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.

Happy Sunday, Line readers! We hope you had a great one, and if any of you are missing a gigantic weather balloon, well, we have bad news.

We also have a dispatch video to make you feel better, though.

And a podcast version!

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Your Line editors suffer from the same problem common to many of their kind: they lecture others about not reading too much into polls while closely monitoring polls and occasionally drawing sweeping conclusions from them. Keep all that in mind when we offer you our thoughts on a poll you probably heard about this week, from Abacus. Because, like, yikes.