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Line Editor, Andrew MacDougall, Andrew Potter, Matt Gurney, Jen GersonCommentary for Canadians.
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Gregory Jack: Canadians have stopped waiting for America to go back to normal
By: Gregory Jack
We are just a few weeks from the mid-term elections in the United States, which, if the polls are to be believed, could provide a rare double-rebuke of the governing party if the Democrats manage to take both houses. Lest...
Andrew Potter: Donald Trump Loves Putin
By: Andrew Potter
For anyone old enough to remember the Cold War, the idea of an American president supporting Russia in a war of naked aggression and conquest in Europe is unthinkable. Yet it has been two weeks now since Donald Trump anno...
On The Line: How and why Canadian health care fell years behind
In this episode of On The Line, BioCanRx President and CEO Stephanie Michaud joins Matt Gurney for a conversation about one of the biggest problems facing Canadian health care: Canada produces world-class medical research, but too often str...
Matt Gurney: I hoped Toronto’s election would send a message. It did! A bad one
Brad Bradford visits a Jewish restaurant targeted by gunfire in Toronto during a campaign stop in July. Photo from Bradford’s Twitter account.
By: Matt Gurney
In the end, the expected close race to be the next mayor of Toronto was not, in...
Rob Shaw: David Eby’s epic blunder sends the NDP out of power in British Columbia
B.C. Premier-elect Lorne Doerkson, via his X account
By: Rob Shaw
B.C. Premier David Eby led his New Democratic Party to a crushing defeat Saturday, after an early-election gamble that will go down as one of the worst political blunders i...
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A consultant, hack, & ex-political flak with thoughts on the modern information economy. Not a fan of Big Tech
Lapsed academic, celebrity metaphysician, Hobbesian monist, authenticity monger.
Journalist. A few other things. Father to two great children and husband to the love of his life. Co-founder and co-editor of The Line (ReadTheLine.ca).
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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