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Award-winning journalist and author Matti Friedman discusses Israel and America's war with Iran and how the conflict is affecting Israeli society and Jewish communities in the West. The former Torontonian now Israeli explores rising anti-Semitism in Canada and how Jews should respond, the mainstream media's shift from objective journalism to activism, and his new book Out of the Sky which details the death-defying efforts of Jewish parachutists who jumped back into Nazi Europe during the Second World War.

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Amal Attar-Guzman - Producer & Editor

Harrison Lowman - Host

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Greg McLean, Conservative MP for Calgary Centre, says Canada's economy is "faltering," and that fixing it will require more than great speeches and good intentions. As chair of the Conservative Party's economic growth council, McLean has spent the past several months consulting business leaders across the country on what's holding back investment, productivity, and growth. He joins Alberta Edge to discuss the group's findings, including the role of manufacturing, critical minerals, pipelines, trade, and carbon pricing—and why the debate over Canada's economic future is far from settled in Prime Minister Mark Carney's first year in office.

This podcast is generously supported by Don Archibald. The Hub thanks him for his ongoing support.

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Falice Chin - Host, Producer, and Editor

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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.

0:20 - Pierre Poilievre's charm offensive is real—I've run the numbers to prove it, by Edward Ngai

6:32 - Government departments back off handpicking journalists who are funded federally to hold them accountable, by Graeme Gordon and Harrison Lowman

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Alisha Rao – Producer & Editor

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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.

0:33 - Doug Ford has given up on trying to balance the budget: The Weekly Wrap, by Sean Speer

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Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer dissect Ontario's massive budget deficit and Canada's broader fiscal crisis. They examine how governments across the country are abandoning fiscal discipline, relying on deficit spending rather than organic economic growth.

In the second half, they explore the collapse of entrepreneurship in Canada, the concentration of economic activity in government, and how an increasingly narrow tax base enables unsustainable spending. They argue this represents a fundamental shift away from economic freedom and individual autonomy toward European-style state dependency.

You can read Charles Lammam's analysis "Canada is losing its entrepreneurs—and barely anyone is talking about it," here: https://thehub.ca/2026/03/23/canada-is-losing-its-entrepreneurs-and-barely-anyone-is-talking-about-it/

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The Hub is Canada's fastest growing independent digital news outlet.

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CREDITS:

Amal Attar-Guzman - Producer and Editor

Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer - Hosts

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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.

0:22 - Why the Alberta-Ottawa energy MOU is far from dead, despite missed targets, by Falice Chin

6:25 - Beyond GDP: Americans' net wealth has doubled over last decade, while Canadians' lags far behind, by Alicia Planincic

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Former B.C. cabinet minister Iain Black argues why he should be the next leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia. Black discusses his vision for addressing British Columbia's growing challenges, including its $13.3 billion dollar deficit, the worst housing crisis in the country, safety concerns around drug abuse, and questions around property rights following a landmark court decision around Indigenous title. Black insists his experience in power will be what unites B.C.'s fractured conservative movement. In the next few weeks, The Hub will interview the lead contenders vying to become leader of the BC Conservatives, and the next leader of the Official Opposition.

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CREDITS:

Amal Attar-Guzman - Producer

Alisha Rao - Editor

Harrison Lowman - Host

Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press - Photo Credit

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Alberta Edge's Amber Ruddy and Keith McLaughlin say missing some of the April 1 deadlines tied to the federal–provincial MOU does not necessarily mean a bitumen pipeline to the West Coast is off the table. They argue the pipeline process is now running on a separate but related track from the Pathways Plus carbon capture proposal. The two political strategists believe Prime Minister Mark Carney still has time—and political runway—to turn this into both an economic and national unity project. However, the opportunity won't last forever.

This podcast is generously supported by Don Archibald. The Hub thanks him for his ongoing support.

The Hub is Canada's fastest-growing independent digital news outlet.

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CREDITS:

Falice Chin - Host, Producer, and Editor

Amber Ruddy - Panelist

Keith McLaughlin - Panelist

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Hub Headlines features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go.

0:20 - Auditor general fires torpedo at Liberals' mishandling of international student fraud, by Stephen Staley

5:48 - New firm creation is down nearly 25% since the 1980s—The numbers behind Canada's entrepreneurship crisis, by The Hub Staff

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Alisha Rao – Producer & Editor

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This week, The Hub gathered readers and listeners in Ottawa's National Arts Centre for a live conversation between Sean Speer, The Hub's co-founder and editor-at-large, and David Frum, leading author, thinker, and journalist. The two discussed the escalating U.S.–Iran conflict, the erosion of institutional guardrails in Donald Trump's second term, and the implications for Canada. Frum argued that we're witnessing a fundamental rupture in the international order that requires Canada to think and act like a middle power navigating between three potentially hostile giants.

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CREDITS:

Elia Gross - Producer and Editor

Sean Speer - Host

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