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Dispatch from the Front Lines: When the Liberals ban guns in the forest ...

The Line Podcast: Trudeau’s Canada is nice — but not good

Matt Gurney: Joly's Halifax humiliation was at least on-brand for her government

Greg Quinn: Trudeau's 'vibe bribe' will get the wrong kind of attention abroad

Dispatch from the Front Lines: Tweets of yesterday

The Line Podcast: How Canadian penguins went extinct

Matt Gurney: On the end of (a) world

Peter Menzies: In the U.K., free speech remains under siege

Jen Gerson: Cursing the sun in winter

Aftab Ahmed: Billions stolen from Bangladesh find safe haven in Canada

Rob Shaw: A chastened premier in British Columbia

Dispatch from the Front Line: You Need to Calm Down, Montreal

The Line Podcast: Trudeau's humiliating price-is-right moment has arrived

Josh Dehaas: More Liberal overreach

Ken Boessenkool: Doug Ford sure looks like a conservative!

Dispatch from the Front Lines: Peace, order and really bad governmenting

The Line Podcast: Canada can't only work in theory. It has to actually work

Scott Stinson: Argos-mania sweeps Toronto, and the nation, once again

Jen Gerson: The killing bowl

Jen Gerson: In the burned kibbutzim, black flags mark where the dead were found

Dispatch from the Front Lines: It was a great party, Canada. But it's over now

The Line Podcast: Trump, Trudeau, Canada, and history's new course

Alex Muir: Where and how Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris

Election Dispatch: Death of a Democrat narrative

Matt Gurney: The Fermi Paradox, and U.S. political violence.

Dispatch from the Front Lines: A nice break, or a calm before a storm?

The Line Podcast: Jen visits Israel, the agony of defeat, and (not) getting fired in Trudeau’s Ottawa.

Greg Quinn: Let's talk about Canada's obvious free-trade hypocrisy

Tim Thurley: The lies the B.C. NDP told about guns didn't work

Andrew Kirsch: Bill Blair and his staff owe Canadians a lot better than this

Dispatch from The Front Lines: Have a great trip, Jen!

The Line Podcast: Trudeau backs away from his immigration disaster

Chisholm Pothier: The New Brunswick conservatives did this to themselves

Rob Shaw: Hope you enjoyed the election, B.C. You'll get another one soon

Dispatch from the Front Lines: China and India and MAiD!

The Line Podcast: Another great week for the Trudeau government

Rob Shaw: As the B.C. campaign wraps up, the Conservatives are still standing

Matt Gurney: At the interference inquiry, Trudeau elbows another boob

Joshua Hind: Chow can't spend the next few years pretending Oct. 7 didn't happen

Jen Gerson: Waiting for the catastrophic "Cat 5" conspiracy

The Line Podcast: Trudeau and Co.: Are they delusional, or just resigned to their fate?

Mitch Heimpel: Soon, our parliament could be the CPC vs. the Bloc

Peter Menzies: You pay the price for Liberal streaming tax

Ariella Kimmel: For Jews, a year of pain and neglect.

Matt Gurney: A year into this new war, all the depressing things we've learned

Dispatch from the front Lines: All the pandering that's fit to print

The Line Podcast: A dying government's fake plan to save the CBC

Rob Shaw: In the B.C. election, NDP attacks can't dent Rustad's armour

Matt Gurney: What is Israel up to?

Adam Zivo: When truth is harder to sell than fiction

Andrew MacDougall: Poilievre will have to avoid the Starmer flop

Dispatch from the Front Lines: Sorry, Quebec. Someone else gets a turn now.

The Line Podcast: Trudeau and Poilievre, feeling their feels

Michael Den Tandt: Trudeau needs major change. He's choosing nostalgia

Ariella Kimmel: The "Good Jews" will never be good enough for their haters

Matt Gurney: In New York, the prime minister finds a safe space

Rob Shaw: BC election a trial run for the federal Conservatives

Dispatch from the Front Line: Bunfights and easy marks

The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau and Friends sail into the Chaos Zone

Phil A. McBride: What Israel did is incredible. And it will change things

Jen Gerson: Meditations from the Liberal crazy train

Clarke Ries: Which Canadians should bear the carbon-tax burden?

Rob Shaw: B.C. NDP continues fine tradition of panicked flip flops

Dispatch from the Front Line: Living long enough to become the villain

The Line Podcast: Trudeau and Singh, carbon-tax killers

Matt Gurney: When the police give up, the public makes their own plans

Peter Menzies: The Liberals say the quiet part out loud

Jen Gerson: You Liberals cannot be serious

Dispatch from the Front Line: Well, so much for a quiet first week back

The Line Podcast: Singh dumps Trudeau, but won't move out

Jen Gerson: The NDP understands that it can't support the Liberals now, right?

Matt Gurney: I support Singh's right to terminate his half pregnancy

Dispatch from the Front Lines: CASA collapse!

Rob Shaw: Whither the weirdness of British Columbia?

The Line Podcast: Will Trudeau try an immigration Hail Mary?

Adam Zivo: Reports of Ukraine's doom have been greatly exaggerated

Dispatch from the Front Lines: Party time!

The Line Podcast: Trudeau's buddy Singh gets owned on Twitter

Aftab Ahmed: I speak English. Stop asking.

Andrew Potter: What is Ukraine up to in Kursk?

Dispatch from the Front Lines: A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, more or less

The Line Podcast: Trudeau gets slammed for his "modern slavery" immigration laws

Nick Kadysh: A plan to get Canadian drug policy back to sanity

Peter Menzies: Blaming social media won't stop the next riot

Dispatch from the Front Line: Anyone can buy a bot

The Line Podcast: Attack of the CPC Bots!

Greg Quinn: Canada's real problem with defence isn't measured in GDP

Andrew MacDougall: The long, hard road that brought Britain to these riots

Dispatch from the Front Line: Waiting on the brink ... again

The Line Podcast: Ottawa was warned, but we won't learn a thing. Here's why

Michael Den Tandt: Trudeau can't pull a Biden. The cycle won't allow it

Jen Gerson: The feds didn't listen. Jasper burned

Andrea Mrozek: Canada doesn't have a "too many babies" problem

Matt Gurney: Anson Mount saved Star Trek

Dispatch from the Front Line: Slow news week in America

The Line Podcast: Time to start preparing for Trump 2.0, Canada

Josh Dehaas: Two months to live, but a three-month wait to see a doctor

Jen Gerson: Canada's weird relationship to its artists

Dispatch from the Front Lines: The course of history, and a puff of wind

The Line Podcast: Trudeau steers Freeland under the bus

Matt Gurney: The good, and bad, news about Canadian defence spending

Phil A. McBride: Another way that Canadian cops (and banks) have surrendered

Laura Pentelbury: An airline strike, 82 stranded kids, and a heroic 500-nugget order

Dispatch from the Front Lines: The Liberal mutiny that wasn't (yet, anyway)

The Line Podcast: Sorry, Liberals. Looks like you're stuck with Trudeau

Lang and Rigby: At the NATO summit, Canada needs to pay for its ticket

Josh Dehaas: U of T protesters get schooled on private property rights

Andrew Potter: Don't give up on Canada, get to work

Mitch Heimpel: How to mount (or defeat) a Canadian caucus revolt

The Line Podcast: Trudeau and the Liberals face a cold, cruel and small summer

Matt Gurney: What giving up on Canada might look like

Peter Menzies: Skip the lectures and fix the frickin' pipe

Jen Gerson: Whoo boy, she done

Josh Dehaas: At U of T, police and protesters wait for the courts

Dispatch from the Front Line: Well, great work, parliamentarians.

The Line Podcast: Trudeau's last summer

Aftab Ahmed: It's time to embrace cricket, North Americans

Dispatch from the Front Lines: The prime minister must lead. Only he can.

The Line Podcast: Trudeau's exit, traitors in the House and beer-league politics

Matt Gurney: A timeline of the Liberals not giving a shit about foreign interference

Mitch Heimpel: Parliament can fix this mess. In fact, it is obligated to.

Dispatch from the Front Lines: We can defend ourselves, or we can't

The Line Podcast: Trudeau has to defend Canada, even against Liberals

Andrew Potter: Leo Messi and the Miami Globetrotters are ruining soccer

Eighty years later, The Line remembers

Jen Gerson: People are giving up on Canada. We should wonder why

Matt Gurney: The country is falling apart. Let's talk beer and school-food programs

Scott Stinson: We can fix traffic congestion with a little political courage

Dispatch from the Front Lines: On the purging of the American soul

The Line Podcast: Trudeau and his ministers take a road trip to oblivion

Jen Gerson: The right to disengage from the Omnicause

Stefan Klietsch: How Justin Trudeau hobbled the Liberal Party of Canada

Flipping the Line: Yes, there is a rules-based international order

Andrew Lawton: What it's like to date the very political Pierre Poilievre

Dispatch from the Front Lines: There is no frickin' rules-based order!!!!!

The Line Podcast: Will Trudeau stay or will he go now?

Andrew MacDougall: Change is heading for 'Drowning Street'

Ken Boessenkool: The CPC is not, and has never been, the party of big business

Adam Zivo: As Tel Aviv gets back to normal, those in 'Hostage Square' weep

The Line Podcast: Canada is broken. The accountants have proven it

Michael DeMoor: Attend to your own nuts

Christine Van Geyn: When governments pay to sue themselves on your dime

Peter Menzies: Hey, feds, how are those broadcasting reforms going?

Dispatch from the Front Lines: It's a bit early to be this desperate, Mr. Trudeau

The Line Podcast: Trudeau hits the abortion panic button awfully early

Matt Gurney: Why we're afraid of another American Civil War

Nick Kadysh: This budget hack is insane

Andrew Lawton: I don't entirely understand what happened at that book fair, either

Dispatch from the Front Lines: Hitting 2% of GDP on pure wacko-ism should be easy

The Line Podcast: Who's more wacko, Trudeau or Poilievre?

Matt Gurney: Our government takes yet another reality punch to the face

Jen Gerson: The Conservative case for the CBC

Kristin Raworth: The UCP's petulant power grab

Dispatch from the Front Lines: Every politician needs someone willing to call an abort

Justin Ling: I went to Columbia

The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau needs a hug

Join The Line in Edmonton!

Kristin Raworth: Domestic violence is an epidemic we still don't take seriously

Matt Gurney: Freeland knows better than this. Or at least, she used to

The Line Podcast, live from Calgary: The Liberals eat the rich

Dispatch From the Front Line: Politicians gonna politic - and screw the cottagers

On The Line with a Canadian aid worker trying to help in a more dangerous, desperate world

Michael Den Tandt: Canada can't risk rearming at a peacetime pace

Rahim Mohamed: Checking in on the status of national "$10-a-day" child care

Kevin Wiener: The Online Harms Act is a threat to vulnerable permanent residents

On The Line with General Wayne Eyre, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces

Dispatch from the Front Lines: Escalation

The Line Podcast: Enjoy now, Tories. After the Trudeau bashing pays off, you own the mess.

Adam Zivo: Can we now admit that concerns with safer supply aren't disinfo?

Matt Gurney: What happens when Trudeau can't blame the premiers, NIMBYs or disinfo?

Andrew Potter: Canada needs to be stripped to its foundations

Dispatch From the Front Line: David Johnston, what were you thinking?

The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau loses the Justin Trudeau vote

Matt Gurney: O'Toole passed the statesman test. Trudeau flunked.

Jen Gerson: The problem with the carbon tax is the carbon tax rebate

Clarke Ries: The pain is the point

Dispatch from the Front Line: Beware, economists. From beneath you, Poilievre will devour

The Line Podcast: Pierre Poilievre vs. the Carbon Tax Economists

Graeme Menzies: We need a royally new approach toward Canadian culture

On The Line with Anthony Housefather, the (for now?) Liberal MP

Andrew MacDougall: Move over, legacy press. Social media writes the first draft of history now

Dispatch from the Front Lines: Cosplaying as the country we once were

The Line Podcast: Why do Canadians live in this frozen hellhole?

Matt Gurney: What I got wrong about Poilievre

Flipping the Line: Stop worrying about God

Peter Menzies: The absolute state of this place

Dispatch from the Front Line: The Unbearable Challenge of Prime Ministering

The Line Podcast: Cops to Canadians: Give up!

Matt Gurney: The police have given up. They've surrendered

Jen Gerson: This briefing did not make me feel better about the Online Harms Act

Scott Stinson: The province always wins

Dispatch from the Front Line: The loop of stupidity remains unbroken

The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau and the Liberals' death spirals

Rahim Mohamed: I watched the North Carolina 'bathroom bill' debacle

Mark Stobbe: How to actually cut down on auto thefts

Michael Den Tandt: What Mulroney understood about the threat to Canada today

Dispatch from the Front Line: We don't trust lying liars who lie

The Line Podcast: Meditations on death, evil, scandals, and other Online Harms

Josh Dehaas: It's not so easy to define "hate"

James McLean: Exploitation of temporary foreign workers is a problem Canada must fight

Mitch Heimpel: It's not ageism to worry about Joe Biden's age

Alex McColl: Don't send dud rockets to Ukraine

Flipping the Line: The wise man accepts, the idiot insists

Dispatch from the Front Line: Canada may not be broken, but Ottawa sure is

The Line Podcast: Pierre Poilievre, porn policeman

Jen Gerson: Liberals, you'd be fools

Anvesh Jain: Investing in Ukrainian victory is an investment in world peace

Philippe Lagassé: The harsh reality of Trump's ‘Mobster Diplomacy’

The Line Podcast: Royal Tea — Meghan Markle turns life's lemons into Lemonada

Dispatch from the Front Line: Stop asking us to believe bullshit

The Line Podcast: Toward Canada's glorious roadless future

Rahim Mohamed: Come for the bodyslams. Stay for the Canadian pop-culture flourishes

Andrew MacDougall: The PM's pissed off, eh? That's nice.

Mitch Heimpel: The mob keeps better books than the feds kept for ArriveCan

Lucas Meyer: What were the Flames thinking?

Dispatch from the Front Line: Why the CPC voted against Super Bowl snacks

The Line Podcast: So, Tucker Carlson, still think interviewing Putin was a good idea?

Andrew Potter: The West's slow betrayal of our inconvenient Ukrainian friends

Scott Stinson: Hockey culture won't change until the money goes away

Jen Gerson: Where have all the New Atheists gone?

Peter Menzies: Save Taylor Swift. Stop deep-fake porn

Dispatch from the Front Line: You're all insane now

The Line Podcast: What problems do Danielle Smith's trans proposals solve?

Matt Gurney: Why Trudeau can't save himself (or hasn't yet, anyway)

Aftab Ahmed: Canada has a role to play in the Indo-Pacific, and we need to pick a strategy

Mitch Heimpel: The Liberals have more than just a communications problem

James McLeod: A lesson from Newfoundland's history: We can never take a break from democracy

Dispatch from the Front Line: It's going to get stupider, and potentially, more dangerous

The Line Podcast: Tucker Carlson almost gets himself banned from Canada

Josh Dehaas: You owe Jason Kenney a beer

Andrew MacDougall: The online giants are the house, and they'll win if we keep playing

Kristin Raworth: Check your breasts

Josh Dehaas: The police can't just declare an overpass a Charter-free zone

Andrew Leach: The day Alberta almost went dark

Dispatch from the Front Line: Iran bombs Pakistan while Chow strafes the feds

The Line Podcast: Only you can save us from a life of politics and/or public service

Matt Gurney: Do I really need to demand a consistent standard from you all AGAIN?!

Jen Gerson: The immigration consensus is collapsing

Melanie Paradis: #Homesteading and the unfolding feminist revolt

Andrew Potter: Free speech and academic freedom aren’t the same thing

Dispatch from the Front Line: The Houthis vs. Three Canadians

Philippe Lagassé: Why is Canada buying so much American military equipment?

Dispatch from the Front Line: We're back! Yay?

The Line is grateful for: Geddy Lee's life lessons

The Line is grateful for: Learning how to make stuff

The Line is grateful for: Global vaccination initiatives

The Line is grateful for: Canadians getting angry (no, really — it's a good thing)

The Line is grateful for: The simple joy of creating art