Hub Podcasts
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Welcome to Hub Podcasts, the audio version of the big ideas and in-depth conversations found at TheHub.ca, Canada’s fastest growing digital news outlet with half a million people engaging weekly with our content.
Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer and managing editor Harrison Lowman engaged in longform conversations with leading thinkers on the big issues and ideas shaping the public conversation.
In Conversation with David Frum features the insights and analysis of leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum, who weighs in every second Friday on global and Canadian news events.
The Hub's media criticism podcast Full Press looks at how the media in Canada is covering the major stories of the day. Full press is hosted by The Hub's managing editor Harrison Lowman, and features journalist Tara Henley, and veteran news media executive Peter Menzies.
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.
Each Friday, The Hub Roundtable features Hub co-founders Rudyard Griffiths' and Sean Speer's take on the big political and economic stories making the news.
Hub Dialogues features The Hub's editor-at-large Sean Speer and managing editor Harrison Lowman engaged in longform conversations with leading thinkers on the big issues and ideas shaping the public conversation.
In Conversation with David Frum features the insights and analysis of leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum, who weighs in every second Friday on global and Canadian news events.
The Hub's media criticism podcast Full Press looks at how the media in Canada is covering the major stories of the day. Full press is hosted by The Hub's managing editor Harrison Lowman, and features journalist Tara Henley, and veteran news media executive Peter Menzies.
Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.
Each Friday, The Hub Roundtable features Hub co-founders Rudyard Griffiths' and Sean Speer's take on the big political and economic stories making the news.
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Jan 29, 2025 • 27min
Hub Dialogues: Maxime Cohen on the Online News Act and the changing economics of news businesses
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. 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/.
Jan 29, 2025 • 13min
Hub Headlines: What the worst response could be to Trump's tariffs
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 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/.
Jan 28, 2025 • 40min
Hub Dialogues: Yuval Levin on why Trump’s election was a rejection of Biden, not an endorsement of Trump
On this Hub Dialogue, we are joined by one of the most insightful explainers of the current political moment. Yuval Levin is a conservative political analyst, academic, journalist and the author of the recent book, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation and Could Again. He joins us to talk about what it means to be conservative in America in 2025, how America’s two-party system is flawed yet keeps the country unified, and why close elections are being misinterpreted as a mandate to pursue ambitious agendas. 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/.
Jan 28, 2025 • 11min
Hub Headlines: Just how permanent will Trump's tariffs be?
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. 0:17 - Just how permanent will Trump’s tariffs be?, by Ken Boessenkool 5:11 - Pierre Poilievre has the government-funded media spooked, by Peter Menzies 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/.
Jan 27, 2025 • 25min
Hub Dialogues: Lisa Raitt on why she's bullish on Canada's nuclear future
Lisa Raitt, the managing director and vice chair of global investment banking at CIBC Capital Markets and former federal cabinet minister, discusses her decision as natural resources minister to license Canada’s CANDU nuclear technology in the private sector, the growing global market for Canadian nuclear technologies more broadly, and why she thinks Canadian policymakers ought to seize on them. This episode was made possible by Canadians for CANDU and the generosity of listeners like you 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/.
Jan 27, 2025 • 14min
Hub Headlines: Canada is losing its economic immigration edge
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 losing its economic immigration edge—and the U.S. is set to take advantage, by Peter Csillag 7:55 - The Liberals utterly failed to control Canada’s population growth. Here’s what the next government can do better, by Don Kerr 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/.
Jan 24, 2025 • 25min
Hub Roundtable: This is not a game
Publisher Rudyard Griffiths and editor-at-large Sean Speer discuss President Trump's inauguration this past week, including his ongoing threat of tariffs against Canada, and how the current "Team Canada" approach seems ill-prepared to protect the country's interests, especially with a lame duck government. They also cover a range of provincial issues, including the Supreme Court of Canada's upcoming hearings on Quebec's Bill 21, a much-anticipated election in Ontario, and how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has stepped up to defend her province and the country in light of Ottawa's weak leadership. 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!
Jan 24, 2025 • 14min
Hub Headlines: Donald Trump enters office leading a country resigned to who he is
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 - No protests, no marches, no riots—This time, Donald Trump enters office leading a country resigned to who he is, by Wodek Szemberg 7:44 - Years of Liberal digital policy is dead. You can thank prorogation and Donald Trump for that, by Michael Geist 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/.
Jan 23, 2025 • 33min
Bricker & Speer: Trump's inauguration and the Liberal leadership race
Darrell Bricker, the CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, and The Hub's editor-at-Large Sean Speer discuss President Trump's inauguration, the Liberal leadership race and how Canadians are feeling about our fast-moving political environment. 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/.
Jan 23, 2025 • 8min
Hub Headlines: Trudeau’s tariff response cannot be a backdoor plan to fix his deficit
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 - Trudeau’s tariff response cannot be a backdoor plan to fix his deficit, by Sean Speer 6:05 - Why federal deficits are getting more volatile, by Alicia Planincic 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/.
