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EPISODE · Feb 3, 2026 · 22 MIN

Even the mayor can’t avoid Montreal’s potholes. Plus: Should Canada get the bomb?

from The Big Five Podcast · host CJAD 800

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. The mayor of Montreal posted a video last night of her car getting two flat tires, a victim of the cratered Notre-Dame Street.  Retired general Wayne Eyre says Canada should at least keep the option of nuclear weapons on the table. At an event honouring Stephen Harper in Ottawa last night, Harper and former PM Jean Chretien called on Canadians to stand united in the fact of threats from the U.S. 

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