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.

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Recent Episodes
  • Steel tariffs, sinking exports, and a frozen housing market
    Jun 7, 2025 – 17:06
  • The Trump-Musk blowup
    Jun 6, 2025 – 15:12
  • Canada’s relationship with America will never be ‘over’
    Jun 6, 2025 – 12:54
  • Do Toronto's bubble zone laws suppress political speech?
    Jun 5, 2025 – 11:04
  • David Frum: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
    Jun 5, 2025 – 20:33
  • New report shows journalists are becoming more left-wing
    Jun 5, 2025 – 35:53
  • The Bank of Canada hit pause. Don’t expect a rescue
    Jun 5, 2025 – 06:27
  • Would Trump's Golden Dome guarantee North American security?
    Jun 4, 2025 – 17:26
  • The U.K. Labour Party is finally doing something on immigration. Why can’t Canada?
    Jun 4, 2025 – 09:56
  • Carrots, not sticks: Interprovincial trade updates
    Jun 3, 2025 – 12:37
  • The media must end its obsession with unnamed sources
    Jun 3, 2025 – 10:28
  • Jason Kenney on saving conservatism and Alberta’s place in Canada
    Jun 2, 2025 – 51:51
  • The future of digital news outlets in the age of Trump and AI
    Jun 2, 2025 – 14:14
  • Slow economic growth is Canada's biggest challenge
    Jun 2, 2025 – 16:56
  • Carney’s nation-building reset
    May 31, 2025 – 12:53
  • Did the throne speech tells us anything important?
    May 30, 2025 – 22:36
  • Trump's tariffs vs. the U.S. Constitution
    May 30, 2025 – 15:29
  • John Stackhouse and RJ Johnston on why gas security should be at the centre of the global agenda
    May 30, 2025 – 37:12
  • It’s time for Canada’s conservatives to embrace electoral reform
    May 30, 2025 – 16:50
  • Carneyomics: What are Carney's plans for the Canadian economy?
    May 29, 2025 – 16:41
  • Canada is on the verge of a new era for internal trade
    May 29, 2025 – 13:34
  • Canada can no longer afford to be governed by luxury beliefs
    May 28, 2025 – 17:11
  • The expectations are set high with a lofty speech from the throne
    May 28, 2025 – 15:19
  • The Throne Speech sets expectations high
    May 27, 2025 – 16:04
  • Our new PM is—and always has been—a political player
    May 27, 2025 – 10:37
  • Senator Phil Gramm debunks the great myths of American capitalism
    May 26, 2025 – 37:18
  • The Hub’s political insiders on what to watch for as Parliament returns
    May 26, 2025 – 11:14
  • Who’s getting what, Carney’s budget debate, and Poilievre's growth problem
    May 24, 2025 – 13:28
  • The Liberal government's shaky start and the imminent return to Parliament
    May 23, 2025 – 23:06
  • The importance of the Reform Act as Parliament resumes
    May 23, 2025 – 21:45
  • Mark Carney is the prime minister—he should stop acting like a president
    May 23, 2025 – 12:50
  • The watering down of the term genocide
    May 22, 2025 – 18:25
  • David Frum: Foreign policy chaos in Canada and the U.S.
    May 22, 2025 – 19:22
  • The carbon tax is gone—now what?
    May 22, 2025 – 12:00
  • How the poor are paying for ‘Elbows Up’
    May 22, 2025 – 10:46
  • Was ‘Elbows Up’ just media hype?
    May 22, 2025 – 37:17
  • Alberta’s independence depends on Washington, not Ottawa
    May 21, 2025 – 15:18
  • Mark Carney’s crisis that wasn’t
    May 21, 2025 – 12:26
  • Why Carney's warning to Israel will cause more harm than good
    May 20, 2025 – 18:48
  • Canada beats the U.S. in quality of life — but for how long?
    May 20, 2025 – 11:02
  • Debbie Gamble on the future of digital payments in Canada
    May 20, 2025 – 32:49
  • How serious is the Alberta separatism question?
    May 20, 2025 – 14:23
  • Uri Kaufman on why progressives are so hostile to Israel
    May 19, 2025 – 33:23
  • Can Mark Carney reconcile Canada’s growing divides?
    May 19, 2025 – 14:14
  • Did Mark Carney just pull a Joe Clark with his budget delay?
    May 17, 2025 – 11:33
  • Is the new Liberal housing minister up to the task?
    May 16, 2025 – 17:34
  • Carney's first misstep and Ontario as the sick man of North America
    May 16, 2025 – 25:59
  • Canada needs an Opposition that will oppose
    May 16, 2025 – 11:32
  • Where the Leafs go, so goes Canada?
    May 15, 2025 – 15:31
  • Does the Carney government need a spring federal budget?
    May 15, 2025 – 12:43
Recent Reviews
  • globalkim
    Much needed critical thinking for Canadians
    Thank you for keeping Canadians critically thinking. Much needed. Let the fight against lies and propaganda grow louder and louder with our citizens!
  • Javed Nissar
    Fascinating commentary
    Lovely commentary that takes Canada seriously! I deeply appreciate it
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