The Big Five Podcast

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media.

• Yesterday a Quebec court rejected McGill’s injunction request to move the encampment from their university grounds
• Millionaire Mitch Garber has taken a shot at NDP leader Jagmeet Singh regarding his salary
• The EMSB has come out with fighting remarks. They say th...

Elias Makos welcomes in Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter, commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• A new Léger poll shows that Quebec Solidaire is hurting and that the Liberals are climbing
• Statistics Canada has released a new report which shows which...

Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Neil Drabkin, a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government.

• Justin Trudeau is taking one from the Poilievre playbook - using social media to release a highly-polished video defending the capital gains tax ...

Elias Makos starts the week off with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst, and Trudie Mason, veteran newscaster at CJAD 800.

• The cyclist that hit a four-year-old girl who was crossing the street to catch a school bus has been given a $131 ticket
• Faced with growing demand from customers, restaurant owners are putting pressure on the government to allow dogs on terrace...

Elias Makos caps off the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Bonnie Feigenbaum, Conservative Party of Quebec candidate in last provincial election and a lecturer at Concordia & McGill University.

• François Legault says sovereignty would be good for Quebec’s identity - but not for the province’s finances
• Should Quebec be more transparent about the salaries of civil servants?
• A conservative MP says ...

Elias Makos welcomes back Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor.

• Is working in an office for three days a week too much? That is what the public sector union for federal government workers argued yesterday during their press conference in Ottawa
• Despite speeding and burning a red light – a tow tr...

On today's program, Elias spoke with lawyer and political commentator Neil Drabkin, who was a chief of staff in the Harper government and Noovo and RDS host Meeker Guerrier.

• Crack is being sold inside a CHSLD. That’s what occupants at the Paul Emile-Leger centre near Chinatown are saying, adding that they no longer feel safe. 
• The federal government is granting British Columbia’s request to recriminalize hard drugs in publi...

Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• Swedish manufacturer Northvolt says it found homemade bombs at the construction site of their future battery plant on the south shore of Montreal
• It is day 11 of the encampment at McGi...

Elias Makos kicks off the week with Political analyst Karim Boulos, and David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst.

• There’s frustration in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, as a pilot project that sees garbage collection reduced to once every two weeks moves forward
• Quebec Liberal Party leadership news: Former finance minister Carlos Leitao has endorsed Frédéric Beauchemin fo...

Elias Makos ends the week with Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Raphaël Melançon, a political analyst for CTV Montreal News at 5 and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies.

• Community groups in Chinatown are pleading for action to deal with the rise in crime in the area
• The National Assembly is divided into two camps - this accor...

Elias Makos is joined by Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media, and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy.

• Latest poll by Leger for the National Post shows the largest lead for the Conservative Party since Brian Mulroney was at the helm
• Week’s after the budget was unveiled, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh f...

Elias Makos welcomes in Anthony Koch, Former National Spokesperson for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and current managing principal at AK Strategies, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor.

• Chaos in the House of Commons on Tuesday - with the leader of the opposition being kicked out of parliament for calling the Prime Minister ‘Wacko” 
• NYPD officers arrested protesters at Columbia Unive...

Elias Makos welcomes in Neil Drabkin, lawyer and former chief of staff in the Harper government, and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.

• McGill says the “pro-Palestinian” encampment is illegal and violates the university’s policies, but is hoping to deescalate the situation, and avoid calling in the police
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he's still not ready to say whether his caucus will support the federal budget
• A prop...

Elias Makos welcomes in David Heurtel, former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst and Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

• The pro-Palestinian protestors who established an encampment on the campus of McGill University.
• Breaking news this morning in Quebec politics.
• $603 Million to reve...

Elias Makos welcomes in Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

• The battle between the province and municipalities over public transit continues.
• Did we say $873 million dollars for a new roof? We meant closer to a billion dollars.
• Only 10 days s...

Elias Makos welcomes in Akil Alleyne, Reporter and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program. and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy.

• So the budget didn’t work, and it appears that the pivot for the Liberals now is this: Paint Pierre Poilievre as an Alex Jones-type extremist
• Public transit in Montr...

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media.

• Valerie Plante says she’s against “Bonjour,hi”. Telling merchants that saying just “Bonjour” is better.
• The CAQ is continuing to lose ground to the PQ in the polls
• Education Minister Bernard Drainville says parents need to buckle down and ensure their kids go to...

Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

• Uh oh “bonjour, hi” is on the rise in Montreal’s businesses. How long before the language police say something about this? 
• All signs indicate Honda will be the latest recipient of billions in sweet sweet Canadian government money to set up shop f...

Elias Makos kicks off the week with Trudie Mason, veteran newscaster at CJAD 800, and David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst.

• Tim Hortons in hot water following a potential lawsuit for Roll Up to Win prize snafu - which they say has ‘no merit.’
• A Montreal woman says she lost close to $25,000 dollars on a fake crypto trading platform
• The kids think we’re doomed, but ab...