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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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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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23:35

Prime Minister Mark Carney and his “war cabinet.”...

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2025/03/14

Elias Makos caps off the week with 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. Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney is set to unveil a smaller cabinet compared to outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s, with notable changes Mark Carney’s first international trip as Prime Minister? He’s headed to

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22:53

Canada’s border crackdown on your Trader Joe’s...

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2025/03/13

Elias Makos joins Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program, andCaroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance. Canadians upset about being dinged at the border for taxes and duties after a day trip to the U.S. An American family from Illinois is seeking asylum in Canada. Radio-Canada reports on a couple and their four children now living

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22:44

Uh-oh! The White House knows about Quebec’s tax rate....

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2025/03/12

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 Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor. Donald Trump continued his attacks against Canada on Tuesday and his administration continued to repeat that the country would be better off as the 51st state. And now, The White House is even using Quebec’s tax rate to make the case A new poll shows a surge in Canadian national pride, with 86% of

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25:46

Quebec considers electricity surcharges on exports to...

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2025/03/11

Elias Makos kicks off the week with Trudie Mason, veteran Newscaster here at CJAD 800, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, François Legault is considering following Ontario’s example by imposing a tax on electricity exports from Hydro-Québec to the US in response to US tariffs The Wall Street Journal asks if Canada is going through collective amnesia as it considers voting for one of the main architects of our decade of stagnation

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23:08

The Carney coronation is complete. Plus: Government...

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2025/03/10

Elias Makos welcomes in first time panelist Victor Henriquez, Public affairs and crisis management specialist at Public Strategy and Conseil, andJonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It probably comes as a surprise to no one that Mark Carney has been elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada Passport Canada has launched a new “30 business days or its free” guarantee for

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22:18

The end of the Justin Trudeau era. Plus: Montreal’s...

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2025/03/07

Elias Makos caps off the week with Meeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS , andAndrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. With Justin Trudeau about to leave office, was he a failure or success as Prime Minister? Out the door in just days, the Prime Minister and his cabinet have been making a flurry of appointments Journal de Montreal analysed every single word that the Federal leaders have said in the House of Commons since 2021, in

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21:38

The feisty Trump-Trudeau phone call. Plus: Should we...

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2025/03/06

Elias Makos welcomes back Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government, andCaroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance. U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in what is being described as “heated” conversation from the Canadian side, and with a “somewhat friendly” ending, according to Trump’s social posts

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32:54

Trudeau’s talks tough as Canada fights back Plus:...

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2025/03/05

Elias Makos is joined by Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, andPaul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia. Justin Trudeau delivered perhaps his finest speech as Prime Minister, taking dead aim at a U.S. audience and the TV-watcher-in Chief, Donald Trump With all these tariffs and uncertainty, economists are predicting that the Canadian economy will plunge into a recession as early as this

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23:16

Welcome to the Great Canada-U.S. Tariff Trade War of...

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2025/03/04

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 and Sue Smith, Montreal journalist and broadcaster on The Big 5. Donald Trump’s deadline for economy-wide tariffs on Canada and Mexico has passed, triggering a trade war. Would you snitch on your neighbours who are skipping out on paying Quebec fees and taxes. Quebec is facing a political scandal over the disastrous rollout of the SAAQ’s new

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23:21

Are Canadians “all talk, no action” when it comes to...

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2025/03/03

Elias Makos kicks off the week with Trudie Mason, veteran Newscaster here at CJAD 800, andJimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau strongly defended Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Securing Our Future Summit in London Trudeau also met with King Charles in the saloon at Sandringham House today, getting an audience as Donald Trump attacks Canada’s sovereignty The Globe and Mail sent a reporter to Jay Peak in Vermont to report on the decline in

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24:00

What’s in Donald Trump’s brain? Plus: Projet Montreal...

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2025/02/28

Elias Makos is joined by Justine McIntyre, strategic consultant and former city councillor and Raphaël Melançon, a political analyst for Noovo and CTV Montreal News at 5 and the president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies. At another one of his never-ending media availabilities yesterday, Trump was asked about Canada, fentanyl and tariffs. He’s adamant it’s about the deaths. Mark Carney has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday’s night’s post-debate press

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24:40

Is the Mark Carney coronation on pause? Plus: Should...

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2025/02/27

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. and political analyst Karim Boulos. Is the Mark Carney coronation on pause? A question from a Globe and Mail reporter after Tuesday’s Liberal leadership debate has spawned a veritable controversy for the Liberal outsider frontrunner Are the Trump tariffs coming or not? Confusion over timelines prevailed Wednesday as the U.S. President held his

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24:04

The coronation has hit a snag - Mark Carney’s...

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2025/02/26

Elias Makos is joined by Akil Alleyne, reporter and manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program, andCaroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance. Last night the four Liberal leadership candidates faced off again in a debate, this time in english. One poll taken pre-debate shows that as it stands Mark Carney as Liberal leader would have more support than Poilievre’s Conservatives. Universities, CEGEPs and private colleges will soon be required to

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22:31

Liberal candidates can’t stop agreeing with each...

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2025/02/25

Elias Makos is joined by Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government and Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the Big 5. Last night the four remaining candidates in the race to replace Justin Trudeau took part in the first of two debates Quebec’s Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette has penned an

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22:42

Montrealers losing patience over snow removal. Plus:...

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2025/02/24

Elias Makos kicks the week off with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, andPaul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia. It’s week 2 of snow clearing in the city. And things right now aren’t looking so great. With firefighters sounding the alarm over inaccessible streets, Old Montreal merchants fed up over lack of snow removal making their businesses difficult to access for delivery or customers and many

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24:33

Great game, terrible anthem - Canada beats the U.S....

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2025/02/21

Elias Makos ends the week accompanied by Sue Smith, Montreal journalist and broadcaster, andAndrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy. Canada beat the U.S. in an epic 3-2 overtime win at the 4 Nations Face-Off last night Former PM of Canada, Stephen Harper is urging Canada to prepare for all scenarios including a potential trade war with the US Since yesterday dozens of buses have been deployed to help passengers affected by the frequent

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23:14

Is the United States a friend, or an enemy? Plus: Is...

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2025/02/20

Elias Makos is joined by Neil Drabkin, lawyer and former chief of staff in the Harper government, andAkil Alleyne, Reporter and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program. New poll says 27% of Canadians view the United States as an 'enemy' country. Is the U.S. a friend, enemy, or neutral country? Two Liberal Party sources say the party has sent leadership candidate Ruby Dhalla a series of questions addressing concerns over potential foreign interference from India and alleged

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