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President John F. Kennedy with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker seen here in Ottawa during his 1961 visit to Canada. The Canadian Press.
Viewpoint

Five outside-the-box Canadian summer reads

It’s even possible some of these books are already on your shelf — you just need a nudge to finally pick it up to read.

By J.D.M. Stewart - Posted on August 8, 2022
An advertisement for Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed on a street in Hong Kong, on Feb. 17, 2022. Kin Cheung/AP Photo.
Viewpoint

Canada’s shaky rules on cryptocurrencies have their root in Ontario

Plenty of Canadians complain about Quebec’s unique status on other matters of regulation, but Ontario is the outlier when it comes to securities.

By Yaël Ossowski and David Clement - Posted on August 8, 2022
Federal Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre holds a campaign rally in Toronto on April 30, 2022. Chris Young/The Canadian Press.
Hub Dialogue

Who are the new Conservative Party members? The Hub Roundtable has some ideas

This week’s Hub Dialogue roundtable discusses how several hundred thousand new Conservative Party members will fit into the existing membership and also digs into the heightening tensions around Taiwan.

By The Hub Staff - Posted on August 5, 2022
People walk past the Nasdaq MarketSite on July 13, 2022 in New York. Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo.
Hub Dialogue

Who will Canadians blame for economic strife? David Frum on the political consequences of a looming recession

On today’s episode of Frum Dialogues, David Frum and host Sean Speer discuss growing signs of a recession in the United States and the short- and long-term consequences including for Canada’s own economy.

By The Hub Staff - Posted on August 5, 2022
Rick Peterson speaks during the Conservative leadership debate at the Maclab Theatre in Edmonton, Alta., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Codie McLachlan/The Canadian Press.
News Dispatch

Centre Ice Conservatives want new ideas, not a party split

“My concern is, right now, we have a political discourse that’s dominated by people on the Left and Right saying everything’s terrible and that nothing short of stripping everything down is going to make things better,” says Dominic Cardy,

By Geoff Russ - Posted on August 5, 2022
A Russian military convoy moves on a highway in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces near Mariupol, Ukraine on April 16, 2022. Alexei Alexandrov/AP Photo.
Viewpoint

Why I was wrong about the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Even though I was reading repeated warnings about the potential scale of Russian aggression, I was inclined to agree with President Joe Biden that it seemed more likely to be a “minor incursion.”

By Stuart Thomson - Posted on August 5, 2022
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente reflects on Sept. 11 as she accept her National Newspaper Award for columns in Calgary on Friday, April, 26, 2002. The appointment of former Globe and Mail columnist Wente to a senior fellow position with Toronto's Massey College came under review amid fierce opposition from students and staff. Controversy emerged after the school, affiliated with the University of Toronto, announced that Wente was one of 46 people in various fields named a senior fellow and member of the Quadrangle Society. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press.
Viewpoint

I thought Massey College would stand up for diversity and debate. I was wrong

By bending to the wishes of the false advocates of justice and progress, Massey College has lost three remarkable senior fellows.

By Patrick Luciani - Posted on August 5, 2022
In this Feb. 7, 2020 file photo, people wearing masks attend a vigil for Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, in Hong Kong. The outpouring of grief and rage sparked by Li's death was an unusual - and for the Chinese Communist Party, unsettling - display in China's tightly monitored civic space. Kin Cheung/AP Photo.
Viewpoint

I was wrong that China would face a reckoning for COVID-19

The Chinese government should be facing the reckoning of all reckonings for its actions and inactions that caused and worsened this pandemic. It hasn’t.

By L. Graeme Smith - Posted on August 4, 2022
People line up outside the Guy Favreau federal building while waiting to apply for a passport in Montreal, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press.
Viewpoint

I was wrong about Canada's state capacity

The pandemic exposed that our governments are slower and more sclerotic than many of us fully understood. It turns out that Canada has a state capacity problem. 

By Sean Speer - Posted on August 4, 2022
The head of a statue of Sir John A. MacDonald is shown torn down following a demonstration in Montreal, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, where they protested to defund the police with a goal to end all systemic racism within all sectors of the Canadian government. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press.
Hub Dialogue

Is Canada losing itself? Author Lydia Perović on her adopted country’s political and cultural decline

Lydia Perović joins Hub Dialogues to discuss her immigrant story and how Canada has changed since she arrived, including its declining culture and its troubling turn towards illiberalism.

By The Hub Staff - Posted on August 4, 2022

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