Hub Podcasts

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...

Hub Headlines: Put the Leaders' Debates Commission out of its misery

10 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: Phil De Luna on direct air capture, its opportunities and challenges

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Phil De Luna, the chief carbon scientist and head of engineering at Deep Sky explains carbon removal technology in general, direct air capture in part...

Hub Headlines: How Trudeau duped Singh

09 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: NDP end their deal with Liberals. What happens next?

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the NDP's withdrawal of the supply and confidence deal with the Liberals, the party...

Hub Headlines: Is Canada's government beyond repair?

06 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: Israel-Hamas war & Ontario's beer and alcohol sales

05 Sep 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 Israel-Hamas war, in...

Hub Headlines: Canada's economic gap with the U.S. reaches new record

05 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: Glenn Loury on being a Black conservative

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brown University economist and Manhattan Institute fellow Glenn Loury discusses his powerful personal memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black ...

Hub Headlines: Why is it hard to condemn the murder of hostages?

04 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: What will we do about AI taking over classrooms?

03 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: Dimitry Anastakis on Canada's automotive sector and electric vehicles

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dimitry Anastakis, the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History at the University of Toronto, discusses the rise and apparent fa...

Hub Headlines: How one Canadian's blunder delayed the end of WWII

02 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: The no reset cabinet retreat and Trump defines deviancy down (again)

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss this week's federal cabinet retreat and the lack of contrition or new ideas from th...

Hub Headlines: The BC election is now the Conservatives' to lose

30 Aug 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: TFWs are not to blame for our economic woes

29 Aug 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: Tim Sargent on the economic effects of Canada's skyrocketing immigration

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Sargent, director of the domestic policy program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, discusses Canada's massive increase of immigration in recent ...

Hub Headlines: To the federal cabinet; housing, immigration, and the TFW program

28 Aug 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 Albertans give Danielle Smith a passing grade?

27 Aug 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: Christine Allen on drug-delivery models transforming cancer treatment

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Christine Allen, professor at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, discusses how new drug-delivery models are transforming canc...

Hub Headlines: There's no such thing as money for nothing

26 Aug 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: Can Canada's Liberals find their Kamala Harris?

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss this week's Democratic Party convention and how it may influence the Trudeau govern...

Hub Headlines: Time to upend Canada's temporary foreign worker program

23 Aug 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 U.K.'s online speech laws are a warning for Canada

22 Aug 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: U.S. Ambassador David Cohen on if Canada is still America's greatest friend and ally

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Less than 100 days until an unprecedented American election, U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen discusses U.S./Canada trade disputes, illegal immig...

Hub Headlines: Canadian euthanasia deaths are soaring

21 Aug 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: Why Canada's untapped labour pools are a missed economic opportunity

20 Aug 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: Milica Radisic on organ-on-a-chip technology

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

University of Toronto professor and Canadian Research Chair of organ-on-a-chip engineering Milicia Radisic discusses her world-leading research on org...

Hub Headlines: The problem with Vancouver's empty home tax

19 Aug 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 return of the corporate welfare queen

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the political significance of Pierre Poilievre's summer tour visiting blue-collar ...

Hub Headlines: Canada's defence capabilities are in disarray

16 Aug 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: Kamala Harris' political momentum and Canada's EV subsidies

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Leading author, journalist, and public intellectual David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Democratic presidential candidate Ka...

Hub Headlines: For China and tariffs, singling out EVs makes no sense

15 Aug 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: Livio Di Matteo on why so many Canadians don't have access to a doctor

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Livio Di Matteo, professor of economics at Lakehead University, discusses his recent DeepDive for The Hub on how Canada's supply of physicians as a sh...

Hub Headlines: Will Ukraine capturing Russian territory backfire?

14 Aug 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's Jews deserve far better from our government

13 Aug 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: Joseph Wong on democracy and a 'new Cold War'

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Wong, a political science professor and vice president, international at the University of Toronto, discusses Chinese political economy, the pr...

Hub Headlines: The political power of declaring normal vs. weird

12 Aug 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 Genius of the Laurentians

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss how the Liberal Party is in crisis management mode in the dog days of summer, Theo ...

Hub Headlines: Canada cannot be complacent about terrorism while ISIS threat looms

09 Aug 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: Redistribution politics means something different now, Trudeau

08 Aug 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: Oren Cass on the economics of the New Right

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Oren Cass, founder and chief economist of the U.S. think tank American Compass, discusses the future of the Republican Party, the role of industrial p...

Hub Headlines: Making politicians unaccountable is a recipe for disaster

07 Aug 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 deluge of Online Harms Act cases will be difficult to handle

06 Aug 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: Susan McCahan on artificial intelligence's impact on education

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Susan McCahan, University of Toronto's provostial advisor on artificial intelligence and vice-provost of innovations in undergraduate education and ac...

Hub Headlines: Foreign buyers are critical to a functioning real estate industry

05 Aug 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 politics of weird

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the immigration policy "theory of everything" and the far-reaching consequences of ...

Hub Headlines: Government is way, way too big

02 Aug 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: JD Vance and modern social conservatism

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Leading author, journalist and public intellectual David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the social conservative movement in lig...

Hub Headlines: Don't give up on Canada yet, young people

01 Aug 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: Tim Sargent on family formation and fertility rates in Canada

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Sargent, director of the domestic policy program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, discusses family formation and fertility trends in Canada ove...

Hub Headlines: Federal handouts are getting out of hand

31 Jul 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 has an unemployment problem

30 Jul 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: Paul Bloom on empathy, equality and envy

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, author and Substack writer of Small Potatoes, discusses issues surrounding empathy, ...

Hub Headlines: The Toronto District School Board has failed to protect our kids

29 Jul 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 economy: Best or worst in the G7?

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the state of Canada's economy including the tension between its growing GDP and dec...

Hub Headlines: How J.D. Vance and Pierre Poilievre slice their economic pie

26 Jul 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 hidden taxes Canadians are paying on new homes

25 Jul 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: Ed Conway on six raw materials that shape modern civilization

24 Jul 2024

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Ed Conway, economics editor at Sky News, columnist and author, discusses his award-winning book, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Mode...

Hub Headlines: The mainstream media should love Doug Ford, now that he's subsidizing them

24 Jul 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: Xi Jinping's China doesn't do 'dialogue'

23 Jul 2024

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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: Bryan Caplan on the science and ethics of housing regulation

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan discusses his provocative, new book, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation. ...

Hub Headlines: Canada should expand its global influence closer to home

22 Jul 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 rise of Trump 2.0

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss this week's Republican National Convention, including the vice-presidential nominat...

Hub Headlines: Sorry, NATO, Trudeau will never take defence seriously

19 Jul 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: Attempted assassination of Donald Trump & JD Vance's VP nomination

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Leading author, journalist and public intellectual David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the assassination attempt on former Pre...

Hub Headlines: Government censorship is not the answer to growing antisemitism

18 Jul 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: Michael Geist on the Online News Act, the Online Streaming Act and the rise of antisemitism

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist discusses the Online News Act and the Online Streaming Act and what they represent in terms of the ev...

Hub Headlines: What a second Trump presidency means for Canada

17 Jul 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 gets it right with message to First Nations

16 Jul 2024

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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: Kristina Acri on pharmacare and drug coverage models around the world

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kristina Acri, an economics and business professor at Colorado College and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, discusses the federal government's p...

Hub Headlines: What Pierre Poilievre can learn from Rishi Sunak's downfall

15 Jul 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 NATO scolding and Freeland's political takedown

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss NATO's 75th-anniversary gathering, including the U.S.' and allies' criticism of the...

Hub Headlines: Canada must start preparing for another Trump presidency

12 Jul 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's resource sector is its productivity powerhouse

11 Jul 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: Ed Greenspon on the fast-evolving policy landscape and the role of think tanks

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ed Greenspon, president and CEO of the Public Policy Forum, discusses the fast-evolving policy landscape, the role of think tanks and where the PPF ha...

Hub Headlines: Reawakening the Canadian soul

10 Jul 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: It's time. Trudeau must go

09 Jul 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: Stephen Frank on pharmacare and alternative policy options for universal drug coverage

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Frank, President and CEO of the Canadian Life & Health Insurance Association, discusses the federal government's pharmacare legislation, the a...

Hub Headlines: Canada's culture is disappearing

08 Jul 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 voter revolt against political elites moves into overdrive

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the whirlwind political changes in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and France and how we...

Hub Headlines: We need to do more for our Jewish neighbours

05 Jul 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.' aging leadership & Minister Sajjan's Afghanistan scandal

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss why America's political leadership—including Pres...

Hub Headlines: Canada's major news media have made their bed

04 Jul 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: Trevor Tombe on an ambitious tax reform agenda and a fairer tax system

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

University of Calgary economist and regular Hub contributor discusses his recent article for The Hub on case for an ambitious tax reform agenda to mak...

Hub Headlines: It's time to kickstart Canada

03 Jul 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: Trudeau's failure in planting 2 billion trees matters

02 Jul 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: Durhane Wong-Rieger on rare disorders and the risks of single-payer pharmacare

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Durhane Wong-Rieger, the president and CEO of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, discusses the challenges that Canadians with rare disorder...

Hub Headlines: Canada is worth celebrating

01 Jul 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: Two leaders. One fateful week

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss last night's U.S. presidential debate and how the progressive elite is in panic mod...

Hub Headlines: Is cancel culture on its way out?

28 Jun 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 simple, surefire way to boost Ontario's economy

27 Jun 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: Jonathan Manthorpe on China's rampant interference in Canada

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Veteran journalist Jonathan Manthorpe discusses his book Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada, which traces ...

Hub Headlines: The cult of expertise has gone too far

26 Jun 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 Conservatives' stunning byelection victory

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer are joined by Crestview Strategy partner and regular Hub contributor Ginny Roth to discuss ...

Hub Headlines: The next Prime Minister must remind public servants who runs the show

25 Jun 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 Robson on the laws of connection and building strong social networks

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Robson, an award-winning science writer, discusses his new, must-read book, The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong ...

Hub Headlines: Not enough Canadians know about the Air India bombing

24 Jun 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: Will Justin Trudeau's leadership survive the summer break?

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Parliament adjourning for the summer, which public policy topics dominated this pas...

Hub Headlines: Regulatory capture has rigged our economy

21 Jun 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...