The Big Five Podcast

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...

Elias Makos ends the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator, and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• Valerie Plante says that the Hippodrome development will be a ‘city within a city.’ 
• Public Safety Minister Dominic Leblanc has discussed plans with a former cabinet minister on a run for the Liberal Leadership if/when Justin Trudeau head...

Elias Makos is joined by Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst, and Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance.

• Premier Francois Legault still has no idea how much rent costs. This time around it was Interim Liberal leader Marc Tanguay with the “gotcha” question
• NDP leader Jagmeet Singh still hasn't confirmed if his party will support the new federal budget
• One couple in Ahuntsic says that the ...

Elias Makos welcomes back Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Trudie Mason veteran newscaster at CJAD 800.

• The wealthiest Canadians will pay more - that’s one of the underlying messages of this year’s Federal Budget
• Parti Quebecois leader Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon is pushing back on criticism that he is using fear and resentment in a bi...

Elias Makos is joined by Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy, and Neil Drabkin, Immigration Lawyer, Political Commentator & former chief-of-staff to the Harper Government.

• PSPP’s relentless calls for a third referendum have some federalist Quebecers muttering another “p” word - partition
• Budget Day 2024! The former B...

Elias Makos begins the week with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst, and Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media.

• The federal budget drops tomorrow. And after a massive two-week spending tour by the Liberals, questions now surround how the government will pay for it
• A paraplegic Quebec man chose medical assistance in dying after a four-day stay...

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, Neil Drabkin, Immigration Lawyer, Political Commentator & former chief-of-staff to the Harper Government,

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified at the foreign interference inquiry on Wednesday
• The Quebec government has tabled a bill that would see people who harass or threaten Quebec politicians hit with a court injunctio...

Elias Makos is joined by Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

• Faced with a second week of pre-budget announcements from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that seemingly stomp all over provincial jurisdict...

Elias Makos is joined by Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS, and Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media.

• Ahead of the federal budget, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged $73 billion in additional defence spending over the next two decades
• Should we limit screen time for youth? Quebec is not ruling out a legislation which would do just that
• One teacher who part...

Elias Makos starts the week off with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter, commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• Liberal MP Anthony Housefather has – airquotes – “made his decision.” Housefather will be staying in caucus after much reflection on whether or not to stay in Justin Trudeau’s Liberal fo...

Elias Makos closes out the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Political analyst Karim Boulos.

• Journal de Montreal went out to use the city’s fancy and expensive smart toilets and found most of them out of order
• Another day, another pre-budget announcement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This time, it’s a $1.5B rental protection fund 
• The use of French in public is stable - this according to the ...

Elias Makos welcomes in Neil Drabkin, Immigration Lawyer, Political Commentator & former chief-of-staff to the Harper Government, and Bonnie Feigenbaum, Conservative Party of Quebec candidate in last provincial election and a lecturer at Concordia & McGill University.

• Canada’s inquiry into foreign election interference is finally starting to make some headlines
• The Prime Minister pledged $15 billion for apartment co...

Elias Makos is joined by Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst, and Trudie Mason - veteran newscaster here at CJAD 800.

• The Prime Minister is on a budget programs tour. Tuesday he announced a new $6 billion "Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund,"
• At his housing presser, Justin Trudeau channeled Maxime Bernier when asked about how immigration has affected the housing crisis.
• An STM driver tossed everyone off the city bus he w...

Elias Makos starts the week off with 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. 

• 51 politicians, academics, artists, religious leaders and human-rights advocates have signed an open letter calling on Canada’s current leaders to improve civility in public discours...

David Heurtel is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia 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.

•  A confrontation between a man and foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly. The video was captured in...

Elias Makos caps off the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor.

• Figures out from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation paint a terrible picture for Montreal
• Quebec's French Language Minister Jean-François Roberge has ordered a probe and other politicians are apoplectic after a Quebec Maritime Junior Hockey League team made themselve...

Elias Makos is joined by Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst, and Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS.

• The federal government will create a new "Canadian Renters’ Bill of Rights."
• Montreal wants to increase their rental housing inspections to 10,000 in 2024
• A collection of Ontario school boards have launched lawsuits seeking $4.5 billion in damages against Snapchat, TikTok, and Meta
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