Sabrina Maddeaux

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It’s a crisis that affects young people, is crying out for action and no-one is doing anything about it. No, it’s not housing

It’s a crisis that affects young people, is crying out for action and no-one is doing anything about it. No, it’s not housing

For nearly a decade, young Canadians have been drowning in a sea of economic pain. The rising tides of housing and inflation threaten to drown them as older Canadians, safely aboard sturdy boats bought decades ago, mostly float on by. In such circumstances, the only lifesaver is a relatively stable, and occasionally even healthy, job market. Now that’s gone, too...

The Conservatives had a chance to reach millennial women like me. It was their mistake to ignore us

The Conservatives had a chance to reach millennial women like me. It was their mistake to ignore us

Do the federal Conservatives have a problem with women? All signs point to yes — but not in the way many progressive voters think. It’s not that they’re afraid of strong women. Rather, it’s that they can’t seem to figure out how to talk to female voters. Throughout the recent election campaign, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives had perilously low support from...

Why is the NDP doing so badly, even with progressives? Just take a look at their awful housing plan

Why is the NDP doing so badly, even with progressives? Just take a look at their awful housing plan

“Massive challenges.” That is how federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh recently described his what his party is facing in this election. To say he’s sugar-coating the situation would be too generous — you’d have to move mountains of the sweet stuff to get from Singh’s statement to the truth of the matter. The NDP faces electoral oblivion. The most recent...

Ginny Roth and Sabrina Maddeaux on how the Conservative Party can appeal to Canadian women

Ginny Roth and Sabrina Maddeaux on how the Conservative Party can appeal to Canadian women

On November 17-18, 2023, the Canada Strong & Free Network hosted its annual regional conference in Red Deer, Alberta. As part of the programme, The Hub’s editor-at-large, Sean Speer, moderated a panel discussion with Sabrina Maddeaux, a former columnist for the National Post, and Ginny Roth, a Hub contributor and the national practice lead for government relations at Crestview Strategy...

Manitoba PCs offer case study in how not to run an election campaign

Manitoba PCs offer case study in how not to run an election campaign

Heather Stefanson ignored pressing issues and failed to take advantage of the conservative moment. It’s somewhat comforting that, in the age of big data and laser-focused analytics, political campaigns can still go so disastrously haywire. The quest to govern is still influenced by ungovernable human factors from charisma, to hubris, to reading the room so