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Dispatch from the Front Line: An opulent massage for your brain
Guess we have our "busty hookers" for this decade. Great. ALSO: The parents rights and/or hate march. Lots of India. Stupidity in Ontario and Alberta…
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The Line Podcast: Trudeau vs. India. Alberta vs. the CPP. Ford flips on the greenbelt. “Parent rights” and/or “hate” marches in the streets
Listen now (92 mins) | Welcome to The Line Podcast! No longer experimental! But still occasionally profane!
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Matt Gurney: We are an extremely naive country and reality is going to punch us in the face
Why does the Business Council of Canada see this while our politicians can't?
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Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Sloly is telling you all he's in trouble. Who's listening?
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Michelle Rempel Garner: I went to Davos. The World Economic Forum is not running Canada
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Matt Gurney: The Johnston report is one of the most depressing things I've ever read
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Kevin Newman: Kabul shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish
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Jen Gerson: Everybody is being dumb
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Aftab Ahmed: Our coming constitutional crisis
Ottawa can't ignore the ongoing tension between individual rights and provincial autonomy.
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Flipping the Line: No, legislatures can’t be financially liable for passing legislation
Legislation Damages would give rise to a whole host of practical problems and further strain an already overburdened legal system.
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Meet The Line: October 18 in Toronto!
Sip a pint as we ask: "Has Toronto gone nuts?"
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Ken Boessenkool: A successful convention is a key step on the path to victory
To win, you now need to plan, and run, a flawless campaign.
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Andrew MacDougall: Stoics, social media, and a lesson on how to be(come) insensitive
On the power to stop caring, and why most of your death has already happened.
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Dispatch from the Front Line: Kill supply management or FOAD
How not to get brainworms. Missing Deena Hinshaw. And, since when did the federal Liberal caucus decide to start imitating Doug Ford's most junior…
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The only thing more screwed than Trudeau's government is the media
Listen now (70 mins) | Experimental Podcast Episode 0.60: A bad response to a tragedy in Alberta. Why the Liberals can't fix themselves. Another brutal…
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