David Heurtel is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance 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.

• The Minister of Public Safety, François Bonnardel, has denounced the inaction of the City of Montreal in the face of the multiplication of encampments.
• The sanctions and fines imposed on real estate brokers who place themselves in a conflict of interest are not severe enough'
• A homeless shelter moving from borough to borough is already causing a stir in the neighbourhood.

David Heurtel is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program on The Big 5.

• A flashy advertising campaign created by mobile phone company Koodo has attracted the wrath of the Plante administration.
• A Montrealer finding one of his homes in a dire state on July 1.
• Real estate brokers are taking advantage of elderly or vulnerable clients to line their pockets by buying their home at a discount

David Heurtel is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos and Anthony Koch, Former National Spokesperson for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and current managing principal at AK Strategies.

• More than 1,300 households are still without housing as of July 1st, according to a compilation from the Société d’habitation du Québec (SHQ).
• The retail council of Quebec is seeking financial help to meet signage rules. They want the government to help its members with the hefty costs of replacing or adjusting hundreds of outdoor commercial signs and business facades.
• Do some corporate accounts go too far on social media? At what point does it go from being provocative to crude? The STM’s official TikTok account shows a video of a woman wearing a bikini standing in a pool. With no warning she pushes water through her thighs as the video quickly cuts to an STM bus being washed. "This is how we wash our buses," the caption reads. The video of the woman and the trend of cutting to something else is nothing new…. It’s been circulating on social media.

David Heurtel  starts the week off with Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

• During the first round of legislative elections, more French people than ever supported the Rassemblement National, previously confined to the margins
• The greatest public service that Joe Biden can give the US right now is to step down
• The recent defeat of the Liberal Party of Canada in the by-election in Toronto-St. Paul's seems to have caused a stir within the party 

David Heurtel is joined by Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter, commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• Last night President Joe Biden faced off against former president Donald Trump in the first US presidential debate
• Crimes continue to increase rapidly in the Montreal metro, their number having almost doubled last year
• Less than a few days until July 1st and organisations in the field of housing, homelessness and mental health are sounding the alarm to the Quebec Government

David Heurtel is joined by Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor.

• Greater Montreal's public transit companies are making purchases that are raising eyebrows
• Just a few days before July 1, the City of Montreal expects to have to loosen their purse strings to accommodate households who will lose their homes 
• Valerie Plante on encampments…. She calls this unacceptable yet we have continued to accept it
• Companies are facing confusion as they prepare for Quebec’s new language rules to be implemented next year

David Heurtel welcomes back Bonnie Feigenbaum, former Conservative Party of Quebec candidate in last provincial election and a lecturer at Concordia & McGill University, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

David Heurtel is joined by Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government, and
Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.

• In what has been a shock byelection result. The Conservatives have won in the longtime Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul
• New data has revealed that the creation of numerous well-paid jobs by trendy Californian firms in Quebec are very far from having fulfilled their promises years later
• The residential district which is to replace Place Versailles will include only 9% social housing and less than 1% affordable housing 

David Heurtel kicks the week off 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 Raphaël Melançon, a political analyst for CTV Montreal News at 5 and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies.

• Montreal’s Canada day parade organisers have cancelled next week's event
• Pro-Palestinian protests set up camp at Square Victoria. Making it the first encampment in a public space in Montreal
• Hydro-Québec plans to pass on the bill for the cost of repairing the electricity network to property owners

David Heurtel is joined by Jimmy Zoubris, Special Advisor to the Mayor and Anne Lagace-Dowson, Political Analyst on the Big 5.

• Discussions are finally coming to life about the leadership campaign of the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ). 
• Quebec’s health minister is predicting another ‘difficult’ summer in hospitals.
• The Cavendish Coalition is asking Ottawa and Quebec to force the city to extend the boulevard.