• Hub Headlines: How Canada can boost birth rates
    Apr 26 2024

    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 – Want to boost birth rates? Stop taxing mothers, by Andrew Evans


    6:06 – Canada’s population growth is exploding. Here’s why, by Don Kerr

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    14 mins
  • Hub Headlines: The importance of citizen happiness
    Apr 25 2024

    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.

    0:18 – Disregard citizen unhappiness at your own peril, leaders, by Ginny Roth


    6:39 – Ring the alarm—Canada is failing to safeguard those with mental illness from MAID, by Daniel Zekveld

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    15 mins
  • Hub Dialogues: Roméo Dallaire on whether world peace is impossible
    Apr 24 2024

    Thirty years after the Rwandan genocide that killed more than 800,000, former U.N Force Commander Roméo Dallaire discusses the atrocity he witnessed, whether peacekeeping and the international human rights movement has failed, Canada’s shrinking role in the world, and if reaching real peace is even achievable.


    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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    47 mins
  • Hub Headlines: Have pro-Palestine protests gone too far?
    Apr 24 2024

    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 – It’s time to stop giving the pro-Palestine protestors the benefit of the doubt, by Joanna Baron


    6:43 – Berating Bell and the telcos won’t save Canada’s news industry, by Theo Argitis

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    13 mins
  • Hub Headlines: Radical elements in the Anti-Racism Act
    Apr 23 2024

    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 – It’s not racist ‘denialism’ to appreciate Canada’s tolerance, despite what the B.C. NDP may say, by Caroline Elliott


    6:23 – Michael Ignatieff checks his privilege, by Patrick Luciani

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    13 mins
  • Hub Dialogues: Joanna Baron and Christine Van Geyn on COVID-19 Lockdowns & Civil Liberties (re-release)
    Apr 22 2024

    This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2023 Donner Book Prize nominees and executive director and litigation director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation Joanna Baron and Christine Van Geyn about their nominated book, Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to Covid-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever. The episode was originally released on November 7th, 2023.


    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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    52 mins
  • Hub Headlines: Can the government fix the Canadian Armed Forces?
    Apr 22 2024

    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 government’s defence policy update is a small step in the right direction—if it is actually implemented, by Richard Shimooka


    9:59 – We all benefit from lower capital gains taxes—even if you’re not rich, by Matt Spoke

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    15 mins
  • Hub Roundtable: The Trudeau government's anti-growth budget
    Apr 19 2024

    Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss this week’s federal budget, including the Trudeau government’s focus on redistribution over growth, its high spending, and the consequences of ongoing deficits and debt accumulation. They also discuss the budget's increased tax rate on capital gains tax, the policy debate that it has provoked, and the real-world, detrimental impacts on the Canadian economy.


    The Roundtable features The Hub's publisher Rudyard Griffiths and Hub editor-at-large, Sean Speer. The Roundtable is produced and edited by The Hub’s content editor, Amal Attar-Guzman.


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    40 mins