemns misogyny and all forms of online hate,” explained spokesperson Sam Lilly in a statement to Global News. The tag in question, #mgtow, is an acronym for “Men Going Their Own Way,” an anti-feminist, misogynistic community that mainly exists online and is often used by the involuntary celibate or “incel” community.

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Ratio'd | Alex Jones triggers meltdown over Pierre Poilievre ... (True North)

Liberal MPs such as Mark Gerretsen and Adam Van Koeverdan and NDP MP Charlie Angus were outraged. Journalists also got in on the mix to “fact-check” what we ...

Over the weekend Justin Trudeau went bungee jumping with his son in Quebec. Also on the show, just in case you thought the Prime Minister has checked out of his job, don’t worry! Journalists also got in on the mix to “fact-check” what we already knew.

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