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Dispatch from the Front Line: Not all failures are measured in polls or counted in ballot boxes
A bad poll for Trudeau. A reversal on guns. A big media update. And a reminder that we don't live in a clash of narratives, we live in a country.
Line Editor
Feb 5
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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.36: The LPC shoots itself in the foot, but won't ban the gun
Listen now (43 min) | The Abacus poll! The gun-control proposal flops! Media updates! And why reality matters, not just how we "frame" it.
Matt Gurney
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Jen Gerson
Feb 4
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Matt Gurney: Memo to David Lametti. You didn't 'get it right' because it's impossible
The sooner the Liberals realize they're trying to do the impossible with their gun ban, the better it'll be for them.
Matt Gurney
23 hr ago
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Rahim Mohamed: Political tokenism isn't the answer to diversification
The Liberals' ethnic-organization-to-parliament pipeline seems to be broken.
Rahim Mohamed
Feb 3
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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
Line Editor
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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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Harrison Ruess: Our fixation on the U.S. is a barrier to Canadian progress
There is nobody, anywhere, seriously suggesting that Canada should import American-style health care to our country.
Feb 2
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Jen Gerson: We are probably doomed, though
But not for the reasons you think.
Jen Gerson
Jan 31
144
Christopher Ragan: Time for some tough budget talk
The best person in the federal government to lead a difficult conversation about our fiscal future is Chrystia Freeland
Jan 30
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Dispatch from the Front Lines: Toronto needs Batman. (Not the Adam West kind.)
What's broken in our society. Danielle Smith vs. the CBC. More pain for Postmedia.
Jan 28
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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.35: Smith vs. the CBC, Toronto vs. itself
Listen now (54 min) | So things aren't really getting back to normal, eh?
Matt Gurney
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Jen Gerson
Jan 27
21
Andrew Potter: The Doomsday Clock gets its mojo back
The extended post-Soviet Union period lulled us into a feeling that nuclear annihilation was as retro-obsolete as big hair and rugger pants.
Andrew Potter
Jan 26
24
Matt Gurney: Tanks for Ukraine solves some problems. It creates others
As for the big problem hanging over all our heads, well, that one we're just stuck with.
Matt Gurney
Jan 25
53
Ken Boessenkool and Mike Moffatt: Macklem can't afford another bad call
We urge the governor to avoid leaping to overly rose-coloured conclusions.
Jan 24
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Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Sloly is telling you all he's in trouble. Who's listening?
Matt Gurney
180
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Michelle Rempel Garner: I went to Davos. The World Economic Forum is not running Canada
171
111
Kevin Newman: Kabul shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish
Line Editor
71
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Kevin Newman: A messy goodbye to a respected figure in journalism
121
57
Jen Gerson: No one is going to fix housing
Jen Gerson
130
193
Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Hot dogs, horns and hard men
Matt Gurney
127
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