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Andrew MacDougall: In the future, everyone will be PM for 15 minutes
By: Andrew MacDougall
By the time you read this, there is a good chance Keir Starmer will no longer be prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Starmer’s looming defenestration is insane. Not because Starmer was a giant in office; he wasn’t....
On The Line: How much military can Canada really afford?
Today on On The Line, host Matt Gurney is joined by two guests for conversations about Canadian preparedness — both military and medical.
This episode of On The Line is brought to you by Dominion Dynamics. Canada has never had true sover...
Rob Breakenridge: Albertans need answers before any ballots are cast
By: Rob Breakenridge
On the surface, it looks like democracy is thriving in Alberta.
Indeed, it might even seem like an abundance of democracy at the moment, with nine scheduled referendum questions being put to Albertans in October with...
Dispatch from the Front Lines: Signs in windows, or something
Hey, folks. Hope you’re having a great weekend. And, of course, Happy Mothers’ Day, to everyone observing. A special note of thanks to all the Line readers out there who are also, or have ever been, a mom. It’s tough work. Thank you for it....
The Line Podcast: Canada must start fixing problems, not just identifying them
In today’s episode of The Line Podcast, recorded on May 8, 2026, your hosts rush through the recording so they can hang up and go focus on what really matters — today’s UFO document dump!
Kidding. But it is a short episode, because Jen Ger...
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Jessica Davis is President of Insight Threat Intelligence and is the author of Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberations Wars to Global Terrorism and the Islamic State (2017), and Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the 21st Century (2021).
Journalist. A few other things.
Jen Gerson is co-founder of The Line, www.readtheline.ca. She is a Canadian journalist who has contributed to the CBC, the National Post, Maclean's, Walrus, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Her first book is almost done, she swears.
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