Hub Podcasts
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Hub Headlines: Building better neighbourhoods can solve the housing crisis
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Amanda MacKenzie and Neil Hetherington on how government policy is failing disabled Canadians
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda MacKenzie, national director of external affairs at March of Dimes Canada, and Neil Hetherington, CEO of the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto, ...
In Conversation with Darrell Bricker: What lessons has Canada learned from President Trump's win?
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of The Hub's new bi-weekly series, Darrell Bricker, the CEO of Ipsos Global — Public Affairs and one of Canada's leading pollst...
Hub Headlines: Canada's foreign policy needs a radical reset
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: J.J. McCullough on what Bill C-11 means for the success of digital creators
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
J.J. McCullough, Canadian political commentator and successful YouTube creator, discusses the flaws of Bill C-11 (the Online Streaming Act), includi...
Hub Headlines: Poilievre should bring his own Department of Government Efficiency
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Karen Mazurkewich and Eric Weiner on the joys of travel
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this two-part episode, Karen Mazurkewich, VP stakeholder relations and communications at Toronto Pearson, and Eric Weiner, award winning writer ...
Hub Headlines: Hysteria is unhelpful in responding to Trump tarrif threat
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Mark Jamison on the role of markets and competition in telecoms policy
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Jamison, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former member of President Trump's transition team for the Federal...
Hub Headlines: Potential Criminal Code violations from Ontario MAID providers
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: Trump's double-edged appeal to conservatives
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees and what they signal about his inco...
Hub Headlines: Canada's over-credentialed working class can't get ahead
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: What Trump's tax plan means for Canada
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Brian Dijkema on how the natural resource sector has sustained Canada's middle class
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Dijkema, the president of Canada at Cardus, and a senior editor of Comment, discusses the role that Canada's natural resource sector has played ...
Hub Headlines: Canada has nothing to fear from another Trump presidency
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Sarah Stern on food insecurity in Canada and its disproportionate effect on the disabled community
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Stern, executive director of the Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security, discusses, among other topics, the state of food insecurity in Canada, its...
Hub Headlines: Canada cannot afford to prioritize protectionism
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Samuel Hammond on the rise of conservative & big-tech populism
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel Hammond, senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, discusses Donald Trump's election victory, the rise of a conservative pop...
Hub Headlines: A history of Canadian Remembrance Day
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: The Trump effect on Canadian politics
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the U.S. presidential election result, its effects on Canadian politics including w...
In Conversation with David Frum: U.S. presidential election results & its implications for Canada
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the U.S. presidential election results, including i...
Hub Headlines: Ford's tunnel-vision is the latest costly infrastructure idea
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: The Hub reacts to Trump's dramatic victory
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: John Desjarlais on Indigenous participation in resource development
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Desjarlais, executive director of the Indigenous Resource Network, discusses, among other topics, the federal government's recently proposed emis...
Hub Roundtable: Trump's sweeping return back into the White House
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode, Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss President Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential elect...
Hub Headlines: Canada's moral relativism leaves Jews in the line of fire
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: Canada must change its U.S. approach, no matter who wins
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: John Spencer on Israel's ongoing war against Hamas and urban warfare
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute, co-director of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Proj...
Hub Headlines: It's time to invest in the younger generation
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: Canada's potential fate amid the U.S. presidential election
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the upcoming U.S. presidential election and how the two possible outcomes may impac...
Hub Dialogues: Ben Dachis on housing-related infrastructure financing and Luhan Yao on a below-market rental tax credit program
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode of Hub Dialogues, the winner and runner-up of the second annual Hunter Prize for Public Policy, Ben Dachis, the vice president...
Hub Headlines: British Tories should learn from Pierre Poilievre—win back the Right
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: What Canada can learn from Irish prosperity
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: The B.C. Election: A Slim NDP Majority
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After what seemed like countless recounts, The Hub's B.C. Correspondent Kirk LaPointe talks to Managing Editor Harrison Lowman about what appears to b...
Hub Dialogues: Ted Woodhead on liberalizing Canada's telecommunications sector & market-based competition
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Woodhead, a longtime telecommunications executive and former CRTC official, discusses his DeepDive essay for The Hub on a set of practical policy ...
Hub Headlines: Canada's enemies aren't just targeting elected officials
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: Poilievre's new housing plan isn't flawless—but it's close
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on open discourse, wokeism & multiculturalism
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in discussing her new platform, Courage Media, stresses the importance of open discourse on issues like antisemitism, radical ideolog...
Hub Headlines: Time to boycott the Leaders' Debates Commission
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: Trudeau's defiance and Trump's potential return
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss Prime Minister Trudeau's dramatic week, from the Liberal caucus meeting where he fa...
Hub Headlines: How to fix the temporary foreign worker program woes
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
In Conversation with David Frum: The foreign interference inquiry & Trudeau's shocking testimony
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the latest developments in Canada's foreign interfe...
Hub Headlines: David Frum on Jordan Peterson and selective approach to foregin interference
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Peter Menzies on foreign ownership restrictions in Canada's telecommunications sector
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Menzies, senior fellow at The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, former newspaper executive and past vice chair of the CRTC, discusses his recent comm...
Hub Headlines: Trudeau is in big trouble
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: The B.C. Election: We (Don't) Have a Winner…
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Hub's B.C. Correspondent Kirk LaPointe talks to Managing Editor Harrison Lowman about the results of a historic B.C. election. With no clear winne...
Hub Headlines: The B.C. election is over, and everything is still a mess
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Gordon Campbell on healthcare reform & achieving better health outcomes for Canadians
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special edition of Hub Dialogues, editor-at-large Sean Speer interviews former B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell on the case for ambitious health-c...
Hub Headlines: Trudeau the showman at the foreign interference inquiry, not the statesman
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: Trudeau's politicized testimony & Ford buying votes
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the politics of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial testimony at the fore...
Hub Headlines: What Mark Carney should tell the floundering government
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: The B.C. Election: A Dead Heat to the Finish Line
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Hub's B.C. correspondent Kirk LaPointe talks to managing editor Harrison Lowman about a historic election B.C. election, now just days away. They ...
Hub Headlines: Pain of high interest rates will last for a while
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Robert Atkinson on telecommunications competition in the broadband market
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, discusses about his recent DeepDive essay on Ottawa's...
Hub Headlines: A way for Canadian homebuyers to save nearly $2 billion a year
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: Young professional parents transforming the home education frontier
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Robert Asselin on Canada's consumption-driven growth model and the need for a new economic strategy
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Asselin, Senior Vice President for Policy at the Business Council of Canada, discusses his recently published paper, Engines of Growth, includi...
Hub Headlines: Why Canada is a country worth being thankful for
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: Enjoy your turkey, Parliament might prorogue
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer are joined by MP Adam Chambers to discuss how work in Parliament has stalled as the governm...
Hub Headlines: Does Poilievre have grander ambitions than Harper?
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: The B.C. Election: Who really won the leaders debate?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Hub's B.C. correspondent Kirk LaPointe talks to managing editor Harrison Lowman about a historical election B.C. election, now just over a week aw...
Hub Headlines: Artificial competition in telecoms has been a cross-party failure
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Mac Van Wielingen on the need for a clear, pragmatic and durable climate vision and agenda
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mac Van Wielingen, founder and former chair of ARC Financial Corporation, discusses the tradeoffs between the environment and the economy, the need fo...
Hub Headlines: Canada's risky industrial policy
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Ian Scott on Canada's digitial divide & the telecommunications sector
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Scott, former chair and CEO of the CRTC and visiting scholar at McGill University's Max Bell School of Public Policy, discusses his recent paper o...
Hub Headlines: It's time to change the channel on the CBC
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Damien Steel on carbon removal technology & Canada's potential to become a global leader
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Deep Sky CEO Damien Steel discusses the capitalist case for carbon removal technology, the growing maturation of carbon markets, and why he thinks Can...
Hub Headlines: The one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks on Israel
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: The hard lessons of October 7th for Canada
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss next week's one-year anniversary of Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel and wha...
Hub Headlines: Unionized workers are a big loser under the Liberals' pharmacare plans
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
In Conversation with David Frum: Iran's missile attack against Israel & Indian residential schools
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the latest developments in the Middle East, includi...
Hub Dialogues: The B.C. Election: A United Right vs. the NDP?
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Hub's B.C. Correspondent Kirk LaPointe talks to Managing Editor Harrison Lowman about a historical election B.C. election currently underway. They...
Hub Headlines: Boosting old age security would be a costly mistake
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: David Redfern on the economics of decarbonization
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Redfern, President & CEO of Lafarge Canada (East) and Head of Aggregates and Construction Materials Holcim (U.S.), discusses the economics of de...
Hub Headlines: Quebec is now ignoring a Criminal Code prohibition on MAID advance requests
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: Pierre Poilievre is drawing prominent outspoken 'movement' conservatives
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Grégoire Baillargeon on carbon removal technology and the role of markets & governments
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Grégoire Baillargeon, president of BMO Quebec and vice-chair of BMO Capital Markets, discusses why he is bullish on carbon removal technology, the ro...
Hub Headlines: Time to to correct Canada's biased institutions
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: A fractious Parliament and deepfakes
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the latest developments in Israel's war against Hezbollah and the Trudeau governmen...
Hub Headlines: Time to amend the Canada Health Act
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: Bring on the carbon tax election
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Darrell Bricker on climate change policy and what Canadians are thinking
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, discusses, among other topics, the political salience of climate policy, how Canadians think about the i...
Hub Headlines: The capital gains tax increase is far from trivial
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: End of days for the Trudeau government?
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Roger Aines on being optimistic for carbon removal
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Aines, the Energy Program Chief Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, discusses the current state of carbon rem...
Hub Headlines: A misguided tax on tech companies can help China
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: Byelections turning Ottawa upside-down
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss this week's big political developments, including Monday's byelections, the return ...
Hub Headlines: We can't build our way out of a housing crisis
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
In Conversation with David Frum: The U.S. presidential election's impact on Canada & the upcoming anniversary of October 7th
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of In Conversation with David Frum, leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer...
Hub Headlines: Provincial finances are worse than PBO suggests
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Jason Kenney on Alberta's potential in a low-carbon economy
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney discusses, among other topics, Alberta's potential in a low-carbon economy, his government's support for decarboni...
Hub Headlines: Canada's political parties have a power hoarder problem
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: Will Trudeau follow through on his defence spending promise?
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: Rory Brown on carbon removal technology & Canada's comparative advantage
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rory Brown, co-founder and CEO of Airhive, a British clean technology start-up, discusses carbon removal technology, why it is needed to support broad...
Hub Headlines: What can we expect from Poilievre when Parliament returns?
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Roundtable: Is a non-confidence vote looming?
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss next week's return of the federal parliament, including the issues that will animat...
Hub Headlines: Populism is not a bad word
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Headlines: Suburban crime surge exposes years of national security neglect
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...
Hub Dialogues: J.J. McCullough on federal parliament returning, B.C. politics & the state of American conservatism
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and YouTuber J.J. McCullough discusses the impending return of the federal parliament, the latest development in B.C. politics and the state of...
Hub Headlines: Progressive tropes won't fix the criminal justice system
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative ta...