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This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the Canadian reaction to Israel's war against Hamas including the extent to which left-wing academic ideas have been reflected in a lot of pro-Hamas protests and rallies across the country. They also discuss the Trudeau government's announcement this week of new exemptions from the national carbon tax for home heating including what it means for Canadian climat...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Kim Nossal, Professor Emeritus in Political Studies at Queen's University, about his new, must-read book, Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World. 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 futu...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features best-selling author and journalist Tara Isabella Burton about her fascinating, new book, Self Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. 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 fu...

This week's Hub Roundtable welcomes special guest Reihan Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, to join the conversation with executive director Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer. They discuss the American reaction to Hamas's terrorist attacks in Israel and the impending war and compare and contrast it with the reaction in Canada. The Roundtable features Hu...

This is the eleventh episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang. The two discuss a new report from the Competition Bureau on Canada's growing corporate concentration as well as new Statistics Canada's data on inflation and business confidence. The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Ed Broadbent, former leader of the New Democratic Party and founding chair of the Broadbent Institute, about his new, must-read book, Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features The Hub's executive director Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with celebrated author and writer Robert D. Kaplan, about his on-the-ground experience of the 2004 siege of Fallujah, its lessons for Israel as its military prepares for a ground assault on Gaza City and risk of the war escalating into a region-wide conflict The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's ed...

This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the domestic response to the massacre in Israel perpetrated by Hamas terrorists. How should Canadians respond to the people who celebrated the mass murder of Israeli civilians? And is this a wake-up call for anyone who was complacent in the face of rising anti-Semitism in the country? The Roundtable features Hub executive director Rudyard Griffiths, Hub editor-...

This is the forty-second episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The two discuss Canada's reactions to Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel, the limits of pluralism and the need to reckon with antisemitism in society. The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with l...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features The Hub's executive director Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with New York Times columnist and Pulitzer prize winner, Bret Stephens, about Israel's war against Hamas and its geopolitical dynamics as well as the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policy...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features John Ibbitson, Globe & Mail columnist and best-selling author, about his new, must-read book, The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern 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 fu...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features The Hub 's executive director Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with Janice Gross Stein, the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the department of political science at the University of Toronto, about the surprise attack launched by Hamas terrorists on Israel from the Gaza Strip early on Saturday morning, killing at least 250 Israelis. The Hub Dialog...

This week's Hub Roundtable looks ahead to Thanksgiving weekend and discusses the general feeling of malaise that seems to permeate North America. We also debate whether this fiscal discontent sets the stage for a former central banker to take over the prime minister's job. Are things falling into place for former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney? The Roundtable features Hub executive director R...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Alexandra Hudson, a writer, commentator and founder and curator of Civic Renaissance, about her new, must-read book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves. 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 challe...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Richard Kahlenberg, a non-resident scholar at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, about his provocative, new book, Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and think...

This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the controversy about the attendance of a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech to the Canadian Parliament. Who is to blame? And who will be blamed? We also talk about the future of the CBC in a world where the media landscape is shrinking and political opposition to the broadcaster grows. The Roundtable fe...

This is the forty-first episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The two discuss the political controversy in Canada over the attendance of a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech to the Canadian Parliament and what the episode tells us about the priorit...

This special episode of Hub Dialogues features the winners of the Hunter Prize for Public Policy Kristina Kokorelias and Ashley Flanagan, colleagues at the Toronto Metropolitan University's National Institute on Ageing, about their winning essay, Bringing Long-Term Care Home. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers,...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features the runner-up of this year's Hunter Prize for Public Policy Bacchus Barua, the director of the Fraser Institute's Centre for Health Policy Studies, about his essay, The DRG Domino Effect: From Hospital Remuneration to Healthcare Reform. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers,...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features American Enterprise Institute scholar James Pethokoukis about his must-read, new book, The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised. 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...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner about his thoughtful, new book, The Trade Trap: How To Stop Doing Business with Dictators. 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. The epis...

This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the fallout from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegation of India's involvement in the killing of a Sikh Canadian earlier this year. What does this tell us about Canada's standing in the world and the geopolitical field of play? We also talk about the ongoing Greenbelt development scandal in Ontario and what a series of high-level resignations means for Doug...

This is the tenth episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang. The two discuss the renewed rise in Canada's inflation rate, this week's competing housing policies from the Trudeau government and its Conservative opposition, and what to make of the so-called "grocery summit" involving the government and...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Avik Roy, the founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a U.S.-based public policy think tank, about the recently released Freedom Conservative Statement and new ideological tensions with American conservatism. The Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policym...

This episode of Hub Dialogues is part of a special series taken in partnership with Pathways Alliance – pathwaysalliance.ca. The goal of the series is to promote greater awareness and discussion of the goal of decarbonizing Canada's oil sands production to reach net zero emissions from operations by 2050. Each episode aims to provide listeners with the latest analysis and insights from industry ex...