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Matt Gurney

Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) is host of The Exchange on AM 640 in Toronto and a columnist for Global News. He was a member of the National Post comment section for almost nine years.
Toronto police officers work on Danforth Avenue at the scene of the shooting in Toronto on July 23.
Current Affairs

This Is Not Toronto’s New Normal

July 25, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Matt Gurney

After the shooting in the city’s Danforth area, let’s ditch our talking points and discuss real policy change

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Photo by Randstad Canada
Politics

He Came, He Saw, He Went Home

April 28, 2017July 16, 2019 - by Matt Gurney

Conservatives are supposed to value hard work. O’Leary half-assed his way through the campaign—when it fit his schedule

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Media

How Good Editing Could Have Saved Andrew Potter’s Career

March 30, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Matt Gurney

As the media industry pushes for more content with less oversight, editors have become an endangered species

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Illustration by Sauchie Reid
September 2016 / Society

Forever Soldiers

August 22, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Matt Gurney

Coming home from the battlefield is hard—maybe some veterans shouldn’t

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Double issue: declaring your data at the border, the Group of Seven 100 years later, an Indigenous-led camp for unhoused people in Edmonton, death in the age of Facebook, and quitting America for good.

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