The Line

By Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson

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 Jun 11, 2025

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The Line is a Canadian magazine dedicated to covering local, national and international politics, news, current events and occasionally some obscure stories.  Hosted by Matt Gurney and Jen Gerson.


Episode Date
Canada's fears, what Trump gets right, and how we can fix ourselves
Dec 09, 2025
America tells the world (and Canada) the new rules of the game
Dec 05, 2025
The Last Straight Women Discuss
Dec 02, 2025
Carney and Smith cut a deal, Guilbeault packs his bags
Nov 28, 2025
Should Canada Join America?
Nov 25, 2025
Canada needs new values — or any values
Nov 21, 2025
How left and right combined can save our cities from themselves
Nov 18, 2025
Crossing the floor is good. Do it more, MPs
Nov 14, 2025
When did Doug Ford become a liberal?
Nov 11, 2025
The Carney verdict is in (for now!)
Nov 07, 2025
Why the courts have the peasants sharpening their pitchforks
Nov 04, 2025
Oh God, are we really having another election?
Oct 31, 2025
Peter Thiel knows about the anti-christ
Oct 28, 2025
Trump targets Canada again
Oct 24, 2025
Did Trump bring peace to the Middle East?
Oct 21, 2025
Carney gets the pity invite
Oct 17, 2025
Trump who? Focus on crime! And other polling updates
Oct 14, 2025
Carney meets Trump, and kids get abandoned at home
Oct 10, 2025
How Canada screwed up Immigration -- and how to fix it.
Oct 07, 2025
Smith sets a pipeline ambush
Oct 03, 2025
How to get law and order back in Canada
Sep 30, 2025
Carney takes a drive through a minefield
Sep 26, 2025
Everything you learned in science class is being reconsidered
Sep 23, 2025
The woke right will have its revenge
Sep 19, 2025
Carney, Poilievre and the problems they face
Sep 16, 2025
Kirk, Canada, and how we get to dark places
Sep 12, 2025
Carney rolls out bucks, Poilievre walks a fine line on immigration
Sep 09, 2025
Police to public — give up and pray
Sep 05, 2025
Forever Canadian?
Sep 02, 2025
Can Canada adapt as the U.S. goes to the dark place?
Aug 29, 2025
Politics returns! And! What you can do to defend yourself
Aug 26, 2025
Canada retreats from Trump, again
Aug 22, 2025
The Ghosts in the Machine - on the spooky side of AI
Aug 19, 2025
TIFF, antisemitism, and how our institutions destroyed themselves
Aug 15, 2025
Tinderbox in Nova Scotia ... and in your brain
Aug 12, 2025
Can Canada save itself before the kids snap?
Aug 08, 2025
Avi Loeb: "One reason I'm seeking a higher intelligence in interstellar space is because I don't often find it in academia."
Aug 05, 2025
Trade war! Gaza war! Intergalactic war?
Aug 01, 2025
Assessing three months of Carney
Jul 29, 2025
Alberta, a pretty typical province. And don't fish near Trump's America
Jul 25, 2025
The Great Book Revival
Jul 22, 2025
Late-night is dying. The CBC might be, too.
Jul 18, 2025
We need wartime effort, for war ... and for housing
Jul 15, 2025
Partisans, pancakes and pathos
Jul 11, 2025
A cover up in Nova Scotia?
Jul 08, 2025
The Line answers your (non-gross) questions
Jun 27, 2025
Don’t Be Canada, and Don’t Ignore the Métis
Jun 24, 2025
Carney, Trump, WMDs and normal socks
Jun 20, 2025
Where is Naheed Nenshi?
Jun 17, 2025
"Sure, we'll record a day early, what can happen?"
Jun 13, 2025
Carney's military pledge — what it buys, and what it costs
Jun 10, 2025
Carney hearts India. Musk and Trump break up
Jun 06, 2025
Will King Charles III's trip to Canada work to stop Donald Trump?
Jun 03, 2025
How fast does Carney dare go?
May 30, 2025
Charles visits Asshole Canada. And two different ways we can be more secure
May 27, 2025
Cops won't cop, courts won't court, politicians won't lead
May 23, 2025
Is the Pope Woke? Views from the front lines of the latest papal conclave
May 20, 2025
Carney's looking a lot like Justin, after all
May 16, 2025
If Trump can get out of his own way, it's bad news for Canada
May 13, 2025
What Liberals can get away with
May 09, 2025
Gaza and Israel brace for another round of conflict
May 06, 2025
It's ABC time — Always. Be. Campaigning.
May 02, 2025
So, that election. What just happened? What happens now?
Apr 30, 2025
This election, we get what we deserve
Apr 25, 2025
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail with Justin Ling
Apr 22, 2025
Poilievre wins dumb debate on points
Apr 18, 2025
Our politicians can't abandon Canadians to foreign attacks
Apr 15, 2025
Carney's China Problem, Jen's society problem
Apr 11, 2025
The Big "Oops." Is This The Next Great Depression?
Apr 08, 2025
Your clock's ticking, too, Poilievre
Apr 04, 2025
What the CPC got wrong, and right, so far
Apr 01, 2025
Carney dumps Trump, Conservatives ponder mutiny
Mar 28, 2025
Let Them Fight!
Mar 25, 2025
Rookie Carney pulverizing Poilievre
Mar 21, 2025
As Trudeau leaves, Poilievre's numbers tank
Mar 18, 2025
Farewell, Carbon Tax Trudeau. Our SEO will miss you.
Mar 14, 2025
Canadian refugee policy in the Trump era.
Mar 11, 2025
We refuse to believe Trump has a real plan.
Mar 07, 2025
Arming Canada.
Mar 04, 2025
Make Trump Happy. Make Gretzky the new King of Canada.
Feb 28, 2025
Why is airline travel in Canada and the U.S. falling apart?
Feb 25, 2025
After Trump threats, Canada (maybe?) starts to get its act together.
Feb 21, 2025
Saving Canada means building it, and growing it, fast.
Feb 18, 2025
Post-Trudeau, Trump gifts the Liberals a bump.
Feb 14, 2025
Canada's weak spot: Why Trump wants our Arctic.
Feb 11, 2025
Trump's serious about annexing us, Trudeau warns.
Feb 07, 2025
How Trump's tariff war would hit Canada.
Feb 04, 2025
Carbon Border Adjustment Carney.
Jan 31, 2025
Canada fights Trump by going full psycho.
Jan 24, 2025
Can Carney save Trudeau's Liberals?
Jan 17, 2025
Can Trudeau's Canada resist Trump's bargaining?
Jan 10, 2025
The Line Podcast: Trudeau, Poilievre, Trump, and how we handle abuse
Jan 03, 2025
Trudeau hangs on as Trump countdown runs down.
Dec 27, 2024
Trudeau's Canada is falling apart.
Dec 20, 2024
Trudeau strikes back (badly).
Dec 13, 2024
Trudeau's Canada: Nice, but not good.
Dec 06, 2024
Trump will eat Trudeau and his penguins alive.
Nov 29, 2024
Trudeau hits his humiliating game-show host era
Nov 22, 2024
In Trump's world, Trudeau's Canada can't work only in theory
Nov 15, 2024
Trump, Trudeau, Canada, and history's new course
Nov 08, 2024
Jen visits Israel, the agony of defeat, and getting fired in Trudeau’s Ottawa.
Nov 01, 2024
Trudeau backs away from his immigration disaster
Oct 25, 2024
Another great week for Justin Trudeau (sigh)
Oct 18, 2024
Trudeau and Co.: Delusional, or quietly hopeless?
Oct 11, 2024
Trudeau’s fake plan to save the CBC
Oct 04, 2024
Trudeau and Poilievre, feeling their feels
Sep 27, 2024
Justin Trudeau sails into the Chaos Zone
Sep 20, 2024
Singh and Trudeau, carbon-tax killers
Sep 13, 2024
Singh dumps Trudeau, but won't move out
Sep 06, 2024
Trudeau's immigration Hail Mary
Aug 30, 2024
Trudeau's buddy Singh gets owned on Twitter
Aug 23, 2024
Trudeau gets slammed for his "modern slavery" immigration laws
Aug 16, 2024
Attack of the CPC bots (or not)
Aug 09, 2024
Ottawa was warned, and we won't learn a thing
Aug 02, 2024
Prepare for Trump 2.0, Canada
Jul 19, 2024
Trudeau steers Freeland under the bus
Jul 12, 2024
Sorry, Liberals. You're stuck with Trudeau now
Jul 05, 2024
Trudeau and the Liberals face a cold, cruel and small summer
Jun 28, 2024
Trudeau's last summer
Jun 21, 2024
Trudeau's exit, traitors in the House and beer-league politics
Jun 14, 2024
Trudeau has to defend Canada, even from Liberals
Jun 07, 2024
Trudeau’s road trip to oblivion
May 31, 2024
Will Trudeau stay or will he go now?
May 24, 2024
Canada is broken. The Accountants have proven it.
May 17, 2024
Flailing Justin Trudeau panics, hits the abortion button
May 10, 2024
Trudeau vs. Poilievre: Who’s the wacko now?
May 03, 2024
Justin Trudeau needs a hug
Apr 26, 2024
The Line Podcast Live in Calgary: Liberals Eat The Rich
Apr 22, 2024
On The Line with a Canadian aid worker in an increasingly dangerous and desperate world
Apr 19, 2024
On The Line with General Wayne Eyre, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces
Apr 16, 2024
Enjoy now, Tories. After the Trudeau bashing pays off, you own the mess
Apr 12, 2024
Justin Trudeau loses the Justin Trudeau vote
Apr 06, 2024
Pierre Poilievre vs. the Carbon Tax Economists
Mar 30, 2024
On The Line: Jen Gerson speaks to Anthony Housefather
Mar 27, 2024
Why do Canadians live in this frozen hellhole?
Mar 23, 2024
Cops to Canadians: Give up!
Mar 16, 2024
Justin Trudeau's death spiral
Mar 08, 2024
Meditations on death, evil, scandals, and other Online Harms
Mar 01, 2024
Pierre Poilievre, porn policeman
Feb 23, 2024
Canada: Toward a road-free future
Feb 16, 2024
The Line Podcast's Royal Tea - Meghan Markle turns life's lemons into Lemonada
Feb 16, 2024
So, Tucker Carlson, still think interviewing Putin was a good idea?
Feb 09, 2024
What problems do Danielle Smith's trans proposals solve?
Feb 02, 2024
Tucker Carlson almost gets himself banned from Canada
Jan 26, 2024
Keep The Line Out of Canadian Politics
Jan 19, 2024
Justin Trudeau votes for Hamas
Dec 15, 2023
The error that should have taken Justin Trudeau down
Dec 08, 2023
The Line won't leave you in a ditch to die
Dec 01, 2023
All Politicians Are Killing Journalism
Nov 24, 2023
We really wish we were still talking about the carbon tax
Nov 17, 2023
Mélanie Joly wants to ‘convene’ Hamas while Montreal Jewish sites get torched and shot
Nov 10, 2023
The Three Curses of Justin Trudeau: Carbon Tax, Costumes, and Carney
Nov 03, 2023
Justin Trudeau’s catastrophic carbon tax comeuppance
Oct 27, 2023
The Day Israel Blew up a Hospital in Gaza — but didn't.
Oct 20, 2023
Canada's proggies can't help but love genocidal death cult Hamas
Oct 13, 2023
Canada is coming for our podcast!
Oct 06, 2023
Never go Full Nazi. Canada flips off its allies. And the NWC debate (again)
Sep 29, 2023
Trudeau vs India. Alberta vs the CPP. Ford flips on the greenbelt. “Parent rights” and/or “hate” marches
Sep 23, 2023
Introducing: The Line Podcast
Sep 19, 2023