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Hub Headlines Election 2025: Does Carney care about accountability, and the carbon tax lowered prices at pumps
15 Apr 2025
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...
Election 2025, Day 22: Tightening polls and a pulse check on Quebec voters
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Darrell Br...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: Canada's government-organized debates are here
14 Apr 2025
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 Notebook: Tariffs, tumbling markets, and a cautious Bank of Canada
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hub Notebook features Theo Argitis, editor-at-large for business and economics, and his analysis and insights on the week that was in economics. For m...
Hub Roundtable: How can Conservatives get out of this rut?
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss how the federal campaign is going at the midway mark, including some of the bigger ...
Chinyere Eni on making economic reconciliation a reality
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chinyere Eni, the head of RBC Origins and RBC's Indigenous Banking Services, discusses the role of the private sector in general—and banks in partic...
Election 2025: Day 19, Why voters' perceptions of Poilievre and Carney are shifting
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features David Cole...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: Don't expect the debates to save you, Conservatives
11 Apr 2025
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...
Parsing Carney's plan: Does the CBC deserve to have its budget nearly doubled?
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on "Full Press", when a journalist complains about how politicians treat them, does the public even care? Also, Liberal leader Mark Carney p...
Election 2025: Day 18, The NDP's collapse and growing Western alienation
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Amanda Gal...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: How seriously should we be taking Pierre Poilievre's rallies?
10 Apr 2025
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...
David Frum: Trump's obsession with tariffs and America's increasing isolation on the world stage
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the ongoing fallout of President Trump's tariffs on...
Election 2025: Day 17, The federal election race is not over yet
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Darrell Br...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: American carnage
09 Apr 2025
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...
Election 2025: Day 16, How are the parties jockeying for voters and what about B.C.?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Ginny Roth...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: Conservative plan for capital gains tax could spur $12.5 billion in investment
08 Apr 2025
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...
Election 2025: Day 15, The first glimpse at the damage of Trump's tariffs
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features David Rose...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: The most consequential campaign since 1984
07 Apr 2025
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...
Now is the time for Conservatives to be risk-takers
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the state of the federal election campaign as week two comes to an end and what the...
Election 2025: Day 12, Tariff market meltdown, new polls and the future of the CBC
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features former Min...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: U.S. reciprocal tariffs spare Canada and Mexico for now
04 Apr 2025
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...
Preston Manning on why a Carney government would fuel Western separatism
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Preston Manning, founder of the Reform Party of Canada and former Leader of the Official Opposition, discusses his recent Globe and Mail op-ed that w...
Ross Douthat on why everyone should be religious
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat makes the case for religion that extends beyond typical utilitarian arguments. He explains why a religious outlo...
Election 2025: Day 11, Canada is not out of the Trump tariff woods yet
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Darrell Br...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: What we can learn from Canada's last trade-war election
03 Apr 2025
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...
Election 2025: Day 10, Breaking down Poilievre's speech as Trump's tariffs loom
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Amanda Gal...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: Turn the tariffs from an economic crisis to a golden opportunity
02 Apr 2025
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...
Election 2025: Day 9, Why has Alberta been left out of the national conversation?
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Darrell Br...
Andrew Coyne on if Poilievre can win
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne joins Hub Dialogues to talk about why the Conservatives seem to be struggling to find their footing in a contest...
Hub Headlines 2025: Mainstream media can't have their cake and eat it too
01 Apr 2025
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...
Richard Kerbaj on if Trump will kick Canada out of the Five Eyes
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Author and former security correspondent for The Sunday Times Richard Kerbaj traces the untold history of the Five Eyes- the world's most powerful ...
Election 2025: Day 8, An election battle between boomers and Gen Z
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Ginny Roth...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: The best response to Trump is to keep our heads
31 Mar 2025
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...
The Men in Black election campaign
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss Friday's call between Mark Carney and President Trump and how it might influence th...
Election 2025: Day 5, Liberal polls surge as Trump dominates campaign
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Darrell Br...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: A call for media transparency this election
28 Mar 2025
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...
Why Carney and Poilievre find journalists so annoying
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on "Full Press", Poilievre and Carney are different men but clearly both find reporters incredibly pesky, a subscription-funded rather than ...
Election 2025: Day 4, Should the Conservatives be running a front-runner campaign?
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Ginny Roth...
David Frum: Trump faces his first national security scandal as messaging app blows up
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the group chat intelligence breach involving senior...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: The Liberal and Conservative tax cuts do little for the economy
27 Mar 2025
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...
Election 2025: Day 3, How are the Conservatives making inroads with unions?
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Brian Dijk...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: Carney and Poilievre sidelining the media won't work
26 Mar 2025
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 Dialogue: Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg on Carney, Canada, and Conservatism
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former British Conservative MP and cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg explains why he was so critical of Mark Carney during his tenure as the gover...
Election 2025: Day 2, What is the ballot box question?
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Amanda Gal...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: Can Poilievre win in Quebec?
25 Mar 2025
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...
Election 2025: Day 1, How are the party leaders kicking off this historic race?
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to The Hub's experts daily during the campaign as they unpack the stories making the news during the election. Today's show features Ginny Roth...
Hub Headlines Election 2025: How Mark Carney would govern Canada
24 Mar 2025
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 historic election is on the horizon
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the upcoming federal election campaign, including the fast-moving polls and the ten...
Hub Headlines: Europe is no quick fix for Canada
21 Mar 2025
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: Carney's first trip abroad and why he should have gone to Mexico
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss Prime Minister Mark Carney's first trip abroad to t...
Hub Headlines: Nova Scotia's big trade reform could shake up the country
20 Mar 2025
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: Whoever wins the most seats should be in power
19 Mar 2025
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: Matthew Kroenig on a Trump-Reagan foreign policy strategy to contain America's adversaries
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Kroenig, American political scientist and national security strategist currently serving as vice president of the Atlantic Council, discusses ...
Hub Headlines: Mark Carney must meet voters and test his legitimacy—now
18 Mar 2025
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 many faces of Mark Carney
17 Mar 2025
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: Prime Minister Carney has arisen
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss Mark Carney's officially swearing in as Prime Minister and the appointment of his c...
Hub Headlines: Trump's tariffs aren't actually about trade. Here's why
14 Mar 2025
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 Stackhouse on navigating the threats of tariffs and the evolving economic global order
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Stackhouse, senior vice-president to the office of the CEO at RBC, discusses a DeepDive essay he recently authored for The Hub on the Trump ad...
Bricker & Speer: Carney's decisive victory
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Darrell Bricker, the CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, and Sean Speer, The Hub's editor-at-large, discuss Mark Carney's decisive victory in the Libe...
In Conversation with David Frum: Trump's escalating threats & Carney's leadership victory
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss President Trump's escalating threats to Canada and ...
Full Press: Welcome to the media "Carney"val
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on "Full Press", how prime minister-designate Mark Carney will manage the media, whether journalists should be devoting ink to Trump's annex...
Hub Headlines: Making the election all about Donald Trump would be a mistake
13 Mar 2025
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.S. tariff threat could break Canada—or be a blessing in disguise
12 Mar 2025
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 Goldin on why welcoming migrants makes economic sense
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor of Globalization and Development at Oxford University Ian Goldin's new book, The Shortest History of Migration, challenges many of the negat...
Hub Headlines: Carney's deficit could be even higher than Trudeau's
11 Mar 2025
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 constitutional limits on Carney's powers as prime minister
10 Mar 2025
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 Trump becoming a national security threat?
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss an extraordinary New York Times story about President Trump and representatives fr...
Hub Headlines: Donald Trump is wrong—America needs Canadian oil
07 Mar 2025
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 federal deficit is worrying—but nowhere near the U.S. fiscal crisis
06 Mar 2025
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: Canada Infrastructure Bank CEO Ehren Cory on building major projects in Canada
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the first half of this special episode of Hub Dialogues, Ehren Cory, the CEO of Canada Infrastructure Bank, discusses the CIB's evolution under his...
In Conversation with David Frum: Trump's tariffs against Canada and America's place in the world
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss Trump's tariffs against Canada, the President's ant...
Hub Headlines: North American free trade is dead and tariffs are the new norm
05 Mar 2025
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: Dennis Kneale on why Elon Musk should be revered, not reviled
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist and former CNBC anchor Dennis Kneale joins us to discuss his new book, The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk, which chronicles Musk's extraord...
Hub Roundtable: The economic and political fallout of Trump's tariffs
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode, The Hub's publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the imposition of Trump's tariffs on Canada and ...
Hub Headlines: 23 percent of Canadians are unable to buy sufficient food
04 Mar 2025
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: Conservatives can't take younger voters for granted
03 Mar 2025
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 serenity prayer for tariffs
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the Zelensky-Trump blowup in the oval office today and what it may signal about U.S...
Hub Headlines: Does Canada need its own DOGE?
28 Feb 2025
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...
Bricker & Speer: The federal election race is on
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Darrell Bricker, the CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, and Sean Speer, The Hub's editor-at-large, discuss the political implications of new Ipsos p...
Full Press: (Don't) meet the press
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harrison Lowman, Tara Henley and Peter Menzies discuss how an ill-conceived Cross Country Checkup title sent Canada into a rage spiral; why Trump is k...
Hub Headlines: We will need more than diplomacy and defence to secure Canadian sovereignty
27 Feb 2025
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: Mark Carney's big budget plan is less impressive than it seems
26 Feb 2025
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: Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Canada's flag and national pride
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former Prime Minister Harper joins us to talk about his new book, Flags of Canada, which chronicles the political battles and passionate discourse tha...
Hub Headlines: Time, inflation, and markets are on Canada's side in the tariff wars
25 Feb 2025
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: Deep Saini on Canada's universities in an era of uncertainty
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Deep Saini, president and vice-chancellor of McGill University, discusses the global competition for talent, the role and importance of Canada's w...
Hub Dialogues: Timothy Garton Ash on if Europe is doomed
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Garton Ash insists reports of the death of Europe are greatly exaggerated. The Oxford historian says the continent can overcome war, disunity,...
Hub Headlines: Only 10 percent of Canadians believe Trump is joking about the '51st state'
24 Feb 2025
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 hockey victory, latest political polls, and U.S. foreign policy's wild week
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss Canada's big hockey in Boston over Team USA, the latest political polls showing sur...
Hub Dialogues: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on tariff threats and the Liberal leadership race
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith talks about why Canada's resources are so important to the U.S., how Ottawa's retaliatory plans to U.S. tariff threats ...
Hub Headlines: What Canada can do as Trump remakes the world order
21 Feb 2025
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 plan to spur interprovincial trade is good—here's a better one
20 Feb 2025
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 the rise of Mark Carney is good for Pierre Poilievre (and for Canada)
19 Feb 2025
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: Poilievre's pivot non-pivot speech
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer and Ginny Roth, vice president at Crestview strategy, discuss Pierre Poilievre's major r...
Hub Dialogues: Jean Twenge on the clash of generations
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this Hub Dialogue, we are joined by author and psychologist Jean Twenge, often referred to as the "reigning expert on generational change." Jean ex...
Hub Headlines: Canadian culture is dying. Do the Conservatives have any plan to save it?
18 Feb 2025
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 Canadian patriotic populism
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss how the federal ballot question has shifted to a focus on Canada-U.S. relations and...
Hub Headlines: There's a fortune to be made in Canada—we need to seize the opportunity
14 Feb 2025
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...
Bricker & Speer: How is Canada's political landscape evolving amid Trump's provocations?
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Darrell Bricker, the CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, and Sean Speer, The Hub's editor-at-large, discuss Canada's evolving political landscape in t...
Full Press: Don't cry for the CBC
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harrison Lowman, Tara Henley, and Peter Menzies discuss whether the CBC's new CEO just bombed her first major media appearance. They also explore whet...
Hub Headlines: How Poilievre can make 'stop the crime' a reality
13 Feb 2025
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...