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Hub Roundtable: Canada's NATO scolding and Freeland's political takedown
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Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss NATO's 75th-anniversary gathering, including the U.S.' and allies' criticism of the Trudeau government's ongoing failure to reach its 2 percent of GDP defence spending target. They also discuss recent reporting on the rumours that Chrystia Freeland is getting potentially pushed out as finance minister and that Mark Carney could be joining the government to replace her, as well as the ongoing LCBO strike and how Canadians just want one thing amidst the saga: a drink.
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.
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Hub Headlines: Canada cannot be complacent about terrorism while ISIS threat looms
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Hub Headlines: Redistribution politics means something different now, Trudeau
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Hub Dialogues: Oren Cass on the economics of the New Right
50:38|Oren Cass, founder and chief economist of the U.S. think tank American Compass, discusses the future of the Republican Party, the role of industrial policy in boosting American manufacturing, and the intersection of trade, immigration, and family policy in Canada and the U.S.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: Making politicians unaccountable is a recipe for disaster
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Hub Headlines: The deluge of Online Harms Act cases will be difficult to handle
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Hub Dialogues: Susan McCahan on artificial intelligence's impact on education
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Hub Headlines: Foreign buyers are critical to a functioning real estate industry
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Hub Roundtable: The politics of weird
16:13|Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss the immigration policy “theory of everything” and the far-reaching consequences of the Trudeau government’s extraordinary increases to Canada’s immigration levels. They discuss how America conservatives have been memeified as "weird" by progressives as well as the recent controversy at the Olympics surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.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 The Hub.ca. All these benefits are conferred for one year. Sign up now!