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 Bricker & Speer podcast features The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer in conversation with the CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs, Darrell Bricker. Twice monthly, Darrell and Sean cover the politics, personalities and policy driving public opinion and politics in Canada.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.

Recent Episodes
  • Canada’s economic engine runs through the west
    May 5, 2025 – 13:56
  • From rhetoric to reality for Mark Carney
    May 3, 2025 – 09:27
  • The Laurentian elite strikes back
    May 2, 2025 – 11:56
  • What should we expect from Carney's government?
    May 2, 2025 – 20:21
  • David Frum: Trump’s main character syndrome & how the U.S. lost the Canadian election
    May 2, 2025 – 15:47
  • Don’t fret, Conservatives—your voter base is growing in all the right ways
    May 2, 2025 – 11:42
  • Brian Dijkema and Chris Griwsold on the political realignment reshaping Canadian and American politics
    May 1, 2025 – 01:00:44
  • Paul Kershaw on why we need a new deal for young people
    May 1, 2025 – 34:09
  • Darrell Bricker on why Canada is being pulled apart
    May 1, 2025 – 16:35
  • Victory without unity
    May 1, 2025 – 12:47
  • The Hub reacts to Canada’s dramatic federal election results
    Apr 30, 2025 – 05:02
  • Mark Carney's rise from zero to hero
    Apr 29, 2025 – 36:12
  • Hub Headlines: Mark Carney’s win will add more uncertainty
    Apr 29, 2025 – 06:26
  • Hub Headlines: Stay tuned
    Apr 29, 2025 – 00:14
  • Election 2025: Day 36, The final leg of the election race & generational divides exposed
    Apr 28, 2025 – 38:48
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Canada is on the brink
    Apr 28, 2025 – 08:54
  • The Trudeau Consensus lives on
    Apr 26, 2025 – 10:09
  • E-Day is upon us
    Apr 25, 2025 – 23:16
  • Election 2025: Day 33, The Conservatives' sprint to the finish line
    Apr 25, 2025 – 35:28
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Why Conservatives can’t just win more votes to win the election
    Apr 25, 2025 – 08:33
  • What the leaders’ debate journalist brawl reveals about a deeply divided Canadian media
    Apr 24, 2025 – 32:30
  • David Frum: The crooks, crackpots and cowards of the Trump administration
    Apr 24, 2025 – 28:02
  • Election 2025: Day 32, Poilievre's chances and the future of the Conservative Party
    Apr 24, 2025 – 33:43
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Canada must not take its eye off enemy number one
    Apr 24, 2025 – 07:49
  • Election 2025: Day 31, Tories and Liberals double down on media subsidies
    Apr 23, 2025 – 40:59
  • Hub Headlines: The big numbers of the Conservative Party policy platform
    Apr 23, 2025 – 05:20
  • Election 2025: Day 30, The Conservative platform unveiled and evaluating digital campaigns
    Apr 22, 2025 – 33:27
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: The Liberal platform walks away from its own fiscal plans
    Apr 22, 2025 – 09:49
  • Election 2025: Day 29, The final sprint to the ballot box
    Apr 21, 2025 – 32:21
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Mark Carney claims to care about civil liberties. His record says otherwise
    Apr 21, 2025 – 07:06
  • Hub Notebook: The top three economic policy challenges facing Canada’s next government
    Apr 19, 2025 – 13:59
  • Hub Roundtable: Third time is not a charm for the Leaders' Debate Commission
    Apr 18, 2025 – 21:45
  • Election 2025: Day 26, LIVE from The Hub's Leaders' Debate Watch Party!
    Apr 18, 2025 – 42:37
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: It's time for Conservatives to show up at local debates
    Apr 18, 2025 – 06:46
  • David Frum: The MAGA-fication of the Republican Party
    Apr 17, 2025 – 33:50
  • Election 2025: Day 25, Who won the French Leaders' Debate?
    Apr 17, 2025 – 39:14
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Government-organized leaders’ debates should be abolished
    Apr 17, 2025 – 07:22
  • Election 2025: Day 24, Tightening polls and the 'shambolic' government-funded debate commission
    Apr 16, 2025 – 36:21
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Will Mark Carney really champion Canada’s oil and gas sector?
    Apr 16, 2025 – 06:16
  • Jean-François Perrault on navigating Canada’s economic challenges
    Apr 15, 2025 – 47:25
  • Election 2025: Day 23, Conservative infighting and a looming condo market collapse
    Apr 15, 2025 – 36:12
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Does Carney care about accountability, and the carbon tax lowered prices at pumps
    Apr 15, 2025 – 07:12
  • Election 2025, Day 22: Tightening polls and a pulse check on Quebec voters
    Apr 14, 2025 – 33:56
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Canada's government-organized debates are here
    Apr 14, 2025 – 06:55
  • Hub Notebook: Tariffs, tumbling markets, and a cautious Bank of Canada
    Apr 12, 2025 – 14:15
  • Hub Roundtable: How can Conservatives get out of this rut?
    Apr 11, 2025 – 19:32
  • Chinyere Eni on making economic reconciliation a reality
    Apr 11, 2025 – 24:55
  • Election 2025: Day 19, Why voters' perceptions of Poilievre and Carney are shifting
    Apr 11, 2025 – 29:36
  • Hub Headlines Election 2025: Don’t expect the debates to save you, Conservatives
    Apr 11, 2025 – 08:50
  • Parsing Carney’s plan: Does the CBC deserve to have its budget nearly doubled?
    Apr 10, 2025 – 36:08
Recent Reviews
  • Javed Nissar
    Fascinating commentary
    Lovely commentary that takes Canada seriously! I deeply appreciate it
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