Rudyard Griffiths

But I must say that her assessment also sounds rather familiar.

On November 30th, 2024, before Trump even returned to office, the Hub's publisher Rudyard Griffiths and I warned that Canadians were underestimating the durability of his tariff agenda.

We specifically identified the fiscal incentives for him and congressional Republicans to use tariff revenues to partly offset their tax cutting plans.

We've characterized it at different points as a backdoor consumption tax.

Welcome to the Friday Focus podcast for the 23rd of October, 2027.

I'm Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with my co-host Janice Rose Stein.

Janice, we haven't checked in on your beloved Jays this year.

I am completely ignorant as to where this team is at.

I mean, this, this doesn't seem normal.

The, the velocity, the complexity, the, the scope of everything that seems to be happening all at once.

I agree with you, Rudyard, and there are threads to connect all those stories to.

What this tells me is that we are already deep into a transitional phase.

So there's a certain sort of air of unreality to French politics, of which you can see the evidence being the pursuit of these extreme solutions, whether the extreme right or the extreme left.

Rudyard Griffiths here, chair of the Munk Debates with our latest Munk Dialogue featuring Globe and Mail journalist Andrew Coyne.

Hey, Andrew, how's it going? Good.

How are you, Rudyard? Excellent.

Well, a lot to talk about, but I wanted to kick off our weekly discussion focusing on the riots in France over the weekend.

I think they were consequential.

We really appreciate that you're listening on and along to The Hub's audio content.

Until next time, I'm Rudyard Griffiths, publisher of The Hub.

Bye-bye.

I hope it ends well.

Rudyard Griffiths here, chair of the Monk Debates with our latest Monk Dialogue with Globe and Mail journalist Andrew Coyne.

He's here in studio today.

A lot on the docket to take up.

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You know, the ...

My friend Rudyard Griffiths had a great term yesterday.

He called it news deserts.

There are just news deserts, local markets that just, they just don't ...

It's not helping.

From a, from a creativity standpoint, I think there's, from a, like, a messaging perspective or content, um, I think there's a few things happening.

One is that there's, my friend Dan Riskin talked about this, he's a great scientist, and what Dan found was that when you give people a tool and say, "Now you can do this thing," um, their taste changes.

They, they think it's better than it is-

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I'm Rudyard Griffiths, publisher of The Hub.

We'll talk to you soon.

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