Matt Spoke

Sep 23, 2024 | thehub.ca | Robert C. O'Brien |Matt Spoke

Commentary 23 September 2024 The logos for streaming services are pictured on a remote control on Aug. 13, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Jenny Kane/AP Photo. American technology leadership is the envy of the world. The technology sector is not without its faults, but it has brought trillions in economic benefits to the United States, created millions of jobs, and ensured that our defence industrial base stays ahead of China at a critical time.

Aug 27, 2024 | thehub.ca | Mike Moffatt |Matt Spoke

Commentary 27 August 2024 A temporary foreign worker from Mexico on a berry farm in Mirabel, Que., May 6, 2020. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press. The federal government’s annual cabinet retreat is taking place this week, with Liberal ministers on hand in Halifax to discuss the most pressing issues facing the country ahead of the fall legislative session.

Aug 5, 2024 | thehub.ca | Patrick Luciani |Matt Spoke

In this week’s Hub book review, Patrick Luciani examines Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday, 2024), in which she argues that autocrats across the world are being emboldened as the West fails to effectively fight back. The last two weeks of July were extraordinary in American history. Aside from Biden stepping away from a second term, Democrats are rallying behind a leader with the political sophistication of a college sophomore.

Aug 5, 2024 | thehub.ca | Matt Spoke |Sean Speer

Commentary 5 August 2024 A new home for sale in Carleton Place, Ont., on March 17, 2015. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press. “Chinese buyers are driving up the cost of homes in Vancouver!” This may as well have been a political bumper sticker for nearly a decade in this country as politicians at all levels of government looked for someone to blame for the skyrocketing prices in Canadian real estate.

Apr 22, 2024 | thehub.ca | Matt Spoke

I’ve been following many of the discussions that have taken place since the release of the Trudeau government’s budget. There is too much in the budget to cover in-depth, but I think it’s worthwhile diving in on one of the more controversial measures: namely, the increase in the capital gains inclusion rate for corporations and for individuals (above $250,000 in the latter case). Most observers, rightly so, have framed the measure as a tax on the so-called “ultra-wealthy”.