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Welcome to Hub Podcasts, the audio version of the big ideas and in-depth conversations found at The Hub.ca, Canada’s fastest growing digital news outlet with over 200,000 weekly users.
Our Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor at large Sean Speer engaged longform conversations with leading thinkers and doers on the big issues and ideas shaping the public conversation.
In Conversation with David Frum features the insight and analysis of leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum, who weighs in every second Friday on global and Canadian news events.
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.
Each Friday, The Hub Roundtable features Hub co-founders Rudyard Griffiths' and Sean Speer's take on the big political and economic stories making the news.
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Hub Headlines: The smoking gun for Canada's weak economic growth
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.
0:21 – The smoking gun for Canada’s weak economic growth? A collapse in energy and resource investment, by Heather Exner-Pirot
9:27 – The Queen’s Park keffiyeh kerfuffle proves the wisdom of keeping political symbols out of the legislature, by Kaveh Shahrooz
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In Conversation with David Frum: Anti-Israel protests on university campuses across North America
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 university campuses across North America and what they might tell us about higher education, its institutional leadership, and the conditions that enable antisemitism to flourish.
The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad.
If you like what you are hearing on Hub Dialogues consider subscribing to The Hub's free weekly email newsletter featuring our insights and analysis on key public policy issues. Sign up here: https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/.
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Hub Headlines: Will America ruin Canada's EV gamble?
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.
0:19 – U.S. politics looms large over Trudeau and Ford’s electric vehicle gamble, by Steven Globerman
5:04 – Our universities are in crisis. That’s bad news for democracy, by Aaron Wudrick, David Livingstone, and David Tabachnick
If you enjoy The Hub’s podcasts consider subscribing to our weekly email newsletter featuring our best insights and analysis. Free. Cancel anytime. Sign up now at https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/.
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Hub Headlines: The Trans Mountain pipeline's economic benefits
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.
0:19 – The $34 billion Trans Mountain pipeline was worth every penny, by Trevor Tombe
6:52 – Canadian conservatism’s judicial revolution is only gaining strength, by Charlie Buck
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Hub Dialogues: Kent Roach on the wrongfully convicted and Abdi Aidid & Benjamin Alarie on AI and the legal singularity
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2023 Donner Book Prize nominees University of Toronto Professor Kent Roach about his book Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice, and with University of Toronto Law professors Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie about their book, The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better.
As part of a paid partnership, this month The Hub will feature excerpts from this year’s five shortlisted books for the Donner Prize, awarded to the best public policy book in Canada. Our podcast Hub Dialogues will also feature interviews with the authors. The winning title will be awarded $60,000 by The Donner Canadian Foundation on May 8th.
The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad.
If you like what you are hearing on Hub Dialogues consider subscribing to The Hub's free weekly email newsletter featuring our insights and analysis on key public policy issues. Sign up here: https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/.
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Hub Headlines: Canada’s disastrous defence spending problem
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.
0:22 – DeepDive: Just how bad is Canada’s defence spending problem? Downright disastrous—with little hope in sight, by Sean Speer and Taylor Jackson
18:52 – AI is about to fundamentally transform our legal system—for the better, by Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie
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Ressenyes del públic
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Sean and David
Great incite always.
Best Canadian political and news podcast
Probably better than the economist magazine. Much cheaper too.