The Big Five Podcast

The Big Five Podcast

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  • Minimum wage rises to $14.25 - but is that enough? Plus: Bad cop or really bad cop?

    Elias Makos begins the week with Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo host and a commentator at RDS and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

    • With the cost of living what it is, is that high enough? What should minimum wage be?
    • A Montreal police officer is under investigation after a video posted to TikTok showed him pushing a homeless man
    • Can anyone stop Pierre Poilievre?
    • 23 min
    • How low will Canadian politics go? Plus: Attack of the Ontario hipster

      Elias Makos is joined by David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister and analyst  and Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR & content firm TNKR Media and Co-host of Today's Entrepreneur, Saturdays at noon on CJAD.

       - Pierre Poilievre has hired the team behind “Canada Proud” to boost his party’s online presence

       - The “Rolling Thunder” rally is starting later today in Ottawa

       - Journal de Montréal makes note of a disturbing trend we’re seeing in Quebec: Hipsters moving here from Ontario

      24 min
    • The new Louisiana! Plus: Your instagram photos are about to get lit

      Elias Makos welcomes in Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo host and a commentator at RDS and Lea Streliski, Best-selling author, comedian and columnist.

       - Francois Legault says policies from the two new political parties in Quebec would turn the province “into Louisiana”

       - Bill 96 is changing… again

       - Montreal is getting a 50,000-pound stainless steel ring

      24 min
    • Yes, another political party in Quebec! Plus: Elon Musk buys Twitter

      Elias Makos' panel includes Lionel Perez, Former city councilor and leader of the Official Opposition at Montreal City Hall and Justine McIntyre, former Montreal City Councilor and Consultant at Espace Strategies.

      • Anglo rights leader Colin Standish is launching how own political party
      • Language complaints to the OQLF have never been higher
      • It’s official, the world’s richest man now owns Twitter
      • 24 min
      • Would you like a little private in your healthcare? Plus: Dominique Anglade’s Mission Impossible

        Elias Makos is joined by Egbert Gaye, founder and editor of Montreal Community Contact and Jonathan Kalles, Senior Consultant at McMillan Vantage Policy Group, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

        • 60% Quebecers support more privatisation
        • The Dominique Anglade “Reconnect with people she has never connected with” tour continues
        • Looks like Twitter is going to accept Elon Musk’s offer. Is this a good thing?
        • 23 min
        • Guy Lafleur 1951-2022

          Elias Makos is joined by former Montreal Canadien and TSN 690 play-by-play analyst Sergio Momesso, David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister and analyst and Dan Delmar, Quebec-based political commentator, a former journalist and newspaper columnist, and the co-founder of TNKR Media.

          22 min
        • The CAQ bulldozer! Plus: Should billionaires exist?

          Elias Makos welcomes in Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance and Political analyst Karim Boulos.

           -  The latest poll is out this morning, and shows the CAQ holding strong with 44% of the vote

           - Should billionaires exist? 

           - If Air Canada’s Michael Rousseau has to speak French… Why doesn’t Carey Price?

          25 min

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