The Big Five Podcast

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Trudie Mason, veteran newscaster at CJAD 800.

• We’re finding out more about the suspect in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge B.C. 
• The independent investigation into the Quebec Liberal Party fiasco was unveiled yesterday. 
• With indications that the Swiss bid to host the 2038 Winter Olympics may fall throug...

Elias Makos is joined by Meeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS, and Sue Smith is a Montreal journalist and broadcaster.

• 10 people are dead and 25 others are injured following a mass shooting inside a B.C high school yesterday afternoon.
• The SPVM released its 2025 results yesterday, and Police Chief Fady Dagher says the data is clear: Montreal is safe.
• The United States hockey squad will sleep in the Athlete’...

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 Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada.

• U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to “not allow” a new bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, to open unless the Uni...

Elias Makos is joined by Jimmy Zoubris, Montreal businessman, longtime activist and former special advisor to Valerie Plante, and Political analyst Karim Boulos.

• What does it say about Canadian culture that our number one TV event is a U.S. sporting event for a league that doesn’t have teams in Canada?
• The Globe and Mail is reporting this morning that Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have bee...

Elias Makos caps off the week with Lea Streliski, Best-selling author, comedian and columnist, and Victor Henriquez, Public affairs and crisis management specialist at Public Strategy and Conseil.

• The federal government announced the return of purchase rebates for electric vehicles.
• Starting next week, the SAQ will sell a limited selection of U.S. wines and spirits online and at Dépôt stores, at a discount, t...

Elias Makos is joined by Lionel Perez, Former city councilor and former leader of the Official Opposition at Montreal City Hall, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor.

• Robin des Ruelles – Robin of the alleys – says they are responsible for the Tuesday mass theft of goods from a Rachelle-Bery store. 
• Faced with the soaring price of subscriptions and the fragmenting of where ...

Raphaël Melançon, political analyst for CTV Montreal and CJAD 800, columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies, and Graham Singh, Pastor at St-Jax Church.

• Men can refuse service from women at the SAAQ. The surprising news came out of the public hearings on Bill 9, the government’s effort to double down on secularism in Quebec.
• And speaking of Bill 9, secularism m...

Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• The mayor of Montreal posted a video last night of her car getting two flat ti...

Elias Makos starts the week of with Jimmy Zoubris, Montreal businessman, longtime activist and former special advisor to Valerie Plante, and Gabriel Retta, special advisor to the current mayor.

• Just about two weeks ago, we learned that the SAQ would start delivering booze with Uber Eats.
• Faced with a rise in shoplifting, the SAQ has increased its in-store surveillance spending to $1.7 million last year
• Over the weekend, J...

Elias Makos caps the week off with Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada, and Meeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS.

• U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose steep tariffs on Canadian-made aircraft.
• The Business Council of Canada is questioning Prime Minister Mark Carney’s strategy on how to deal with U.S Presiden...

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 Political analyst Karim Boulos.

• The trains don’t run. And they were down again this morning. Oh, and the elevators don’t work. Should we get a REM refund?
• In Trois-Rivieres, the police have launched a voluntary campaign to get citizens to add their smart doorbell c...

Joining Elias on The Big 5 were Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor and Montreal journalist and broadcaster Sue Smith.

Among the topics discussed

• A new poll from Leger for Postmedia shows the Liberals in majority territory
• François Legault may not be leaving the National Assembly as quickly as expected
• One Montreal engineering school has decided beef is off the menu — literally &mdash...

Elias Makos is joined by Andrew Caddell, columnist for the Hill Times and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy, and Raphaël Melançon, political analyst for CTV Montreal and CJAD 800, columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies. 

• Prime Minister Mark Cark reportedly backtracked some of his remarks from his speech in Davos when speaking by phone with U.S....

Joining Elias on The Big 5 were Trudie Mason, Veteran Newscaster here at CJAD 800 and Jimmy Zoubris, Montreal businessman, longtime activist and former special advisor to Valerie Plante.

Among the topics discussed were

• U.S. President Donald Trump revived one of his most pointed insults toward Canada on Saturday, calling Prime Minister Mark Carney “governor” and threatening to slam the country with a 100 per ce...

Joining Elias on The Big 5 were political analyst Karim Boulos and Daniel Tran, Director of Communication and governmental relations at Casacom.

Among the subjects discussed were 

• The saga between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S President Donald Trump continued yesterday. The day started off with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum was...

Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government, and Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance.

• A framework deal over the future of the Arctic has been agreed upon between U.S President Donald Trump and NATO. 
• Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Canadians to boycott Chinese-made vehicles in the w...

Elias Makos welcomes back Anthony Koch, Former National Spokesperson for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and current managing principal at AK Strategies, and Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

• Mark Carney was reunited with his people yesterday, and it showed. A confident Canadian Prime Minister delivered a speech i...

Elias Makos is joined by Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• The Globe and Mail reports that the Canadian Armed Forces have quietly run a hypothetical sce...

Elias Makos kicks the week off with Jimmy Zoubris, Montreal businessman, longtime activist and former special advisor to Valerie Plante, and Sue Smith is a Montreal journalist and broadcaster.

• Canada is weighing a plan to send a small contingent of troops to Greenland for military exercises with NATO allies
• Mark Carney took a trip to Qatar this weekend and announced that the Middle Eastern country has committed to “signi...