Hub Podcasts

Jack Mintz, a distinguished senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and president's fellow at the University of Calgary, discusses his recent Macdonald-Laurier Institute paper (co-authored with Philip Cross), Canada’s resource sector: Protecting the Golden Goose, which documents the the economic importance of Canada's natural resource sector. 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/.

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. 0:24 - Canada stands alone in still celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday. That’s a fitting thing, even in our post-colonial times, by John Fraser 7:43 - How a group of terribly romantic artists became Canada’s most famous painters, by Antony Anderson 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/.

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss pro-Palestine/anti-Israel student encampments at Canadian universities, the failure of these institutions to shut them down, and the double standard with other protest movements, including the Freedom Convoy in 2022. They also discuss Parks Canada reopening of Sir. John A. Macdonald’s historic home in Kingston, O.N., with a new focus on racism, sexism, and colonialism, and what it signifies regarding the politicization of Canadian history.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/.

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 - Canadians are witnessing the slow and relentless erosion of our economic freedoms, by Eric Lombardi 11:58 - We must take foreign interference seriously. Our democratic freedom is at stake, by Tony Clement 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/.

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 - Canada just started the largest tax increase you’ve never heard of, by Trevor Tombe 6:26 - Is Canada’s child care program terminating child care spaces by design?, by Andrea Hannen and Andrea Mrozek 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/.

Ian Morris, best-selling author, British historian, archaeologist, and Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University, discusses the big trends shaping human history and what they can tell us about humankind’s present and future. This is a Hub exclusive in the form of an interactive Q&A moderated by The Hub’s publisher, Rudyard Griffiths. It was delivered mid-May at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada.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/.

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 - I am a former immigration minister. Unsustainable population increases won’t solve Canada’s underlying issues, by Chris Alexander 15:12 - Brace yourselves, Canadian media. The CRTC could be coming to ‘help’, by Peter Menzies 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/.

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 - Canada is careening towards a constitutional crisis in the Senate, by Howard Anglin and Ray Pennings 10:19 - It’s time to hit the brakes on the government’s far-too-ambitious electric vehicle mandates, by Jerome Gessaroli 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/.

Dan Senor, best-selling author, former political advisor and podcast host of Call Me Back, discusses his book (co-authored with Saul Singer), The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World, as well as recent developments in the Israel-Hamas war.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/.