Tara Henley

Toronto

Journalist, podcaster, bestselling author @WCA_LitAgency. 2024 Massey Essay @reviewcanada. Lean Out pod https://t.co/sUuijQe52w Full Press pod @TheHubCanada

Articles

Meghan Daum on Life's Catastrophe Hours

3 weeks ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -36:29Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In this turbulent era, for many of us there is a moment in every day when anxiety steals over us. We pause, and in that rare period of stillness, the fears surface — but sometimes, if we’re lucky, so too do the reflections and the insights. My guest on today’s program has called this interlude “the catastrophe hour,” and she’s just published a book of essays that beautifully captures it.
Darrell Bricker on Our Divided Nation

1 month ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -25:05Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Now that the dust has settled on the Canadian federal election, we can pause for a moment and assess where we are at as a country. What lessons can we take from the election results? My guest on today’s program has been polling Canadians for decades — and he says that we are now a divided nation. Darrell Bricker is the CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs.
Election 2025 - Mike Moffatt Answers Every Question You've Ever Had About the Housing Crisis

1 month ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -42:49Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. We are in the final week of the Canadian federal election. And while Trump’s trade policy has received much coverage this election season, our housing crisis has been less of a priority for the legacy press.
Election 2025 - Tristin Hopper on the State of the Nation

1 month ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -33:41Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. For some time now, writers and thinkers outside this country have been asking me: What happened to Canada? My guest on the program today has asked this question himself, in a new book that takes a deep dive into our decline — and arrives just in time for the federal election.
Lean Out with Tara Henley

2 months ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

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Lean Out with Tara Henley

2 months ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

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Election 2025: Brian Dijkema on the Collapse of Support for the NDP

2 months ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -32:15Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. One of the big stories in the Canadian federal election so far has been the collapse of support for the NDP. New polling from Ipsos shows support for the party continuing to decline. My guest on today’s program is a former labour representative — and he has some thoughts on where the traditional party of working people has gone wrong.
Andrew Potter on the End of the Trudeau Era

2 months ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Andrew Potter quotes his friend Joseph Heath (co-author of their book "The Rebel Sell" which is in my bookcase- great book, btw) on "the myth of shared values," right off the top of your interview. This is such a weirdly pervasive myth, especially among progressives, that it bears repeated invocations as one headline after another scrolls by in this age of social panic.
Weekend reads: On precarity

Mar 9, 2025 | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

The news cycle these days is as distressing as it is chaotic. After a nerve-wracking week of tensions between the United States and Canada, President Trump announced another pause in the tariffs on some Canadian goods. Meanwhile, our Parliament is prorogued as the Liberal Party conducts its leadership race, the results of which will be announced tonight.
Full Press

Feb 19, 2025 | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -39:59Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. This week, I’m changing things up, here at Lean Out. I am pleased to be able to bring you an episode of my new media criticism podcast with The Hub. My co-hosts are Harrison Lowman, managing editor of The Hub, and Peter Menzies, a former newspaper executive.