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Montreal Now with Aaron Rand Podcast

Montreal Now with Aaron Rand Podcast

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Why Panama is quickly becoming the #1 retirement destination

JESSICA RAMESCH, International Living’s  Panama Editor

Jan 20, 20228 min

Montreal caregivers group concerned about new COVID rules

NATHALIE DEZIEL, Director of the Montreal caregivers association, a non-profit that was founded in 1992

Jan 20, 20227 min

Quebec accounts for half of COVID deaths in the last 14 days

DR. CHRISTOPHER LABOS, cardiologist with a degree in epidemiology who can be heard at 8:10 on Sunday mornings on CJAD 800 on Weekends with Ken

Jan 19, 202211 min

Did the Trudeau Liberals break yet another promise?

Tom Mulcair can be heard weekdays at 7:40 AM with Andrew and again at 5:05 PM with Aaron and Natasha.

Jan 19, 202211 min

Another day, another damning CHSLD report.

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 19, 20226 min

Finding a new way of measuring Quebec’s economic success

MIA HOMSY, head of the public-policy research group Institut du Québec and a co-leader of the initiative

Jan 19, 20228 min

Even mild COVID can lead to long term mobility issues

MARLA BEAUCHAMP, Canada Research Chair in Mobility, Aging & Chronic Disease, and an assistant professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University in Hamilton

Jan 19, 20229 min

The Canadiens have hired a new general manager

JOHN LU, TSN reporter

Jan 18, 20229 min

Why don’t Quebec’s public health guidelines make sense?

Tom Mulcair can be heard weekdays at 7:40 AM with Andrew and again at 5:05 PM with Aaron and Natasha.

Jan 18, 202210 min

Quebec’s plan B for a Covid surge looks a lot like waving a white flag.

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 18, 20229 min

Tunesday with Virgin Radio’s Kelly Alexander

KELLY ALEXANDER, Virgin Radio  Avril Lavigne Eddie Vedder Tears For Fears WATN: The Bangles

Jan 18, 20226 min

Why are the rules for arrival testing different for different people?

DR. PRABHAT JHA, director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto

Jan 18, 202210 min

How our reading habits have changed during the pandemic

NATASHA RAJAH, professor in the Douglas Research Centre and Department of Psychiatry at McGill University

Jan 18, 20224 min

She’s a trained licensed practical nurse who can’t work

VANESSA BROWN, recently completely a two year LPN certificate program, but didn’t pass her Quebec exam and is therefore not permitted to work in Quebec & GREG KELLEY, Liberal MNA for Jacques-Cartier

Jan 18, 202215 min

She got scammed, and didn’t let it go

SARAH STERNS, victim of financial fraud at the hands of Montreal investment firm Castle Rock

Jan 17, 202210 min

Is Francois Legualt trying to have it both ways?

Tom Mulcair can be heard weekdays at 7:40 AM with Andrew and again at 5:05 PM with Aaron and Natasha.

Jan 17, 202211 min

Has Legault’s popularity actually started to wobble?

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 17, 20228 min

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Dr. MYRNA LASHLEY, associate professor of social and transcultural psychiatry at McGill 

Jan 17, 202210 min

Women will become a coveted management asset in 2022

DEB BOELKES, author of Women on Top: What’s Keeping You From Executive Leadership?

Jan 17, 20225 min

Health Canada approves Pfizer’s antiviral pill

DR. CHRISTOPHER LABOS, cardiologist with a degree in epidemiology who can be heard at 8:10 on Sunday mornings on CJAD 800 on Weekends with Ken 

Jan 17, 202210 min

Quebec’s 60 year war on the English language

JOHN WEISSENBERGER, Calgary geologist, originally from Montreal 

Jan 14, 202210 min

Bookstores shouldn’t worry about losing antivaxxers’ business

Tom Mulcair can be heard weekdays at 7:40 AM with Andrew and again at 5:05 PM with Aaron and Natasha.

Jan 14, 202210 min

The CHSLD inquest hears from its most anticipated witness. And it ain’t pretty.

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 14, 202210 min

How does Quebec’s COVID death rate compare to other places?

AARON DERFEL, Montreal Gazette health reporter

Jan 14, 202211 min

Why is this CEO paying people to quit their jobs?

AJAY PANGARKAR, Workforce Performance Strategist

Jan 14, 20227 min

Quebec anglo task force running french language TV ads

COLIN STANDISH, constitutional lawyer & chair of the Task Force on Linguistic Policy

Jan 14, 202211 min

What sort of federal benefits are you entitled to right now?

NICK MORAITIS, tax expert at Fuller Landau

Jan 13, 20228 min

Was Quebec’s curfew actually effective?

Tom Mulcair can be heard weekdays at 7:40 AM with Andrew and again at 5:05 PM with Aaron and Natasha.

Jan 13, 202211 min

Got a bad feeling about the Jan. 17 return to school? Me too.

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 13, 202210 min

What’s happening with Quebec schools next week?

OLIVIER DROUIN, creator of Covid Écoles

Jan 13, 20226 min

Have Quebec’s hospitals reached a point of no return?

Tom Mulcair can be heard weekdays at 7:40 AM with Andrew and again at 5:05 PM with Aaron and Natasha.

Jan 12, 202210 min

Is Legault’s antivax tax the right approach?

DOMINIQUE ANGLADE, Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party

Jan 12, 20229 min

Anti vaxxers' cries of liberty don’t seem to extend past their wallet

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 12, 20228 min

Laval hockey event organizer doesn’t think he did anything wrong

ADEL AKKOUCHE, organizer of the Laval hockey gathering that was raided by police over the weekend

Jan 12, 20227 min

Quebec’s antivax tax is just what the CAQs opinion polls needed

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 11, 20229 min

Was Horacio Arruda forced to fall on his sword?

Tom Mulcair can be heard weekdays at 7:40 AM with Andrew and again at 5:05 PM with Aaron and Natasha.

Jan 11, 202211 min

Is it a good idea to impose compulsory vaccination on truckers?

Tom Mulcair can be heard weekdays at 7:40 AM with Andrew and again at 5:05 PM with Aaron and Natasha.

Jan 10, 202211 min

COVID hospitalizations reach critical juncture in Quebec

HAL NEWMAN, former paramedic and firefighter who has more than four decades of experience in emergency health services, who now writes for The Rover

Jan 10, 202210 min

What sort of impact do more school closures have on our kids?

ROXANNE FRANCIS, an Ontario social worker and psychotherapist

Jan 10, 20226 min

The inquest into CHSLD deaths resumes and the timing couldn’t be worse for the Legault government

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 10, 202210 min

Given today’s spike in 1st time vaccination appointments, is it time to take a much harder line with anti vaxxers?

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 7, 202211 min

Do we need to scale back on community policing in Montreal?

ALAN DESOUSA, Mayor of Ville Saint Laurent

Jan 7, 20227 min

How is the Omicron variant spreading in other countries?

 AARON DERFEL, Montreal Gazette health reporter Photo by John Mahoney, the Montreal Gazette.

Jan 7, 202215 min

Let’s talk scapegoats, vaccine passports, and Joe Biden

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 6, 202215 min

Back to school in-person within two weeks – but is this the right approach?

MARWAH RIZQY, Liberal MNA for Saint-Laurent and Official Opposition Critic for Education

Jan 6, 20226 min

Calvillo joins Alouettes as Quarterback coach

ANTHONY CALVILLO, Hall of Fame CFL quarterback and quarterback coach for the Montreal Alouettes

Jan 6, 20223 min

The CAQ government has more flip flops than a beachfront gift shop

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 5, 202210 min

Where has the CAQ messed up and what could they be doing differently?

 DOMINIQUE ANGLADE, Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party

Jan 5, 202211 min

A sobering experience for the unvaccinated

 JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Jan 4, 202210 min

Predictions, projections and resolutions for 2022

BERYL WAJSMAN, Editor-in-Chief of The Suburban

Jan 4, 202211 min