Rudyard Griffiths

Feb 26, 2025 | thehub.ca | Rudyard Griffiths |Howard Anglin |John Ibbitson |Harrison Lowman

Last night marked the final debate of the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Former deputy prime minister Chystia Freeland, former central banker Mark Carney, former cabinet minister Karina Gould, and one-time Liberal MP and businessman Frank Baylis squared off for the party’s English-language debate in Montreal.

Dec 7, 2024 | thehub.ca | Rudyard Griffiths |Sean Speer

This week, the ongoing fallout from Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs has led to growing calls for everyone, including Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, to put aside their differences and join Team Canada. The essential argument is that we need to subordinate partisan disagreements and focus on our shared objective of protecting Canada’s economy from the imposition of tariffs. Fair enough. The problem is that Team Canada’s gameplan is too defensive.

Nov 30, 2024 | thehub.ca | Rudyard Griffiths |Sean Speer

During the recent U.S. presidential election, household toasters loomed unexpectedly large. In a late July speech to party supporters in Nevada, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance remarked that “We believe that a million cheap, knock-off toasters aren’t worth the price of a single American manufacturing job.”The comment was excoriated by economists and fact-checkers for what was seen as an expression of oversimplified populist economics.

Oct 28, 2024 | thehub.ca | Rudyard Griffiths

It’s always nice to see who is reading The Hub these days. Presumably in response to my missive on why Pierre Poilievre should pre-emptively withdraw from election debates organised by the incumbent government’s handpicked commission—the Leaders’ Debates Commission, its executive director and former CBC journalist, Michel Cormier, penned a rare op-ed in the Globe and Mail.

Sep 25, 2024 | thehub.ca | Alicia Planincic |Rudyard Griffiths

Commentary 25 September 2024 Dr. Bijoy Menon in Calgary, Alta., Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press. In each EconMinute, Business Council of Alberta economist Alicia Planincic seeks to better understand the economic issues that matter to Canadians: from business competitiveness to housing affordability to living standards and our country’s lack of productivity growth.