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The Line Podcast — 267 episodes

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The Line Podcast: Carney makes the easy call to fix our most symbolic national disgrace

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On The Line: Carney condo bailout? No, not quite

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The Line Podcast: Why does America hate us when we're poor?

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On The Line: A history of America wanting to annex people

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The Line Podcast: Canada and America, a (gross) love story

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On The Line: Beware angry Quebec voters, and, rogue AIs

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The Line Podcast: Canadians secretly love Mark Carney BECAUSE he yells

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On The Line: What Canadian digital sovereignty?

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The Line Podcast: Carney is winning the vibes war

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On The Line: When Trump is gone, will we still want a bigger military?

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The Line Podcast: Alberta wakes up, chooses chaos, drags 35 million Canadians along

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On The Line: In the trade war, it's Canada vs. America

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The Line Podcast: Pipe down, separatists!

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On The Line: How much military can Canada really afford?

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The Line Podcast: Canada must start fixing problems, not just identifying them

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On The Line: The case for the Canadian Crown

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The Line Podcast: SCOOP: Jen blew the whistle to keep people safe. Alberta brushed her off

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The Line Podcast: Are Canadians too smug to survive?

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On The Line: Carney's got a majority. Here's how he should use it, and how he can lose it

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The Line Podcast: Rookie Carney is crushing veteran Poilievre

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On The Line: Can Canada keep up with China? Can we keep it out?

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The Line Podcast: The Liberals are the best politicians in our broken country

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On The Line: America will be effin' back — but maybe not for a while

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The Line Podcast: Take us with you, astronauts

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On The Line: Jason Kenney on Alberta separatism

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The Line Podcast: Mark Carney's got a new China problem

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On The Line: Are we building Canada?

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On The Line: Politics in Canada, cyberwar in the U.S. and Iran

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The Line Podcast: In stunning move, police agree to enforce the law

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On The Line: Are we the digital baddies?

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The Line Podcast: We hate it when Carney sounds like Trudeau

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On The Line: Does Trump have an actual plan for victory in Iran?

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The Line Podcast: Is it too late for a Poilievre anti-Trump pivot?

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On The Line: What is going on here? Anti-Semitism in Canada

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The Line Podcast: Trump's aliens are watching Alberta burn

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On The Line from Ukraine: Calgary's Paul Hughes in Kharkiv

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The Line Podcast: Trace amounts of residual GOP courage isn't going to save us

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On The Line: Was the separation movement good for Quebec?

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The Line Podcast: Federalists, unite! Quickly!

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On The Line with Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy

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The Line Podcast: Danielle Smith needs to make her choice

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On The Line: Does the west really want out?

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The Line Podcast: Canada's warning to Trump, and Carney's victory lap around Europe

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Will the U.S. Fed bend to Trump's will?

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The Line Podcast: Mr. Carney goes to China

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On The Line: So ... what does this Venezuela thing mean for Alberta's oil?

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The Line Podcast: Trump makes his trade demands

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On The Line's Emergency Christmas Gift Book List

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The Line Podcast: Where did Canada's Mojo go?

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On The Line: Canada's fears, what Trump gets right, and how we can fix ourselves

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The Line Podcast: America tells the world (and Canada) the new rules of the game

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On The Line: The last straight women discuss ...

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The Line Podcast: Smith and Carney cut a deal while Guilbeault packs his bags

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On The Line: Should Canada just join America?

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The Line Podcast: Canada needs new values, or, really, any values

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On The Line: How left and right combined can save our cities

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The Line Podcast: Crossing the floor is good. Please, MPs. Do it more!

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On The Line: When did Doug Ford turn into a liberal?

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The Line Podcast: The Carney verdict is (half) in

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On The Line: Why the courts have the peasants sharpening their pitchforks

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The Line Podcast: Oh Lord, are we really doing an election? Now?!

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On The Line: Peter Thiel knows the anti-Christ

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The Line Podcast: Trump targets Canada again

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On The Line: Did Trump bring peace to the Middle East?

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The Line Podcast: Carney gets a pity invite. Does he know we're on the hook now?

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On The Line: Trump who? Focus on crime!

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The Line Podcast: Carney meets Trump, and kids get abandoned at home

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On The Line: How Canada screwed up immigration, and how we can fix it

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The Line Podcast: Smith sets a pipeline trap ... but is Carney in on it?

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On The Line: Getting law, order and public trust back in Canada

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The Line Podcast: Pinning down Carney's first crisis

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On The Line: Everything you learned in science class is being reconsidered

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The Line Podcast: The woke right will have its revenge

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On The Line: As Carney makes moves, he and Poilievre both face problems

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The Line Podcast: Kirk, Canada, and how we get to dark places

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On The Line: Carney rolls out bucks, Poilievre walks a fine line on immigration

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The Line Podcast: The police again tell the public to give up, and pray

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On The Line: Forever Canadian?

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The Line Podcast: Can Canada adapt as the U.S. goes to the dark place?

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On The Line: The House returns … and how to defend your house

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The Line Podcast: Canada surrenders to Trump ... again

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On The Line: The Ghosts in the Machine

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The Line Podcast: TIFF, antisemitism, and how our institutions destroyed themselves

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On The Line: A tinderbox in Nova Scotia, and in your brain

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The Line Podcast: Can Canada save itself before the kids snap?

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On The Line: Avi Loeb on space rocks, aliens, and academic conformity

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The Line Podcast: Trade war, Gaza war ... intergalactic war? Oh. And Sweeney.

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On The Line: Mark Carney, three months in

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The Line Podcast: Alberta, a pretty typical province. And don't fish near America

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On The Line: Load up your cart with your next summer read

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The Line Podcast: The end of late-night TV ... and maybe the CBC, too

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On The Line: A wartime effort, for war ... and for housing

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The Line Podcast: Partisans, pancakes and pathos

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On The Line: A coverup in Nova Scotia?

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The Line Podcast: We answer your (non-gross) questions

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On The Line: Don’t Be Canada, and Don’t Ignore the Métis

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The Line Podcast: Thank God for normal socks

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On The Line: Where is Nenshi?

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The Line Podcast: Join CERAAFRDP and see the world

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On The Line: Carney's military pledge — what it buys, and what it costs

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The Line Podcast: Carney hearts India. Musk and Trump break up

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On The Line: Will King Charles III's trip to Canada stop Donald Trump?

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The Line Podcast: How fast does Mark Carney dare go?

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On The Line: King Charles visits Asshole Canada.

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The Line Podcast: Canada's Jews are paying the price for our state failures

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On The Line: Is the pope woke? A report from the frontlines of the papal conclave

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The Line Podcast: Mark Carney's looking a lot like Justin Trudeau, after all

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On The Line: If Trump can get out of his own way, it's bad news for Canada

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The Line Podcast: Things Liberals can get away with

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On The Line: Gaza, Israel and what's next

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The Line Podcast: Time to ABC — Always. Be. Campaigning.

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On The Line: What just happened? And what the hell happens now?

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The Line Podcast: This election, we'll get what we deserve

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On The Line: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail with Justin Ling

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The Line Podcast: Poilievre wins a dumb debate on points

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On The Line: Our politicians can't abandon Canadians to foreign attacks

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The Line Podcast: Carney has a China problem. Jen has a you problem

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On The Line: As the markets reel, fear of 'the big one' — another depression

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The Line Podcast: Your clock's ticking, too, Poilievre.

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On The Line: What the CPC got wrong, and right, so far

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The Line Podcast: Carney dumps Trump, Conservatives ponder mutiny

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On The Line: Introducing our election Anti-Panel for a nice, polite argument

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The Line Podcast: Rookie Carney is pulverizing Poilievre`

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On The Line: Trudeau leaves, Poilievre tanks

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The Line Podcast: Farewell, Carbon Tax Trudeau. Our SEO strategy will miss you

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On The Line: Fixing Canada's refugee system in the Trump era

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The Line Podcast: We decline to believe Trump's bullshit

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On The Line: How, and why, to arm Canada

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The Line Podcast: Keep Trump happy by making Gretzky the new king

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On The Line: Why is airline travel in Canada and the U.S. falling apart?

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The Line Podcast: Are Trump's threats forcing us to, gasp, get our act together?

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On The Line: Saving Canada will mean building it, and growing it. Fast

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The Line Podcast: Trump gifts the Liberals a post-Trudeau bump

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On The Line: Why Trump is focused on the Arctic, Canada's weak spot

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The Line Podcast: Trump means it, Trudeau says

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On The Line: What a tariff/trade war with Trump would mean for Canada

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The Line Podcast: Carbon Border Adjustment Carney

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The Line Podcast: Canada needs to go full psycho

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The Line Podcast: Can Mark Carney save the Liberals?

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The Line Podcast: Can what's left of Canadian identity resist Trump?

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The Line Podcast: We answer all your questions. Well, fine. A bunch of them.

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The Line Podcast: Trudeau hangs on too long ... and for what?

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The Line Podcast: The country is falling apart while Trudeau considers his options

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The Line Podcast: Canada strikes back! (Badly!)

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

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The Line Podcast: How Canadian penguins went extinct

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

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

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Trudeau backs away from his immigration disaster

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The Line Podcast: Another great week for the Trudeau government

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Trudeau and Poilievre, feeling their feels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Attack of the CPC Bots!

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Trudeau steers Freeland under the bus

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Trudeau's last summer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau needs a hug

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

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

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau loses the Justin Trudeau vote

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

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Cops to Canadians: Give up!

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Pierre Poilievre, porn policeman

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

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The Line Podcast: Toward Canada's glorious roadless future

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

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

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

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

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The Line Podcast: Trudeau chooses Hamas

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The Line Podcast: What should have brought down Justin Trudeau

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The Line Podcast: We won't let you die in a ditch

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The Line Podcast: All Politicians Are Killing Journalism

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The Line Podcast: We really wish we were still talking about the carbon tax

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The Line Podcast: Joly wants to ‘convene’ Hamas while Montreal Jewish sites get torched and shot

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The Line Podcast: The Three Curses of Justin Trudeau: Carbon Tax, Costumes, and Carney

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The Line Podcast: Justin Trudeau’s catastrophic carbon tax comeuppance

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The Line Podcast: The Day Israel blew up a hospital in Gaza — but didn't.

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The Line Podcast: Canada's proggies can't help but love genocidal death cult Hamas

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The Line Podcast: The panicky late-stage Liberals are going to destroy the media

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The Line Podcast: Never go Full Nazi. Canada flips off its allies. And the NWC debate (again)

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The Line Podcast: Trudeau vs. India. Alberta vs. the CPP. Ford flips on the greenbelt. “Parent rights” and/or “hate” marches in the streets

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The only thing more screwed than Trudeau's government is the media

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If the Liberals death spiral, how good does Poilievre need to be, anyway?

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.58: Oh, joy, the trans culture war is here

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.57: The Matt came back, and thinks we're dumb

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.56: Let's carefully talk about the thing we don't want to talk about

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.55: The photo ops aren't worth getting someone killed

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.54: Hey, where did the audio file go?

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.53: They're eyeball to eyeball. Who'll blink?

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.52: Witnessing the end of the journalism golden age really sucks

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.51: The inevitable thing took slightly longer than it should have

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.50: Please refer all complaints about this podcast to Navigator

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.49: Failure, normalized

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.48: When your best defence sounds like a confession

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.47: The crazification/bonkersification of everything

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.46: Huh. Awful lot of weirdos in this big tent, eh?

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.45: Trudeau told NATO he wouldn't pay for BuzzFeed News so the government went on strike

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.44: A repeat performance from Telford, and the Minecraft misfits screw up

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.43: Let's outsource the government to NASA

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.42: Speed-dating our way through all the stories of this wild week

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.41: Enjoy this not-overtaken-by-news-events podcast while you can!

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.40: Alright, let's publish this before anymore breaking ne ... oh, God, what now?

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.39: China Syndrome (not that one)

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.38: People do weird things when they're losing

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.37: A nice podcast to end a quiet wee — wait, WHAT?!

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.36: The LPC shoots itself in the foot, but won't ban the gun

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.35: Smith vs. the CBC, Toronto vs. itself

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.34: The First Canadian Space Age begins ... later

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.33: Our moral obligation is to not screw up today

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.32: The year ahead will be amazing. Nothing will go wrong. It's smooth sailing from here.

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.31: We've given up on work, but Merry Christmas!

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.30: The only thing not broken in Canada is this podcast

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.29: Having a great week there, eh, Liberals?

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.28: The episode in which Jen finally loses it

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.27: David Lametti, the Attorney General of Canada, hurt Matt's feelings

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.26: Gurney checks in his laptop!

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.25: That's not what the wheels-fly-off button is for!

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.24: Ottawa face plants and Doug Ford activates his cloaking device

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.23: The POEC crushes our last idealism

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.22: Premier Smith stumbles out of the echo chamber

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.21: The provinces stunt back

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.20: What was that Sting song about Russians?

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A Very Special Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.19

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Experimental The Line podcast episode #0.12

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Not-even-close-to-being-experimental-anymore The Line podcast episode #0.11

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Not-even-close-to-being-experimental-anymore The Line podcast episode #0.10

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Not at all that experimental The Line podcast episode #0.9

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Gradually less experimental The Line podcast episode #0.8

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Gradually less experimental The Line podcast episode #0.7

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Gradually less experimental The Line podcast episode #0.6

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Gradually less experimental The Line podcast episode #0.5

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Gradually less experimental The Line podcast episode #0.4

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Totally experimental The Line podcast episode #0.3

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Totally experimental The Line podcast episode #0.2.1

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Totally experimental The Line podcast episode #0.1