Hub Podcasts
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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...
Hub Dialogues: Ginny Roth on Pierre Poilievre's support for the working class
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ginny Roth, the national practice lead for government relations at Crestview Strategy and regular Hub contributor, discusses Pierre Poilievre's recent...
Hub Headlines: Why Pierre Poilievre's popularity has been surging
20 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: Corporate Canada is in a precarious position
19 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: Tim Carney on how a family unfriendly culture is making it harder to raise kids
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
American Enterprise Institute senior fellow and Washington Examiner columnist Tim Carney discusses his thought-provoking, new book, Family Unfriendly:...
Hub Headlines: What are Putin's fascist ambitions?
18 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: Is Pierre Poilievre the champion for working-class Canadians?
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss a recent Hub essay on Canada's "lost economic decade" and the cultural, ec...
Hub Headlines: Canada's scarcity crisis
15 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: Is Canada an easy mark in the eyes of the world?
14 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: Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard on Quebec's cultural nationalism & liberalism
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Quebec-based author and scholar Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard discusses his new book, Return of the Bleus, about Quebec's cultural nationalism, its re...
Hub Headlines: Is it time for Trudeau to stand up to TikTok?
13 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: Why Pierre Polievre will govern like a fiscal conservative
12 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: Frank Trentmann on Germany from 1942 to 2022
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Trentmann, a historian at Birkbeck College at the University of London, discusses his latest, must-read book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1...
Hub Headlines: Why Canada cannot afford another lost economic decade
11 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: Dumb as a bag of hammers
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss concerns that the upcoming federal budget may enact new taxes on large cor...
Hub Headlines: When it comes to federal public policy don't believe in fairytales
08 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: Are Canada's two richest provinces playing with fiscal fire?
07 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: Rich Lowry on the news media & conservative journalism
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rich Lowry, the editor in chief of National Review, discusses changes in the news media, conservative journalism, and National Review itself during hi...
Hub Headlines: Are diaspora politics interfering with Canadian foreign policy?
06 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: Is it controversial for Conservative Premier Doug Ford to Appoint conservative judges?
05 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 t...
Hub Dialogues: Melissa Kearney on two-parent privilege
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Kearney, the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, discusses her important, new book, The Two-Parent Privilege:...
Hub Headlines: Is decolonization theory ruining our universities?
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Roundtable: Ottawa consumed by scandal
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the latest developments in the ArriveCan scandal including reports that on...
Hub Headlines: Is it time for cities to rise up in revolt?
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Headlines: What is the answer to the ArriveCan fiasco?
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enj...
In Conversation with Amanda Lang: Millennials outnumbering Baby Boomers & pharmacare legislation
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the cultural, economic and political imp...
Hub Headlines: Is the Online Harms Act a dangerous overreach?
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Headlines: Can we avoid Sweden's rent control disaster?
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Dialogues: Lisa Lalande on 100 million Canadians by 2100
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Lalande, the chief executive officer of the Century Initiative, discusses the Century Initiative's vision of 100 million Canadians by 2100, growi...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Roundtable: Poilievre enters the transgender debate
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths, Editor-at-Large Sean Speer, and Managing Editor Harrison Lowman discuss Pierre Poilievre's decision this week to...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
In Conversation with Amanda Lang: Canada's inflation rate & a new study on health-care spending
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Canada's slowing inflation rate in Janua...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Dialogues: Casey Newton on Silicon Valley, the news media and the future of journalism
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Casey Newton, technology journalist and founder of the Platformer newsletter, discusses the evolving relationship between the big online platforms and...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Roundtable: The ArriveCan Scandal and Trudeau's low polling
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer this week's Auditor General report on the ArriveCan scandal and the bigger public ...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily on The Hub's web...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
In Conversation with David Frum: NDP oil & gas legislation and North America's global oil production
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hubs Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss new Canadian legislation that would ban the advertis...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Dialogues: David Horovitz on The Times of Israel and real-time journalism since Hamas's terrorist attacks
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Horovitz, the founding editor of the Times of Israel, discusses what caused him to co-found the fast-growing site in 2012, what it means to purs...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Roundtable: Bell Media layoffs and its bizarre reactions
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Bell Canada's recent layoffs, the bizarre reaction from commentators and p...
In Conversation with Amanda Lang: Bell's layoffs and Canada's productivity woes
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Bell Canada's announcement of layoffs in...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Dialogues: Marc-David Munk on East Africa & humanitarian medical service
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marc-David Munk, author and U.S.-based emergency physician, discusses his must-read book, Urgent Calls from Distant Places: An Emergency Doctor's Note...
Hub Headlines: Daily digest of our best commentary & analysis
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjo...
Hub Dialogues: James Moore on the CBC and public broadcasting
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former Minister of Canadian Heritage James Moore discusses his experience as the minister responsible for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and hi...
Hub Roundtable: What happened to Canada?
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the state of Canada's news media in light of the recent debate about journ...
In Conversation with David Frum: Decolonization efforts on university campuses
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hubs Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss discuss Concordia University in Montreal's plan to d...
Hub Dialogues: Jessica Pierce on dogs and how to be a better human
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Pierce, internationally acclaimed author and bioethicist, discusses her fascinating, must-read book, Who's a Good Dog? And How to Be a Better ...
Hub Dialogues: Steve Paikin on public broadcasting and the future of the news media
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Paikin, the host of TVO's The Agenda, discusses how journalism has evolved over the course of his career, the opportunities and challenges of wo...
Hub Roundtable: Tucker Carlson's Alberta revival
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss this week's Conservative and Liberal caucus meetings, the upcoming return ...
In Conversation with Amanda Lang: the international student cap & Trudeau and the business community
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang and The Hub's Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Ottawa's new cap on international studen...
Hub Dialogues: Carolyn Tuohy on policy optimism and rose-coloured realism
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carolyn Tuohy, professor emeritus of political science and distinguished fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public ...
Hub Dialogues: Senator Paula Simons on Canada's news media and the future of journalism
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian Senator and former journalist Paula Simons discusses recent developments in the new media, the potential role of public policy to support the...
Hub Roundtable: Is Canada broken?
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive director Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the growing sense that Canada is "broken" and its consequences for the cou...
In Conversation with David Frum: Trump, Conservative Climate Policy, and Renaming Dundas Square
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hubs Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss Donald Trump's decisive win in the Republican Party'...
Hub Dialogues: Tim Schwab on the Gates Foundation & the good billionaire myth
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Schwab, a D.C.-based investigative journalist, discusses his provocative, new book, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Bi...
Hub Dialogues: Steve Hayes on the news media industry & conservative journalism
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Hayes, editor and CEO of The Dispatch, discusses the state of the news media industry, the evolution of conservative journalism, and how The Dis...
Hub Roundtable: Was Trudeau's Caribbean vacation worth it?
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the 100 days since Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel, with a particular focus on the reaction in Canada and...
In Conversation with Amanda Lang: The gig economy & return to the office
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the fifteenth episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling author...
Hub Dialogues: Tim Bale on Brexit and British conservatism
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Tim Bale, author and professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, about his fascinating book, The ...
Hub Dialogues: Amy Mitchell on journalism, information & technology, and the media ecosystem
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Amy Mitchell, the founding executive director of the Center for News, Technology & Innovation, on how informati...
Hub Roundtable: What's happening on campus?
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Hub Roundtable discusses Claudine Gay's resignation as the president of Harvard and its implications for universities across North America...
Hub Dialogues: Martin Wolf on the crisis of democratic capitalism (re-release)
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, about his ...
Hub Dialogues: Chuck Klosterman on the 90s (re-release)
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with Chuck Klosterman, a best-selling author and journalist, about his must-read boo...
Hub Roundtable: Looking ahead at 2024
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the big issues that will command The Hub's attention in 2024 including economic stagnation, immigration policy, i...
In Conversation with David Frum: Young Conservatives and the Far Right (re-release)
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is part of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The t...
Hub Dialogues: Gregg Behr & Ryan Rydzewski on Mr. Rogers (re-release)
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with child advocate Gregg Behr and award-winning writer Ryan Rydzewski about their p...
Hub Roundtable: Laurentian Capitalism and Who Killed Canadian History?
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the growing tendency on the part of governments to pursue their priorities in the form of policy mandates on priv...
In Conversation with David Frum: The big issues of 2023
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the forty-sixth episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David ...
Yossi Klein Halevi on Israel post-October 7th attacks
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with best-selling author and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute Yo...
Hub Dialogues: Batya Ungar-Sargon on what has gone wrong in the news media
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features author and journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon on her provocative book, Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democ...
Hub Roundtable: Signs of life for the Liberals?
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Hub Roundtable discusses new polling that suggests the Conservative Party's political momentum has stalled a bit, including its possible c...
In Conversation with Amanda Lang: The biggest business and economic stories of 2023
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the fourteenth episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling autho...
Hub Dialogues: The Hub's year in review
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Hub executive director Rudyard Griffiths discussing The Hub's progress in 2023, the opportunities and challenges looking ahead t...
Hub Dialogues: Andrew Coyne on Canada's news media & its future
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne about the opportunities and challenges facing Canada's news media, the pr...
Hub Roundtable: Is Canadian history dead?
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the controversy over the congressional testimonies of three major American university presidents (Harvard, MIT an...
In Conversation with David Frum: Canada and U.S.'s diverging economies & Mike Harris's legacy
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the forty-fifth episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David ...
Hub Dialogues: Johan Norberg on Capitalism, Free Markets & Globalization
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Cato Institute senior fellow Johan Norberg on his must-read book, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free...
Hub Dialogues: Martin Baron on the state of journalism & its future
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Martin Baron, a long-time American journalist and former executive editor of The Washington Post, about his mus...
Hub Roundtable: Canada's news industry saved?
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Hub Roundtable discusses recent Canadian economic data including a decline in third quarter GDP, a rise in the national unemployment rate,...
In Conversation with Amanda Lang: The state of Canada's economy
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the thirteenth episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling autho...
Hub Dialogues: Alister Campbell on Premier Mike Harris's Legacy
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Alister Campbell, a senior Canadian insurance executive, adviser to former Ontario Premier Mike Harris, and edi...
Hub Dialogues: Angus Deaton on Economics & Inequality
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton, about his must-read, new book Economics in America: An Immigrant Ec...
Hub Dialogues: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Hub Roundtable discusses Javier Milei and Geert Wilders' election victories in Argentina and the Netherlands, respectively, and what they ...
In Conversation with David Frum: Canada amid the Israel-Hamas Conflict & Upcoming U.S. Presidential Election
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This the forty-fourth episode of the bi-weekly series with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. This episode features a conversation wi...