The Big Five Podcast

Elias Makos welcomes in Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance.

• CTV news reports that Liberal MPs will present an official demand for Justin Trudeau to resign any day now
• Trudeau tells inquiry he has a list of Conservatives that are vulnerable to, or engaged in, foreign meddling
• Quebec has imposed measures to address the ‘toxic climate’ at Bedford school in Côte-des-Neiges

Elias Makos is joined by Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media and host of the Inspiring Business Hour - Saturdays at noon on CJAD and Akil Alleyne, reporter and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• Liberal party mutiny watch: We have one backbencher publicly calling for Justin Trudeau to walk the plank and resign as Liberal leader.
• Pierre Poilievre was on The Elias Makos Show yesterday. Thoughts on his continued courting of CJAD listeners and Quebec voters?
• The opposition parties are demanding that François Legault pay back taxpayers for his signed Guy Lafleur jersey.
• Alzheimer’s is about to be added to the medical aid in dying list but some say the system isn’t ready.

Elias Makos is joined by Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

Then, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre joins Elias live in studio.

Elias Makos begins the week 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 Tasha Kheiriddin, a writer for the National Post, GZero Media, and Substack.

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face mounting pressure from his caucus this week to step down from the leadership of the Liberal party
• A new statistics Canada report shows that Canada’s income inequality has risen to the highest level ever recorded
• A new survey finds that only around 1 in 5 childless adults say they’ll have children
• A Canadian drink company is receiving threats and harassment after actor Simu Liu raised cultural appropriation questions against them

Elias Makos caps off the week with Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media and host of the Inspiring Business Hour - Saturdays at noon on CJAD 800, and Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS.

• Quebec seems to be mulling over a new idea when it comes to the assignment of family doctors in the province. They’re thinking of scrapping your family doctor if you’re a healthy patient
• The Quebec government has tabled a bill to cap the number of international students
• Should parents be taking some of the blame for the increase in gang violence? 

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

• Following the fire in Old Montreal, stories about gang violence have multiplied, and often put young teenagers at the centre
• Turns out Quebecers have little faith in the province’s big projects actually getting done
• Montreal wants its own office to deal with French language in the city
• Speaking of Canadiens, one family from Quebec city said in the Journal de Montréal that they sacrificed their summer vacations to go to the home opener

Elias Makos is joined by Neil Drabkin, lawyer and political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government, and Political analyst Karim Boulos.

• New polling suggests that if the Quebec Liberals were run by Pablo Rodriguez (and his glorious locks of hair), it could pose a huge threat to the PQ and the CAQ
• New polling also shows that the Bloc Quebecois are hitting new heights while the Conservatives seem to be struggling in Quebec
• Reaction came in yesterday over the “Death to Canada” chants at Monday protests in B.C. 
• Tom Mulcair revealed that Melanie Joly admitted the demographics of her riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville were influencing Canada’s foreign policy on the Israel-Gaza war
• A 10-year-old boy in Longueuil is recovering after his neighbour allegedly poured boiling water on him, the neighbour was released the next day

Elias Makos is joined by Jimmy Zoubris, Special Advisor to the Mayor and Raphaël Melançon, Political Analyst for Noovo and CTV Montreal News at 5 and the President and Founder of Trafalgar Strategies on The Big 5.

Elias Makos starts the week with Justine McIntyre, strategic consultant and former city councillor, and Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

• One year since the deadly attack by Hamas. How has the world changed?
• Radio-Canada has some analysis of Quebec politics as the parties begin jockeying for their position in the political spectrum two years out from the next election
• Ottawa says they will protect the fundamental rights of asylum seekers in Quebec
• The increase in tuition fees for non-Quebec students seems to have spared McGill University, which recorded a slight increase in registrations this fall
• The OQLF has warned a cafe in Gatineau that they need to write Instagram posts in French

Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College, and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. 

• A new study by Montreal's Concordia University found that, if policies and trends remain unchanged, a two-bedroom in Montreal will cost $4,325 per month in the next 8 years
• Another incident of a violent crime committed by someone out on bail. This time it's a Toronto police officer who was the victim, and the 21-year-old assailant was known to police and out on bail. The story led to a string of attacks by Conservative leader Pierre Polievre against the Liberals in the House of Commons yesterday
• Justin Trudeau is being accused of a new media strategy where he only takes on friendly interviewers