Hub Podcasts

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Andrew McDougall, a political science professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, about his new book, Sleeping Dogs: Quebec and the Stabilization of Canadian Federalism after 1995. 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 challen...

This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the federal government's demand of major Canadian grocers to come up with a plan to stabilize prices before Thanksgiving. Is this a sign of economic illiteracy from the government or poll-driven desperation? We also discuss the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit being held in Montreal and take stock of the current state of Western progressivism. The Hub Roundta...

This is the fortieth 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 imminent return of the Canadian parliament and the costs and consequences of the ongoing practice of so-called "virtual parliament" including what it tells us about the state of Canadian politics. The Hub Dialogues feature The...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features writer and YouTuber J.J. McCullough about the recent Conservative Party convention, the imminent return of parliament, and what it means for Canada to have a North American identity. 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 th...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Zeke Faux, an award-winning, investigative reporter for Bloomberg, about his new, must-read book, Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall. The Hub Dialogues feature 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 discusses the implications of the newly-released regulations for the government's online news law. Is it possible that Google is going to follow Meta and remove Canadian news from its platform? We also talk about the Liberal government's plummeting poll numbers and what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can do to pull out of this free-fall. The Roundtable features Hub execut...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Alexander William Salter, a Texas Tech University economist and senior fellow at the Free Market Institute, about his co-authored new book, The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub's regular podcasts) feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with lea...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Freddie deBoer, author and journalist, about his new, must-read book, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub's regular podcasts) feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and c...

This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the bizarre state of housing in Canada, where an income near the top ten percent is necessary to get into the Toronto market. Is this creating divisions in our society down class and age lines? We also talk about the growth of the global middle class and what it means for Canada's ability to compete in the world. The Roundtable features Hub executive director R...

This is the thirty-ninth 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 causes and consequences of a possible Chinese economic crisis and what it would mean for Canada and the global economy more broadly. They also cover renewed calls to criminalize so-called "Indian residential schools deniali...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with David Samson, an anthropologist at the University of Toronto and leading scholar on biology and human evolution, about his new, must-read book, Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub's regular podcasts) feature The Hub's editor-at...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Heather Exner-Pirot, Director of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and special advisor to the Business Council of Canada, about climate change, energy and Indigenous economic development and the possible tradeoffs, as well as the future of lunar mining. The Hub Dialogues (which is...

This week's Hub Roundtable discusses the federal Cabinet retreat in Charlottetown, including its focus on the country's housing crisis and the role for federal policy to solve it. They also discuss the policy and political implications of new polling that finds a majority of Canadians believe that Prime Minister Trudeau should step down. Welcome to Hub Podcasts, the audio version of the big ideas...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Frédéric Bouchard, the dean of Arts and Sciences at the Université de Montréal and former chair of the Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System. They discuss the panel's 2023 report on improving federal investments in science, research, and innovation and its policy implications. The Hub Dialogues (which is on...

The following is an episode of a Hub special series called The Business of Government, hosted by award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang, about how government works and, more importantly, why it sometimes doesn't work. In this five-part series, Lang conducts in-depth interviews with experts and former policymakers and puts it all in perspective for the average Canadian. This e...

Welcome to Hub Podcasts, the audio version of the big ideas and in-depth conversations found at The Hub, Canada's daily news and information source for policy and politics. Each Friday, you can listen to our Hub Roundtable featuring The Hub's editors analyzing the big issues of the week in Canada. Our Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor at large Sean Speer engaged in twice-weekly conversations...

This is the thirty-eighth 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 politics of energy policy in Canada, the tradeoffs between the economy and environment, and the need to resist thinking about energy policy as a matter of culture or morality. The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Michael Bonner, historian and political advisor, about his ambitious book, In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub's regular podcasts) feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thi...

The following is an episode of a Hub special series called The Business of Government, hosted by award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang, about how government works and, more importantly, why it sometimes doesn't work. In this five-part series, Lang conducts in-depth interviews with experts and former policymakers and puts it all in perspective for the average Canadian. This e...

Welcome to Hub Podcasts, the audio version of the big ideas and in-depth conversations found at The Hub, Canada's daily news and information source for policy and politics. Each Friday, you can listen to our Hub Roundtable featuring The Hub's editors analyzing the big issues of the week in Canada. Our Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor at large Sean Speer engaged in twice-weekly conversations...

This is the ninth 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 growing tensions between Ottawa and the provinces over the federal government's new regulations for net-zero emissions for electricity grids by 2035. They also discuss how the new federal mandates will impact Canadian en...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Bethany Allen, the China reporter at Axios, about her must-read, new book, Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World , which documents how the Chinese government has used economic and political tools to project its power and influence around the world. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub'...

The following is an episode of a Hub special series called The Business of Government, hosted by award-winning journalist and best-selling author Amanda Lang, about how government works and, more importantly, why it sometimes doesn't work. In this five-part series, Lang conducts in-depth interviews with experts and former policymakers and puts it all in perspective for the average Canadian. This e...

Welcome to Hub Podcasts, the audio version of the big ideas and in-depth conversations found at The Hub, Canada's daily news and information source for policy and politics. Each Friday, you can listen to our Hub Roundtable featuring The Hub's editors analyzing the big issues of the week in Canada. Our Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor at large Sean Speer engaged in twice-weekly conversations...

This is the thirty-seventh episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The two discuss recent high-profile cases of young conservative activists and journalists who have fallen down a far-Right path, including what is behind these trends and what can be done to reverse them. The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's...