Contributors
Your guide to the people behind the ideas that make The Hub an essential platform for anyone seeking an alternative to conventional thinking.
Contributing Writers
Joanna Baron
Joanna Baron: Canada’s calamitous experience with MAID should be a stark warning for the U.K.
View moreDavid Frum
David Frum: 'Hamas started the war. Let Israel finish it'
View moreDerrick Hunter
Derrick Hunter: Une croissance plus lente, moins d’emplois, une détérioration de l’économie : les conséquences de l’impôt sur les gains en capital ne doivent pas être ignorées
View moreMichael Kempa
Michael Kempa: Considering Paul Bernardo for parole stretches the 'faint hope' for reintegration beyond all reason
View moreKirk LaPointe
Kirk LaPointe: The Canadian Football League is worth saving
View moreEric Lombardi
Eric Lombardi: Your bribe is in the mail—Trudeau and Ford's populist gimmicks play Canadians for fools
View morePatrick Luciani
Patrick Luciani: Does liberalism have any life left?
View morePeter Menzies
Peter Menzies: Unfortunately for Canadian consumers and creators, the Online Streaming Act is performing exactly as predicted
View moreAlicia Planincic
Alicia Planincic: Are we really in a ‘vibecession’?
View moreKaren Restoule
Karen Restoule: Indigenous Peoples are on a path to prosperity—will the government help or hinder us on our way?
View moreGinny Roth
Ginny Roth: The British Tories should follow Pierre Poilievre’s example—Win back the Right, then build from there
View moreRichard Shimooka
Richard Shimooka: Three things Canada can do to meet its NATO defence spending commitment within three years
View moreDave Snow
Dave Snow: Will Justin Trudeau prorogue Parliament in the new year? History shows there's little political cost to the practice
View moreTrevor Tombe
Trevor Tombe: Carrots, not sticks, for a new climate federalism
View moreOther Writers
Antony Anderson
Antony Anderson: Lucy Maud Montgomery, the 'magazine hack' who gave us a Canadian cultural icon
View morePaul W. Bennett
Paul W. Bennett: Students skipping class is nothing new, but teachers missing school is a growing problem too
View moreBrian Bird
Brian Bird: Unlike the Paris Olympics organizers, we should learn from Christianity, not mock it
View moreJanet Bufton
Janet Bufton: Temporary foreign workers are not to blame for Canada’s economic woes
View moreLivio Di Matteo
Livio Di Matteo: Digging into the numbers, Canadian health spending is both rising and falling
View moreCaroline Elliott
Caroline Elliott: Public interest comes second with B.C.’s Haida agreement
View moreKelden Formosa
Kelden Formosa: Britain is getting the assisted suicide debate that Canada was denied
View moreKristopher Kinsinger
Kristopher Kinsinger: The Liberals still have no good justification for their thought crime law
View moreAmanda Lang
Amanda Lang: What happens when politics eclipse policy? Just ask Jason Kenney and Kathleen Wynne
View moreMike Moffatt
Mike Moffatt: Want to solve the housing crisis? Make it easier to build better neighbourhoods
View moreAaron Pete
Aaron Pete: Pretendians in the cabinet? Stop blaming the people playing the Indigenous identity game, start blaming the broken system that creates the incentives
View moreMike Ramsay
Mike Ramsay: Divisive DEI ideology is harming our students. It's time to ditch it
View moreJ.D.M. Stewart
J.D.M. Stewart: Canadian history matters. It's time the government acted like it
View moreZahra Sultani
Zahra Sultani: If you can’t handle the party nomination heat, get out of the kitchen
View moreHoward Anglin
Howard Anglin is a doctoral student at Oxford University. He was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Principal Secretary to the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney, and a lawyer in New York, London, and Washington, DC.
Joanna Baron
Joanna Baron is Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a legal charity that protects constitutional freedoms in courts of law and public opinion. Previously, she was the founding National Director of the Runnymede Society and a criminal defence litigator in Toronto. She studied Classics at St John’s College in MD and NM and law at McGill University.
David Frum
David Frum is a leading author, journalist, public intellectual, and staff writer at the Atlantic. He previously worked as a speechwriter for former President George W. Bush and chaired for the think tank Policy Exchange.
Derrick Hunter
Derrick Hunter is the CEO of Bluesky Equities Ltd. a private diversified investment management company. He was named Canadian Angel Investor of the Year for 2019. He is also a trustee of the Hunter Family Foundation, which underwrites The Hunter Prize for Public Policy at The Hub.
Malcolm Jolley
Malcolm Jolley is a roving wine and food journalist, beagler, and professional house guest. Based mostly in Toronto, he publishes a sort of wine club newsletter at mjwinebox.com.
Michael Kempa
Michael Kempa is a criminologist with the spirit of an investigative journalist. He focuses on exposing the politics behind policing, security and criminal justice operations, policies and reforms. Based out of the University of Ottawa, he has contributed to The Hub, The National Post, CBC, Walrus Magazine, and others. He once sought a federal Liberal nomination in his native Scarborough, Ontario, but was saved from (Liberal) party politics by the arrival of a higher-profile leader-endorsed candidate.
Kirk LaPointe
B.C. Correspondent and Senior Advisor
Kirk LaPointe is The Hub‘s B.C. Correspondent. He is a transplanted Ontarian to British Columbia. Before he left, he ran CTV News, Southam News and the Hamilton Spectator. He also helped launch the National Post as its first executive editor, was a day-one host on CBC Newsworld, and ran the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press. His B.C. experiences include being managing editor of the Vancouver Sun, the English-language ombudsman of the CBC, and most recently the publisher and editor-in-chief of Business in Vancouver and vice-president editorial of its parent company, Glacier Media. He ran and finished second for the Vancouver mayoralty in 2014. He has taught for two decades at the UBC School of Journalism and now writes columns for Glacier Media.
Eric Lombardi
Eric Lombardi stands at the forefront of urban development and advocacy as the founder and president of More Neighbours Toronto, a volunteer organization committed to ending the housing crisis. Professionally, he specializes in strategy management consulting in the finance and technology sectors.
Patrick Luciani
Patrick Luciani is a writer and book reviewer for The Hub and former executive director of the Donner Canadian Foundation.
Peter Menzies
Peter Menzies is a Senior Fellow with The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a former newspaper executive, and past vice chair of the CRTC.
Jack Mitchell
Jack Mitchell (www.jackmitchell.ca) is a poet and scholar based in Halifax, where he is an associate professor of Classics at Dalhousie. His latest book, “The Odyssey of Star Wars: an Epic Poem”, a retelling of the original Star Wars film trilogy, was published in September 2021 by Abrams Books.
Alicia Planincic
Alicia Planincic is the Director of Policy & Economics at the Business Council of Alberta. She regularly provides insight and analysis on the Canadian economy, public finances, labour markets, equity and social mobility, and public policy.
Karen Restoule
Karen Restoule is a vice president at Crestview Strategy and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute focused on Indigenous economic and governance policy. She previously served First Nations leadership at Chiefs of Ontario. Karen is Ojibwe from Dokis First Nation.
Ginny Roth
Ginny Roth is a Partner at Crestview Strategy and a long-time conservative activist who most recently served as the Director of Communications on Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative leadership campaign.
Richard Shimooka
Richard Shimooka is a Hub contributing writer and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute who writes on defence policy.
Dave Snow
Dave Snow is an Associate professor in political science at the University of Guelph and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Trevor Tombe
Trevor Tombe is a professor of economics at the University of Calgary and a research fellow at The School of Public Policy.
Antony Anderson
Antony Anderson is the author of “The Diplomat: Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis” and is a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History. He writes documentaries for various national and international broadcasters. You can find him on X @CanadaHistory1.
Paul W. Bennett
Paul W. Bennett, Ed.D., is Senior Fellow, Education Policy, Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He’s based in Halifax, NS, where he serves as Director, Schoolhouse Institute, Adjunct Professor of Education, Saint Mary’s University, and Chair of researchED Canada.
Brian Bird
Brian Bird is a lecturer at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.
Janet Bufton
Janet Bufton is a founder of the Institute for Liberal Studies. She holds degrees in business, economics, and international affairs, which she has somehow managed to turn towards work as an Ottawa-based educational consultant and copy editor.
Livio Di Matteo
Livio Di Matteo is a contributor to The Hub, Professor of Economics at Lakehead University, and a Member of the Canadian Institute for Health Information National Health Expenditure Advisory Group.
Caroline Elliott
Caroline Elliott is a political commentator based in Vancouver. She has a PhD specializing in Canadian liberal democracy from Simon Fraser University. Follow her @NVanCaroline.
Kelden Formosa
Kelden Formosa is an elementary school teacher in Calgary. He has an M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame.
Kristopher Kinsinger
Kristopher Kinsinger is a Guelph-based lawyer and adjunct lecturer at Redeemer University in Hamilton. He is a past national director of the Runnymede Society, where he now services as a vice-president.
Amanda Lang
Amanda Lang is an award-winning business journalist, the current host of Taking Stock on Bell Media, a best-selling author, and a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Mike Moffatt
Mike Moffatt is the founding director of the PLACE Centre and co-host of the podcast The Missing Middle.
Aaron Pete
Aaron Pete is a graduate of the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. He is also a council member with Chawathil First Nation, the manager of strategic relationships with Metis Nation British Columbia, and the host of the Bigger Than Me Podcast.
Mike Ramsay
Mike Ramsay is a school trustee and past chair of the Waterloo Region District School Board. He is also a former soldier and police officer. His opinions are his own.
J.D.M. Stewart
J.D.M. Stewart taught history for 30 years and is the author of Being Prime Minister. He now leads JDM Policy and Communications.
Zahra Sultani
Zahra Sultani is a native of Afghanistan, born and raised in Iran. She has more than 10 years of experience in both the public and private sectors working on local, national, and international policies. She also writes about geopolitics and social issues in the Middle East and Central Asia. She studied economics at York University and philosophy and political science at Wilfrid Laurier University.