Hub Podcasts
Episodes
Hub Headlines: The NSICOP report on foreign interference won't name Canadian media outlets, I will
14 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: It's time for a new (new) deal for provinces
13 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: Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman being the last conservative
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Burns, professor of history at Stanford University and research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, discusses her must-read book, Milton...
Hub Headlines: The Liberals are not a 'Charter party'
12 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: Google shunning media moguls will harm Canadians
11 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 Ignatius on geopolitics, espionage and the intersection between fact and fiction
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Ignatius, best-selling author and Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, discusses his must-read novel, Phantom Orbit: A Thri...
Hub Headlines: Canada's corporate culture problem
10 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: Treason on the Hill
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer are joined by Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne to discuss the parliamentary report rev...
Hub Headlines: Downplaying the treason of MPs betrays our democracy
07 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...
In Conversation with David Frum: Trump's conviction, Claudia Sheinbaum and 80th anniversary of D-Day
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the ramifications of Donald Trump's conviction, the...
Hub Headlines: Poilievre moves beyond Trump and Trudeau
06 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: Trevor Tombe on inflation, high food and housing costs, and affordability challenges
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
University of Calgary economist and regular Hub contributor Trevor Tombe discusses his latest article on the difference between inflation growth and p...
Hub Headlines: Why the Conservatives need a strong climate agenda
05 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: Trudeau's redistribution economics don't add up
04 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: Paul Wells on if Prime Minister Trudeau is down for the count
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Political journalist Paul Wells discusses his new book, Justin Trudeau on the Ropes: Governing in Troubled Times, which details how a prime minister w...
Hub Headlines: Socially liberal Quebec refuses to go "woke"
03 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: Private news media are becoming wards of the state
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss The Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism, an open call by a number of journali...
Hub Headlines: The U.S. is not your punching bag
31 May 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: We should worry about inflation
30 May 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: Kelly Weinersmith on a city on Mars and the uncertain future of settling space
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Weinersmith, biologist and popular science writer, discusses her award-winning book (co-authored with Zach Weinersmith), A City on Mars: Can We ...
Hub Headlines: Canada's unacceptable vaccine mandates
29 May 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 Cass Review shifts the debate on transgender care
28 May 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 Canada's poor performance on advanced industry sectors
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Atkinson, the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, discusses the launc...
Hub Headlines: Addressing Canada's cost of living questions
27 May 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: Antisemitism's useful idiots
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss how the International Criminal Court's petition to issue warrants against Israel's ...
Hub Headlines: Why Canada's drug policies are destructive
24 May 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 working-class' political realignment and its policy consequences
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the growing political realignment occurring across ...
Hub Headlines: Prosecuting Israel threatens liberal international order
23 May 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: Greg Lukianoff on cancel culture, its threat to democracy and reclaiming a free speech culture
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), discusses his must-read, book (co-authored with Ricki Schlo...
Hub Headlines: Parks Canada fails our first Prime Minister
22 May 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: BC Conservatives don't need to negotiate
21 May 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: Jack Mintz on Canada's natural resource sector
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Mintz, a distinguished senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and president's fellow at the University of Calgary, discusses his recent...
Hub Headlines: Celebrating a post-colonial Victoria's Day
20 May 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: Parks Canada puts John A. Macdonald in the crosshairs
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss pro-Palestine/anti-Israel student encampments at Canadian universities, the failure...
Hub Headlines: The slow erosion of our economic freedoms
17 May 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 consequences of Canada's largest tax increase
16 May 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 Morris on what shapes human history and humankind's present and future
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Morris, best-selling author, British historian, archaeologist, and Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University, discusses the big trends ...
Hub Headlines: Population increases don't solve Canada's issues
15 May 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 constitutional crisis is at hand
14 May 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: Dan Senor on the genius of Israel and its resilience amid the Israel-Hamas war
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Senor, best-selling author, former political advisor and podcast host of Call Me Back, discusses his book (co-authored with Saul Singer), The Geni...
Hub Headlines: We should unleash Canada's natural resource sector
13 May 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: Federal government unions don't want to go back to work
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the out-of-touch reaction from federal public sector unions to Ottawa's announcemen...
Hub Headlines: Time to take the fertility crisis seriously
10 May 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: Is a constitutional storm brewing?
09 May 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: André Turcotte on how Canadians are feeling about the upcoming U.S. presidential election
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
André Turcotte, Carleton University communications professor and leading pollster at Pollara Strategic Insights, discusses how Canadians are feeling ...
Hub Headlines: The harm reduction regime is collapsing
08 May 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: Anaida Poilievre is the CPC's secret weapon
07 May 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 Byers and Aaron Boley on who owns outer space and Ignacio Cofone on the privacy fallacy
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2023 Donner Book Prize nominees international lawyer Michael Byers and astrophy...
Hub Headlines: We cannot tax our way to prosperity
06 May 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: Pierre Poilievre's populist memo to corporate Canada
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the brouhaha that occurred in the House of Commons this past week, including what t...
Hub Headlines: Can our defence spending problem be solved?
03 May 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 smoking gun for Canada's weak economic growth
02 May 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: Anti-Israel protests on university campuses across North America
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the recent escalation of anti-Israel protests on un...
Hub Headlines: Will America ruin Canada's EV gamble?
01 May 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 Trans Mountain pipeline's economic benefits
30 Apr 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: Kent Roach on the wrongfully convicted and Abdi Aidid & Benjamin Alarie on AI and the legal singularity
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2023 Donner Book Prize nominees University of Toronto Professor Kent Roach abou...
Hub Headlines: Canada's disastrous defence spending problem
29 Apr 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 Laurentian Capitalist moment
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the federal and Ontario governments' massive subsidies for the electric vehicle ind...
Hub Headlines: How Canada can boost birth rates
26 Apr 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 importance of citizen happiness
25 Apr 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: Roméo Dallaire on whether world peace is impossible
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years after the Rwandan genocide that killed more than 800,000, former U.N Force Commander Roméo Dallaire discusses the atrocity he witnessed,...
Hub Headlines: Have pro-Palestine protests gone too far?
24 Apr 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: Radical elements in the Anti-Racism Act
23 Apr 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: Joanna Baron and Christine Van Geyn on COVID-19 Lockdowns & Civil Liberties (re-release)
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2023 Donner Book Prize nominees and executive director and litigation director ...
Hub Headlines: Can the government fix the Canadian Armed Forces?
22 Apr 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 Trudeau government's anti-growth budget
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss this week's federal budget, including the Trudeau government's focus on redistribut...
Hub Headlines: The consequences of the capital gains tax
19 Apr 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: Do rising capital gains taxes make sense?
18 Apr 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 air attacks, Israel's response & U.S. foreign policy
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Iran's recent air attacks on Israel and their fallo...
Hub Headlines: The Federal Budget spending goes up
17 Apr 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 we can learn from Norway's healthcare system
16 Apr 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: Ambassador Iddo Moed on Iran's drone and missile attacks, Israel's potential response and rising antisemitism in Canada
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Iddo Moed, Israel's ambassador to Canada, discusses Iran's drone and missile attacks over the weekend and Israel's possible response, the Israel Defen...
Hub Headlines: How happy are you?
15 Apr 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: What did Trudeau's foreign interference testimony reveal?
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the foreign interference inquiry, including prime minister's and CSIS dire...
Hub Headlines: What is Canada's 'prosperity predicament'?
12 Apr 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 public sector employment is booming—with a catch
11 Apr 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: Tyler Cowen on the greatest economist of all time
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George Mason University economist and leading public intellectual Tyler Cowen discusses his thoughtful new book, GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist ...
Hub Headlines: Canada's immigration consensus is crumbling
10 Apr 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 should we take the NDP seriously?
09 Apr 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 the Online Streaming Act, a Poilievre-led Conservative government, and the future of the Liberal Party
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and YouTuber J.J. McCullough discusses the implementation of the Online Streaming Act and other efforts by the Trudeau government to regulate t...
Hub Headlines: Clues on a future Conservative government
08 Apr 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 "Great Slump" and the Prime Minister's immigration flip flop
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss economist Trevor Tombe's latest Hub article on "The Great Canadian Slump" ...
Hub Headlines: Is it time to spilt up the RCMP?
05 Apr 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 'Great Canadian Slump' has returned
04 Apr 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: Brad Wilcox on getting married, defying elites and forging strong families
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology and the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, discusses his fascinating new b...
Hub Headlines: Does the Charter apply to indigenous governments?
03 Apr 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 can win the cancer care space race
02 Apr 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: Coleman Hughes on colourblindness and the end of race politics
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, podcaster, and musician Coleman Hughes discusses his provocative, new book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. The...
Hub Headlines: NATO turns 75 years old
01 Apr 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 Ontario Premier Doug Ford a conservative?
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Ontario's free-spending budget and what it says about the Ford government'...
Hub Headlines: Why the Holy Week matters
29 Mar 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 Canada do to get homes built?
28 Mar 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 Betz on the twenty-first century's guarded age and the failed promise of the post-Cold War era
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Betz, a professor of modern warfare at King's College London, discusses his interesting book, The Guarded Age: Fortification in the Twenty-First...
Hub Headlines: Are climate activists holding back climate progress?
27 Mar 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: Was the carbon tax worth the cost?
26 Mar 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: Christopher Ragan on the economics and politics of carbon taxes
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Ragan, economist and founding director for the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, discusses the current carbon tax deb...
Hub Headlines: Low interest rates aren't making a comeback
25 Mar 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 Liberal-NDP coalition government in everything but name?
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer and Managing Editor Harrison Lowman discuss this week's controversial parliamentary motion on the Israel-Hamas wa...
Hub Headlines: Will Canada's electrical grid be ready?
22 Mar 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 investment challenge Canada faces
21 Mar 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...