The dispute over the CBC’s access to the Ford government’s mandate letters to its new cabinet in 2018 is before the Supreme Court. But regardless of the outcome, it will not fix our broken access to information system whose problems go much deeper.
This week’s Hub Dialogue Roundtable discusses Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s plan to defund the CBC, as well as new proposals to tighten mortgage lending and what this tells us about the Canadian obsession with real estate.
We can call it a poignant look inside the fishbowl all we like, but it’s clear Prince Harry’s memoir taps into an eternal human need for bitchy gossip. You don’t have to have a strong stance on constitutional monarchy to understand why.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with The Hub’s executive director, Rudyard Griffiths, about the experience of launching The Hub over the past two years, including how we’re doing, what we’ve learned, and what to expect in 2023.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Washington Post columnist and popular YouTuber J.J. McCullough about Pierre Poilievre, the ongoing debate over Bill C-11, the state of politics in BC, and his biggest political or policy surprise of 2022.
Bill C-11 is intended to regulate online streaming services alongside traditional broadcast media like cable television, thereby forcing modern streaming giants like YouTube and Netflix to use their algorithms to promote “Canadian stories”. But many creators worry it will threaten their livelihoods in the process.
This week’s Hub Dialogue Roundtable discusses the major “Twitter files” story that broke this week, as well as the the groundbreaking artificial intelligence involved in the ChatGPT conversational tool and what it means for the future.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features British author and journalist Douglas Murray on the decline of trust in the mainstream media, how he’s avoided being canceled, and why he thinks democracy must be rooted in gratitude.
Readers cannot and should not stop thinking for themselves. There is no way to coast and take in the news as if it were breakfast cereal. It seems not at all clear that any of the news media can do anything to rectify the situation. To take the moral high ground does not seem possible. It is not even clear that such grounds exist any longer.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with independent journalist Matt Taibbi about the decline of trust in the mainstream media, independent journalism, and whether Pierre Poilievre can win an election campaign while eschewing the parliamentary press gallery.
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