
Montreal Now with Aaron Rand Podcast
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What’s the plan to attract people back into the downtown core?
MICHEL LEBLANC, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal

She was told she had 6 months to live… That was 6 years ago
LYDIA ABOULIAN, running for councillor for Saint Dorothée under the Action Laval banner

How the president of the Alouettes overcame his stutter
MARIO CECCHINI, President of the Montreal Alouettes

What does it mean if there’s a “bad” vaccine batch?
ROBERT VAN EXAN, President at Immunization Policy and Knowledge Translation

A report on who is at fault for what happened at the Herron
AARON DERFEL, Montreal Gazette health reporter

Would you pay to have someone gas up your car for you?
RYAN CHADWICK-CHABOT, co-owner of Fuel It, a company that brings gas to you and your car

Should kids be allowed to go to sleepaway camp this summer?
DR. EARL RUBIN, division director of pediatric infectious diseases at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre

Journalist ticketed for covering this weekend’s protest
BERYL WAJSMAN, The Suburban

12-year old American kid helping folks get vaccinated & 15 year old Montrealer donates sweet treats to our frontline workers
SAM KEUSCH, 12-year old living in New York state & VANESSA SEBBAG, 15-year old Montrealer who started Chocolat Heaven

How long will it take to cope with our collective pandemic trauma?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Did politicians strike the right tone on the one year anniversary of the start of the pandemic?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

From shutting down schools, to an entirely new way of learning
SHANNA, Montreal elementary school teacher

How the pandemic has impacted our financial situations
NICK MORAITIS, tax expert at Fuller Landau

Is there anything wrong with launching a political campaign from outside the country?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Could outbreaks in schools spike now that March Break is over?
OLIVIER DROUIN, Montreal parent who started Covid Écoles, a website that track cases of COVID-19 in Quebec’s schools

NDG group promising a stick for every dog
ALEXANDER MONTAGANO, President of Team

Sue Montgomery wants an apology from Valerie Plante
SUE MONTGOMERY, borough mayor of Côte-des-Neiges–NDG

How did Simon Jolin-Barrette become a language martyr?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Wedding singer keeping busy with no weddings to sing at
SHELI STEVENS, Montreal wedding singer

How do the CDC guidelines impact vaccinated Canadians?
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

Federal funding for Resilience Montreal
MARC MILLER, federal Indigenous Services Minister

How the pandemic has impacted women in particular
SOPHIE GRÉGOIRE TRUDEAU

The pandemic has disproportionately impacted Canadian women
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

What you can and can’t do after being vaccinated
DR. WILLIAM SCHAFFNER, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University

Quebec plans to boost exports to recap some of the losses
PIERRE FITZGIBBON, Quebec’s Economy Minister

Finally, some good news on the vaccine front
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Employees work harder when their bosses do THIS
SCOTT JOHNSON, Founder of Motivosity

Four reasons we’re all feeling a little Zoom fatigue right now
JEFF HANCOCK, professor of communications at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab

Challenging laws for common law couples
ANNE-FRANCE GOLDWATER, Montreal lawyer

Will Justin Trudeau cave to the demands from the provinces?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Quebec pharmacists join the vaccination campaign effort
PIERRE-MARC GERVAIS, Senior Director of Pharmaceutical Services at the AQPP, association Québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires

Funding announcement to help four Montreal organizations go green
MELANIE JOLY, Liberal MP for Ahuntsic-Cartierville & Federal Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages

How will spring break affect Montreal’s COVID-19 status?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

What are employers doing in terms of vaccination and employees?
CHRIS DIMAKOS, CJAD 800 legal contributor

Who should and shouldn’t get the vaccine?
DR. COLIN FURNESS, infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto

How will America vaccinate everyone by May?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Do you have supernatural powers? They could be worth $250,000
JIM UNDERDOWN, Executive Director at the Center for Inquiry in Los Angeles

The good, the bad, and the ugly with COVID-19 vaccines
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

What can you claim on your taxes if you work from home?
NICK MORAITIS, tax expert at Fuller Landau

CAQ reneges on their pre-k spots promise
MARWAH RIZQY, Liberal education critic and MNA for St Laurent

Head of Canada’s Pension Board forced to resign for jumping the queue
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Belleville woman smashes puzzling record
MAXINE OLIVE, Belleville puzzler

Quebec now has a minister to combat racism
CHRISTOPHER SKEETE, CAQ MNA for Sainte-Rose and responsible for Relations with English-Speaking Quebecers and now parliamentary assistant to Benoit Charette

Quebec has begun registration for COVID-19 vaccines.
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

EMSB blames the government for its $15 million deficit
JOE ORTONA, Chair of the English Montreal School Board

Long-term loss of taste and smell for people who had COVID-19
DR. JOHANNES FRASNELLI, professor at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières and one of the study’s authors

Canadian snowbirds prepared to wait it out in Florida
DENISE DUMONT, Le soleil de la Floride, a longtime French language newspaper in South Florida that caters to Quebec snowbirds

Is Quebec taking the right approach to fight racism?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Is the environment portfolio a full time job?
DAVID HEURTEL, former provincial Liberal cabinet minister and counsel at Faskin

An app that acts as your very own art concièrge
CHRIS JENSEN, artist based in Los Angeles and founder of My Art Concierge