This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the federal government’s demand of major Canadian grocers to come up with a plan to stabilize prices before Thanksgiving. Is this a sign of economic illiteracy from the government or poll-driven desperation? We also discuss the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit being held in Montreal.
Like Canada’s public servants, and many other white collar employees, members of Parliament got a taste of remote work and decided they liked it.
This episode of In Conversation with David Frum features discussion on the imminent return of the Canadian Parliament and the costs and consequences of the ongoing practice of so-called “virtual Parliament”, including what it tells us about the state of Canadian politics.
Rather than fruitlessly trying to reconcile two irreconcilable visions of conservatism under the banner of a single party, conservatives in Québec and the Rest of Canada should branch out into two separate but affiliated parties: the Conservative Party and the CAQ.
Iran already has its own liberal tradition and its own successful example of constraining despotism. The future of Iran after the Islamic Republic must be shaped by Iranians themselves within their own tradition of culture and civilisation.
Canada has had 23 PMs. It may be time to start preparing for number 24.
Times are all of a sudden tough and belts are tightening across Canada. But there are still good wines to be found at a reasonable price that are worth looking for.
Over the past six weeks the news industry had a chance to prove how much the public values it. It has instead revealed the unsettling truth that most of it is nowhere near as fetching, nor as necessary, as the image it self-servingly sees when it looks in the mirror.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features writer and YouTuber J.J. McCullough about the recent Conservative Party convention, the imminent return of Parliament, and what it means for Canada to have a North American identity.
The U.S. hasn’t raised the issue publicly since last year and, although the United States Embassy in Ottawa has expressed specific concerns about the government’s online streaming bill, it would only say that it was monitoring the impact of the online news legislation.
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