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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thehub.ca | Ginny A. Roth
If you talk frequently to men in their twenties, you’ll notice that the once-very-online adjective “based” is now so widely used that it has graduated from obscure internet slang to everyday IRL usage. I can’t bring myself to say it unironically, but some of my peers have started to, and it’s almost always used as a pseudo-compliment, a sign of respect. So, what does it mean?
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Ginny A. Roth
Commentary 1 November 2024 Conservative leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat in Birmingham, England, Oct. 2, 2024. Kin Cheung/AP Photo. I voted for a new leader last week. No, not in Canada—the one we’ve got is doing just fine, thanks very much. I voted for a new leader of the Conservative party in the United Kingdom. In case you haven’t been following the overseas intrigue, let’s catch you up.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Ginny A. Roth |Brian Dijkema |Renze Nauta
When it comes to climate change policy in Canada these days, regular Canadians aren’t the only ones, to paraphrase Irving Kristol, getting mugged by reality. Andrew Furey, Bonnie Crombie, Jagmeet Singh, and David Eby—all Liberal and NDP leaders—are running away from the consumer carbon tax as fast as their legs can carry them. These are some of the same leaders who only a few years ago would have sold their souls for a selfie with Greta Thunberg.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Donald Wright |Ginny A. Roth
Commentary 4 October 2024 Condo and office towers fill the downtown skyline in Vancouver, B.C., March 30, 2018. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press. The following is the third installment in a multi-part series tackling Canada’s housing and immigration crises. The series will focus on their root causes, intertwined nature, and potential solutions. Be sure to check out parts one and two.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Ginny A. Roth |Brian Dijkema |Renze Nauta
Canada has a major economic opportunity in the global low-carbon economy, if it gets its climate and energy policies right. Those policies should be informed by principles like leveraging the ingenuity of markets and free enterprise, limited government, and respect for provincial jurisdiction. The following article is the latest installment of The Hub’s series sponsored by Clean Prosperity exploring the why, what, and how of conservative climate policy.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Ginny A. Roth |Brian Dijkema |Renze Nauta
When it comes to climate change policy in Canada these days, regular Canadians aren’t the only ones, to paraphrase Irving Kristol, getting mugged by reality. Andrew Furey, Bonnie Crombie, Jagmeet Singh, and David Eby—all Liberal and NDP leaders—are running away from the consumer carbon tax as fast as their legs can carry them. These are some of the same leaders who only a few years ago would have sold their souls for a selfie with Greta Thunberg.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Elie Cantin-Nantel |Ginny A. Roth
Commentary 24 September 2024 Pro-Palestinian protesters chant at University of Chicago police, May 7, 2024, in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo. “The children now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Ginny A. Roth |Paul W Bennett
Commentary 24 September 2024 Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh during a debate in Gatineau, Que., Sept. 9, 2021. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press. Sometimes I think that occasional distance from Ottawa can help one see the forest for the trees. Ottawa regulars—the media, public servants, and partisans of all kinds—are convinced there’s going to be an early writ period.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Ginny A. Roth |Alister Campbell
Commentary 9 September 2024 Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh prepare for a Leaders debate in Gatineau, Que., Sept. 9, 2021. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press. NDP incompetence has allowed Canada’s Liberals to govern as though they hold a majority of seats in the House of Commons since 2015. To be fair, for four of those years, they did.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Kirk LaPointe |Ginny A. Roth
Kevin Falcon’s decision in 2012 to leave British Columbian politics was understandable, as was his decision in 2022 to return. His decision in 2024 not to leave again—to not unite the Right as an election looms, to not resign before he even finishes his first campaign as a party leader—is shaping up to be the most significant decision in B.C. politics in a generation. And it has been a lot less understandable. Falcon’s first departure a dozen years ago wasn’t much of a surprise.
