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Apr 29, 2022 · April 29th 2022. For years now, Canada’s Conservatives have played footsie with an increasingly radicalized right-wing populist movement. The sooner their relationship with them is brought into the light, the better it will be for everyone else.
Apr 26, 2024 · The rise of an unusually tame right-wing populist reveals how Canadian democracy stays strong — and why the world should take notes from Ottawa.
- Beginnings. Pierre Marcel Poilievre was born June 3, 1979, to a “teenage unwed mother who had just lost her mother,” as he recently told Maclean’s. He was adopted by French Canadian school teachers from Saskatchewan: “[They] adopted me and raised me and basically gave me a life,” he said.
- Jeff. He was a paperboy for the Calgary Sun tabloid, growing up in the Calgary Southwest riding held by Reform Party founder Preston Manning, and later by Stephen Harper.
- Reformer. He made his first political donation at age 15, and attended the Reform Party convention in Vancouver in 1996, aged 17. “I like what they stand for,” he told the Vancouver Sun of the western, populist party.
- As Prime Minister… In his second year as an international relations student at the University of Calgary, he was a finalist in the 1999 “As Prime Minister, I Would …” essay contest.
Nov 1, 2022 · The political scientist Pippa Norris explains how a ‘silent revolution in values’ is fueling the global rise of the right.
Apr 20, 2022 · Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets. They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative...
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Dec 8, 2022 · The twice and future prime minister appears able to cobble together a coalition that has been called the most right-wing in Israeli history.
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Mar 7, 2023 · Recent Conservative leaders have tried and failed to move closer towards the centre to take votes from the Liberal Party. Poilievre looks ready to attempt the opposite, focusing on support amongst the far-right and increasing general right-wing voter turnout.
