• 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
  • The results of the LaSalle-Emard-Verdun by-election. Plus: Comedian under fire
    Sep 17 2024

    Dan Delmar is joined by Anne Lagace-Dowson, Political Analyst and Neil Drabkin, Lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government

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    29 mins
  • Another assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Plus: The Quebec government's $2.5 million French language ad campaign
    Sep 16 2024

    Trudie Mason is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor.

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    25 mins
  • Kamala Harris delivers on the most important night in the history of Westmount High School. Plus: Are Quebec roads getting better?
    Sep 13 2024

    Elias Makos is joined by Akil Alleyne, reporter, commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

    • It was billed as the most important night in the history of Westmount High School - Kamala Harris taking on Donald Trump in the ABC News Presidential Debate last night
    • Former star real estate broker Christine Giroaurd and her partner Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin have been given 15 year suspensions for orchestrating a scheme of bogus real estate bids during the pandemic
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    25 mins
  • The Big 5 : Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are making their case TODAY On CJAD!
    Sep 13 2024

    Elias Makos was 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 political analyst Karim Boulos

    • Justin Trudeau is doing an interview with Aaron at 2pm and Pierre Poilievre is on the Elias Show 10.50 this morning. What questions should they be asked?
    • A new Quebec legislature has adopted a motion which ensures that you won’t need an English eligibility certificate to receive healthcare in english.
    • Quebec’s commission on youth screen time has begun.
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    24 mins
  • The Quebec government goes after tipflation and tip creep. Plus: The number of political orphans in Canada is on the rise.
    Sep 12 2024

    Elias Makos is joined by 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 and Christina Chough (C-H-O), Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College

    • The Quebec government will crack down on the explosion of tipping. Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette will soon table a bill better regulating the how and why of tipping in the province. Quebec will also make adjustments to how grocery stores display pricing - ensuring the price of a single item is clearly marked.
    • After publishing an open letter in Journal de Montreal criticising his own party, CAQ MNA Youri Chassin will make an announcement this morning about his political future. Now why should anyone care about a Saint-Jérôme MNA you’ve never heard of before? Well, after leaving the Montreal Economic Institute to enter politics, Chassin has become increasingly disgruntled with not being named a minister, and with Quebec’s ballooning deficit. His economic right leanings and feelings of malcontent could mean he would run into the arms of Eric Duhaime and the Conservatives - giving that party an MNA.
    • A third of Canadians now say they are political orphans. Are you, and if so, why?
      New Angus Reid polling shows Quebec to be more open to foreign workers than the rest of Canada. Overall, 42% of Quebecers believe that there are too many temporary foreign workers in the country, much less than in Ontario (61%) or Alberta (65%).
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    24 mins