Matt Gurney

Flipping the Line: If Canada has no values, what did I adopt when I moved here? An American-born Canadian takes issue with the latest episode of The Line Podcast.

A podcast made me angry, so I wrote about it. Thank you to
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Flipping the Line: If Canada has no values, what did I adopt when I moved here? www.readtheline.ca/p/flipping-t...

I always appreciate Dale boosting my work. All I’ll note here is that I agree more with PM Carney’s assessment of the situation than Dale’s.

Matt Gurney: The Carney salvation will be arriving 'slower than anticipated' A man who ran as a national saviour is governing like an incremental optimizer. And we really shouldn't be surprised.

By @mattgurney.bsky.social RP Matt Gurney: The Carney salvation will be arriving 'slower than anticipated' www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

Hoekstra is a pretty reliable barometer of what the Trump administration is thinking and feeling about Canada I think a lot of what’s coming out of Pete Hoekstra’s mouth, and Trump’s White House, is kind of bonkers, to be honest. But what’s important is that Canadians realize that Hoekstra is reliably and fai...

Hoekstra is a pretty reliable barometer of what the Trump administration is thinking and feeling about Canada, @mattgurney.bsky.social writes www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

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Matt Gurney: If Ford wants to help Canada stand up to Trump, there’s only one thing for him to do It's time the premier of Ontario put his Captain Canada cape away — for the good of the nation.

What Ford should be doing. @mattgurney.bsky.social nails it.

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Matt Gurney: Carney had a choice. He chose to own one of Trudeau's dumbest ideas The gun confiscation plan is doomed that even the minister responsible knows it'll fail. The PM has chosen to proceed, anyway. To please Quebec.

By @mattgurney.bsky.social @thelineca.bsky.social RP Matt Gurney: Carney had a choice. He chose to own one of Trudeau's dumbest ideas www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...

Took me a weirdly long time to find it.

Matt Gurney: The Edmonton police did a shocking thing. Good. We need a shock Unless we want to end up like the Americans, things need to change here, fast.

This article by @mattgurney.bsky.social does a good job of articulating the tension I feel over the Edmonton Police publically opposing a plea deal the crown cut for a rather gruesome crime

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

You mean the list of recent violence?

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I have a bit of a personal window into that via my family and it's well outside my wheelhouse, but I'm consistently shocked how little this is appreciated. The number of businesses owned by people with no one to leave them to, hanging on hoping for a buyer, but likely just facing closure. Oy.

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My daughter has gluten issues (not serious or fullblown yet) so I know what you mean.

I know this is a typical lament, but FYI, when we were in Europe for a few weeks this summer, she ate all the bread and all the pasta and ... nothing. No effect. Totally fine.

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My kids now routinely eat food that my grandparents wouldn't have even heard of until they were retired, and that my parents would have found intriguingly exotic.

I find this topic endlessly fascinating. I use my grandparents as examples. They went, in their lifetimes, from thinking pizza was a weird, exotic food, to learning to love Indian, Japanese, Thai and Chinese. Pretty safe-for-whites dishes from each, but that was still a massive boom.

Honestly that does sound amazing.

Very typical BlueSky experience.

David Shipley: The food supply is a glaring cybersecurity weakness we aren't fixing If you want to know how seriously Canada takes cyber defence, we spent two years on a bill that we accidentally invalidated via a parliamentary clerical error.

This is probably one of the most important pieces I've written in years. A thank you to @mattgurney.bsky.social for the platform to share it and for helping fine-tune it.

www.readtheline.ca/p/david-ship...

I think papers still quite robust in the U.K.

Might need a follow up question or two, given his statement today.

Cozy! I’m in!

Also Bell. Also down.