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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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25:05

Trailing in the polls, will Projet Montréal press the...

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2025/10/17

Elias Makos is ends the week that was with Political analyst Karim Boulos, andDan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada. Yesterday was our big municipal debate on CJAD800 between Projet Montreal Leader Luc Rabouin and Ensemble Montreal leader Soraya Martinez Ferrada. What did you think of the debate? Who won? Who lost? It seems like Projet Montreal has one more card to play - and it’s Valerie Plante. Prime

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17:19

The Montreal mayoral race gets heated. Plus: Quebec...

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2025/10/16

Elias Makos welcomes in Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, andDaniel Tran, Director of Communication and governmental relations at Casacom. CJAD 800 and The Elias Makos Show is hosting a live Montreal mayoral debate today,the timing for this debate couldn't be more perfect, as the campaigns got nasty yesterday. Merchants in the Chabanel & Garment Districts say they weren’t properly consulted on the bike lanes added to the area Quebec will allow patients who

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22:29

Countdown to the Montreal mayoral debate. Plus:...

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2025/10/15

Elias Makos is joined by Victor Henriquez, Public affairs and crisis management specialist at Public Strategy and Conseil, andGraham Singh, Pastor at St-Jax Church.

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23:58

Does Donald Trump deserve praise for his Middle East...

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2025/10/14

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 Raphaël Melançon, political analyst for CTV Montreal and CJAD 800, columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies. After helping broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, even some of Trump’s fiercest opponents are offering rare praise for the former president The province has seen an overall

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19:51

Hamas releases the hostages. Plus: Should Canada dump...

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2025/10/13

Elias Makos is kicks off the week with Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, andNeil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government. Hamas has officially released the 20 remaining living hostages held in Gaza while Israel began releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of a ceasefire pausing two years of

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24:43

It’s official: Quebec is getting a constitution Plus:...

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2025/10/10

Elias Makos ends the week with Daniel Tran, Director of Communication and governmental relations at Casacom, andMeeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS. U.S. President Donald Trump’s hopes of winning a Nobel Peace Prize have been dashed once again. CJAD 800 and The Elias Makos Show will be hosting a live Montreal mayoral debate next Thursday, October 16, right after the conclusion of The Big Five. According to TIME Magazine, BIXI Montreal is one of the world’s 25 top inventions of

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24:07

Where’s Denis Coderre when you need him? Another...

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2025/10/09

Elias Makos welcomes back Victor Henriquez, Public affairs and crisis management specialist at Public Strategy and Conseil, andJustine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor. A woman is in critical condition after being mauled by three dogs outside a garage in Saint-Léonard It looks like the Carney government might be falling back into reality. A new poll out from Leger shows the Liberals at 44 percent of the vote, which is three percent drop since the last polling numbers

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24:24

Mark Carney sucks up to Donald Trump. Plus: The...

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2025/10/08

Joining Elias on CJAD 800 this morning were Bonnie Feigenbaum, Conservative Party of Quebec candidate in last provincial election and a lecturer at Concordia & McGill University, media & government relations consultant & Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance. Among the topics discussed were Mark Carney left Washington last night without a deal after meeting with U.S President Donald Trump for two and a half hours A recent piece from The Globe and Mail

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23:47

Montreal’s universities brace for protests & Mr....

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2025/10/07

Elias was joined on the Big 5 were Raphaël Melançon, political analyst for CTV Montreal and CJAD 800, columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies &Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government. Among the topics discussed were Concordia University has closed their downtown campus and cancelled all classes today, citing “potentially obstructive

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23:57

More terrible tales from the Temporary Foreign Worker...

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2025/10/06

Elias Makos kicks off the week with Political analyst Karim Boulos, andAkil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program. The federal government has slapped a Toronto Canadian Tire franchise owner with more than $100,000 in fines for violating rules under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program Québec Premier François Legault has been hosting Ontario Premier

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24:57

The political implosion of François Legault...

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2025/10/03

Elias Makos is joined by Sue Smith is a Montreal journalist and broadcaster, andDan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada. A new Léger poll shows François Legault’s popularity plunge is continuing, while Éric Duhaime is reaping the rewards of the CAQ’s rightward shift A crack pipe was found and handled by two young children on the grounds of the elementary school next to the supervised

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37:14

After a deadly shooting in Laval, worries about...

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2025/10/02

Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, andVictor Henriquez, Public affairs and crisis management specialist at Public Strategy and Conseil. A brazen daytime shooting that left one dead at a Starbucks in Laval appears to be linked to organized crime, says the province’s public security minister Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is pushing back against his critics and taking aim at some of the language used against him and his party The day

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24:15

François Legault plays his greatest hits and latest...

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2025/10/01

Elias Makos is joined by Political analyst Karim Boulos, andMeeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS. Premier Francois Legault laid out his vision for the new session at the National Assembly on Tuesday Controversy in the comedy world over a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia Photos of an SPVM officer sleeping in his car under highway 40 in Ahuntsic

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24:54

Is “Elbows Up!” is just a slogan?

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2025/09/30

Elias was joined by Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor &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 on The Big 5 Elbows up or elbows down? Quebec’s language ministry has given Loto-Québec special dispensation to operate the slot machines at its casinos in English Are we too consumed with

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24:13

The Big 5: You’re not imagining things - road rage is...

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2025/09/29

Elias was joined on The Big 5 by Paul Gott, lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia &Jonathan Kalles, Vice President at McMillan Vantage, a national public affairs firm, and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Among the topics discussed were Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending his frequent international travel, You’re not imagining things - road rage is getting worse La Presse reports that the city of

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32:57

Language, secularism, budgetary doom and no more mail...

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2025/09/26

Elias Makos ends the week with Anthony Koch, Former National Spokesperson for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and current managing principal at AK Strategies, andChristina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College. The Parti Québécois has revealed the results of its internal referendum on secularism. A golf club in Laval is asking members to speak French among themselves on the course, and in the clubhouse, saying that too much English

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22:53

Groupe Dynamite drops a bomb on the Quebec...

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2025/09/25

Elias Makos is joined by Sue Smith is a Montreal journalist and broadcaster, andNeil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government. The CEO of Groupe Dynamite says he is considering moving his businesses to the United States amid concerns that Quebec’s rigid immigration policies pose a huge risk to his operations. Are Quebec politics moving to the right - at least economically? The word of the moment as the

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24:04

Jimmy Kimmel returns to late night, Montreal politics...

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2025/09/24

Elias Makos welcomes back Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor, andMeeker Guerrier, Commentator at Noovo and RDS. Jimmy Kimmel made his return to late night television on Tuesday night. Over the course of an 18-minute monologue, TV host did spend some time trying to make amends for his controversial comments on the killing of Charlie Kirk. Three days after a 15-year-old was killed by police in Longueil, there are many more questions than answers. Dirty politics at play

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24:46

Should STM employees be allowed to strike? Plus:...

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2025/09/23

Elias Makos is joined by Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator with extensive experience analysing legal, political, and social issues and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program, andRaphaël Melançon, political analyst for CTV Montreal and CJAD 800, columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies. Given how important public transit is, should STM employees be allowed to strike at all? U.S. President Donald Trump linked

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31:50

Canada officially recognizes the State of Palestine....

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2025/09/22

Elias Makos begins the week with Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada, andPaul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia. Canada has officially recognized the State of Palestine. The Irish hip-hop group Kneecap has been banned from entering Canada. The federal government is bringing forward new legislation to add a hate crime offence to the

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