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John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute, co-director of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project podcast, discusses Israel's ongoing war against Hamas, including the unique challenges presented by the extensive tunnel network in Gaza and its unprecedented and misunderstood efforts to minimize civilian harm.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/join/.

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. 0:52 - Canada’s seniors are already well supported. It’s time to invest in the younger generation, by Tim Sargent and Peter Copeland 6:00 - Quebec is radically defying federal Canadian law. Will there be any accountability?, by John Sikkema This program is narrated by automated voices. 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/join/.

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the upcoming U.S. presidential election and how the two possible outcomes may impact Canadian politics here. They also discuss growing government intervention into Canada's news media including identity-based funding under the Local Journalism Initiative and reports of government spending on its own podcast production, as well as the case for Conservatives to boycott the Leaders' Debates Commission. The Roundtable features The Hub's publisher, Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large, Sean Speer. The Roundtable is produced and edited by The Hub’s content editor, Amal Attar-Guzman.If you liked what you heard in the first half of the program and wish to subscribe to full-length editions of The Roundtable please consider becoming a Hub Hero (https://thehub.ca/join/hero/). Hub Heroes also gets our premium paid newsletters featuring our best insight and analysis along with all our paid content on TheHub.ca. All these benefits are conferred for one year. Sign up now!

On this special episode of Hub Dialogues, the winner and runner-up of the second annual Hunter Prize for Public Policy, Ben Dachis, the vice president of research and outreach at Clean Prosperity and senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, and Luan Yao, a research and communications coordinator at the Vancouver mayor's office, discuss their proposals to reconpetualize how we finance housing-related infrastructure and a new below-market rental tax credit program, respectively. You can read their proposals here and here.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/join/.

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. 0:52 - The British Tories should follow Pierre Poilievre’s example—Win back the Right, then build from there, by Ginny Roth 9:09 - What will the cut in immigration mean for Canada’s economy?, by Alicia Planincic This program is narrated by automated voices. 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/join/.

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. 0:51 - What Canada can learn from Irish prosperity, by Trevor Tombe 8:27 - The Trudeau government’s newest intrusion into newsrooms is another nail in the industry’s coffin, by Peter Menzies This program is narrated by automated voices. 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/join/.

After what seemed like countless recounts, The Hub’s B.C. Correspondent Kirk LaPointe talks to Managing Editor Harrison Lowman about what appears to be the results of a historic B.C. election. They discuss conspiratorial allegations of “rigged” votes, the teetering and unstable legislature, Premier Eby’s pared down agenda, the political legacy of John Rustad, and what the outcome says about the political mood across 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/join/.

Ted Woodhead, a longtime telecommunications executive and former CRTC official, discusses his DeepDive essay for The Hub on a set of practical policy reforms to liberalize Canada's telecommunications policy framework, and boost market-based competition in the sector.This episode was made possible by Telus and the generosity of listeners like you. Donate today.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/join/.

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. 0:52 - Canada’s enemies aren’t just targeting elected officials—they’re trying to interfere with you too, by Richard Shimooka 9:03 - B.C. Premier David Eby can finally claim victory. Unfortunately for him, the easy part is over, by Kirk LaPointe This program is narrated by automated voices. 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/join/.