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Gradually less experimental The Line podcast episode #0.7
Listen now (45 min) | In which we search for things to say about another disaster in the U.S. that leaves us with no words and no wisdom.
Matt Gurney
May 28
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Andrew MacDougall: YouTube is where autodidacts like Poilievre find rabbit holes
In the old days, doing your research meant consulting sources that had either been peer-reviewed or quality controlled in some way. That's over now.
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May 27
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Dispatch from the Front Lines: Only America can save itself (if it can be saved at all)
Another catastrophe in America, just like the last one. Trudeau exploits it at home. Poilievre goes a bit nuts. Also, food's gonna get pricy, and what was Soccer Canada thinking?
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May 28
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Ken Boessenkool: Alberta isn't conservative
Figure this out now, or risk losing Alberta to the NDP for a generation
May 26
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Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Sloly is telling you all he's in trouble. Who's listening?
Matt Gurney
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Michelle Rempel Garner: I went to Davos. The World Economic Forum is not running Canada
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Kevin Newman: Kabul shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish
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Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Hot dogs, horns and hard men
Matt Gurney
124
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Jen Gerson: No one is going to fix housing
Jen Gerson
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Jen Gerson: A Word to My Haters
Jen Gerson
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James McLeod: Can a politician really leave Twitter?
If you’re on Twitter, you get sucked into the culture of Twitter. The machine and the mob are tugging on you constantly.
May 25
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Paula Simons: The government is trying to create a new legal threshold to authorize invasive search
I have a "reasonable general concern" that some travellers could be targeted for phone and computer searches based on their political views.
May 24
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Dispatch from the Front Line: No, government, we don't trust you about monkeypox
On Kenney's end, why we don't give the feds the benefit of the doubt, and concerns about NATO's unity.
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May 21
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Gradually less experimental The Line podcast episode #0.6
Listen now | Kenney goes poof, monkeypox, why we don't give the government the benefit of the doubt, and Jen's fancy 'do.
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May 21
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Jen Gerson: The Glorious Ungovernable Province of Alberta
It wasn't Jason Kenney's decision to re-open last summer that doomed his leadership: it was his arrogance.
Jen Gerson
May 20
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Scott Van Wynsberghe: The blindspot sci-fi historians don't talk about: diseases
Rather like Gothic fiction, what might be called "disease science fiction" is something of a disease itself, infecting other literatures and…
May 18
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Andrew Tumility: For the voters, Ontario's election is staying below the radar
While it may be a low-profile election for the public, in various ways the stakes remain high for the leaders of all three main parties.
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May 17
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Joti Heir: Canada makes Ukraine promises, then struggles to deliver
Ukrainians think that when Canada announces a program, it's in place. Usually, of course, it's not even close.
May 16
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Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Sloly is telling you all he's in trouble. Who's listening?
Matt Gurney
173
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104
Michelle Rempel Garner: I went to Davos. The World Economic Forum is not running Canada
146
Comment
135
Kevin Newman: Kabul shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish
Line Editor
65
Comment
13
Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Hot dogs, horns and hard men
Matt Gurney
124
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45
Jen Gerson: No one is going to fix housing
Jen Gerson
123
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221
Jen Gerson: A Word to My Haters
Jen Gerson
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