Elias Makos starts the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Sue Smith is a Montreal journalist.

• The Royal Bank of Canada is refusing to reimburse dozens of customers who were scammed out of $10,000
• A 24-year-old Laval woman who robbed 11 seniors of nearly $90,000 will not have a criminal record
• Canada’s premiers are meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Saskatoon to propose which major infrastructure projects should be prioritized for fast-tracking under Carney’s plan to cut federal approval times
• After successfully contesting unfair rent increases at Quebec’s housing tribunal (TAL), a tenant named Steve says he’s now blacklisted by landlords