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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: The Mayor of Peterborough’s f-bombs and the challenge of working in city politics
Description: Guest: Diane Therrien, mayor of Peterborough It was a tweet read across the country that got her city trending on Twitter. Peterborough Mayor Diane Therrien called a group of QAnon-linked demonstrators who came to her city imbeciles and with a few uncensored expletives, told them to leave. Response to Therrien’s tweet has been varied. Some credit her for taking a strong stance against conspiracy theorists causing a ruckus, others say it was overly crass and offensive. But Therrien’s tweet is not a flippant comment. It was a culmination of years of trying to manage a gove...