
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

Montreal caregivers group concerned about new COVID rules
NATHALIE DEZIEL, Director of the Montreal caregivers association, a non-profit that was founded in 1992

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

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.

Another day, another damning CHSLD report.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

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

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

The Canadiens have hired a new general manager
JOHN LU, TSN reporter

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.

Quebec’s plan B for a Covid surge looks a lot like waving a white flag.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Tunesday with Virgin Radio’s Kelly Alexander
KELLY ALEXANDER, Virgin Radio Avril Lavigne Eddie Vedder Tears For Fears WATN: The Bangles

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

How our reading habits have changed during the pandemic
NATASHA RAJAH, professor in the Douglas Research Centre and Department of Psychiatry at McGill University

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

She got scammed, and didn’t let it go
SARAH STERNS, victim of financial fraud at the hands of Montreal investment firm Castle Rock

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.

Has Legault’s popularity actually started to wobble?
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Dr. MYRNA LASHLEY, associate professor of social and transcultural psychiatry at McGill

Women will become a coveted management asset in 2022
DEB BOELKES, author of Women on Top: What’s Keeping You From Executive Leadership?

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

Quebec’s 60 year war on the English language
JOHN WEISSENBERGER, Calgary geologist, originally from Montreal

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.

The CHSLD inquest hears from its most anticipated witness. And it ain’t pretty.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

How does Quebec’s COVID death rate compare to other places?
AARON DERFEL, Montreal Gazette health reporter

Why is this CEO paying people to quit their jobs?
AJAY PANGARKAR, Workforce Performance Strategist

Quebec anglo task force running french language TV ads
COLIN STANDISH, constitutional lawyer & chair of the Task Force on Linguistic Policy

What sort of federal benefits are you entitled to right now?
NICK MORAITIS, tax expert at Fuller Landau

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.

Got a bad feeling about the Jan. 17 return to school? Me too.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

What’s happening with Quebec schools next week?
OLIVIER DROUIN, creator of Covid Écoles

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.

Is Legault’s antivax tax the right approach?
DOMINIQUE ANGLADE, Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party

Anti vaxxers' cries of liberty don’t seem to extend past their wallet
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

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

Quebec’s antivax tax is just what the CAQs opinion polls needed
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

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.

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.

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

What sort of impact do more school closures have on our kids?
ROXANNE FRANCIS, an Ontario social worker and psychotherapist

The inquest into CHSLD deaths resumes and the timing couldn’t be worse for the Legault government
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

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

Do we need to scale back on community policing in Montreal?
ALAN DESOUSA, Mayor of Ville Saint Laurent

How is the Omicron variant spreading in other countries?
AARON DERFEL, Montreal Gazette health reporter Photo by John Mahoney, the Montreal Gazette.

Let’s talk scapegoats, vaccine passports, and Joe Biden
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

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

Calvillo joins Alouettes as Quarterback coach
ANTHONY CALVILLO, Hall of Fame CFL quarterback and quarterback coach for the Montreal Alouettes

The CAQ government has more flip flops than a beachfront gift shop
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Where has the CAQ messed up and what could they be doing differently?
DOMINIQUE ANGLADE, Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party

A sobering experience for the unvaccinated
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Predictions, projections and resolutions for 2022
BERYL WAJSMAN, Editor-in-Chief of The Suburban