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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, an entrepreneur who founded online media powerhouse WatchMojo, has dealt with doubters his entire career. And the prospect of bringing the Montreal Expos back after Major League Baseball moved them to Washington after the 2004 season, has brought out the skeptics.But that isn’t stopping Karbasfrooshan, and he joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to explain just how he plans on succeeding where others, like his neighbour Stephen Bronfman, have failed.

The streets of Montreal went viral on social media this week, but for all the wrong reasons.Feigang Fei, who owns the restaurant Cuisine AuntDai on St-Mathieu St. Frustrated with the lack of progress on Ste-Catherine St. W. roadwork, he posted a photo on X of a construction site sitting empty on a sunny day.Fei, along with Ville-Marie city councillor Leslie Roberts, joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth to find common ground when it comes to myriad problems plaguing Montreal’s streets.

Douglas Dixon knew about Alligator Alcatraz, the infamous immigration detention centre in Florida operated by ICE. But never in his wildest imagination did he think he'd end up there in shackles.Now back in his native Montreal after 21 years in the United States following his deportation, Dixon shared his harrowing story with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on the latest episode of The Corner Booth from Snowdon Deli.

Perhaps no Montrealer bleeds bleu, blanc et rouge more than The Sick Podcast's Tony Marinaro.So after all the hours poured into watching, analyzing and commenting on the Montreal Canadiens, does Marinaro think the young Habs have a fighting chance against the more battle-tested Tampa Bay Lightning?That's the question posed to him by hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth, recorded at Snowdon Deli.

The Montreal area is the epicentre of the Canadian political landscape this week. The federal Liberals, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, are in town for their policy convention. Tomorrow, the next CAQ leader will be announced a hop, skip and a jump away in Drummondville. Then on Monday, the riding of Terrebonne will decide their next member of parliament in a byelection that will reverberate across the country.Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister David Heurtel returned to The Corner Booth podcast this week with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand at Snowdon Deli to unpack it all.

Everyone is looking for a break at the grocery store these days, even former Gazette fine-dining critic and cookbook author Lesley Chesterman." It's unbelievable the amount of money that we're all spending on food these days. I mean, we're all talking about gas, but let's talk about the price of beef, the price of coffee, the price of chocolate. "All of these things have skyrocketed," Chesterman said on this week's episode of The Corner Booth with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand at the Snowdon Deli. She's promoting her latest book, A Montreal Cook.

Montreal police Chief Fady Dagher announced on Thursday the SPVM's five-year plan to root out discrimination within its force and in how it deals with the general public.This week, Dagher joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on the latest episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to explain why he considers himself "part of the solution" when it comes to weeding out racism from the inside.

Depending on how you look at things, Montrealers can be considered a pretty optimistic bunch. On the one hand, according to the recently released annual World Happiness Report, Canada has slipped to 25th among countries.“But if you separate Quebec, they’d be fifth,” observed Gazette columnist and author Josh Freed, who is this week’s guest on The Corner Booth with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand at the Snowdon Deli. “Quebecers know that despite all of our complaining, we have a lot to be happy about.”

The Montreal Olympics are turning 50 this year.And to mark the anniversary, The Gazette’s own Terry “Aislin” Mosher has returned with a new book titled Jean Drapeau’s Baby, a visual memoir of the Montreal Olympic Games, featuring his favourite cartoons from this exciting time in Montreal’s history.The longest running continuously working political cartoonist in North America joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to look back on the memorable cartoons of the era and the larger than life people who inspired them.

The spectre of trade tariffs under U.S. President Donald Trump continue to loom over Quebec and Canada.Quebec’s business community greeted the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week against Trump’s tariffs with tempered expectations, and then Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said the exact timing of a potential referendum within a first mandate of a PQ government had to remain adjustable because of economic threats from Trump.John Parisella, political analyst and former delegate-general of Quebec in New York, along with Julian Karaguesian, economist and McGill professor, joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to explain how instability in the U.S. is affecting our politics and economy at home.

This week, Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette said anglophones are “invaluable”, helped build the province and are full-fledged Quebecers amid tensions over language and constitutional issues.But former MNA Robert Libman and TALQ director general Sylvia Martin-Laforge aren’t buying it.They joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to talk about how Jolin-Barrette’s olive branch was “giving you a kiss while stabbing you in the back."

Soraya Martinez Ferrada is about to reach her first 100 days as mayor of Montreal, and a lot has happened so far.On this week's episode of The Corner Booth with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand, the mayor talked about entering city hall having to deal with STM strikes that paralyzed the city. More recently, she went viral on social media for blowing out the tires of her car on potholes on Notre-Dame St. E., and had to contend with downtown businesses pleading for relief from construction woes on Ste-Catherine St.She also discussed job cuts to the city’s white-collar workforce and a plan to reduce the number of orange cones while using AI to plan work sites.

Jacques-Cartier MNA Gregory Kelley has been caught in the middle of the Quebec Liberal Party crisis.His wife, fellow MNA Marwah Rizqy, was suspended from caucus in November for firing her chief of staff, Geneviève Hinse, without consulting then-party leader Pablo Rodriguez. After weeks of pressure, Rodriguez resigned as leader amid allegations over fundraising.Rizqy remains out of the party, but returned to legislature on Tuesday. Kelley was by her side, also returning after taking a step back in the wake of the scandal. Kelley joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth to talk about the mental toll of the scandal.

Charles Milliard is the last man standing in the race to run the Quebec Liberals.The runner-up less than a year ago to Pablo Rodriguez was teaching at Bishop's University when controversy unfolded in the party, which thrusted the political neophyte back into the leadership conversation.With the only other known candidate, Mario Roy, not being permitted to run, the coast is clear for Milliard to take over a beleaguered party still reeling from Rodriguez's resignation.Milliard discussed his plans for healing the fractured Liberals before October's provincial election with Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein on this week's episode of The Corner Booth from Snowdon Deli.

In the wake of Premier François Legault’s resignation announcement last week, there’s a void in Quebec politics a number of suitors are looking to fill.One of them is Conservative Party of Quebec Leader Éric Duhaime. He’s trying to differentiate his party from the sovereignist Parti Québécois, as well as the Quebec Liberals and Coalition Avenir Québec, who are both looking for new leaders.Will Quebecers latch on to Duhaime’s message this time around? He joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode at the Snowdon Deli to tout his party as an alternative for federalist voters.

It was not a total surprise François Legault resigned as Premier of Quebec this week. But the timing of it caught many off-guard.Legault's resignation on Wednesday sent shockwaves across the political landscape, and with a provincial election coming up in October, there's even more uncertainty about what's to come for Quebec.To make sense of it all, former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister David Heurtel joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli.

In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's ousting of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his increased rhetoric about annexing Greenland, how worried should Canadians be about entering Trump's crosshairs?Two Americans living in Montreal — Jacob Blanc, Associate Professor, McGill University and Graham G. Dodds, PhD, Political Science Professor, Concordia University — joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth at the Snowdon Deli to discuss how Trump's latest actions spell more uncertainty for Canada.

Times have changed in the world of organized crime. Not only are things becoming less and less centralized, younger people — including teens — are getting involved.With the criminal underworld in flux, will Montreal police be able to adapt to these new challenges? Retired police detective Pietro Poletti shared his unfiltered thoughts on the state of organized crime and Montreal police with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode at Snowdon Deli.

Marc Miller hasn’t been Official Languages Minister for long, but he’s already made some noise.The former Justin Trudeau cabinet minister joined Mark Carney’s cabinet in the most recent shuffle, after being snubbed the first time. He drew immediate backlash from some, including Quebec Premier François Legault, when he said he was “fed up” with the debate over the decline of French.Miller sat down with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode at Snowdon Deli to discuss the fallout of his first salvo with his new portfolio.

On this week's special year-in-review episode of The Corner Booth, guests Martine St-Victor and Raphaël Melançon, along with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand, were given a near-impossible task:How do you cram 12 months of jaw-dropping headlines at the federal, provincial and municipal levels into one episode?Incredibly, they got it done. And without letting their Snowdon Deli platters get cold and dry.

There's never a dull moment in Quebec politics, but even by the province's standards, these recent times appear to be unprecedented.And that's coming from some of the province's most-respected legal experts.According to the head of the Quebec Bar, three bills from the CAQ recently presented at Quebec’s National Assembly — the proposed constitution, one on unions and the other on doctor pay — show signs of an authoritarian drift that threatens the rule of law.Two lawyers specializing in human rights and constitutional rights, Julius Grey and Frédéric Bérard, joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to sound the alarm on the "autocratic" bills." My biggest issue is that it's a constitution that seems to want to freeze present CAQ opinions about all sorts of issues: secularism, language and so on, forever," said Grey. " They claim to be an open nationalism, but their nationalism is a closed one. Become exactly like us, or you're not one of us."Bérard called section five of the constitution "probably the worst section I've seen in my whole life," before adding "so what kind of regime in the world prevent institutions from challenging the constitutionality of laws? It's not democracy."Grey said by saying no to challenges, the Quebec government is ostensibly making it impossible for an individual to challenge the province, since the average person can't afford the legal costs it would entail."The government is clearly anti-union anyway. It's got a law reducing the powers of unions. It's a government that's reducing the rights of tenants as opposed to landlords. It's a government that is attacking the English minority. It's attacking immigrants. What we have is a clear authoritarian right-wing government," Grey said."The CAQ is going even further than Duplessis because Duplessis never thought about preventing people from challenging bills," Bérard said."It's a first for Quebec. It's a very sad day, in my opinion."

The Parti Québécois are leading in the polls with a provincial election coming next year.At the moment, their competition is in disarray. The sagging CAQ and premier François Legault are facing the wrath of doctors over Bill 2's proposed renumeration reforms, while the Quebec Liberals are imploding over an alleged vote-buying scheme.So even though leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is sitting pretty and promising a referendum on Quebec independence in his first term, he still wants anglophone and allophone voters to join his party.The PQ leader laid out his case for why together isn't better with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on the latest episode of The Corner Booth at the Snowdon Deli. St-Pierre Plamondon discussed the prospect of a new currency, dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump and the status of the CAQ and Quebec Liberals.

With all the controversy surrounding Bill 2, which will change how doctors and specialists are compensated in Quebec, there's been little said about the equally seismic Bill 7.This lesser-known bill would  force the amalgamation of many government agencies, including Urgences-santé. Should Bill 7 become law, paramedic services in Montreal and Laval would be controlled through Santé Québec.What was the reaction to Bill 2 from Hal Newman, former paramedic and curator of The Last Ambulance, a site that shares stories from those in emergency prehospital care (EMS)?"God help us," Newman said. He joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth to sound the alarm on the bill and its potential consequences to emergency care in and around Montreal.

When there’s a complaint about languages in this country, it often lands on Raymond Théberge’s desk.As the commissioner of Official Languages of Canada since 2018, Théberge is tasked with protecting language rights, both English and French, in federal institutions. He joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at the Snowdon Deli to talk about support for bilingualism across the country and how to build bridges with linguistic communities in Quebec.A good example of the types of complaints Official Languages of Canada might receive was the double whammy in 2021-2022 of two high-profile Canadians — Governor General Mary Simon and Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau — and their inability to speak French.

Even though the Quebec referendum happened 30 years ago this October, there are still behind-the-scenes stories being uncovered.Jack Jedwab, president and CEO of the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute, recently penned an opinion piece for The Gazette on the lessons learned from the referendum, and this week he joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on a new episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to share stories about this pivotal moment in Quebec political history, including on Jacques Parizeau's "money and ethnic votes" comment.

A majority of Montrealers are undecided on who to vote for in the upcoming mayoral election on Nov. 2. But one thing the polls have made clear: people are ready for change.Does that mean voters are willing to look beyond the two entrenched parties — Projet Montréal and Ensemble Montréal — and elect someone new to City Hall?That's what two other parties on this November's ballot — Action Montréal and Futur Montréal — are counting on.Futur leader Jean-François Kacou and Action leader Gilbert Thibodeau joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's episode of The Corner Booth, filmed at Snowdon Deli, to make their pitches to Montreal voters. Each candidate was interviewed separately.

Three candidates have entered the race to become Westmount’s next mayor: Councillor Mary Gallery, lawyer Lynne Casgrain and accountant Michael Stern.All three are vying to replace outgoing mayor Christina Smith, who announced in January she won’t be seeking re-election. They joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on the latest episode of The Corner Booth, recorded at the epicentre of the city's controversial re-development plan, the Atwater Library.

The downtown district of Peter-McGill, which includes the Golden Square Mile, Mount Royal and Cabot Square, promises to be a hotly contested battle in the coming municipal election on Nov. 2.In one corner, there's Leslie Roberts with Ensemble Montréal. The former journalist and broadcaster is a familiar name and face for anglophone Montrealers of a certain age. He's a political neophyte who decided to enter the race after a convincing cup of coffee with Ensemble leader Soraya Martinez Ferrada.Representing Projet Montréal in this race is Maryse Bouchard. While also new to politics, Bouchard worked for 31 years for the city of Montreal, with a specialty in implementing new public services. For example, Bouchard worked on the new cultural and community space, the Sanaaq Centre, which opened in May.

Projet Montréal's Luc Rabouin, Ensemble Montréal's Soraya Martinez Ferrada and Transition Montréal's Craig Sauvé joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand to make their cases on a special episode of The Corner Booth, filmed on Thursday at the Segal Centre in the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough in front of an audience.In the spirit of the show, Brownstein and Rand eschewed the rigid debate format for a livelier, unscripted conversation on the major topics Montrealers care about this election. The candidates laid out their plans for solving the city's traffic woes, bureaucratic red tape, soaring housing costs and the growing homelessness crisis. Where do the candidates stand on dealing with a provincial government that has mostly ignored the city? What are their plans for Camillien-Houde Way?

om Mulcair didn’t hold back in his scorching Corner Booth debut.The former Quebec Liberal MNA and leader of the federal NDP joined to hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand at Snowdon Deli to dish on a number of hot button political issues — everything from Canada’s dealings with U.S. President Donald Trump to Quebec Premier François Legault’s fate. The longtime Outremont MP also pulled no punches on the current Montreal mayoral race. He talked about the “orange cone mentality” at City Hall and the closing of Camillien-Houde Way as a “form of political corruption.” He had sharp words for candidates Luc Rabouin and Craig Sauvé, even calling the former “ one of the worst politicians I’ve ever met.”But he saved some of his best barbs for the current premier and the person best positioned to unseat him in the 2026 provincial election, PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.“Legault is finished. Let’s not kid ourselves about that,” he said. “But I’m not convinced the CAQ is a spent force.”Even though Plamondon currently enjoys a healthy lead in the polls, Mulcair can see it all crumble if the PQ’s calls for another referendum grow louder.“If you want to run the government, we might actually vote for you and give you that possibility. But if you tell us that once you get in, you’re going to start taking taxpayer money to try to set up the winning conditions for a referendum to break up one of the most successful countries in the world and pull Quebec out of Canada, we’re going defeat you,” Mulcair said.He also offered a warning to Pablo Rodriguez, current leader of the Quebec Liberals, saying “he’s walking right into a trap with Bill 21,” the CAQ’s secularism bill that bars teachers, lawyers, police officers and more from wearing religious symbols.Mulcair added the provincial Liberals remain “in deep trouble outside of Montreal.”But the seasoned politician and regular contributor to The Gazette’s opinion page was effusive in his praise of one politician in particular. Watch this week’s episode to find out who it is.

It’s orange cone season in Montreal right now, and drivers are begging for relief from the gridlock and detours.In his latest op-ed in The Gazette, longtime traffic consultant Rick Leckner writes the time to act is now to solve our city’s traffic woes. Décarie Blvd. may have been awash in construction cones, but that didn’t stop Leckner from stopping by Snowdon Deli for this week’s episode of The Corner Booth with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand.

No one in the alcohol business is immune from dealing with government-run liquor boards, not even Kiefer Sutherland.The acclaimed Canadian actor and musician can now say his Red Bank Whisky is available coast-to-coast across the country, with Quebec being the final province to stock his wares.“Some provinces are quicker. For instance, Alberta was like, ‘give us the whisky, we’ll sell it right away,’” the 24 and Designated Survivor star said. “Other provinces took longer. Ontario took quite a long time, too. And then Quebec’s the last one. And so for us, just to be able to go around the world now and be able to say as a Canadian brand that we’re in all the provinces of Canada, it’s really important.”The celebrated Hollywood multi-hyphenate, who received a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2005 and on Hollywood’s three years later, talked about his latest projects and enduring Canadian connections on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand at Snowdon Deli.

On Wednesday, the Coalition Avenir Québec government pledged to invest $540 million into student services — less than one month after it was met with fierce backlash for slashing of $570 million in education funding. While former senator André Pratte is “happy for the education system,” he says this flip-flopping by Quebec means that more drastic cuts are on the horizon. 

Mommy, it’s not over: Just for Laughs is back from the dead.It was a tumultuous 2024 for the city’s premier comedy fest. In March of that year, the fest was abruptly and shockingly cancelled and the old ownership group sought protection from its creditors. Later, it was saved by Quebec City’s ComediHa!, who delivered a small but mighty version of the fest to laugh-starved Montrealers. A year later, Just for Laughs’ owner Sylvain Parent-Bédard and program director Nick Brazao, who joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli, are bringing a star-studded lineup to Montreal this July 16-27.

Jean Charest has worn many hats in his political career, from Quebec premier to leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party.These days as a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s council on Canada-U.S. relations, Charest is focused on American President Donald Trump. Made up of leaders in business, innovation and policy, the council is tasked with advising the prime minister and his cabinet during this sensitive time in international relations.Fresh from Trump’s latest tariff threats that risk devastating Quebec’s economy, Charest joined hosts Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein on the latest episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to discuss his latest, and perhaps most critical, political battle yet.

Royalmount is getting ready to turn one. But has the mega-mall succeeded in winning over the hearts and minds of discerning local shoppers accustomed to hitting the high-end stores downtown? And will the next phases of developing offices and housing come to fruition?Carbonleo CEO Andrew Lutfy talked about the ups and downs of year one on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli with hosts Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein.

Pablo Rodriguez is the new leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, but is he the right man for the job?Political strategist Jennifer Crane, founder of Connexion Quebec Public Affairs, and political analyst Raphaël Melançon, founder of Trafalgar Stratégies, join hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to break down Rodriguez’s closer-than-expected leadership win, and whether he can bring Quebecers back to the party in time for the 2026 election.

Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand chat with Yves Lalumière, President and CEO of Tourisme Montréal, and Andrew Torriani, CEO and General Manager of Ritz-Carlton Montreal.

Quebec Liberals will choose a new leader on June 14 in Quebec City. A late entry into the contest is Karl Blackburn, former MNA for Roberval from 2003 to 2007, and a chief organizer for the party. Blackburn also served as the president and CEO of the Conseil du patronat du Québec (CPQ), the province’s largest employers’ group. The Quebec Liberal leadership candidate joined hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth at Snowdon Deli to lay out his vision for uniting the Liberal base in Montreal with the vote-rich regions of the province.

Quebec retailers are bracing themselves for sweeping new French-language rules that take effect on June 1. Michel Rochette, Quebec president of the Retail Council of Canada, and Matt Coburn, regional district manager at music retailer Long & McQuade, joined this week’s episode of The Corner Booth with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand at Snowdon Deli.

Doctors in Quebec say they’re already stretched beyond their limits. Now, as Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé is tabling Bill 106, our province’s physicians are once again sounding the alarm over the disconnect between the CAQ government and those on the front lines on how to improve access to health care in this province.Family physicians Laura Sang and Christina Bianchini joined The Corner Booth with hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand to talk about why doctors are worried about the bill.

The Michelin Guide has finally arrived in Quebec and Montrealers reacted with shock to see only three restaurants get stars. Even Quebec City received more stars, with four one-star selections and the only two-star restaurant in the province.Who better to react to the controversial Michelin list than Dustin Gilman, the man known on the internet as Food Guy Montreal? He joined hosts hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand for a spicy episode of The Corner Booth at the Snowdon Deli.

Former Montreal Canadiens star Chris Nilan Knucks joined this week’s episode of The Corner Booth with hosts Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein at Snowdon Deli to talk about his theatre debut in Knuckles: The Chris Nilan Story and what compelled him to lay bare his mental and physical struggles in such an intimate setting.

The typical lifespan for a minority government in Canada is around 18 to 24 months. Will Mark Carney’s Liberals be able to buck the trend and outlast those grim odds? That’s the question put to former Quebec MNA and cabinet minister David Heurtel on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth, hosted by CJAD’s Aaron Rand and The Gazette’s Bill Brownstein at Snowdon Deli.

The Montreal Canadiens surprised just about everyone this year by making the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in four years, including legendary Habs play-by-play announcer Pierre Houde. But on this week’s episode of The Corner Booth with hosts Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein, back on home ice at Snowdon Deli, the French-language voice of the Habs on RDS since 1989 said the signs were there that this young team was primed to turn the corner.

On this week’s episode of The Corner Booth, filmed at Maison Boulud at the Ritz-Carlton, hosts Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein were joined by former Quebec MNA David Heurtel and political analyst Raphaël Melançon.

Liberal Anthony Housefather and Conservative Neil Oberman make a rare appearance together on this week’s episode at Snowdon Deli.

Aaron Rand and Bill Brownstein chat with veteran business writer Paul Delean and Julian Karaguesian, visiting McGill economics professor and former special adviser to Finance Canada in Ottawa, on The Corner Booth at the Snowdon Deli in Montreal

Sébastien Dallaire, Executive Vice-President at Léger and Raphaël Melançon, political analyst, join hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week's The Corner Booth at the Snowdon Deli in Montreal. In this week's episode, they discuss the first week of the Federal Election campaign, Liberal leader Mark Carney's fast start and what Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre needs to do to swing momentum back in his direction.

Peter Trent thinks that if President Donald Trump wants to display economic force against his Canadian allies, then Canada should look elsewhere, like Europe and Asia, to do business.