Behavioural insight consultant Michael Hallsworth joins Amanda Lang to discuss the politics and policies shaped by nudge thinking and the use of behavioural psychology to shape government and public sector outcomes.
Religious women in Canada are having more children than non-religious women and report less anxiety about childbearing and parenthood, according to a new study by the faith-based think tank Cardus.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the government’s online news legislation that became law this week. Plus, the tourist submersible that imploded on a dive to visit the wreck of the Titanic this week.
Conservatives and liberals are not even speaking the same language when it comes to drug policy. For the conservative, the existence of crime is itself repugnant and warrants a stricter approach. In contrast, the liberal is focused on more gentle nudging and believes incentives will eventually produce their ideal society.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features James Millar, the president and chief executive officer of the International CCS Knowledge Centre, on the key role carbon capture and storage will play in helping Canada meet its climate goals, why Canada is uniquely suited to becoming a global leader in implementing this innovative technology, and what more still needs to be done.
Many Canadians seem to think that phasing out the production of Canadian oil and gas would be an effective way for the country to achieve its net zero objective. And there is no doubt that using such a policy approach could very significantly reduce GHG emissions. The problem is that the economic costs of taking such an approach would be very high.
The political centre is as vacant in Canada as it is in the U.S., leaving moderates politically homeless. But unlike in Canada, where moderate voices sound dated and irrelevant, there are signs the American intellectual centre is experiencing a burgeoning renaissance. Why can’t Canada follow suit?
As liberal elites have become more captured by woke ideology, their values have increasingly become inaccessible to everyday Canadians. Championing bourgeois virtues and speaking to the common people is a winning formula in response.
The uniformity of expertise might be less worrisome if we could trust that experts valued truth ahead of politics. But that’s not the case. We know just how ideologically insulated our sources of so-called expertise have become.
As Canadians continue to watch prices rise at the checkout, even as inflation shows some early signs of cooling, it’s fitting that a former Bank of Canada governor is on the shortlist of authors for the Donner Book Prize.
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