The Big Five Podcast

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.

• Anthony Rota resigned as Speaker of the House of Commons over his invitation to, and the House's subsequent recognition of, a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War. Is this story now over?
• Leger just popped one out for the Journal de Montréal, and the news is not good for ruling parties
• Valérie Plante is back with another proposal for adapting to climate change

Elias Makos is joined by Sue Montgomery, former journalist and former mayor of CDN-NDG and Raphaël Melançon, a political analyst for CTV Montreal News at 5 and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies.

• More fallout from the House Speaker's invitation that honoured a Nazi soldier on the floor of the House of Commons
• Laval’s mayor is unhappy with Quebec’s government air on gun violence
• Two hundred and twenty-six dollars. That's how much Michel Bolduc was fined for panhandling on the streets of Quebec City last September

Elias Makos begins the week with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst, and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.

• Two of Canada’s most important national papers presented different visions of the future of Montreal and Quebec within 24 hours of each other
• House speaker Anthony Rota has officially apologised for recognizing a nazi soldier as a Ukrainian and Canadian hero
• Journal de Montréal tells the story of one Venezuelan migrant named Oscar who arrived in Quebec via Roxham Road

Elias Makos caps off the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Meeker Guerrier, Reporter at Noovo and a commentator at RDS.

• Is the CAQ government purposefully pausing school construction and renovations in ridings they don’t control? 
• More than 400 Quebec students are waiting to attend English school all because of a backlog on the eligibility certificate
• There is more reporting on Montreal’s crack alley this morning. And some of the photos look like the dystopian scenarios our local officials say they're “trying” to prevent

Elias Makos is joined by Christina Chough (C-H-O), Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College, and Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance.

• Cross-country rallies against 'gender ideology' in schools were met with counter-protests on Wednesday
• Billing itself as a ‘radically centrist’ option for voters, the political advocacy group Centre Ice Canadians announced that it would launch the Canadian Future Party
• Is YUL now the worst airport? Has it gotten worse over time? 

Elias Makos is joined by Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor and Sherri McGurgnaghan, CEO Themis Logic, a political and digital media services company.

• François Legault has closed the door on nuclear power - at least for now
• Tom Mulcair’s got a thought or two on this one: With a plan to revamp Mount Royal - Valerie Plante appears to believe that “playing to her elite base is the best way to build her political legacy” 
• Loto-Quebec has withdrawn their plan to open a gambling hall with hundreds of video gaming machines at the Bell Centre

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, and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the government of India of killing a Canadian on Canadian soil
• Last week we spoke to the team at U.S. News & World Report, after they ranked Canada as the second-best country in the world. But as Tristan Hopper at the National Post points out, we’re the worst in a lot of things
• Should we relaunch the monorail project?

Elias Makos kicks off the week with Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst.

•  Grocers will assemble in Ottawa today, called to the carpet by the Liberal government over rising grocery prices
• With great fanfare, the city of Montreal has been buying up rooming houses. The city is using its right of first refusal to “protect” these buildings from developers
• A Quebec clinic that specialises in assisted reproduction, Ovo, is being sued by the family of a man who claims that his sperm was used without his consent by his ex-wife

Elias Makos caps off the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Political analyst Karim Boulos.

• Faced with terrible polls, Justin Trudeau is taking aim at grocery chains. Ottawa has asked the largest grocery chains in the country to lower and stabilise food prices or else
• More big announcements from Trudeau on Thursday. Ottawa will remove the GST on new rental housing
• More confusion inside the Quebec Liberal party regarding the “English Week” 

Elias Makos welcomes in David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and 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.

• The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says Canada needs 3.45 million homes by the end of the decade, and that the country’s three largest cities are at risk of losing people as housing costs soar
• New polling from Abacus continues the bad news for the Liberals and high times for Pierre Poillievre and the Conservatives
• “English Week” at a Quebec City CEGEP caused a conniption fit in the National Assembly