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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.20: What was that Sting song about Russians?
Listen now (51 min) | Oh. Huh. It was just called "Russians." Anyway. Whooboy. We're gonna have a nuclear war, aren't we?
Oct 1
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Jen Gerson: C-18 will hurt journalism, not save it
The news industry has real problems. This would make them worse.
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Sep 30
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Dispatch from the Front Lines: Hey, does anyone have a fallout shelter? Or a Geiger counter?
Thinking the dark thoughts. Federal politics. Media chaos in Canada. A crisis in the U.K. And the comments section returns, God help us.
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Oct 2
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Ken Boessenkool: Poilievre has what Harper last did — total control of the CPC caucus
It's not enough to win an election. But it's a necessary precondition to having a shot.
Sep 29
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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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Kevin Newman: Kabul shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish
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Kevin Newman: A messy goodbye to a respected figure in journalism
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Jen Gerson: No one is going to fix housing
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Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Hot dogs, horns and hard men
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Matt Gurney: It's time to start thinking the weird thoughts on Russia
With Putin on the run in Ukraine, we need to consider some scenarios that would have seemed crazy just a few months ago.
Matt Gurney
Sep 28
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Michael Den Tandt: We need new rules and norms for a digitally disrupted age
What happens to a community, or a nation, when there is no spine of shared narratives? We are finding out.
Sep 27
43
Andrew Tumility: Liberals are underestimating Pierre Poilievre, and that's dangerous
The CPC never thought much of Trudeau, and he beat them three times. The LPC can't make that same mistake now.
Sep 26
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Dispatch from the Front Lines: Don't you dare touch those lobsters, hurricane survivors
Social media meets sea food. The CPC's attack on the media continues (and a bit of LPC hypocrisy surfaces). Plus: Weed, Ukraine, and gigantic fake…
Sep 25
41
A Very Special Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.19
Listen now (70 min) | In a Very Special Episode, Matt Gurney takes a long look at why the Conservatives are turning away from, and giving up on, the…
Matt Gurney
Sep 24
23
Mitch Heimpel: I was wrong. Moderates won't vote for us
Nothing any Conservative says or does will convince you, the fabled centrist voter, to vote for us. Don't be shocked when they give up and look…
Sep 22
112
Rahim Mohamed: Poilievre's path to power may be his complicated, very modern family
The Liberals, who have made identity politics central to their party brand and keep trying to connect Poilievre to white supremacism, should be worried.
Sep 20
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Jen Gerson: The problem with Poilievre isn't his policies, it's his character
I'm not convinced that some of the most damaging critiques of Poilievre have yet to hit the mark
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Sep 19
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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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Kevin Newman: Kabul shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish
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Kevin Newman: A messy goodbye to a respected figure in journalism
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Jen Gerson: No one is going to fix housing
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