4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (343+ words) Andrew Coyne wrote a column this week about loyalty that is causing a stir. It does not accuse anyone of disloyalty, quite. It argues that criticism of the government’s trade war has boundaries, that ignoring context is culpable past one…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (400+ words) Today, Andrew Coyne has written a column for the Globe and Mail taking issue with analysis published by The Hub on the Canada-U.S. trade dispute. His principal argument is that our warnings about the economic costs of retaliatory tariffs and…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (322+ words) Canada’s new retaliatory tariffs take effect tomorrow morning, Sept. 8. They’ll predictably invite another American response, which will in turn produce demands for further Canadian retaliation. Each government will explain that its actions were necessitated by the other’s. Canadians will be…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (252+ words) If one were seeking proof that man is more a rationalizing than a rational animal, one would need look no further than the tariff controversy between the United States and Canada that came to a head in the last weeks....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (219+ words) Canada is in the middle of a trade war with the United States, and it is preoccupying our thoughts. I understand that—lots of people and businesses are being harmed on both sides of the border, and the attack, for…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) One of my favourite discussion questions is “Which country, from the perspective of self-interest, has had the best energy strategy in the past 15 years?” The answers I receive vary widely, from Norway to the United States. Canada is almost never…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (253+ words) Canada Goose jackets on display at the Harry Rosen store in Toronto on September 17, 2024. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press. When most people think of a barrel of oil, they think about filling up their car. But a barrel of oil…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (965+ words) A foreign journalist is blocked by Chinese policemen as he tries to film outside a courthouse in Beijing, Dec. 2, 2020. (Andy Wong/AP) Six months after Mark Carney’s historic trip to China, the first for a Canadian prime minister in nearly…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1324+ words) The Hub’s managing editor Harrison Lowman spoke to Richard Fadden, former CSIS director and one-time national security advisor to the prime minister, to discuss how Zhang slipped through Canada’s vetting system, the brazenness of China’s espionage efforts, and whether Ottawa’s…...