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
  • Watching Quebec nationalists fight is kinda fun. Plus: Did Pierre Fitzgibbon choose love over Legault?
    Sep 20 2024

    Elias Makos caps off the week with Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy, and Meeker Guerrier, Weekend News Anchor at Noovo and a commentator at RDS.

    • Quebec Premier Francois Legault on Thursday urged the Bloc Quebecois to help topple the federal Liberal government and trigger an election, saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to disrespect the will of the province
    • Yves-François Blanchet does believe that the Liberal Party of Canada will end their mandate earlier than expected
    • Radio-Canada spoke with Pierre Fitzgibbon about his love life, and what really led to him stepping down. His new love was apparently 30% of the decision - but so was the direction the party was taking
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    23 mins
  • You’ll have to keep waiting for a federal election. Plus: Laval taxpayers are paying for a lot of Apple products
    Sep 19 2024

    Elias Makos returns with guests Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program, and Neil Drabkin, a lawyer and political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government.

    • The Bloc Quebecois says it won’t support an upcoming non-confidence vote
    • A Laval elected official has made taxpayers pay more than $1,000 dollars for his Costco run and his Apple watch
    • Federal Minister Pablo Rodriguez is running for the Quebec Liberal leadership. Rodriguez is of course the federal Minister of Transport and will resign his cabinet position this week to focus on the leadership
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    23 mins
  • Teachers in the province are criticizing Quebec’s new $2.5 million dollar ad campaign to promote French Plus: Jagmeet Singh got up close and personal with a
    Sep 18 2024

    Trudie Mason welcomes in Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor. and Political analyst Karim Boulos.

    • Teachers in the province are criticising Quebec’s new $2.5 million dollar ad campaign to promote French
    • A Laval elected official has made taxpayers pay more than $1,000 dollars for his Costco run and his Apple watch
    • Jagmeet Singh got up close and personal with a demonstrator after someone called him a “corrupted bastard"
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    24 mins

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