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June 20, 2023You won’t believe who won last night’s byelections. Plus: Should Montreal’s housing market look more like Toronto’s?
Elias Makos welcomes in political analysts Anne Lagace-Dowson and Karim Boulos.
A victory last night for the Liberals in NDG-Westmount
François Legault remains confident that no one will be left homeless on July 1st
Quebec supposedly said no to a national initiative on pediatric ERs
24 min
June 19, 2023NDG-Westmount goes to the polls Plus: The Village hits rock bottom.
Elias Makos returns and kicks off the new week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor and Raphaël Melançon, a political analyst for CTV Montreal News at 5 and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies.
It’s byelection day in NDG-Westmount. And for Quebec’s most Anglo riding, the affair could come down to a single issue: language
Questions over the handling of notorious serial rapist and convicted killer Paul Bernardo’s transfer to a medium-security prison continue
The situation in the Village has reached “rock bottom,” with merchants saying that clients are afraid to come to their terraces
25 min
June 16, 2023Notre Dames des Neiges Cemetery Reopening, NDG Federal Ridings, Revenue Quebec Intervenes and more!
The Minister responsible for Housing, France-Élaine Duranceau, had an official meeting with a lobbyist who is also her partner in a real estate company.
Quebec Labour Minister Jean Boulet says a resolution has been reached in the months-long standoff between workers and management at Notre-Dames-des-Neiges Cemetery.
Voters in the federal riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Westmount will go to the polls in two weeks to choose an MP to succeed Marc Garneau, who stepped down in March after 15 years in politics.
Revenu Québec has had to intervene with several of its employees who have consulted files without having had the authorization in the last three years.
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec would have achieved higher returns if it had followed a simple index strategy.
22 min
June 15, 2023Legaults Broken Promises, High Profile Prison Transfers and Multiplying Homelessness Camps
Facing calls to resign, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced Wednesday he'll be issuing a 'ministerial directive' requiring Canada's corrections agency to reform how it handles high profile prison transfers
Renting in Montreal is becoming more and more difficult, especially for low income earners
François Legault’s government will not be able to keep its promise to end the use of faxes in the health network in 2023
Homelessness camps are multiplying in Montreal this summer.
22 min
June 14, 2023Citing "a major crisis" at CHSLDs, the Quebec government is calling on retired physicians in the Montreal area to step up
David Heurtel welcomes in Sue Montgomery, former journalist and former mayor of CDN-NDG and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.
Citing "a major crisis" in residential and long-term care centers (CHSLDs), Quebec is calling on retired physicians in the Greater Montreal area to step up to the plate
In 2022-2023, the directors of Quebec's youth protection departments handled 135,839 reports, which they consider 'very worrying
Quebec’s ban on prayers in public schools is misguided and an attempt “to solve a problem that doesn’t exist,”
23 min
June 13, 2023A new report says that more and more Montrealers are leaving the ER without being seen
David Heurtel is joined by Trudie Mason, Veteran Newscaster at CJAD 800 and Jonathan Kalles, Senior Consultant at McMillan Vantage and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Nearly one in five patients seeking emergency care at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) leaves its ER in frustration without ever being seen by a doctor
The Phares school service center, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent, invited "people with no teaching training" to a meeting to become a teacher in the next school year
Attacked by a complaint of misconduct, Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown resigns instead of waiting for the verdict of the Canadian Council of the Judiciary
23 min
June 12, 2023Premier François Legault says he is willing to entertain adjustments to some of the new Bill 96 language law
David Heurtel kicks the week of with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Raphaël Melançon, a political analyst for CTV Montreal News at 5 and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies.
There was an influx of criticism for David Johnston's report on foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, and it finally got the better of him
The city of Montreal ended the year 2022 with a surplus of $343.8 million
Premier François Legault says he is willing to entertain adjustments to some of the new Bill 96 language law identification regulationsthat have irritated minorities
24 min
June 09, 2023Legault wants cities to pay for a portion of their own adaptation to climate change. Plus: Are we becoming to "woke"?
David Heurtel is in for Elias this week and he is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos and Lionel Perez, Former city councillor and leader of the Official Opposition at Montreal city Hall.
Shoreline erosion, heat islands, and now, preparation for forest fires: cities will have to do their part to adapt to climate change, and the Quebec government will not pay for everything, said François Legault.
Are we becoming too ‘woke’? One McGill University lecturer believes that he has been unfairly dismissed from a job because he is ‘not part of diversity’.
Our economy is largely based on consumption and, by extension, for several decades, on debt. Average household debt as a share of GDP rose from 80% in 2008 to 95% in 2010 and then to 107% in 2021 in Canada, the highest level in the G7.
24 min
June 08, 2023The MUHC will stay without their 24/7 services until September. Plus: The Bank of Canada has raised it's rate again...is this really fighting inflation?
David Heurtel is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Senior Consultant at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) announced last April its decision to reopen the Lachine Hospital emergency unit 24/7, but the public will now have to wait until the end of September to benefit from the new service.
Quebec has adopted a new law that expands access to medical aid in dying and allows early requests for the procedure.
Land use planning will become a priority in areas at risk of forest fires, according to experts.
25 min
June 07, 2023For service in english please wait 34 seconds….
David Heurtel welcomes in Sue Montgomery, former journalist and former mayor of CDN-NDG and Justine McIntyre, consultant and former city councillor.
For service in english please wait 34 seconds….an article in the Journal de Montreal doesn't know what the fuss over the “conditions” to be met from now on to be served in English when you call 311
Canada's special rapporteur on foreign interference David Johnston calls the allegations swirling around his objectivity "quite simply false"
It’s gonna be a big pay day for MNAs. Members of the National Assembly passed a bill increasing their salaries by 30%, or $30,000
23 min

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