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November 29, 2022Parliament is back in session today in Quebec City. Plus: Montreal is expected to announce the highest tax increase since 2010
David Heurtel filling in alongside Egbert Gaye, founder and editor of Montreal Community Contact and Justine McIntyre, former Montreal City Councilor and Consultant at Espace Strategies.
What they are calling a “Black Monday'' for Montreal’s Courthouse. Ten courtrooms in the criminal chamber were not opened in the morning because of a shortage of court clerks
Parliament is back in session today in Quebec City. What issues will be discussed? Are there any one-on-one tensions to predict?
Montreal will release its city budget today and is expected to announce the highest tax increase since 2010
25 min
November 28, 2022Legault will appeal the Superior Court judgement on random police stops. PLUS: How many young people are sacrificing their education for money?
David Heurtel steps in along with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor and Sue Montgomery, former journalist and former mayor of CDN-NDG.
Legault confirmed that he would appeal the Superior Court judgement ordering an end to random police stops
How many young people are sacrificing their education for money?
Ottawa will start taxing vacant homes 1%. Should we implement this tax in Montreal given the current housing crisis?
25 min
November 25, 2022Quebec appeals racial profiling ruling. Plus: Admit it, Montreal is a bike city
Elias Makos caps off the week with Catherine Hogan, high school teacher at Westwood Senior High in Hudson and David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister and analyst.
The Quebec government will appeal the Quebec Superior Court racial profiling ruling that banned random police stops. Was there any other choice?
Bixi set a record for rides and memberships in 2022. And it wasn't a small jump, they smashed the previous highs. Is Montreal a bike city?
It’s Black Friday! Set to be the busiest shopping day of the year. Do you buy into the Black Friday craze?
23 min
November 24, 2022What should Montreal’s new police chief do first? Plus: Should public transit be free for all?
Elias Makos' panel includes Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.
Fady Dagher will be the next chief of Montreal’s police force. Do you think he is the right choice for the job? What should be his main priorities?
Pierre Fitzgibbon wants to convince Montrealers that the government they mostly rejected on October 3rd will work for Quebec’s largest metropolis
Public transit will now be free for seniors on the Island of Montreal as of July. Apparently in an effort to relieve social isolation. It sounds fantastic, but is it the right policy?
25 min
November 23, 2022Step aside, human rights! We got soccer to watch! Plus: Step aside, language police! We got snow police now!
Elias Makos welcomes back Justine McIntyre, former Montreal City Councilor and Consultant at Espace Strategies and Anne Lagace-Dowson, political analyst.
After FIFA threatened athletes and teams for wearing the one love armbands at the World Cup, the House of Commons denounced the move unanimously. But of course, Canada will not hold a diplomatic boycott of the tournament
Women now earn 91 percent of what their male colleagues earn per hour, according to data released by the Quebec statistics institute
Trying to clear the snow from your home? Don’t push it onto the street as the ‘snow police’ could fine you!
26 min
November 22, 2022The rent is too damn high in Montreal! Plus: The Habs’ dirty laundry hung out to dry
Elias Makos is joined by Egbert Gaye, founder and editor of Montreal Community Contact and Political analyst Karim Boulos.
A committee set up by the city of Montreal says the toppled statue of John. A Macdonald should not be put back
Rents in the city are exploding. In the last five years, the rent for a two-bedroom apartment has gone up by 39%. Is there anything we can do to fix the rental market?
Should what happens in the locker room stay in the locker room? Former Canadiens equipment manager Pierre Gervais appears to have made no friends with his new book
25 min
November 21, 2022Tourism Montreal wants to make tourists feel really bad about coming here. Plus: What does Justin Trudeau know about Chinese interference?
Elias Makos kicks off the week with panelists Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor and Robert Libman, Former MNA and leader of the Equality Party in the National Assembly and Gazette political columnist.
Tourism Montreal's website implores anyone considering coming to the city to swear a blood oath, and then asks them to calculate their carbon footprint
Justin Trudeau says he was not briefed on allegations federal candidates received funds from China. But this is at odds with reports at the beginning of the month that Trudeau and his cabinet were briefed in January
If Canada welcomes 500,000 immigrants per year and Quebec maintains its threshold of welcoming 50,000 - then Quebec’s demographic weight will drop to 18% in Canada by 2047
25 min
November 18, 2022Quebec restaurants want to charge no-shows. Plus: Canada goes for the gold in the Hypocrisy Olympics
Elias Makos ends the week off with David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister and analyst and Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR & content firm TNKR Media, Quebec-based political commentator, a former journalist and newspaper columnist, and the co-founder of TNKR Media.
Frustrated by no-shows, restaurants in Quebec are calling on the provincial government to give them the right to charge people for not honouring dinner reservations
We had a brewing scandal for a few hours yesterday… “Ombudperson says unnamed CAQ minister guilty of reprehensible cronyism!” in the headlines. Then we found out the original complaint dates to February of 2018
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada won't agree to add language calling for the phaseout of all fossil fuels — including oil and gas — to the final agreement at this year's United Nations climate talks in Egypt. Hypocrisy?
24 min
November 17, 2022Justin Trudeau vs. Chinese President Xi Jinping. Plus: Should Canada stage a diplomatic boycott of the World Cup?
Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.
Video of Justin Trudeau's testy exchange with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 went around the world over the last 24 hours
There are calls for the Canadian government to boycott the World Cup in Qatar. Bloc Quebecois thinks no government representative should be sent on behalf of Canada for the games
Is Donald Trump a loser?
24 min
November 16, 2022The spy who spoke no French. Plus: If you thought Bill 96 would be ‘softened,’ think again
Elias Makos welcomes in Glenn Castanheira, Executive Director of Montréal Centre-Ville, the downtown business association and Bonnie Feigenbaum, Conservative Party of Quebec candidate in last provincial election and a lecturer at Concordia & McGill University.
That alleged spy at Hydro-Québec? He didn’t speak French! But before you think this is some language story, don’t worry - he didn’t speak English either!
A committee of elected officials says Montreal should prepare for internet voting for the next municipal election. Should we have internet voting for all elections?
Francois Legault closed the door on any talk of reintroducing mask mandates in public places. Thoughts?
24 min

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