Épisodes

  • Hub Roundtable: Day One of The Canada-U.S. tariff war
    Feb 2 2025

    Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer are joined by Janice Gross Stein of the Munk School of Global Affairs discuss Trump's tariffs against Canada and our pledge of dollar-for-dollar countervailing duties if U.S. import taxes are not lifted in the coming weeks. They breakdown what could happen next in this high-stakes economic contest between North America’s two largest economies and trading partners.

    The Roundtable is produced and edited by The Hub’s content editor, Amal Attar-Guzman. If you liked what you heard on the program and wish to subscribe to future editions of The Roundtable at full-length please consider becoming a Hub Hero (https://thehub.ca/join/hero/). Hub Heroes also gets our premium newsletters featuring our best insight and analysis along with all our paid content on TheHub.ca. All these benefits are conferred for one year. Sign up now!

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    32 min
  • Hub Roundtable: We're in an economic war
    Jan 31 2025

    Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss Trump's impending tariffs against Canada and the growing calls for Canadian governments to respond with massive emergency relief for businesses and households.

    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 TheHub.ca. All these benefits are conferred for one year. Sign up now!

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    24 min
  • In Conversation with David Frum: Trump's predatory foreign policy
    Jan 31 2025

    Leading author, journalist and thinker David Frum and The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the Trump administration’s early foreign policy positioning, including its antagonism towards allies and others, and what it may mean for Canada-U.S. relations and America’s relationships around the world.

    If you liked what you heard in the first half of the program and wish to subscribe to full-length editions of In Conversation with David Frum 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 TheHub.ca. All these benefits are conferred for one year. Sign up now!

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    12 min
  • Hub Headlines: Canada is under threat. Let's sort that out
    Jan 31 2025

    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 - Canada is under threat. Now would be a good time to start sorting ourselves out, by Mark Mancini

    8:19 - The constitutional tug-of-war between politicians and Canada’s courts continues, by Joanna Baron

    This program is narrated by automated voices. If you enjoy The Hub’s podcasts consider subscribing to our weekly email newsletter featuring our best insights and analysis. Free. Cancel anytime. Sign up now at https://thehub.ca/join/.

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    14 min
  • Full Press: How media has failed to cover Canadians' anger
    Jan 30 2025

    This week on “Full Press”, why Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is appearing on the mainstream media channels he loves to hate, how media has failed to cover Canadian anger, lessons learned from American journalists covering President Trump, and calling out biased reporting on government subsidies for private media outlets.

    Our hosts Harrison Lowman, Managing Editor of The Hub, current affairs journalist, podcaster and author Tara Henley, and Peter Menzies, former newspaper executive and vice chair of the CRTC now senior fellow with The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Peter Menzies discuss.

    If you like what you are hearing, 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/.

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    39 min
  • Hub Headlines: The foreign interference inquiry reveals no traitors, only naive and opportunistic fools
    Jan 30 2025

    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 - Foreign interference inquiry finds no legal traitors amongst parliamentarians, just far too many naive and opportunistic fools, by Michael Kempa

    8:43 - As a Canadian, you are earning far less than your American counterpart, by Alicia Planincic

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    10 min
  • Hub Dialogues: Maxime Cohen on the Online News Act and the changing economics of news businesses
    Jan 29 2025

    On this special episode of Hub Dialogues, publisher Rudyard Griffiths speaks with Maxime Cohen, Scale AI Chair in Data Science for Retail at McGill University, about his in-depth study about the Online News Act, its negative impact on Canadian newsrooms, and the future of news and journalism in Canada.

    You can read the in-depth study on the Online News Act here: https://www.analysisgroup.com/globalassets/insights/publishing/2025_digital_disruption_in_news_media.pdf

    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.

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    27 min
  • Hub Headlines: What the worst response could be to Trump's tariffs
    Jan 29 2025

    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 - The worst response to Trump’s tariffs would be repeating our pandemic spending mistakes, by Sabrina Maddeaux

    7:42 - With Trump’s deportations underway, what will Canada’s asylum policy look like?, by Michael Barutciski

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    13 min