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Elias Makos caps off the week with Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor, and Bonnie Feigenbaum, Conservative Party of Quebec candidate in last provincial election and a lecturer at Concordia & McGill University.


François Legault says sovereignty would be good for Quebec’s identity - but not for the province’s finances
Should Quebec be more transparent about the salaries of civil servants?
A conservative MP says she is fed up with the NDP and Liberals plastics ban that will do nothing for the environment

Elias Makos welcomes back Christina Chough, Spanish teacher and Chair of the modern languages department at Dawson College, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor.


Is working in an office for three days a week too much? That is what the public sector union for federal government workers argued yesterday during their press conference in Ottawa
Despite speeding and burning a red light – a tow truck driver will only face a fine for killing a 74-year-old woman in a crash in January of 2022
Yesterday on the show we had PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon talking about his proposition of banning cellphones inside schools

On today's program, Elias spoke with lawyer and political commentator Neil Drabkin, who was a chief of staff in the Harper government and Noovo and RDS host Meeker Guerrier.


Crack is being sold inside a CHSLD. That’s what occupants at the Paul Emile-Leger centre near Chinatown are saying, adding that they no longer feel safe. 
The federal government is granting British Columbia’s request to recriminalize hard drugs in public spaces
Quebec's health minister is looking at a bureaucratic change which could free up half a million GP appointments each year.

Elias Makos is joined by Jonathan Kalles, Senior Director at McMillan Vantage and former advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Akil Alleyne, Reporter and commentator and Manager of the GemStar Circle of Excellence Scholarship Program.


Swedish manufacturer Northvolt says it found homemade bombs at the construction site of their future battery plant on the south shore of Montreal
It is day 11 of the encampment at McGill University and things both parties remain at a standstill after their meeting yesterday
Quebec is looking at tightening the regulations around sperm donation

Elias Makos kicks off the week with Political analyst Karim Boulos, and David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst.


There’s frustration in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, as a pilot project that sees garbage collection reduced to once every two weeks moves forward
Quebec Liberal Party leadership news: Former finance minister Carlos Leitao has endorsed Frédéric Beauchemin for the job, even if the current MNA hasn’t made a run official
There appears to be chaos at Québec solidaire. After co-spokesperson Émilise Lessard-Therrien announced she was leaving the party after just five months, two high-level staffers also announced they were headed for the exits as the weekend began

Elias Makos ends the week with Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Raphaël Melançon, a political analyst for CTV Montreal News at 5 and president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies.


Community groups in Chinatown are pleading for action to deal with the rise in crime in the area
The National Assembly is divided into two camps - this according to Premier François Legault
Quebec’s French language Minister Jean-François Roberge is now seeking guidance from France about secularism in schools