What Is The Hub?

  • The Hub is Canada’s fastest growing digital news and commentary media outlet with over 200,000 users accessing its content every week.
  • The Hub produces a daily mix of news, commentary, podcasts, and newsletters on Canadian politics, national affairs, and public policy.
  • The Hub is committed to the values of pluralism, individual choice, economic liberty, fact-based argument, and civil debate. 
  • The Hub is reader, not government, funded. 

Why The Hub?

Federal legislation will soon allow digital news outlets to fund upwards of 50 percent of their newsroom costs through direct and indirect government subsidies.

This means that not only will the news produced by the CBC be majority government funded, but so too will the news journalism of private media outlets like The Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and many local newspapers.

The Hub is for readers who value independent journalism and are concerned about growing government funding of the news media.   

More government funding of news equals less public trust in the media. It undermines journalism’s role in holding the powerful, including the government, to account. In trying to save journalism government risks killing it—with far-reaching consequences for democracy.

The Hub is committed to providing Canadians with news and analysis that is reader, not government, funded. It does this every day through original news reporting, commentary, podcasts, and newsletters.

If you share The Hub’s belief in the importance of maintaining a truly independent press, join our community. Your support helps ensure The Hub remains a trusted source for news and analysis not funded by government subsidies.

The Hub Team

Rudyard Griffiths

PUBLISHER & CO-FOUNDER

Rudyard is a senior fellow at the Munk School of Public Policy and chair of the Munk Debates. He is a former newspaper columnist and news anchor on CTV News Channel and Bloomberg Canada.

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Sean Speer

EDITOR-AT-LARGE, RESEARCH DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER

Sean is a university lecturer at the University of Toronto and Carleton University as well as a think-tank scholar and columnist. He previously served as a senior economic adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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Harrison Lowman

MANAGING EDITOR

Harrison Lowman has worked for more than a decade in journalism, including at TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, CBC News, CTV National News, and The Literary Review of Canada. He’s also an enthusiastic Scout leader.

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Luke Smith

DEPUTY EDITOR

Luke is a writer and editor with previous experience in marketing and communications, including working on the international trade and investment team at Edmonton Economic Development Corporation.

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Amal Attar-Guzman

CONTENT EDITOR

Amal is a marketing coordinator at the Munk Debates and a Master’s graduate from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

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Alisha Rao

CONTENT COORDINATOR

Alisha previously worked as a program specialist at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and is a Master’s graduate of Queen’s University.

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Ken Whyte

SENIOR ADVISER

Ken is the editor and publisher at The Sutherland House, former SVP Public Policy at Rogers Communications, former editor-in-chief and publisher of Maclean’s, and founding editor of the National Post.

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Taylor Jackson

Taylor Jackson

RESEARCH & PRIZE MANAGER

Taylor is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Toronto. He has worked with several think tanks in Canada and the U.S. and previously served as a senior advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance.

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HUB FUNDERS

The Hub is a project of Hub Canada Media, a not-for-profit corporation.

The Hub depends on the generosity of readers like you.

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