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The Big Five Podcast

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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23:03

Chinese connections continue to hound the Mark Carney...

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2025/04/11

Elias Makos is joined by political analyst Karim Boulos and Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College on The Big 5. Chinese connections continue to hound the Mark Carney campaign. On Thursday, the Globe and Mail reported that Carney met with members of a pro-Beijing lobby group. Education minister Bernard Drainville says he will not impose a ban on religious symbols for students. Francois Legault is backing Immigration Minister Jean-Francois

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24:07

All the world’s suffering - tough questions in Quebec...

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2025/04/10

Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, as well as Meeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS. Quebec Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge is facing backlash after saying Canada “can’t take on all the world’s suffering" On the campaign trail, Pierre Poilievre’s latest campaign pledge is a ‘Three strikes and you’re out’ plan to tackle

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24:07

The election campaign gets nasty. Plus: Canada is...

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2025/04/09

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, founder & chief equity officer, Women in Governance and Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy on The Big 5. There’s been a steady rise in asylum seekers at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing south of Montreal, A star Liberal candidate in B.C., Gregor Robertson, says Pierre Poilievre’s large rallies are like the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests. The Conservatives are attempting

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24:20

Why is China pushing Mark Carney content on social...

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2025/04/08

Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program Among the topics discussed Canada’s Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force says the Chinese government is behind a campaign in the

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24:21

Get ready for the dirtiest week of the federal...

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2025/04/07

Elias Makos starts the week off with Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada, andJimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor. The stock market is poised for yet another day in the red but Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says that most Americans aren’t concerned about the markets. We saw a plethora of candidates get the boot last week - but as of 2pm today, the consequences will be far more severe. That’s

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24:34

U.S. tariffs, China’s response, and Mark Carney’s...

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2025/04/04

Elias Makos caps off the week with Meeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS, andPolitical analyst Karim Boulos. While you were sleeping, China has responded to the U.S.’ tariffs, imposing their own 34% reciprocal tariff on U.S. goods Last night Radio-Canada aired Cinq chefs, une élection, where each of the main party leaders were interviewed. Mark Carney showed off a level of French that received a better than passing grade from most, but whiffed on a couple of softballs on Quebec

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22:23

Was ‘Liberation Day’ a win for Canada? Plus: Can we...

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2025/04/03

Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, andCaroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance. Quebec and Canada are mostly exempt from the latest US tariffs announced by Donald Trump, but a 25% tariff on some Canadian auto products takes effect at midnight, with steel and aluminum tariffs remaining Despite Donald Trump’s promise of rapid job growth and investment from

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32:00

Does American “Liberation Day” mean Canadian...

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2025/04/02

Elias Makos is joined by Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada, andAkil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program. We begin with President Donald Trump - who has declared today, April 2 - “Liberation Day” for the US, as new reciprocal tariffs target all trade partners with

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23:52

‘Chiang the Bounty Hunter’ gets cancelled : Plus: We...

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2025/04/01

Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Justine McIntyre, strategic consultant and former city councillor, Paul Chiang has stepped down. The Liberal candidate encouraged people to bring a Conservative candidate to the Chinese consulate in Toronto to collect a $184,000 bounty placed on his head by Hong Kong police. Another Quebec gaffe for Mark Carney. He announced his plan

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23:24

Liberal candidate encourages kidnapping of political...

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2025/03/31

Elias Makos begins the week with Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College, andJimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor. Mark Carney is under fire to dump Toronto Liberal candidate Paul Chiang Federal party leaders are taking different stances on Quebec’s Bill 96 as the election campaign unfolds

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24:03

Mark Carney says our old relationship with the U.S....

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2025/03/28

Elias Makos caps off the week that was with Political analyst Karim Boulos, andRaphaël Melançon, a political analyst for Noovo and CTV Montreal News at 5. He is also the president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies. Speaking yesterday in Ottawa, Mark Carney presented a grim picture of the future of Canada-U.S. relations, "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

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23:56

Once again, Donald Trump has made himself a key part...

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2025/03/27

Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada, andAndrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. Donald Trump made himself a key part of Canada’s federal election campaign once again on Wednesday, as he announced a 25% tariff on vehicles imported to the U.S. Pierre Poilievre was in Quebec City yesterday to launch his Quebec specific platform. In the week leading

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22:40

Mark Carney hounded by gaffes and tax evasion. Plus:...

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2025/03/26

Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Sue Smith is a Montreal journalist and broadcaster. Radio-Canada reports this morning that Mark Carney’s so-called green funds used a Bermuda tax shelter to evade paying taxes back at home Carney has also apologized after mistakenly referring to the wrong university and mispronouncing the name of Nathalie Provost Quebec’s Finance Minister

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23:14

Mark Carney bails on the TVA debate. Plus: Pierre...

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2025/03/25

Elias Makos is joined by Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program on The Big 5. The TVA Face-à-Face debate will not happen, this after the Liberal Party refused to participate. The Globe and Mail reports this morning that a source with top-secret clearance alleges that Indian agents and their proxies meddled

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31:55

It’s a special election kickoff edition of The Big Five!

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2025/03/24

Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Dimitri Soudas, Former Director of Communications for Harper and political commentator. Come April 28th Canadians will cast their ballots and decide who will be our next Prime Minister. And parties have wasted no time in this election campaign putting up their posters in each of their ridings Where’s the momentum? Polling shows

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24:13

Is Tim Hortons Canadian? Plus: Canada’s tumble down...

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2025/03/21

Elias Makos caps the week off with Neil Drabkin, a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government, andDan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada. 2 days away from a snap election being called, news is happening fast: The Canadian government, under Mark Carney, plans to maintain a cap on emissions from oil and gas production, Let’s talk about the

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31:47

We’re going to the polls Plus: The push to get you on...

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2025/03/20

Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, andAndrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. Andrew Caddell's reaction to the Quebec Municipal Commission investigating him for breaching ethics and professional conduct rules Prime Minister Mark Carney will call a snap election on Sunday Canada is strongly condemning China - this after

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22:28

Trump says he wants the Liberals to win the next...

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2025/03/19

Elias Makos is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos, andSue Smith, a Montreal journalist and broadcaster. Speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News last night, Donald Trump said he’d prefer if the Liberals won the next election - and knocked the leader of the Conservatives Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to remove the federal carbon tax, starting April 1st, will lower gas prices by 18 cents per litre in most provinces, except Quebec More signs that the “Buy Canadian”

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25:47

Prime Minister Mark Carney doesn’t like your...

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2025/03/18

Elias Makos is joined by Christina Chough, spanish teacher and chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College and Gabriel Retta a Montrealer active in politics and government service at all three levels for the last 20 years, currently serving as Chief of Staff to the Official Opposition at Montreal City on The Big 5. Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to evade questions about his finances and conflicts of interest and it’s leading to some bizarre and contentious moments between

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25:00

Welcome to the Mark Carney Era! Plus: Is it time you...

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2025/03/17

Elias Makos welcomes in Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, andTrudie Mason, veteran Newscaster here at CJAD 800. Mark Carney has unveiled his slimmed down cabinet, with only a few new faces. Eight ministers are from the Toronto area, and only two come from west of Ontario. What do you make of his cabinet that is eerily similar to a Trudeau cabinet? And Carney continues to be busy - meeting with François Legault yesterday and partaking in Montreal's 200th annual St. Patrick's Day

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