Canadians will now finally get the federal election they have been demanding for months, and all indications suggest it will be hard-fought and highly consequential. In the coming weeks, we will vigorously debate our relationship with America, the fate and future of our moribund economy, immigration, Western alienation, defence policy, and a host of other critical national topics that were suppressed, deferred, or simply ignored by the Trudeau government. And, at the end of it all, we are going to have to cast our votes. It is hard to underestimate the stakes of the final outcome for the economy, our politics, national unity, and sovereignty. This is an election for the history books and as such The Hub will be covering it in-depth.
Our coverage will focus on what we do best: providing our subscribers with data-driven analysis and expert commentary on the parties, leaders, and their policies. If we can furnish you with insights missing in the rest of your news mix, such as state-of-the-art thinking on campaign strategy and public opinion, or the nitty-gritty of a specific party proposal, then that is “mission accomplished” for our editorial team.
The heart of The Hub’s campaign analysis will be a daily YouTube program, available live and on demand. Each weekday of the election at 10 am ET, we will convene our best thinkers and experts to weigh in on the campaign’s latest developments. The Hub community will be able to interact in real-time with the show via live questions. Our goal for the program is to bring you up-to-speed in thirty minutes or less on what really matters in the election. And, for those of you on the go, the program will also be available as a podcast download.
For a calendar reminder including details on how to watch our daily election show and have your questions answered, click here.
TheHub.ca’s election coverage will be led by our two editors-at-large, Sean Speer and Theo Argitis. Sean and Hub managing editor Harrison Lowman will curate daily a mix of long-form policy-focused journalism, lively op-ed style commentary, and bite-sized empirical analysis of the parties and leader’s pronouncements. Theo will bring his three decades covering economics for Bloomberg News to The Hub’s election coverage. Readers can expect from Theo in-depth analysis of the campaign’s competing economic visions for the country along with reaction from business and industry to the election’s twists and turns.
David Frum will be appearing regularly on our platform for the duration of the election to provide his highly sought-after analysis of Canada-U.S. relations. David’s recent YouTube shows and podcasts with us have generated millions of downloads and tens of thousands of listening hours. We are pleased to surge David’s contributions for the writ period to give you access to his incredible knowledge of cross-border politics, economics, and history.
All of our election coverage will be available across the entire Hub platform from our social feeds to YouTube to podcasting to email newsletters to TheHub.ca. And for the duration of the campaign, we will be maintaining all your current favourite Hub content such as Hub Headlines, The Roundtable, The Week in Polling, Full Press, and The Weekly Wrap.
Finally, we promise you that, unlike all of the mainstream media, our extensive election coverage will not be funded by the government. This will be an awkward election for the press. One party, in the form of the current government, has created large-scale public subsidies for news journalism to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Their principal political opponent is promising to abolish the CBC and substantially reform subsidies for broadcast and digital news.
Voters face the uncomfortable reality that news they consume during the election will be reported by a news industry that has a major economic stake in its outcome. This is precisely why The Hub does not accept government subsidies for our news journalism despite being eligible to do so. It is also why we proudly signed The Ottawa Declaration calling on private news media to disavow all government funding for their journalism.
We hope you find our campaign coverage useful to figuring out your vote during a consequential campaign. And that you draw some confidence that what you see and read on The Hub is a genuine reflection of what we think, unfettered by government subsidies and the inherent conflict of interest they represent. It goes without saying if there are things you like or dislike about our election coverage send us an email at editorial@thehub.ca. We always appreciate your feedback!
