Policy decisions and the alienation created from rising financial inequality have shown the need to be inclusive within the frameworks of infrastructure and the economy. The lack of trust in those who create laws and those who profit, Mohamed El-Erian argues, needs to be curbed owning their mistakes and see where there is room to grow.
Ford can get back in the driver’s seat and be the man who fixed Ontario’s housing crisis. Or he can be remembered as the last gasp of Toronto NIMBYism.
In the past decade, as Canadian educational institutions have attempted to grapple with this country’s complex past, the teaching of Canadian history has undergone a shift toward “decolonization.” Now, historians…
This episode features Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with leading global investor Mohamed El Erian, about his new book, co-authored with former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence, entitled, Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World.
It is hard, but sadly not impossible, to imagine what life would be like in an illiberal society. It could involve living under a coercive government that arbitrarily seizes property, prevents us from talking freely to our friends, and refuses to be held accountable.
Immigration has not been a major dividing line in Canadian politics. But the consensus on the issue may be changing. New data from the Canadian Century Initiative finds that there has been a significant increase in Canadians who believe that Canada has too much immigration.
In the latest Hub book review, Patrick Luciani revisits Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Pantheon Books, 1978) and highlights how his influential book and his activism helped lay the framework, intellectual and otherwise, for the unrest of our current moment.
David Frum discusses the Biden Administration’s strong support for Israel in the context of its war with Hamas, and why David thinks those who believe it is bad domestic politics for the president and his re-election prospects are wrong.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the shift in Ottawa’s mood regarding the current Liberal government, what a Pierre Poilievre-led government might look like, and the idea of Mark Carney becoming leader of the Liberal Party. They also discuss the surge of antisemitism across Canada.
Great conversations were had in the Hub Forum this week with the issues of housing, COVID-19, and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war prominent in readers’ minds.
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