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Jan 9, 2025 • 14min

Hub Headlines: Justin Trudeau's disastrous economic legacy

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 - Justin Trudeau’s disastrous economic legacy in six charts, by Livio Di Matteo   6:25 - Is the Alberta pension plan idea dead?, by Trevor Tombe   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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Jan 8, 2025 • 13min

Hub Headlines: Trudeau's resignation is the most ill-timed curtain call in our political history

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 - ‘The most ill-timed curtain call in Canadian political history’: The Hub’s insiders react to Justin Trudeau’s dramatic resignation, by The Hub Staff   5:35 - Justin Trudeau never really understood Canada, by Christopher Dummitt   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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Jan 7, 2025 • 41min

Hub Dialogues: Robert Henderson on luxury beliefs, social mobility and the new upper-class

Robert K. Henderson, best-selling author and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses his must-read book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, about his journey out of family breakdown and socio-economic disadvantage and the lessons that he learned about elite culture and the U.S. class divide along the way.   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. If you like what you are hearing on Hub Dialogues 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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Jan 7, 2025 • 15min

Hub Headlines: The rise and fall of Justin Trudeau

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 - The rise and fall of Justin Trudeau, global progressivism’s heir apparent, by Sean Speer   6:52 -  Justin Trudeau is stepping down—here’s where things went wrong with his government, by Robert Asselin   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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Jan 6, 2025 • 21min

Hub Roundtable: The Trudeau era comes to an end

On this special episode of the Hub Roundtable, publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation. They also discuss the Liberal Party's forthcoming leadership race and the consequences for Trudeau's legacy, his party's political fortunes, and the country as it faces the imposition of tariffs by the incoming Trump administration.  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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Jan 6, 2025 • 12min

Hub Headlines: Chrystia Freeland is not the future of the Liberal Party

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 - Anointing Chrystia Freeland as the future of the Liberal Party would be a mistake, by Quito Maggi and Sharan Kaur   7:46 -  The solution to the housing crisis is simple: Increase the freedom to actually build homes, by Mike Moffatt   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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Jan 3, 2025 • 20min

Hub Roundtable: Will Trudeau sacrifice himself to resurrect the Liberal party?

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss growing calls from the Liberal parliamentary caucus for Prime Minister Trudeau to step down, as well as new polling on how his different successors might perform in an election, and what it all means for Canadian politics as we enter 2025. They also cover a debate within Donald Trump’s political coalition over immigration policy and what it may signal about the policies and priorities of a prospective Poilievre-led government in Canada.   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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Jan 1, 2025 • 37min

Hub Dialogues: Melissa Kearney on two-parent privilege (re-release)

Melissa Kearney, the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, discusses her important, new book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind. This episode originally aired on March 4th, 2024.  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. If you like what you are hearing on Hub Dialogues 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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Dec 30, 2024 • 26min

Hub Dialogues: Tyler Cowen on the greatest economist of all time (re-release)

George Mason University economist and leading public intellectual Tyler Cowen discusses his thoughtful new book, GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter? This episode originally aired on April 10th, 2024.  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. If you like what you are hearing on Hub Dialogues 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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Dec 27, 2024 • 17min

Hub Roundtable: 2024 is coming to an end. Will Justin Trudeau's prime ministership end too?

Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss the latest developments in Canadian politics, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's notable public absence over the past 10 days and what it may signal about his political future. They also cover the past year at The Hub itself and what to look forward to in 2025, including the launching of new podcasts and more audio/visual content.  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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