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The Line Podcast — 280 episodes
The Line Podcast: Carney needs to make the call, now — fight or surrender
On The Line: Is Alberta hurtling toward the edge?
The Line Podcast: How many times can Carney concede to Trump? (Probably lots)
On The Line: How to fix the West's ammunition shortage
The Line Podcast: Have Carney and the rest given up on Canada already?
On The Line: Is NATO doomed, and Canada with it?
The Line Podcast: Carney, doing too many jobs, accidentally burns a bridge
The Line Podcast: Our smoke attack on America has achieved total success
On The Line: Canada can build transportation gooder (and sometimes, we did build good)
The Line Podcast: Carney is building a new post-America world
On The Line: Is Canada finally moving on from the pipeline wars?
The Line Podcast: Carney gets a pipeline deal. Now let's build the damn thing
On The Line: On the frontlines of emergency health care in Canada
The Line Podcast: Carney makes the easy call to fix our most symbolic national disgrace
On The Line: Carney condo bailout? No, not quite
The Line Podcast: Why does America hate us when we're poor?
On The Line: A history of America wanting to annex people
The Line Podcast: Canada and America, a (gross) love story
On The Line: Beware angry Quebec voters, and, rogue AIs
The Line Podcast: Canadians secretly love Mark Carney BECAUSE he yells
On The Line: What Canadian digital sovereignty?
The Line Podcast: Carney is winning the vibes war
On The Line: When Trump is gone, will we still want a bigger military?
The Line Podcast: Alberta wakes up, chooses chaos, drags 35 million Canadians along
On The Line: In the trade war, it's Canada vs. America
The Line Podcast: Pipe down, separatists!
On The Line: How much military can Canada really afford?
The Line Podcast: Canada must start fixing problems, not just identifying them
On The Line: The case for the Canadian Crown
The Line Podcast: SCOOP: Jen blew the whistle to keep people safe. Alberta brushed her off
The Line Podcast: Are Canadians too smug to survive?
On The Line: Carney's got a majority. Here's how he should use it, and how he can lose it
The Line Podcast: Rookie Carney is crushing veteran Poilievre
On The Line: Can Canada keep up with China? Can we keep it out?
The Line Podcast: The Liberals are the best politicians in our broken country
On The Line: America will be effin' back — but maybe not for a while
The Line Podcast: Take us with you, astronauts
On The Line: Jason Kenney on Alberta separatism
The Line Podcast: Mark Carney's got a new China problem
On The Line: Are we building Canada?
On The Line: Politics in Canada, cyberwar in the U.S. and Iran
The Line Podcast: In stunning move, police agree to enforce the law
On The Line: Are we the digital baddies?
The Line Podcast: We hate it when Carney sounds like Trudeau
On The Line: Does Trump have an actual plan for victory in Iran?
The Line Podcast: Is it too late for a Poilievre anti-Trump pivot?
On The Line: What is going on here? Anti-Semitism in Canada
The Line Podcast: Trump's aliens are watching Alberta burn
On The Line from Ukraine: Calgary's Paul Hughes in Kharkiv
The Line Podcast: Trace amounts of residual GOP courage isn't going to save us
On The Line: Was the separation movement good for Quebec?
The Line Podcast: Federalists, unite! Quickly!
On The Line with Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy
The Line Podcast: Danielle Smith needs to make her choice
On The Line: Does the west really want out?
The Line Podcast: Canada's warning to Trump, and Carney's victory lap around Europe
Will the U.S. Fed bend to Trump's will?
The Line Podcast: Mr. Carney goes to China
On The Line: So ... what does this Venezuela thing mean for Alberta's oil?
The Line Podcast: Trump makes his trade demands
On The Line's Emergency Christmas Gift Book List
The Line Podcast: Where did Canada's Mojo go?
On The Line: Canada's fears, what Trump gets right, and how we can fix ourselves
The Line Podcast: America tells the world (and Canada) the new rules of the game
On The Line: The last straight women discuss ...
The Line Podcast: Smith and Carney cut a deal while Guilbeault packs his bags
On The Line: Should Canada just join America?
The Line Podcast: Canada needs new values, or, really, any values
On The Line: How left and right combined can save our cities
The Line Podcast: Crossing the floor is good. Please, MPs. Do it more!
On The Line: When did Doug Ford turn into a liberal?
The Line Podcast: The Carney verdict is (half) in
On The Line: Why the courts have the peasants sharpening their pitchforks
The Line Podcast: Oh Lord, are we really doing an election? Now?!
On The Line: Peter Thiel knows the anti-Christ
The Line Podcast: Trump targets Canada again
On The Line: Did Trump bring peace to the Middle East?
The Line Podcast: Carney gets a pity invite. Does he know we're on the hook now?
On The Line: Trump who? Focus on crime!
The Line Podcast: Carney meets Trump, and kids get abandoned at home
On The Line: How Canada screwed up immigration, and how we can fix it
The Line Podcast: Smith sets a pipeline trap ... but is Carney in on it?
On The Line: Getting law, order and public trust back in Canada
The Line Podcast: Pinning down Carney's first crisis
On The Line: Everything you learned in science class is being reconsidered
The Line Podcast: The woke right will have its revenge
On The Line: As Carney makes moves, he and Poilievre both face problems
The Line Podcast: Kirk, Canada, and how we get to dark places
On The Line: Carney rolls out bucks, Poilievre walks a fine line on immigration
The Line Podcast: The police again tell the public to give up, and pray
On The Line: Forever Canadian?
The Line Podcast: Can Canada adapt as the U.S. goes to the dark place?
On The Line: The House returns … and how to defend your house
The Line Podcast: Canada surrenders to Trump ... again
On The Line: The Ghosts in the Machine
The Line Podcast: TIFF, antisemitism, and how our institutions destroyed themselves
On The Line: A tinderbox in Nova Scotia, and in your brain
The Line Podcast: Can Canada save itself before the kids snap?
On The Line: Avi Loeb on space rocks, aliens, and academic conformity
The Line Podcast: Trade war, Gaza war ... intergalactic war? Oh. And Sweeney.
On The Line: Mark Carney, three months in
The Line Podcast: Alberta, a pretty typical province. And don't fish near America
On The Line: Load up your cart with your next summer read
The Line Podcast: The end of late-night TV ... and maybe the CBC, too
On The Line: A wartime effort, for war ... and for housing
The Line Podcast: Partisans, pancakes and pathos
On The Line: A coverup in Nova Scotia?
The Line Podcast: We answer your (non-gross) questions
On The Line: Don’t Be Canada, and Don’t Ignore the Métis
The Line Podcast: Thank God for normal socks
On The Line: Where is Nenshi?
The Line Podcast: Join CERAAFRDP and see the world
On The Line: Carney's military pledge — what it buys, and what it costs
The Line Podcast: Carney hearts India. Musk and Trump break up
On The Line: Will King Charles III's trip to Canada stop Donald Trump?
The Line Podcast: How fast does Mark Carney dare go?
On The Line: King Charles visits Asshole Canada.
The Line Podcast: Canada's Jews are paying the price for our state failures
On The Line: Is the pope woke? A report from the frontlines of the papal conclave
The Line Podcast: Mark Carney's looking a lot like Justin Trudeau, after all
On The Line: If Trump can get out of his own way, it's bad news for Canada
The Line Podcast: Things Liberals can get away with
On The Line: Gaza, Israel and what's next
The Line Podcast: Time to ABC — Always. Be. Campaigning.
On The Line: What just happened? And what the hell happens now?
The Line Podcast: This election, we'll get what we deserve
On The Line: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail with Justin Ling
The Line Podcast: Poilievre wins a dumb debate on points
On The Line: Our politicians can't abandon Canadians to foreign attacks
The Line Podcast: Carney has a China problem. Jen has a you problem
On The Line: As the markets reel, fear of 'the big one' — another depression
The Line Podcast: Your clock's ticking, too, Poilievre.
On The Line: What the CPC got wrong, and right, so far
The Line Podcast: Carney dumps Trump, Conservatives ponder mutiny
On The Line: Introducing our election Anti-Panel for a nice, polite argument
The Line Podcast: Rookie Carney is pulverizing Poilievre`
On The Line: Trudeau leaves, Poilievre tanks
The Line Podcast: Farewell, Carbon Tax Trudeau. Our SEO strategy will miss you
On The Line: Fixing Canada's refugee system in the Trump era
The Line Podcast: We decline to believe Trump's bullshit
On The Line: How, and why, to arm Canada
The Line Podcast: Keep Trump happy by making Gretzky the new king
On The Line: Why is airline travel in Canada and the U.S. falling apart?
The Line Podcast: Are Trump's threats forcing us to, gasp, get our act together?
On The Line: Saving Canada will mean building it, and growing it. Fast
The Line Podcast: Trump gifts the Liberals a post-Trudeau bump
On The Line: Why Trump is focused on the Arctic, Canada's weak spot
The Line Podcast: Trump means it, Trudeau says
On The Line: What a tariff/trade war with Trump would mean for Canada
The Line Podcast: Carbon Border Adjustment Carney
The Line Podcast: Canada needs to go full psycho
The Line Podcast: Can Mark Carney save the Liberals?
The Line Podcast: Can what's left of Canadian identity resist Trump?
The Line Podcast: We answer all your questions. Well, fine. A bunch of them.
The Line Podcast: Trudeau hangs on too long ... and for what?
The Line Podcast: The country is falling apart while Trudeau considers his options
The Line Podcast: Canada strikes back! (Badly!)
The Line Podcast: Trudeau’s Canada is nice — but not good
The Line Podcast: How Canadian penguins went extinct
The Line Podcast: Trudeau's humiliating price-is-right moment has arrived
The Line Podcast: Canada can't only work in theory. It has to actually work
The Line Podcast: Trump, Trudeau, Canada, and history's new course
The Line Podcast: Jen visits Israel, the agony of defeat, and (not) getting fired in Trudeau’s Ottawa.
The Line Podcast: Trudeau backs away from his immigration disaster
The Line Podcast: Another great week for the Trudeau government
The Line Podcast: Trudeau and Co.: Are they delusional, or just resigned to their fate?
The Line Podcast: A dying government's fake plan to save the CBC
The Line Podcast: Trudeau and Poilievre, feeling their feels
The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau and Friends sail into the Chaos Zone
The Line Podcast: Trudeau and Singh, carbon-tax killers
The Line Podcast: Singh dumps Trudeau, but won't move out
The Line Podcast: Will Trudeau try an immigration Hail Mary?
The Line Podcast: Trudeau's buddy Singh gets owned on Twitter
The Line Podcast: Trudeau gets slammed for his "modern slavery" immigration laws
The Line Podcast: Attack of the CPC Bots!
The Line Podcast: Ottawa was warned, but we won't learn a thing. Here's why
The Line Podcast: Time to start preparing for Trump 2.0, Canada
The Line Podcast: Trudeau steers Freeland under the bus
The Line Podcast: Sorry, Liberals. Looks like you're stuck with Trudeau
The Line Podcast: Trudeau and the Liberals face a cold, cruel and small summer
The Line Podcast: Trudeau's last summer
The Line Podcast: Trudeau's exit, traitors in the House and beer-league politics
The Line Podcast: Trudeau has to defend Canada, even against Liberals
The Line Podcast: Trudeau and his ministers take a road trip to oblivion
The Line Podcast: Will Trudeau stay or will he go now?
The Line Podcast: Canada is broken. The accountants have proven it
The Line Podcast: Trudeau hits the abortion panic button awfully early
The Line Podcast: Who's more wacko, Trudeau or Poilievre?
The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau needs a hug
The Line Podcast, live from Calgary: The Liberals eat the rich
On The Line with a Canadian aid worker trying to help in a more dangerous, desperate world
On The Line with General Wayne Eyre, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces
The Line Podcast: Enjoy now, Tories. After the Trudeau bashing pays off, you own the mess.
The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau loses the Justin Trudeau vote
The Line Podcast: Pierre Poilievre vs. the Carbon Tax Economists
On The Line with Anthony Housefather, the (for now?) Liberal MP
The Line Podcast: Why do Canadians live in this frozen hellhole?
The Line Podcast: Cops to Canadians: Give up!
The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau and the Liberals' death spirals
The Line Podcast: Meditations on death, evil, scandals, and other Online Harms
The Line Podcast: Pierre Poilievre, porn policeman
The Line Podcast: Royal Tea — Meghan Markle turns life's lemons into Lemonada
The Line Podcast: Toward Canada's glorious roadless future
The Line Podcast: So, Tucker Carlson, still think interviewing Putin was a good idea?
The Line Podcast: What problems do Danielle Smith's trans proposals solve?
The Line Podcast: Tucker Carlson almost gets himself banned from Canada
The Line Podcast: Only you can save us from a life of politics and/or public service
The Line Podcast: Trudeau chooses Hamas
The Line Podcast: What should have brought down Justin Trudeau
The Line Podcast: We won't let you die in a ditch
The Line Podcast: All Politicians Are Killing Journalism
The Line Podcast: We really wish we were still talking about the carbon tax
The Line Podcast: Joly wants to ‘convene’ Hamas while Montreal Jewish sites get torched and shot
The Line Podcast: The Three Curses of Justin Trudeau: Carbon Tax, Costumes, and Carney
The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau’s catastrophic carbon tax comeuppance
The Line Podcast: The Day Israel blew up a hospital in Gaza — but didn't.
The Line Podcast: Canada's proggies can't help but love genocidal death cult Hamas
The Line Podcast: The panicky late-stage Liberals are going to destroy the media
The Line Podcast: Never go Full Nazi. Canada flips off its allies. And the NWC debate (again)
The Line Podcast: Trudeau vs. India. Alberta vs. the CPP. Ford flips on the greenbelt. “Parent rights” and/or “hate” marches in the streets
The only thing more screwed than Trudeau's government is the media
If the Liberals death spiral, how good does Poilievre need to be, anyway?
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.58: Oh, joy, the trans culture war is here
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.57: The Matt came back, and thinks we're dumb
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.56: Let's carefully talk about the thing we don't want to talk about
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.55: The photo ops aren't worth getting someone killed
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.54: Hey, where did the audio file go?
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.53: They're eyeball to eyeball. Who'll blink?
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.52: Witnessing the end of the journalism golden age really sucks
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.51: The inevitable thing took slightly longer than it should have
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.50: Please refer all complaints about this podcast to Navigator
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.49: Failure, normalized
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.48: When your best defence sounds like a confession
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.47: The crazification/bonkersification of everything
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.46: Huh. Awful lot of weirdos in this big tent, eh?
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.45: Trudeau told NATO he wouldn't pay for BuzzFeed News so the government went on strike
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.44: A repeat performance from Telford, and the Minecraft misfits screw up
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.43: Let's outsource the government to NASA
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.42: Speed-dating our way through all the stories of this wild week
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.41: Enjoy this not-overtaken-by-news-events podcast while you can!
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.40: Alright, let's publish this before anymore breaking ne ... oh, God, what now?
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.39: China Syndrome (not that one)
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.38: People do weird things when they're losing
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.37: A nice podcast to end a quiet wee — wait, WHAT?!
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.36: The LPC shoots itself in the foot, but won't ban the gun
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.35: Smith vs. the CBC, Toronto vs. itself
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.34: The First Canadian Space Age begins ... later
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.33: Our moral obligation is to not screw up today
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.32: The year ahead will be amazing. Nothing will go wrong. It's smooth sailing from here.
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.31: We've given up on work, but Merry Christmas!
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.30: The only thing not broken in Canada is this podcast
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.29: Having a great week there, eh, Liberals?
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.28: The episode in which Jen finally loses it
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.27: David Lametti, the Attorney General of Canada, hurt Matt's feelings
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.26: Gurney checks in his laptop!
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.25: That's not what the wheels-fly-off button is for!
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.24: Ottawa face plants and Doug Ford activates his cloaking device
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.23: The POEC crushes our last idealism
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.22: Premier Smith stumbles out of the echo chamber
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.21: The provinces stunt back
Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.20: What was that Sting song about Russians?
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Not at all that experimental The Line podcast episode #0.9
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