The Big Five Podcast

Elias Makos is joined by Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• After genocidal hate speech was proudly put on display outside of Montreal’s Place des Arts on Saturday, Premier Legault had a direct message for the police: “Do your job.”
• Should heads roll for the expenses scandal brewing at Montreal’s public Consultation office?
• The English Montreal School Board has filed a lawsuit…. They said that English boards should not be required to communicate in French

Elias Makos is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy.

• More spending habits by the Montreal’s public consultation office were uncovered today as the OCPM comes under fire
• Over the weekend, the so-called Pro-Palestinian rally featured a heavy presence of hate speech
• The Liberals are testing new attack ads against Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre

David Heurtel sits in with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Bonnie Feigenbaum, former Conservative Party of Quebec candidate and a lecturer at Concordia & McGill University.

• All over the province…Quebec’s public sector workers are on strike
• The city of Hampstead has announced that it will be imposing one thousand dollar fines to those who remove posters that have the faces of the Israeli hostages
• The Journal de Montreal’s Bureau d'Enquête has revealed this morning that Montreal’s public consultation office may have a spending problem

Elias Makos caps off the week with Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

• The NDP will back a Conservative motion to exempt the carbon tax from all home heating
• Is Canada - the idea of Canada - falling apart? Andrew Coyne writes in The Globe and Mail a compelling case that it is
• McGill university says that they might have to cut up to 700 jobs due to Quebec tuition hikes

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

• Quebec will welcome around 60 thousand immigrants in 2024 and will impose French requirements for workers
• Despite promises to reduce municipal bureaucracy, it takes longer than ever to get construction permits in Montreal
• Quebec companies absolutely positively love Luxembourg. A new study by IRIS says that since 2003, 33 Quebec companies have declared 25 billion dollars of profits through their Luxembourg subsidiaries

Elias Makos welcomes in Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter, commentator and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• The CAQ vote is in freefall. The latest poll from Leger has the party at 30%, a drop of four points in a month
• A former Quebec Liberal Party attachee says that she was canned from the party after she liked 2 pro-Palestine posts on social media
• Was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to post photos to social media of his son’s Halloween costume, and the costume itself, inconsiderate?

Elias Makos is joined by Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS, and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy.

• Are the Liberals preparing the groundwork for a flip-flop on immigration?
• The “Blue Fall Protest” strike took place in Montreal yesterday, with over 1,000 university students ditching class to protest Quebec’s tuition hike
• McDonald’s released third quarter earnings on Monday, and the burger giant saw a huge increase in revenue mainly because of their price increases

Elias Makos starts the week off with Trudie Mason, veteran Newscaster at CJAD 800, and David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst.

• How concerned are you about the current wave of antisemitism we’re seeing? 
• More reaction to the Liberals’ decision to carve out an exception to the carbon tax for Atlantic Canada
• Health Minister Christian Dubé is adamant that Bill 15 is the only way to improve access to our failing healthcare system

Elias Makos caps off the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

• Could your public transit journey end before midnight? Montreal is considering transit reductions amid funding spat with Quebec
• The Canadian government is doubling the pollution price rebate rural top-up rate, and implementing a three-year pause to the federal carbon price on deliveries of heating oil
• Ottawa Senators centre Shane Pinto has been suspended for 41 games by the National Hockey League for “activities related to sports wagering.”

Elias Makos is joined by Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, and Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance.

• Criticising the tuition hike for non-Quebec students, the heads of Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université de Sherbrooke, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal wrote an open letter published in La Presse Wednesday
• In the latest edition of “Comparer Montreal” from the Institut du Québec released yesterday some of the findings may come as a surprise
• Quebec says that they won’t be moving the safe drug use site in Saint-Henri