The Big Five Podcast

Trudie Mason welcomes in Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor. and Political analyst Karim Boulos.

• Teachers in the province are criticising Quebec’s new $2.5 million dollar ad campaign to promote French
• A Laval elected official has made taxpayers pay more than $1,000 dollars for his Costco run and his Apple watch
• Jagmeet Singh got up close and personal with a demonstrator after someone called him a “corrupted bastard"

Dan Delmar is joined by Anne Lagace-Dowson, Political Analyst and Neil Drabkin, Lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government

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

• Yesterday as former President Donald Trump left his golf course in Florida another assassination attempt was made
• The Quebec government has launched a 2.5 million dollar advertising campaign to encourage the use of French in life/work
• Yesterday, English community and civil rights groups rallied outside Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital in protest of Quebec’s French-language law
• Tickets for road infractions in Montreal have been way down in the last 5 years

Elias Makos is joined by Akil Alleyne, reporter, commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

• It was billed as the most important night in the history of Westmount High School - Kamala Harris taking on Donald Trump in the ABC News Presidential Debate last night
• Former star real estate broker Christine Giroaurd and her partner Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin have been given 15 year suspensions for orchestrating a scheme of bogus real estate bids during the pandemic

Elias Makos was 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 political analyst Karim Boulos

• Justin Trudeau is doing an interview with Aaron at 2pm and Pierre Poilievre is on the Elias Show 10.50 this morning. What questions should they be asked?
• A new Quebec legislature has adopted a motion which ensures that you won’t need an English eligibility certificate to receive healthcare in english.
• Quebec’s commission on youth screen time has begun.

Elias Makos is joined by Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. He was previously a diplomat, ministerial advisor and broadcast journalist and Christina Chough (C-H-O), Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College

• The Quebec government will crack down on the explosion of tipping. Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette will soon table a bill better regulating the how and why of tipping in the province. Quebec will also make adjustments to how grocery stores display pricing - ensuring the price of a single item is clearly marked.
• After publishing an open letter in Journal de Montreal criticising his own party, CAQ MNA Youri Chassin will make an announcement this morning about his political future. Now why should anyone care about a Saint-Jérôme MNA you’ve never heard of before? Well, after leaving the Montreal Economic Institute to enter politics, Chassin has become increasingly disgruntled with not being named a minister, and with Quebec’s ballooning deficit. His economic right leanings and feelings of malcontent could mean he would run into the arms of Eric Duhaime and the Conservatives - giving that party an MNA.
• A third of Canadians now say they are political orphans. Are you, and if so, why?
  New Angus Reid polling shows Quebec to be more open to foreign workers than the rest of Canada. Overall, 42% of Quebecers believe that there are too many temporary foreign workers in the country, much less than in Ontario (61%) or Alberta (65%).

Elias Makos is joined by Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor and Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS on The Big 5.

• Two months after the closure of terraces during the Grand Prix weekend it turns out that in the middle of the Montreal Pride festival an employee of the Ville-Marie borough showed up to inspect terraces…. This time making a point on the height of the plants
• A rough start to the Prime Minister’s week. At the Liberal retreat in Nanaimo B.C. yesterday, Liberal MPs openly acknowledged just how much voters want Justin Trudeau gone.
• Tonight, the second U.S. Presidential debate of the year.

Elias Makos kicks off the week with Trudie Mason, veteran Newscaster here at CJAD 800, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

• The NDP is defending a flyer it distributed in the riding of Lasalle-Emard-Verdun. The leaflet shows candidate Craig Sauvé in front of a Palestinian flag
• As the Liberal party meets in B.C. to plot strategy in the wake of the NDP ditching their supply & confidence deal - the Bloc Québécois says they’re ready to wheel and deal with the Federal Liberals
• The number of shoplifting incidents has risen by 41% in the past year

Elias Makos is joined by Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. He was previously a diplomat, ministerial advisor and broadcast journalist on The Big 5.

• Jagmeet Singh pulling his party, the NDP, from their supply and confidence agreement with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.
• The City of Montreal says it will investigate what happened when Montreal workers removed a homeless encampment tent…. But there was still a woman inside. 
• A Quebec man is behind bars after admitting to orchestrating one of the largest operations in Canadian history involving shipments of counterfeit Chinese-made toonies.

Elias Makos is joined by Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS and Neil Drabkin,  Lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government on The Big 5.

• Jagmeet Singh pulling the NDP out of the deal with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. Could an election be ahead?
•  The LaSalle–Emard–Verdun byelection riding is plastered with campaign signs ahead of the September 16 vote, with advance voting starting tomorrow.
•  Plante wants 300 photo radars to make streets safer, particularly around schools.