NOW LIVE: On The Line's video streams, introducing our new election anti-panel
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Each week of the election (and probably one more after, to wrap it up!), we’ll be publishing a new Anti-Panel in written form. Our panel includes three partisan veterans to chat about the coming federal election — and the state of Canadian politics more broadly. Representing the spectrum, we have Amanda Galbraith, partner at Oyster Group, offering a Conservative perspective; Kim Wright, principal and founder at Wright Strategy, bringing the NDP angle; and Jamie Carroll, self-described “Liberal hack” and political strategist, making the case for the Red team.
But this isn’t your standard Sunday-morning panel show. The Line's twist: we’re making them either compliment each other’s campaigns or provide "helpful feedback" to their own — all in the name of national unity. To help introduce our panel to the readers, we invited them onto On The Line … and they did not disappoint.
If you’re wondering about the dual posts, friends, as we mentioned before, we’re splitting On The Line’s releases into audio and video. Videos are now in the late afternoon/evenings, and you can check ‘em out in all our usual places. (Audio options can all be found here, as ever.)
But, how about them videos?
Find us on YouTube, of course.
But we are also now broadcasting live on Twitter.
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Loved the new panel !! Jenn did a great job and the panelists too. The idea of asking for something other than the regular party line/trash talk is brilliant…I hope the panelists continue to honour it. It still bothers me that there is a need to swear…i am an aging Boomer and I remember my mother telling me that talk like this is just lazy….maybe this is the way of the world now ..but it bothers me because I don’t think that intelligent people can find other ways to make their points.
One simple suggestion is to have better coordination on who is speaking at any given time. There were a few occasions where multiple people wanted to say something and everyone's audio was overlapping or cancelling out other's audio.