Letters to Sheila: What really mattered to listeners in 2025
For this end-of-year episode of The Gunn Show, I’m opening the inbox and reading your letters. Not the polite ones. The real ones.
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It’s the final Gunn Show of the year — and this episode isn’t about politicians, press conferences, or whatever Ottawa was pretending mattered this week. It’s about you.
For this end-of-year episode of The Gunn Show, I’m opening the inbox and reading your letters. Not the polite ones. The real ones.
I read your comments every week at the end of each show.
Over the past year, Canadians wrote to me from kitchen tables, job sites, hospital parking lots, and pickup trucks. Parents fighting school boards. Workers punished for speaking honestly. Small business owners buried under bad policy. People who never wanted to be “political,” but were pushed there by a government that wouldn’t leave them alone.
They come from people who were told they were fringe, selfish, or dangerous, right up until the facts caught up.
In this episode, I read your words and respond the only way I know how: honestly.
2025 tried to grind people down. It didn’t work.
And whatever comes next — we’re walking into it together.
COMMENTS
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Paul Scofield commented 2025-12-25 08:11:06 -0500Below is for the Letters to Ezra podcast. Not sure how it ended up in this stream. :-) -
Paul Scofield commented 2025-12-25 08:10:04 -0500Interesting bit of history on how the building of the CP was used to support homesteading western Canada, partly to keep the American’s from trying to make the geographic connection between “Seward’s Folly” (Alaska) and the northwestern parts below the 49th parallel. I had always heard that one of the impetuses for Confederation was to join together so that the then large, experienced and unemployed Union Army (after mid-1865) did not get any big ideas and drive north.
