Hub Podcasts

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 - CBC-funded prank show’s deceptive tactics raise fraud and legal concerns: Lawyer , by Graeme Gordon 10:40 - Teachers are betraying their students when they inject activism into the classr...

Jaime Watt, executive chairman of Navigator and author of Director's Crisis Playbook , discusses modern crisis management for companies and governments. He examines how new technologies and media have transformed corporate accountability, the worst mistakes institutions tend to make, the importance of moving quickly to an "endgame" rather than delaying inevitable decisions, and why silence equals...

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. 0:23 - The Trump administration just paused an 86-year-old Canada-U.S. military board—here’s why we shouldn’t overreact , by Richard Shimooka and Alex Lanoszka 8:09 - We must harness the energy...

Keith McLaughlin and Amber Ruddy agree that one way or another, Albertans are heading toward a defining political moment involving some kind of reckoning around stay versus leave. A strange, chaotic last-minute legislative committee meeting has left open the question of whether Alberta’s looming referendum will ultimately include a vote on separation, but all signs now appear to point in that dire...

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, discusses his organization's mission to monitor the United Nations' adherence to its own charter and mandate. He details the UN's disproportionate focus on Israel compared to other nations, the systematic elevation of authoritarian regimes in human rights bodies, and the problematic appointment of what he characterizes as biased special rapporteurs. He...

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 - Reject evil’: 5 takeaways from Ben Shapiro’s keynote at the World Symposium Against Antizionism , by The Hub Staff 9:37 - The Alberta-Ottawa pipeline agreement gets Canada off the startin...

Shannon Joseph, chair of Energy for a Secure Future, says Canada is finally moving from endless debate toward clearer rules and timelines around major energy infrastructure — but warns investor confidence, Indigenous buy-in, and legal risks will ultimately determine whether a new bitumen pipeline actually materializes. She argues Canada’s LNG sector offers a roadmap for how oil projects can succee...

Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer discuss parliamentary petition e-7142, which seeks to mandate three-day work-from-home arrangements for federal public servants and all federally regulated industries. They argue that this represents excessive government intervention in employer-employee relations and could create significant market distortions. They also explore how such policies might exacerbate...

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. 0:17 - Despair is not an option , by David Polansky 8:22 - Canadian e-commerce growth slowed in 2025 as the rest of the world surged ahead , by Graeme Gordon This program is narrated by automate...

Stephen Reich, a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, researching the proliferation of critical theory in K-12 in educational policy, discusses how critical theory and identity politics has replaced objective truth when it comes to how young Canadians are taught. He argues that neo-Marxist frameworks which divides society into “oppressors” and “oppressed” have created cla...

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 - Why Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is pursuing legal action against the New York Times , by Stephen Staley 6:50 - I can’t believe we’re still arguing about Sir John A. Macdonald statues...

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 - Indigenous rights laws deserve more scrutiny than they’re getting , by Sean Speer This program is narrated by automated voices. To get full-length editions of popular Hub podcasts and oth...

Bill Whitelaw, executive director of Rextag and a fellow with the Energy Futures Lab, says the updated Alberta–Ottawa energy MOU is designed to create enough certainty to attract private investment into a proposed West Coast bitumen pipeline. While the agreement raises Alberta’s effective industrial carbon price to $130 a tonne by 2040, he argues investors will be paying closer attention to the fu...

Author and political commentator Jerry Amernic recounts being lured to Vancouver under false pretenses by a CBC-linked prank show targeting critics of mainstream Canadian history narratives. He explains the elaborate deception involving fake producers and a staged interview about Sir John A. Macdonald, raising questions about the CBC's role in publicly mocking conservatives. He argues that this em...

Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer analyze the Xi–Trump summit in Beijing and its implications for Western democracies. They examine Trump’s apparent openness to Xi’s overtures despite his previously hawkish stance, and ask whether U.S. policy toward China is undergoing a fundamental shift. They also explore how this evolving relationship leaves allies like Canada caught between American strategic p...

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 - Canada is looking to the wrong Europeans for economic policy , by Charles Lammam 9:13 - Growing Canadian companies finding no VC investment a ‘wake-up call’ for Ottawa , by The Hub Staff...

Shelley Kuipers and Judy Fairburn join Alberta Edge to discuss why women remain underrepresented in leadership, investing and entrepreneurship—even as women control a growing share of wealth in Canada. The co-founders of The51 argue that many of the economy’s biggest blind spots stem from systems historically designed without women in mind, from health care to venture capital allocation. The conve...

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 - Canadian Millennials living with parents into adulthood double the rate of Boomers at same age , by The Hub Staff 7:03 - Canada released an ISIS recruiter. Here’s why—and how to prevent i...

Full Press explains why a new publicly funded CBC prank show is luring unsuspecting conservatives into embarrassing exchanges, asks if the noble pursuit of objectivity in Canadian journalism is dead and buried, and welcomes an American invasion in the form of The New York Times sending more and more journalists to our shores. The Hub is Canada's fastest growing independent digital news outlet. Sub...

Tim Wu, author of the Donner Prize-shortlisted book The Age of Extraction , discusses how tech platforms have transformed from tools that enriched the broader economy into monopolistic forces that extract wealth for a few companies. He argues that platform dominance drains economic vitality across sectors, challenges the notion that protecting tech giants is essential for innovation and geopolitic...

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 - Frenemies against separation: How a new pro-Canada coalition is starting to find its voice in Alberta , by Falice Chin 9:06 - Canada’s 112,000 jobs lost in private sector in 2026 more pro...

Simon Wolle, CEO of B'nai Birth Canada, discusses the alarming rise of antisemitism across Canada. He examines how online platforms have normalized hatred, the troubling conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism, and why this represents a broader threat to Canadian values. He also argues that antisemitism is evolving into new forms while maintaining historical patterns of Jewish demonization, a...

Tony Keller, Globe and Mail columnist and author of the Donner Prize-shortlisted book Borderline Chaos , examines Canada's immigration transformation. He explains how the country shifted from a stable, selective system focused on permanent residents to an explosion of temporary immigration through international students and foreign workers. Keller details the business and political pressures drivi...

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. 0:25 - Poilievre featured in only 9.5% of CPC MP Facebook posts since the 2025 federal election began , by Edward Ngai 11:56 - The fairness problem in the Canada Pension Plan debate everyone is...

Author and journalist Danielle Crittenden Frum discusses her profound new book, Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable . In our conversation, she chronicles the devastating loss of her daughter, Miranda, and how such a sudden loss shatters one's sense of reality. Danielle also discusses why maternal grief carries a distinct weight, the complications modern technology add...