The Big Five Podcast

Elias Makos caps off the week with Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy, and Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Bloc Québécois is proposing to invoke the notwithstanding

Elias Makos is joined by Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor. Murders, stabbings and shootings in and around Montreal on Wednesday have many questioning how safe we are McGill has sent a letter to the police asking for more action to prevent hate at encampment The number of Ca

Elias Makos welcomes back Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Neil Drabkin, a federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was chief of staff in the Harper government. Mayor Valerie Plante says the city will impose a 120-day deadline for boroughs to issue building permits Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his goal is to make housing more affordable for younger

Elias Makos is joined by Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media, and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst. In the midst of the major housing crisis that has seen the cost of rent in Montreal soar, new data tells the story of a city that has created “endless delays” for building permits Both McGill and Concordia have admitted that antisemitism on campus i

Elias Makos starts the week off with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia. The Quebec political parties facing the most serious questions about their futures met over the weekend And over in Québec sol

Elias Makos caps off the week with Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor. A strong majority of Quebec adults wants to limit social media to children aged 16 and above 50 Montreal-area High school students are protesting their school's “sexist” dress code A bipartisan gro

Elias Makos is joined by Neil Drabkin, a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government, and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. Hotel mogul Christiane Germain has been appointed head of Santé Québec’s

Elias Makos welcomes in Gabriel Retta, Chief of Staff to the Official Opposition at Montreal City Hall, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor. Beginning today, the PQ will run pro-independence ads on English TV, something the party says they’ve never done before Mayor Valerie Plante is in Hollywood, trying to bring more film and TV production to t

Elias Makos is joined by Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator, and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program, and Catherine Hogan, high school teacher at Westwood Senior High in Hudson. Gabriel Nadeau Dubois has written an open letter. In it he declares that the time has come for Quebec to have a leftist government McGill is denouncing a pro-Palestinian pro

Elias Makos kicks off 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. Quebec nationalists are in a tizzy after photos of in-branch posters at Desjardins for la fête des Patriotes were posted online The Parti Québécois has launched a new ad campaign ext