
Montreal Now with Aaron Rand Podcast
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Quebec hospitals ordered to cut $150 million from budgets
AARON DERFEL, Montreal Gazette health reporter & GAETAN BARRETTE, Liberal MNA for La Pinière and official opposition treasury board critic

52% of Canadians are anxious about post pandemic life
CHRISTIAN BOURQUE, Executive Vice President at Leger Marketing

Bill 96 is a political hot potato for the federal government
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Lionel Perez is running for mayor of CDN-NDG
LIONEL PEREZ, Leader of Ensemble Montreal

Check out her new single, Justin Bieber
KAYLA DIVENERE, Montreal-born pop singer now based in LA

Why you shouldn’t trust every Google review you read
JOE TOSCANO, author of Automating Humanity

Why seasonal allergy sufferers are particularly miserable right now
DANIEL COATES, director of the Aerobiology Research Laboratories in Ottawa

How Canada turned its vaccination campaign around
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

How Mitch Garber inadvertently poked the Journal de Montreal bear
MITCH GARBER, Quebec businessman

Dawson students REALLY don’t want to write their exams in person
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Meet MediaWise’s 14-year old fact checker
ISAAC HARTE, 14-year old fact checker from Pennsylvania

Did you hear Vance Joy’s new song on Grey’s Anatomy?
VANCE JOY, whose new song Missing Piece was featured on last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy

Why does it matter if Quebec identifies itself as a nation?
ANDRÉ PRATTE, Montreal-based principal at the strategy firm Navigator

Shots fired at Tom Mulcair, courtesy of the federal justice minister
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

The link between COVID-19 and hearing loss
ANDREAS SEELISCH, Director of Audiology at Hearing Solutions

Are the provisions in BILL 96 even legal?
DAVID LAMETTI, Canada’s Justice Minister

Does anyone agree with Justin Trudeau’s position on bill 96?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Quebec’s anglo schools’ support staff on strike today
DOMINIC DI STEFANO, President of the Syndicat des Professionels et Professionelles de l'Ouest de Quebec Anglophone

Is Quebec moving too fast too soon with its deconfinement plan?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Another candidate for mayor of Montreal throws his hat in the ring
MARC-ANTOINE DESJARDINS, 45-year old lawyer heading up Ralliement pour Montréal, a new political party hoping to challenge Valerie Plante and Denis Coderre in the next municipal election

Can Quebec unilaterally change the Canadian constitution?
EMMETT MACFARLANE, associate professor of political science at the University of Waterloo

How bilingual municipalities could be impacted by bill 96
BENY MASELLA, Mayor of Montreal West & the head of the Association of Suburban Municipalities

Drive through vaccination clinic opens at Trudeau airport
MATT GILMOUR, CTV Montreal Reporter

Is there a language war brewing or are anglos overreacting?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Opposition reaction to the CAQ’s proposed language reforms
DOMINIQUE ANGLADE, Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party

The devil is in the language reform details
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

How will the language reforms impact anglophones?
MARLENE JENNINGS, President of the Quebec Community Groups Network

How effective is a single dose of the vaccine?
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

Does Tom Mulcair plan to read all 200 bill 101 amendments?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Ontario & Alberta pause first AstraZeneca vaccine doses
DR. COLIN FURNESS, infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto

Languages commissioner shares anglo concerns
RAYMOND THÉBERGE, Canada’s commissioner of official languages

How long will it take the SPVM to recruit people from different cultural communities?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

So what is Quebec Solidaire's plan to ‘save’ French in Quebec?
RUBA GHAZAL, Quebec Solidaire MNA for Mercier

American Congressman wants exemption for proposed tax on foreign owned real estate in Canada
BRIAN HIGGINS, U.S. Representative for New York's 26th congressional district

Should you shop around for your preferred vaccine?
DR. RAYWAT DEONANDAN, Epidemiologist and Science Communicator at the University of Ottawa

Answering some of your COVID-19 questions
DR MITCH SHULMAN, CJAD 800 Medical Expert

Should schools make it mandatory for students to get vaccinated?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

How to get your tax refund a little faster
JENNIFER TRAMONTANA, Executive Director of the Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization

Montreal saw biggest rent increase in almost 20 years
CATHERINE LUSSIER, community organizer at FRAPRU, a tenants rights group

Montreal homeless have hard time getting mental health services
MYLENE DEMARBRE, mental health coordinator with Doctors of the World Canada

City wants restaurants to be able to reopen by June 1st
VALERIE PLANTE, Mayor of Montreal

Is it a good idea to use digital proof of vaccination in Quebec?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

Quebec will use QR codes as proof of vaccination… How do QR codes work?
KRIS ABEL, CJAD 800 Tech Expert

Meet Sue Montgomery’s first candidate for her new party
FRANCE STOHNER, running for city councillor in Snowdon under Sue Montgomery’s Courage banner

19-year old accidentally moves into seniors residence
MADISON KOHOUT, 19-year old Arkansas woman who accidentally moved into a seniors residence

Worried about how the REM will look? Have your say!
MAUD COHEN, chair of the REM’s multidisciplinary committee on architecture and integration

Health Canada approves Pfizer vaccines for kids over 12
DR. FATIMA KAKKAR, infectious diseases pediatrician at CHU Sainte-Justine

Will vaccine passports be mandatory in Canada?
Tom Mulcair can be heard weekday afternoons at 5:05 PM

When will we be able to travel overseas again?
CAROLYN PERNARI, president of Centrum Travel-CWT Vacations

Will kids be able to go to camp this summer?
ANGELA MACKENZIE, CTV Montreal reporter & SHAUNA JOYCE, director of Camp Amy Molson & vice president of the Association des Camps du Québec