• Quebec stops recruiting nurses from Africa. Plus: All aboard the train to Election Town.
    Oct 2 2024

    Elias Makos is joined by Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, and Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS.

    • Marwah Rizqy has made it official, she won’t seek reelection in 2026. And she couldn’t be any clearer as to why: She wants to be a mom
    • The Liberals seem to be rejecting the Bloc Québécois’ demand to boost Old Age Security benefits for seniors aged 65 to 74
    • The province is bowing to international pressure, and moving towards a more “ethical” recruitment strategy that doesn’t poach nurses from countries that are already struggling from providing their populations with healthcare
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    31 mins
  • Both the latest polls and book reviews are not looking good for Justin Trudeau. Plus: Marwah Rizqy calls it quits.
    Oct 1 2024

    Elias Makos is joined by Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media and host of the Inspiring Business Hour - Saturdays at noon on CJAD and Jimmy Zoubris, Special Advisor to the Mayor on The Big 5.

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    33 mins
  • François Legault’s government is halfway through their second term. Plus: Bring back playground games!
    Sep 30 2024

    Justine McIntyre is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

    • François Legault’s government is halfway through their second term
    • Yesterday Quebec’s newly appointed SuperMinister joined Tout le monde en parle where she talked about the controversial Northvolt project
    • Schools have been progressively banning playground games. Have we made recess *too* safe?
    • Hurricane Helene tore through Florida and a number of other southern States
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    32 mins
  • Car thieves get bail as vehicle theft skyrockets. Plus: Why can’t Montreal have nice things?
    Sep 27 2024

    Elias Makos caps off the week with Neil Drabkin, lawyer and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government, and Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS.

    • Do you remember that spectacular video of a Toronto woman stealing a man’s car and driving the car over him? Well the woman, an 18-year-old by the name of Sarah Badshaw, has been released on bail
    • Toronto is building a new 50,000-seat concert venue just so it can host as many of them as possible, Is Montreal falling further behind, or will we show them with our multi-billion-dollar renovated Olympic Stadium in five to ten years?
    • Members of Canada’s Haitian community are upset that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau glossed over a comment made by late night talk show host Stephen Colbert
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    25 mins
  • Bedlam in the House of Commons. Plus: Seniors, the Bloc has your back.
    Sep 26 2024

    Elias Makos welcomes back Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the PR and content firm TNKR Media and host of the Inspiring Business Hour - Saturdays at noon on CJAD 800, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.

    • Bedlam in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The nastiness between the Liberals and Conservatives reached new heights
    • The Bloc Québecois has issued its list of demands to keep the Liberals in power
    • Are we giving Northvolt ‘bad press’? That’s certainly what one CAQ MNA is suggesting. Louis Lemieux, the MNA for Saint-Jean and a former journalist himself, is denouncing what he calls a “witch hunt"
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    24 mins
  • The Quebec government’s spending spree: Golf tournaments, battery plants, and language inspectors
    Sep 25 2024

    Elias Makos is joined by Trudie Mason, veteran Newscaster at CJAD 800, and
    Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

    • The provincial and federal governments granted $9 million in financial assistance, with Quebec granting more than $6 million of that sum
    • Francois Legault is taking the heat over his $7 billion dollar agreement with Northvolt
    • An update on the La Tulipe story…. The legendary Montreal concert hall is shutting down, “for now.”
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    23 mins
  • Whiny neighbours win battle with concert venue. Plus: Trudeau woos America on The Late Show.
    Sep 24 2024

    Elias Makos is joined by Bonnie Feigenbaum, Conservative Party of Quebec candidate in last provincial election and a lecturer at Concordia & McGill University, media & government relations consultant and Andrew Caddell, a Town Councillor in Kamouraska, Columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. He was previously a diplomat, ministerial advisor and broadcast journalist on The Big 5.

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    24 mins
  • How many Ferraris should the mayor of Montreal own? Plus: Justin Trudeau hits the late night talk show circuit.
    Sep 23 2024

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

    • Real estate mogul Luc Poirier is thinking about a run for mayor, saying the city of Montreal needs saving
    • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will appear on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight
    • Federal immigration minister Marc Miller has admitted that we waited a little too long to slow down immigration
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    25 mins