Hub Podcasts

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2022 Donner Book Prize nominee and former Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz about his nominated book, The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future. 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 ent...

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...

The following is a Hub exclusive in the form of a private lecture given by Professor Stephen Kotkin, one of the world's leading scholars of Russian history and international relations. It was delivered in mid-April at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada and co-hosted by The Hub's executive Director, Rudyard Griffiths. The talk provides a master class in contemporary geopolitics linking the War...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2022 Donner Book Prize nominee and legal scholar Ryan Manucha about his nominated book Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada's Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade. 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 entrepre...

This is the thirty-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 current round of debt ceiling negotiations in Washington, the possible economic and political fallout, and the implications for Canada. The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with l...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2022 Donner Book Prize nominee and Toronto-based author and journalist John Lorinc about his nominated book Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias. 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 entrepren...

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 second 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 recent high-profile labour strikes in Canada and the United States and the questions they raise about the so-called "right to strike", the role of labour unions in the modern economy, and how tight labour markets may rebala...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2022 Donner Book Prize nominee and University of Toronto professor Joseph Heath about his nominated book, Cooperation & Social Justice. 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...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with Conservative MP Michael Chong about a breaking media report that Canadian intelligence officials had evidence that his family in Hong Kong was targeted by a Chinese official in the Toronto consulate and yet the Canadian government failed to inform him or expel the diplomat. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub's regular p...

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 thirtieth episode of The Hub's bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The two discuss early developments in 2024 presidential race in the U.S., the likelihood that the Republican Party will renominate Donald Trump, and the potential for an electoral disaster. The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sea...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with child advocate Gregg Behr and award-winning writer Ryan Rydzewski about their poignant book, When You Wonder, You're Learning: Mister Rogers' Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub's regular podcasts) feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, about his must-read, new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. 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 o...

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 episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with John Lettieri, the CEO of the Economic Innovation Group, a Washington-based think tank, about the early signs of progress with Opportunity Zones in the United States to boost investment and job creation in economically-distressed communities. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub's regular podcasts) feature The Hub's edito...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with Darrell Bricker, the global CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, about the Canadian public policy and political landscape, including the growing agitation of younger Canadians based on a sense of stalled middle-class progress. The Hub Dialogues (which is one of The Hub's regular podcasts) feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer,...

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 first 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 Bank of Canada's latest interest rate announcement, the ongoing fight against inflation and the downside risks to the global economy. They also cover Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act) and the potential showdown between th...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with James Pethokoukis, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of regular newsletter, Faster, Please!, about the causes and consequences of what he calls the "Great Downshift" in economic growth and technological progress, the prospects of a conservative futurism, and the possible salience of a renewed "poli...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with Jason Crawford, founder of the U.S.-based non-profit organization Roots of Progress, about human progress, why it has slowed, and how a new philosophy of progress can help to accelerate it. 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...

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 twenty-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 historic indictment of former President Donald Trump and its implications for U.S. politics in general and the Republican Party in particular. The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with University of Saskatchewan professor emeritus and leading Canadian historian John C. Courtney about his must-read 2022 book, Revival and Change: The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Elections. 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 entr...

This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with labour market experts Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs, About their interesting, new book, Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do For the Poor. 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, scho...