Matt Gurney: Captain Canada loses his plane in his latest pathetic wimp-out moment But sure, this guy will stare down the Americans in a trade war.

It’s not that he was thinking about buying a jet, and now realizes that would be a bad idea. It’s that he bought a jet, and now wishes he hadn’t, so he wants to sell it as fast as he can to make the problem go away.

But sure. He’ll stand up to Trump. www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

I wish I was asleep.

Rookie Carney crushes pro Poilievre YouTube video by The Line

Anyone who wants a spoiler as to what I'm writing, check out the third segment.
www.youtube.com/live/yGcHFQ0...

Matt Gurney: Calling out Carney’s ‘fancy’ education is loser talk. No wonder the Conservatives doubled down on it There are effective ways to attack the prime minister. This is not one of them.

Opinion: Calling Mark Carney "badly educated" seems like a weird coping mechanism from Pierre Poilievre and Andrew Scheer, writes @mattgurney.bsky.social.

The Line | Substack Commentary for Canadians. Click to read The Line, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

It's a fun way to make a living. But it can be a painfully hard habit to break.

Check out his piece here. No paywall. Enjoy.
www.readtheline.ca/p/kevin-newm...

But I guarantee you that I wonder how I'll ever be able to retire after 40 or 50 years of getting up every day knowing from the outset exactly what I have to produce by exactly what time ... and actually kind of LOVING that. Thriving with that.

Media jobs, to be clear, are usually not dangerous. But they are intensely pressurized, with inflexible deadlines and all your errors and failures being public. It took me years to realize what I was experiencing. I'm glad I did early, and relatively quickly.

A few years ago, I began to notice that I was struggling to enjoy myself on vacations. Especially long ones. A weekend? No problem. A long weekend? Great! But a week off? Or two? I'd have an amazing first few days and then I'd start getting cranky and anxious

Stress withdrawal.

This piece for The Line by Kevin Newman is WILDLY different than what we'd normally run, but we had to run it when he offered it to us. I cannot tell you how this hit me emotionally. He's describing his own arrival at a place I feel myself going.

Jen Gerson: Everything is going well in Liberal-land. Just ask them. “Everything we’re doing is excellent. Everything we’ve done is excellent. Everything we will do is excellent. Also, did you hear about the speech in Davos?”

"I understand that a convention is more about emotions than facts. It’s important to get the faithful riled up and excited. Sometimes, however, it’s also crucial to touch base with consensus reality."

Jen Gerson: Everything is going well in Liberal-land. Just ask them. “Everything we’re doing is excellent. Everything we’ve done is excellent. Everything we will do is excellent. Also, did you hear about the speech in Davos?”

"I understand that a convention is more about emotions than facts. It’s important to get the faithful riled up and excited. Sometimes, however, it’s also crucial to touch base with consensus reality."

Matt Gurney: Donald Trump is Canada's only reliable accountability mechanism That's not a good thing.

By @mattgurney.bsky.social RP Matt Gurney: Donald Trump is Canada's only reliable accountability mechanism open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

On The Line: America will be effin' back — but maybe not for a while Mark Hertling, former commander of United States Army Europe, on the future of the alliance ... and why he finds ways to stay hopeful.

By @mattgurney.bsky.social @markhertling.bsky.social RP On The Line: America will be effin' back — but maybe not for a while open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

Prime Minister Mark Carney with Liberal MPs Marilyn Gladu and Evan Solomon

If I travelled through time to the year 2016 and told 2016 Me that this would be what the Liberal Government will look like in the year 2026, I would ask 2026 Me if I was high on shrooms

Matt Gurney: Donald Trump is Canada's only reliable accountability mechanism That's not a good thing.

"One of the only things I can see out there that actually reliably forces us to take action to fix problems is the president of the United States. Or at least the fear of him. And that’s really bad."

I wrote another one! About courtroom delays. Will go live next week.

PM says F-35 review ongoing after Norad chief says they're not critical PM Mark Carney is choosing his words carefully after the head of Norad suggested advanced aircraft like the F-35 are not critical to continental defence.

The year is 2447. Nanobot swarms wage endless war with nadion bursts and EMPs in the toxic skies of a world once known as Earth, as they have since The Flaying.

From its redoubt on Titan, Canada's government-in-exile announces it is still reviewing the F-35 purchase.
www.cp24.com/news/canada/...

I wish we had more like him.

We'd have an easier time engaging with them if we had politicians willing to stick with them.

TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts

(Oh, I'll also include this one — it's one of the ones Chad screen capped, but he didn't send a link for it.)

www.tvo.org/article/gove...

I left out a bunch of ones about the military, since you said those would disappoint you. But there's a bunch.

I've also excluded about a dozen primal screams about the Crosstown specifically, as that's almost too easy.

Anyway, enjoy.

Matt Gurney: Our government takes yet another reality punch to the face It seems as though Canadian institutions are fundamentally incapable of learning from past mistakes.

Here's one www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

A challenge for politicians: Make decisions reasonably quickly — and then stick to them | TVO Today OPINION: High-frequency rail was announced as a desired project by Via on April 14, 2016. It’s been 2,885 days, and we still haven’t actually decided to do it

Here's one www.tvo.org/article/a-ch...

My terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad passport experience in Toronto | TVO Today OPINION: My daughter needed to renew her passport. What followed was desperate phone calls, hours-long waits, and total exasperation.

This one is basically resolved now but it certainly backs up my contention that I've been on the beat for a while

www.tvo.org/article/my-t...

Matt Gurney: When the police give up, the public makes their own plans And guess what? They're making their own plans.

This one is very niche, but it definitely applies. (It's part two of two, but I'll skip the first one -- more on a theme)

www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

We aren’t taking care of our infrastructure — and it’s not just a Toronto problem | TVO Today OPINION: Keeping publicly owned infrastructure in a state of good repair is extremely basic stuff. Yet every order of government, all across the country, is struggling with it.

Here's another one www.tvo.org/article/we-a...

Ontario is setting up the health-care disasters of the next decade | TVO Today OPINION: The province is trying to expand the system and to recruit and retain staff. But we are already short tens of thousands of people.

Here's a good one www.tvo.org/article/onta...

We need a review of how Ontario handled the convoy crisis — and we aren’t going to get one | TVO Today OPINION: The commission now underway is studying the federal response. Good. But we should also be looking at the Ford government’s appalling dereliction of duty.

Here's one. www.tvo.org/article/we-n...