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March 27, 2023Montreal: Tough on terraces, soft on fire alarms
Elias Makos kicks off the week with Political analyst Karim Boulos and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.
A restaurant owner in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce says he's facing a $5,000 dollar bill to replace his terrace foir being a few centimetres too large
Mweanwhile, Notre-Dame St. buildings owned by Emile Benamor did not have fire alarm systems, according to a preliminary inspection report
François Legault is hailing the Canada-US deal on Roxham Road as a great victory
25 min
March 24, 2023Why is everything in Canada a state secret? Plus: The Eaton's Ninth Floor Restaurant will get a second life
Elias Makos ends the week with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst and Jonathan Kalles, Senior Consultant at McMillan Vantage Policy Group and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
An agreement has been made with regards to Roxham Road. Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden have agreed to have asylum seekers turned back at irregular border crossings
It took over six months, but the people of Canada have finally, graciously, been allowed to know that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, stayed in a $6,000 per night hotel suite while attending the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II
Eaton’s 9th floor restaurant will reopen at the end of this year. First opened in 1931 the 9th floor restaurant welcomed guests for over 70 years
26 min
March 23, 2023The Chinese interference scandal goes from bad to worse for the Liberals. Plus: Is it time to ban Airbnb?
Elias Makos returns with panelists Sue Montgomery, former journalist and former mayor of CDN-NDG and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.
Liberal MP Han Dong has resigned from Liberal caucus following a bombshell report by Global News that alleges he privately advised China’s consul general in Toronto that Beijing should hold off freeing the two Michaels
Building owner of Old Montreal fire - in trouble in Westmount
Despite warnings that a recession may be around the corner. Quebec is moving ahead with what has been described as one of the largest tax cuts in the Province’s history
25 min
March 22, 2023Tax cuts in yesterday’s budget. Plus: Quebec is promising to tighten Air bnb laws
Sarah Deshaies is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia and Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR & content firm TNKR Media and Quebec-based political commentator.
How did you feel about the tax cuts in yesterday’s budget? Was the timing right?
A study found 65 thousand Montrealers started gambling online in the first year of the pandemic
Quebec is promising to tighten air bnb laws. Do you trust them to actually do it?
25 min
March 21, 2023Bold budget predictions. Plus: Checking that grocery receipt
Sarah Deshaies once again filling in and joined by Egbert Gaye, founder and editor of Montreal Community Contact, and Justine McIntyre, consultant and former city councillor.
Quebec’s budget is coming today. What’s one thing you’re hoping to see?
Quebec is the only province that doesn’t start imposing fines for drivers once their blood alcohol limit passes 0.005 percent, instead of 0.08 percent. Do we need to get tougher on drunk driving?
Nearly 7 in 10 Quebecers find mistakes on their grocery bills, do you check your receipt before leaving?
25 min
March 20, 2023Enforcing Airbnbs, long life to the death penalty and who has the best idea for a cure to our ailing healthcare system?
Sarah Deshaies steps in as host with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.
Hundreds of illegal air bnb’s are up for rent and he city and the province blame each other for a lack of crackdown
Christian Dube says he wants to bring in the top guns from the private sector to help his new public projects. Is that realistic or is he dreaming? Meanwhile, Pierre Poilievre has proposed a national exam to help get doctors immigrating to Canada, into the medical field
54% of Canadians support the death penalty according to one survey, up from 51% a few years ago
24 min
March 17, 2023Is the Bell Centre a great building? Plus: Death threats to the Prime Minister doubled in 2022
Elias Makos caps off the week with Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst and David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst.
The Bell Centre (née Molson Centre) celebrated its birthday on Thursday, Is the Bell Centre still a good building or a bad building, and why?
The number of death threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has more than doubled in 2022
After being shut down for two years and holding a scaled-down event last year, the St. Patrick's Day parade is back for real this year
25 min
March 16, 2023Le Quebec Government releases sa nouvelle French langue campaign. Plus: Not the gender gap you’d expect at Québec solidaire
Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Senior Consultant at McMillan Vantage Policy Group and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance.
The Quebec Government launched a new ad campaign aimed at reversing the so-called decline of French and the use of anglicisms in everyday life
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named former governor general David Johnston as the new independent special rapporteur who will be looking into foreign interference
The election of Guillaume Cliche-Rivard has highlighted the gender gap at Québec solidaire. Eight of their 12 MNAs are men
26 min
March 15, 2023François Legault calls on Quebecers to do more. Plus: What do Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have to hide?
Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia and Sue Montgomery, former journalist and former mayor of CDN-NDG.
François Legault says that the man responsible for the deadly attack in Amqui on Monday had been identified as being at risk
The Liberals continue to filibuster any attempts to get the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, from testifying before a Commons committee studying China’s election interference
The Quebec Liberals admit that the Saint-Henri—Sainte-Anne byelection 'was a failure'
24 min
March 14, 2023Rock bottom for the Quebec Liberal Party? Plus: An attack on white wine lovers as the SAQ removes fridges from stores
Elias Makos is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos and Egbert Gaye, founder and editor of Montreal Community Contact.
Québec solidaire wins big in the Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne riding. Which was once a Liberal stronghold. Are the Liberals dead?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has dismissed the “AUKUS” pact as simply a nuclear-submarine deal, but others look at this as another example of Canada staying on the sidelines
In an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions the SAQ has decided to dispose of nearly 3,000 of its fridges in its retail stores
23 min

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