The Big Five Podcast

Trudie Mason is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. and Political analyst Karim Boulos.

• The OQLF is keeping a close eye on hospitals. They want to make sure that Bill 96 is being respected in hospitals
• The Quebec government has invested another $413 million into Airbus A220 commercial jet program
• Head of US Secret Service steps down
• Cows flee enclosure after fireworks scare
• Canadian soccer officials caught cheating in Paris 

Trudie Mason welcomes in Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.

Trudie Mason was joined by Concordia Journalism Professor Paul Gott and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. Among the topics discussed...

• President Joe Biden drops his re-election bid
• Vice President Kamala Harris is the leading contender to replace President Biden as the nominee for the Democratic Party
• a record number of doctors dropped out of public medicare in 2023

Trudie Mason welcomes in Akil Alleyne, Reporter, commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

• A faulty Windows update has caused a worldwide IT outage
• Immigration Minister Marc Miller’s Montreal office was vandalised by protestors
• One Montrealer was met with a nasty shock after getting a $2,000 dollar bill from Hydro-Quebec because they had been undercharging him

Trudie Mason is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Neil Drabkin, political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government.

• More Americans are searching online about coming to Canada
• A Quebec judge has rejected Concordia’s request for a temporary suspension of incoming tuition hikes
• Ancienne Lorette tells kids using a soccer field they have to pipe down for the sake of the neighbours
• Does Montreal need a nightlife mayor? 
• Do we need to ban e-scooters? Advocates are calling for vigilance after numerous e-scooter collisions involving children

Trudie Mason was joined by Westwood Senior High School teacher Catherine Hogan and RDS commentator and Noovo host Meeker Guerrier,  The topics discussed...

• Party Experts in Brossard is denied a sign permit over the word 'party'
• Quebec made a discreet shift in its apporoach to drug possession laws a year ago

Trudie Mason was joined by political analyst Anne Lagace-Dowson and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. Among the topics discussed...

• Francois Legault corrected his comments about the lack of political violence in Quebec.
• Donald Trump chose Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate
• Canadians think Quebec gets more than it gives and
• It is Amazon Prime Day, what does it all mean?

Trudie Mason is joined by Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia on The Big 5,

• Over the weekend Donald Trump was faced with an assassination attempt while at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
• An investigation has revealed lavish spending by the former CEO of the Port of Montreal.
• Four years after the City of Montreal promised a new social housing project, the building bought in Parc-Extension sits empty and in disrepair.

Dan Delmar is joined by Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor and Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS on The Big 5.

• Justin Trudeau admits he's trying to recruit Carney for FM. Ouch! Trying? Do you think Mark Carney needs to be convinced?
• Craig Sauvé is waiting, and waiting… The city councillor is the NDP nominee for former Justice Minister David Lametti’s riding, LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, but the PM is taking his time calling a byelection.
• Police and protestors clashed last night in the wake of McGill encampment takedown.

David Heurtel is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance and Anthony Koch, Former National Spokesperson for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and current managing principal at AK Strategies on The Big 5.

• Under pounding rain, pro-Palestinian protesters carried their belongings off McGill University's downtown Montreal campus on yesterday.
• About 15% of Montreal's tenants report in 2024 that they have already experienced an episode of homelessness.
• Canada was criticised by its allies earlier this week for its insufficient military spending in this period of geopolitical instability,