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Twitter tuesday.article: Party Officials and Screening Applicants

twitter tuesday.article: Kenney said he has ordered party officials to cancel Strashok's membership, according to Vancouver Courier. He added that he recently asked the board of the UCP to develop a process for screening applicants for membership to block those who have expressed hateful or extreme views. I am shocked and disturbed by reports of hateful and extreme online activity by a UCP member named Adam Strashok, Kenney said in a statement on Twitter Tuesday.article continues below Trending Stories How to get a free reusable festive red cup at Starbucks You can walk over the Seymour Canyon Suspension Bridge next month Class Notes Gangs of Vancouver Neither I nor anyone on my staff was aware of the extreme views of the individual in question. Strashok, who ran the call centre for a time in 2017 during Kenney's United Conservative leadership bid, could not be immediately reached for comment. It's the latest in a series of UCP supporters voicing or associating with those expressing hateful and intolerant views. Kenney was responding to a story in Ricochet Media that investigated ties from members of the Canadian Armed Forces to an online store glorifying the era of white rule in Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.