The Line Podcast

Ontario becomes the main story. Why Ford likely starts with the lead, and will then likely screw it up. Don’t put big red panic buttons into rooms if you don’t want kids to push them (true story). POEC, the NWC, why Jen was mad at Freeland, and another damned listicle where no one looked at the methodology.

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Jen Gerson makes her triumphant return to the experimental podcast. She and Matt Gurney talk POEC, whether Canadian minds are capable of changing, Danielle Smith taking on the WEF, Doug Ford runs for the hills again, and the left attacks the independence of the central bank.

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Matt Gurney is joined by Andrew Potter, former editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen, who steps in to cover for Jen Gerson, who’s on the road this week doing research for her book. In this episode: Lots and lots on the convoy, how Ottawa is extremely poorly run, the problems at the top of the RCMP, APEC and pepper on the plate, Ukraine, and lots more.

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Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson in the continuing (not really) experimental Line podcast. In this episode: Danielle Smith experiences reality again, and gets a bit wobbly. The Emergencies Act commission gets underway in Ottawa, and let’s stay tuned for that. Could get interesting! And Elon Musk picks a fight with Ukraine that he might come to regret.

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Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson in the continuing (not really) experimental Line podcast. In this episode: a real grab bag of stuff, including lots on guns, a lot on Alberta, a lot on Poilievre’s naughty metadata, and pondering whether Anita Anand is absolutely astonishing … or just generally competent amid a group of failures.

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Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson in the continuing (not really) experimental Line podcast. In this episode: mostly nukes, to be honest. What the scenarios are, whether we’re prepared (ha!) and why we are getting more concerned. We also talk some media stuff and some federal politics stuff, but mostly nukes.

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Hello, friends and family of The Line. We had ourselves a bit of a week. Matt Gurney was planning on being off for a few days, trying to finish up the home renovation that has eaten his life (and his money — please subscribe today, really, please). Jen Gerson was going to run the shop but she came down with what she thought was a bit of a cold. Oops! Nope. It’s a strep infection. And it turns out you can’t ignore those — if you do, they seem to just get worse.

Anyway, so. Yeah. She’s out of action, friends. By weird coincidence, Jen was actually testifying before Parliament today (more on that later) and she was able to summon her last reserves of strength and finish her appearance. But she used up all of her energy (and her voice!) in doing so.

We could have just skipped the podcast, but Matt actually wanted to have a longer conversation with Mitch Heimpel, who wrote the last piece The Line published this week before the bottom fell out of all our best-laid plans. If you haven’t already, read Mitch’s essay, and then come back here, pour a drink of your choice, and settle in for a long chat on The Line’s special episode on the experimental podcast.

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Watch for our written dispatch, as well — that’s coming tomorrow.

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Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson in the continuing (not really) experimental Line podcast. In this episode: more thoughts on the royals, including King Charles III as the ultimate boomer. Plus some Ukraine, quite a bit on Poilievre vs. the media, and why Matt once thought he’d had his eyebrow shaved off by a rogue barber.

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Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson in the continuing (not really) experimental Line podcast. In this episode: the Queen is dead. God Save the King. And God help us — the avalanche of hot takes will soon be upon us. Also: CPC leadership race, the RCMP has a problem (or two), but the Russians … they’ve really got problems.

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Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson in the continuing (not really) experimental Line podcast. In this episode: Matt’s theory of nastiness, weirdness in the CPC leadership race, how Poilievre is going to completely steamroller most Canadian journalists, commentators and analysts with his deliberate strategy of confrontation, replacing “Jumping the shark” with “Wendy turning grey,” Brenda Lucki is bad at her job and Jen got a free bike! (Matt’s holding out for an M1 Garand, if any of you have one handy.)

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