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Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Sloly is telling you all he's in trouble. Who's listening?
The scale of Ottawa's defeat is a jarring and continuing indictment of the capacity of the Canadian state, and the state must reverse this situation…
Matt Gurney
Feb 10, 2022
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Michelle Rempel Garner: I went to Davos. The World Economic Forum is not running Canada
The WEF portrays itself as a highly influential elite organization. In reality, it's an overpriced sales conference.
Feb 24, 2022
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Kevin Newman: Kabul shows the unflattering truth: Canada is slow, risk-averse and selfish
While French commandos in buses got their people out, we sent texts (in English) telling our friends to head to the airport on their own
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Aug 20, 2021
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Kevin Newman: A messy goodbye to a respected figure in journalism
The abrupt end of an anchor’s career makes sense to HR experts and the executives hoping the audience will move on quickly, but it poisons the team.
Aug 16, 2022
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Jen Gerson: No one is going to fix housing
Houses exist to juice the economy and keep the elderly afloat on paper gains well into their retirement years.
Jen Gerson
Apr 13, 2022
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Dispatch from the Ottawa Front: Hot dogs, horns and hard men
This crowd is mostly friendly. But anyone telling you there's no dark edge here is either blind, or lying to you.
Matt Gurney
Feb 7, 2022
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Jen Gerson: The post-pandemic mental-health crisis is here. It's not what we thought.
Crazy people don't think they're crazy. You can't see it when you're in it.
Jen Gerson
Oct 8, 2021
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Jen Gerson: A Word to My Haters
Alberta's real advantage isn't its tax structure.
Jen Gerson
Jan 29, 2021
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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, 2022
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Paul Wells: 'Don’t underestimate the power that comes from the will to fight.’
Paul Wells speaks to Lt.-Col. Melanie Lake, who recently returned from training operations in Ukraine.
Apr 1, 2022
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Jen Gerson: Quit wine. Do heroin
Have our public-health communicators learned nothing from the pandemic? The audience isn't experts. It's normal people.
Jen Gerson
Jan 19
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Dispatch from the Front Lines: Trudeau's absurd answer to the other absurdity he created
When good politics becomes bad politics, and gosh, that can happen in a hurry. MAID. Soccer. And which province is crazier?
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Dec 4, 2022
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