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18.12.2019

STAFFEL 1, FOLGE 6

Gangs of Montreal: Vito Rizzuto, Global Superboss

In this episode we take a closer look at Vito Rizzuto, the man who ran the Montreal mafia for decades. While the New York crime families are more famous, the Montreal mob under Rizzuto had an international reach. Besides drug smuggling, it ran loansharking and bookmaking schemes, and even illegal casinos. But by the early 2000s, Vito Rizzuto’s reign was coming to an end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S1, F6

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27 Min.
STAFFEL 1, FOLGE 7

Gangs of Montreal: Taking down the Rizzutos

The morning of Nov. 22, 2006 was cold and overcast. Cars were pulling up to the back entrance of the Montreal headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Westmount, just west of downtown. Inside the cars were some of the most powerful men in Montreal's underworld. Out came Nicolo Rizzuto Sr., the man who had seized control of the Montreal Mafia in the late 1970s. Wearing his trademark fedora hat and a long coat, his wrists were bound with plastic tie wraps instead of handcuffs. Rizzuto had kept a low profile in Montreal, but that all ended with his arrest. Police had collected almost 2 million wiretapped conversations of Rizzuto and the other leaders of the Mafia, making decisions about crimes like extortion, illegal gambling, drug smuggling and sports betting. Their investigation blew open the secrecy surrounding the Montreal Mafia and laid bare its extensive criminal organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S1, F7

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33 Min.
17.07.2023

Price-fixing at Canada’s grocery stores is bigger than just bread

Food inflation is showing no signs of letting up soon, as guest Sylvain Charlebois tells Brian Lilley this week. But grandstanding politicians yelling about “greedflation” by allegedly avaricious grocers are looking in the wrong place, says Charlebois, professor of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University. The recent guilty plea by Canada Bread, admitting to years of bakery price-fixing; allegations that Maple Leaf Foods may have done the same with meat; and revelations of “blackout” periods of fixed supplier prices all point to a bigger problem than inflation — and possibly a much dirtier one. (Recorded July 6, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17.07.2023

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39 Min.
16. MÄRZ

The former CBC host blowing the lid off its bias and dysfunction

Travis Dhanraj is not who you’d expect from a CBC critic. He’s not a conservative. He supports public broadcasting. As the host of Canada Tonight, he championed diversity. But as he tells Brian, he eventually discovered how shallow the broadcaster’s commitment was to its proclaimed values and its mandate. He explains how political coverage was controlled by a handful of politically biased personalities exercising veto control over shows seeking conservative perspectives. He also tells Brian about the preposterous stunts the CBC used to pay lip service to its standards, the corporation’s degrading human resources practices, and the lack of accountability and transparency from the top that, once he dared to challenge it, had network executives trying to silence him. (Recorded March 12, 2026) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16. März

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59 Min.
STAFFEL 1, FOLGE 1

Gangs of Montreal: How it all began

It was pure coincidence but the Hells Angels opened their first Canadian chapter in Quebec just seven weeks before Nicolo Rizzuto took control of the Montreal Mafia. Those events in 1977-78 kickstarted a violent decades-long struggle to control the criminal underworld in Montreal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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22 Min.
14. APR.

24 Sussex: The house no prime minister wants

Successive governments have long ignored serious issues at 24 Sussex Drive — so much so that two prime ministers have chosen to live elsewhere. National Post reporter Simon Tuck joins me to break down what’s gone wrong, why repairs keep getting delayed, and what it might cost to finally fix the official residence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

14. Apr.

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22 Min.
23. MÄRZ

What happened to the Mark Carney who promised to make things better?

When he first became prime minister a year ago this month, Mark Carney vowed to improve affordability, build badly needed projects quickly and make Canada more resilient and competitive in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade antagonism. As William Robson, president emeritus of the C.D. Howe Institute, discusses with Brian, the situation on all those fronts isn’t much better and, in several respects, worse than before. Canada keeps getting poorer, our fiscal situation is worse, the investment climate remains uncompetitive, projects we need aren’t happening, and Carney’s fiscal moves, from the GST grocery refund to green subsidies, are as economically misguided as the policies from the last guy. Carney can’t just blame Trump for it all. (Recorded March 20, 2026) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23. März

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56 Min.
25. MÄRZ

Pierre Poilievre’s U.S. Tour and the Rogan effect: Can it move the needle?

Pierre Poilievre has had a mixed year—strong party support but slipping poll numbers as Liberals gain ground. After a U.S. trip and a high-profile appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Stephanie Taylor discusses whether it boosts his appeal to Canadian voters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25. März

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21 Min.
01.02.2023

Talkin’ ‘bout the Revolution – with guests Chris Benjamin and Lou Gasevski

The Truck Guy podcast host Matthew Guy welcomes Chris Benjamin and Lou Gasevski from the Ram brand in Detroit. They are interior and exterior design leads at the company, providing a bit of inside baseball into the all-electric Ram 1500 Revolution concept truck which debuted recently at CES in Las Vegas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

01.02.2023

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27 Min.
16.08.2023

The battery eureka moment found in a bag of potato chips

This week in Dispatches from the battery economy, Down to Business talks to Maciej Jastrzebski of Li-Metal about technological breakthroughs in producing lithium for next-generation batteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

16.08.2023

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21 Min.

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