July 02, 2025

A criminal record won’t stop you from entering Canada. Plus: Five years after being toppled, Sir. John A. Macdonald’s statue is still decapitated.

24 minutes

Elias Makos is joined by Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy and Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government on The Big 5.

Over the past 11 years, more than 17,500 foreigners with criminal records have been cleared to enter Canada.
Five years after protestors brought down the statue of John A. Macdonald in Dominion Square/Place du Canada, the city of Montreal has still not begun restoration work on it.
The Legault government is launching a pilot project which will last 12 months, allowing stores in Laval, Gatineau and Saint-Georges-de-Beauce to stay open until 8 PM on weekends instead of 5PM.

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July 02, 2025

A criminal record won’t stop you from entering Canada. Plus: Five years after being toppled, Sir. John A. Macdonald’s statue is still decapitated.

24 minutes

Over the past 11 years, more than 17,500 foreigners with criminal records have been cleared to enter Canada.
Five years after protestors brought down the statue of John A. Macdonald in Dominion Square/Place du Canada, the city of Montreal has still not begun restoration work on it.
The Legault government is launching a pilot project which will last 12 months, allowing stores in Laval, Gatineau and Saint-Georges-de-Beauce to stay open until 8 PM on weekends instead of 5PM.

...more