486 episodes

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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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.6 • 10 Ratings

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.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Hub Roundtable: Canada’s Laurentian Capitalist moment

    Hub Roundtable: Canada’s Laurentian Capitalist moment

    Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the federal and Ontario governments’ massive subsidies for the electric vehicle industry, including this week’s announcement of a new Honda plant in Ontario, and their inherent risks and economic consequences. They also cover the negative reaction to last week’s federal budget and what it tells us about the state of federal politics.
    The Roundtable features The Hub's publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Hub editor-at-large, Sean Speer. The Roundtable is produced and edited by The Hub’s content editor, Amal Attar-Guzman.
    If you like what you are hearing on The Hub’s podcast consider subscribing to our free weekly email newsletter featuring our insights and analysis on public policy issues. Sign up here: https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/.

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    • 28 min
    Hub Headlines: How Canada can boost birth rates

    Hub Headlines: How Canada can boost birth rates

    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 – Want to boost birth rates? Stop taxing mothers, by Andrew Evans
    6:06 – Canada’s population growth is exploding. Here’s why, by Don Kerr
     
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    • 13 min
    Hub Headlines: The importance of citizen happiness

    Hub Headlines: The importance of citizen happiness

    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.
     
    0:18 – Disregard citizen unhappiness at your own peril, leaders, by Ginny Roth
    6:39 – Ring the alarm—Canada is failing to safeguard those with mental illness from MAID, by Daniel Zekveld
     
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    • 14 min
    Hub Dialogues: Roméo Dallaire on whether world peace is impossible

    Hub Dialogues: Roméo Dallaire on whether world peace is impossible

    Thirty years after the Rwandan genocide that killed more than 800,000, former U.N Force Commander Roméo Dallaire discusses the atrocity he witnessed, whether peacekeeping and the international human rights movement has failed, Canada’s shrinking role in the world, and if reaching real peace is even achievable.
    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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    • 46 min
    Hub Headlines: Have pro-Palestine protests gone too far?

    Hub Headlines: Have pro-Palestine protests gone too far?

    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.
     
    0:20 – It’s time to stop giving the pro-Palestine protestors the benefit of the doubt, by Joanna Baron
    6:43 – Berating Bell and the telcos won’t save Canada’s news industry, by Theo Argitis
     
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    • 12 min
    Hub Headlines: Radical elements in the Anti-Racism Act

    Hub Headlines: Radical elements in the Anti-Racism Act

    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 – It’s not racist ‘denialism’ to appreciate Canada’s tolerance, despite what the B.C. NDP may say, by Caroline Elliott
    6:23 – Michael Ignatieff checks his privilege, by Patrick Luciani
     
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    • 12 min

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