The Big Five Podcast

Elias Makos welcomes in Richard "Bugs" Burnett, journalist and columnist, and

Justine McIntyre, former Montreal City Councillor to discuss an Office Québécois de la langue française study that finds that the French language is on the decline, Dr. Arruda saying not to panic and Health Canada not recommending the AstraZeneca vaccine to those under 55.

Elias Makos is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos and Dr. Vardit Ravitsky, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Montreal to talk about Coderre vs. Plante, the sequel, who’s going to win, whether Coderre's mistakes were unforgivable and some landlords paying their tenants up to $20,000 to leave just so they can increase the rent.

Elias Makos welcomes in David Heurtel, former provincial Liberal cabinet minister and counsel at Faskin and Justine McIntyre, former Montreal City Councillor to talk about A new poll from 338Canada.com showing Denis Coderre with a 16-point lead over Valerie Plante, Quebec’s new budget and a Montreal Instagrammer who is publicly flouting Canada’s quarantine rules.

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Chief Equality Officer, Women in Governance and Jonathan Kalles, Senior Consultant at McMillan Vantage Policy Group and former advisor to Prime Minister Trudeau to talk about last night's meteorological disturbance heard all over the city, the difficulty in controlling the flow of guns into this country and Carey Price's "No Compromise" gun flag.

Elias Makos is joined by CJAD 800 Host Dave Kaufman, 

and Lea Streliski, Comedian and columnist for L’actualité to discuss Premier Legault announcing that kids in secondary 3,4 and 5 will be able to return to school full time in red zones, Another woman in Quebec has died after she was beaten by her boyfriend and Canadiens games being postponed through Sunday.

Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, journalism professor at Concordia and Alex Tyrrell, leader of the Green Party of Quebec to weigh in on Both Premier Legault and Justin Trudeau speaking out against Amir Attaran's Quebec bashing, Stephen Bronfman asking the Quebec government for financial aid to build a stadium and Mayor Plante saying that we should greet each other in public with “Bonjour” and not “Bonjour-Hi”.

Elias Makos welcomes in Egbert Gaye, founder and editor of Montreal Community Contact and Dr. Vardit Ravitsky, Professor of Bioethics at University of Montreal to discuss how the Mayor of Montreal should handle language issues, Benoit Charette saying that we need to stop seeing racism where it doesn’t exist and whether it seems our vaccine process is picking up speed.

Elias Makos is joined by David Heurtel, former provincial Liberal cabinet minister and counsel at Faskin and Richard "Bugs" Burnett, journalist and columnist to discuss Denis Coderre's impending announcement that he is running for Mayor and Valerie Plante's claim that Montrealers would  enjoy pedestrianized streets.

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Chief Equality Officer, Women in Governance and Balarama Holness, human rights advocate and co-founder of Montreal in Action to talk about Quebec's new minister responsible for fighting racism, saying it's too soon to say the nurse job postings were an actual racist act and the struggle to find one of Canada’s major political parties to be affiliated to.

Elias Makos welcomes in Lea Streliski, Comedian and columnist for L’actualité and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor to discuss the Saint-Eustache hospital placing “whites only” job postings, the nurses who called an indigenous woman “Joyce” in Joliette being fired and a new report commissioned by Montreal showing that the city needs to increase the number of pedestrianized streets.