Hub Podcasts
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.
Episodes
Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer discuss China’s announcement of another round of tariffs on Canadian canola exports and what it signals about the inherent risks for Canada in today’s great power competition between China and the United States. On the back half of the show, they shift to the controversy surrounding the Toronto International Film Festival's withdrawal of a Canadian documentary on the October 7th attacks, and what th...
Karen Ogen, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance and a former elected Chief of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, discusses the changing role of Indigenous communities in Canada's resource economy, her leadership during the controversial Coastal GasLink project, and the growing global demand for Canadian LNG, especially for countries like China and Japan.
This episode was made possible by Energy for a Secure Future and the gen...
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. announced his department was scrapping $500 million in mRNA vaccine research funding. Canadian infectious disease specialist and University of Toronto professor Allison McGeer joins the program to explain why she thinks RFK Jr.'s belief system is flawed when it comes to vaccines, and the enormous potential of mRNA technology...
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.
1:34 - Canadians’ basic rights are being trampled under excessive safetyism, by Joanna Baron
11:28 - Trump forced out thousands of top NASA scientists. Cana...
With Air Canada's negotiations with the flight attendants' union seemingly going nowhere, and the possibility of a strike starting Saturday, tens of thousands of Canadian travelers face being stranded during their summer vacations. Sprott School of Business Professor Ian Lee breaks down how we got here from lack of competition, and the likelihood the Canadian government allows Air Canada flight attendants to strike and the subseque...
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.
1:18 - The Carney government needs to kickstart a housing boom—and fast, by Mike Moffatt
6:56 - Following the U.K.’s lead in lowering the voting age woul...
China tariffing Canadian canola yesterday by 75.8 percent is just the latest in the trade war between the two countries. Canada-ASEAN Business Council advisor Bill Hawkins joins Hub Hits to discuss China's aggressive tariff attacks against Canada and how the super power is emboldened by the U.S.-Canada trade disputes.
The news cycle never slows down and neither does Hub Hits. Each day we provide you with quick hits on topical stori...
Full Press discusses whether Israel has won the ground war in Gaza but lost the media war, asks why journalists didn’t raise more questions about rights restrictions around the Nova Scotia wildfire woods ban, and looks into new leaks from TV host Travis Dhanraj following his grand exist from the CBC.
To receive full-length editions of Full Press, subscribe now and become a Hub Hero to get access to all of The Hub's paid podcasts an...
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.
1:35 - Canada has gone from a leader to a laggard to a liability on the world stage—but we don’t have to accept the status quo, by Peter MacKay
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The Indigenous Cowichan tribes won a major land claim case in B.C.'s Supreme Court that set a record for the longest trial, spanning 523 days in the last five years, and may have wider implications for property rights in the province of B.C. and Canada. University of Saskatchewan Professor of Law Dwight Newman breaks down the case and its wider implications for Canada.
The news cycle never slows down and neither does Hub Hits. Each...
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.
1:31 - Could American courts save Canada from Trump’s tariffs?, by Geoffrey Sigalet
9:28 - It should not be this hard to call out antisemitism, by Michael Geist
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Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist, award-winning author and host of The Origins Podcast, discusses his new book, The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process. He outlines the costs and consequences of the politicization of universities, the threats of free speech and open inquiry from the left and the right, and the ...
Canadian Constitution Foundation's counsel Josh Dehaas discusses new ways governments can address the uptick in crime across Ontario. In the interview he discusses his Hub article "Adam Zivo and Josh Dehaas: Four ways to solve our growing crime crisis".
The news cycle never slows down and neither does Hub Hits. Each day we provide you with quick hits on topical stories, big issues, and important vo...
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.
1:35 - The Liberals’ climate policies are projected to take nearly $1 trillion out of Alberta’s economy by 2050, by Lennie Kaplan
Nova Scotian political journalist and author Stephen Maher and Canadian Constitution Foundation's Josh Dehaas debate the pros and cons of the Nova Scotia government banning hiking and closing all national and provincial parks to the public, and imposing fines of up to $25,000 on anyone violating the order by entering the province's forests.
The news cycle never slows down and neither does Hub Hits. Each day we provide you with quic...
Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer discuss the Carney government's handling of trade negotiations with the U.S., highlighting Prime Minister Mark Carney's reticent leadership style and how it risks hindering the Canadian public's understanding of the benefits and costs of the government's negotiation strategy. On the back half of the show, Rudyard's infamous rants are back, criticizing new government subsidies for the for-profit Just...
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.
1:34 - Four ways to solve our growing crime crisis, by Adam Zivo and Josh Dehaas
9:32 - The chances that Canada’s recognition of Palestine actually happens? Don’t hold you...
David Clement, North American Affairs manager with the Consumer Choice Center, discusses why the U.S. Trade Commission is investigating Canada’s dairy exports, whether or not Canada’s supply management system unfairly exports dairy proteins while maintaining domestic demand, and how supply management is outdated and should be replaced.
The news cycle never slows down and neither does Hub Hits. Each day we provide you with quick hit...
Janice Gross Stein, founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, discusses the upcoming meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the high stakes for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and how Europe, particularly France, Germany, and the U.K., will likely support Ukraine, despite the U.S. potentially withdrawing its security guarantee.
The news cycle never slows down and neither does Hub Hits. Each day we p...
Alberta Edge host Ryan Hastman speaks with Alberta’s new senior representative to the U.S., Nathan Cooper, and Bloomberg News White House correspondent Josh Wingrove.
They discuss Alberta’s evolving relationship with Washington amid the turbulence of Donald Trump’s second term. Cooper outlines his role advocating for Alberta’s interests, while Wingrove provides context on Trump’s transactional fore...
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