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.&nbsp;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&nbsp;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 <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/</a>.

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.&nbsp;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&nbsp;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 <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/</a>.

Hub Headlines: The importance of citizen happiness

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: <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/</a>.

Hub Dialogues: Roméo Dallaire on whether world peace is impossible

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.&nbsp;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&nbsp;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 <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/</a>.

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.&nbsp;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&nbsp;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 <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/</a>.

Hub Headlines: Radical elements in the Anti-Racism Act

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2023 Donner Book Prize nominees and executive director and litigation director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation Joanna Baron and Christine Van Geyn about their nominated book, Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to Covid-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever. The episode was originally released on November 7th, 2023. 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: <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/.</a>

Hub Dialogues: Joanna Baron and Christine Van Geyn on COVID-19 Lockdowns & Civil Liberties (re-release)

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.&nbsp;0:20 – The government’s defence policy update is a small step in the right direction—if it is actually implemented, by Richard Shimooka 9:59 – We all benefit from lower capital gains taxes—even if you’re not rich, by Matt Spoke&nbsp;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 <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/</a>.

Hub Headlines: Can the government fix the Canadian Armed Forces?

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss this week’s federal budget, including the Trudeau government’s focus on redistribution over growth, its high spending, and the consequences of ongoing deficits and debt accumulation. They also discuss the budget's increased tax rate on capital gains tax, the policy debate that it has provoked, and the real-world, detrimental impacts on the Canadian economy.&nbsp; 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: <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/</a>.

Hub Roundtable: The Trudeau government's anti-growth budget

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.&nbsp;0:21 – Slower growth, fewer jobs, a worse economy—the consequences of the capital gains tax shouldn’t be shrugged off, by Derrick Hunter 6:35 – Events define political leaders. For Prime Minister Trudeau, the main one may be housing, by Peter Weltman&nbsp;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 <a href="https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/</a>.

Hub Headlines: The consequences of the capital gains tax

Bold thinkers and big ideas for a better future 

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.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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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