The Big Five Podcast

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  • Summary

  • The Big Five is the quintessential Montreal podcast, and the best way to get caught up on the top stories impacting the city. Every weekday, host Elias Makos and a roster of Montreal thought leaders debate and inform.

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Episodes
  • Forget the United States, let’s join the European Union! Plus: The anti-fun brigade targets children in Saint-Lambert
    Jan 31 2025

    Elias Makos caps off the week with Meeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS, and 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.

    • Donald Trump says tariffs against Canada are coming tomorrow
    • Amid our tensions with the United States, some are floating the idea of crossing the Atlantic and joining the European Union. Is this an idea worth considering?
    • Quebec’s new integration bill, tabled by Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge, promotes interculturalism over multiculturalism
    • Yet another NBA player is under investigation in an illegal betting probe
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    32 mins
  • Why don’t the Liberals want a woman Prime Minister? Plus: 1,000 thefts and zero jail time.
    Jan 30 2025

    Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College.

    • Struggling to get support from her former cabinet colleagues, Chrystia Freeland is proposing a new policy: Capping the number of ministers at 20 (There are 38 right now) and slashing the size of the prime minister’s office
    • How is Canada going to evade U.S. tariffs on February 1st?
    • A man who led an organized multi-million dollar theft ring that stole goods from Shoppers Drug Mart and then resold them on Amazon won’t receive any jail time. His sentence? Six months of house arrest, followed by six months of curfew
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    23 mins
  • All that Foreign Interference work and not a single traitor to show for it. Plus: A local book club has been told they can’t hold events at a Montreal library - because their meetings are held in English
    Jan 29 2025

    Elias Makos is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos, and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy.

    • Commissioner for the foreign interference inquiry Marie Josee Hogue released her final report yesterday
    • Jagmeet Singh, who was going to bring down the Liberal government at the first chance - is now waffling at the idea, if it would help the Liberals pass COVID-19-like tariff-relief measures for Canadians
    • A local book club has been told they can’t hold events at a Montreal library - because their meetings are held in English
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    25 mins

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