
Montreal Now with Aaron Rand Podcast
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Apple getting set to announce the next iPhone 15
Tech expert Carmi Levy joined Aaron and Natasha to talk about, what else, technology.

Why are we finding the same products at Dollarama for so much less?
Sylvain Charlebois is the Food Professor at Dalhousie, and he joined Aaron and Natasha to talk about supermarket food prices.

The rush hour drive was disrupted this afternoon by striking health care professionals
Angela Mackenzie, CTV News Montreal Reporter

LISÉE: The banks are listening to people's concerns
JEAN-FRANÇOIS LISÉE, Former PQ leader

Quebec Facebook denied an appeal and moves towards a trial
Jean-Michel Boudreau, Partner at IMK Law Firm who launched the lawsuit

Mennie: Has Eric Girard become the designated bad cop of the Legault government?
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Freedom Convoy organizers trial begins in Ottawa.
Leah Larocque CTV Ottawa news reporter

Mulcair: Trudeau's numbers not looking good in Quebec
TOM MULCAIR, Former Opposition House Leader of Canada

Mennie: Doug Ford will win a third term
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Disgusted Air Canada passengers kicked off flight over vomit on seats
Montreal Now spoke to Susan Benson, an Air Canada Passenger who was on the flight

Concordia’s Montreal Signs Project to light up Quartier des Spectacles
Matt Soar, Director and Co-founder of Montreal Signs Project

Mennie on the Quebec Liberals: Is there any fuel in the tank?
The Montreal Gazette's James Mennie joined Aaron to talk all things politics.

Heurtel on the Greenbelt scandal costing the Ontario housing minister his job
Political Insider David Heurtel joined Aaron to talk about the resignation of Steve Clark from the Ontario government.

Have we hit a high here in Canada for EV sales?
Daniel Breton is the President and CEO of Electric Mobility Canada, and he joined Aaron to talk about all things electric vehicles.

Brownstein: Momesso's Restaurant is for sale
The Montreal Gazette's Bill Brownstein joined Aaron to talk about Momesso's Restaurant being up for sale.

S2 Ep 27Waking up from a coma to get married, the federal Liberals are seeing a dive, checking in with Internet Sensation Jean Morrison, & what traveling over 26 countries made her appreciate about Canada
SARAH KIMPENSKA, Ontario woman, Woke from coma and got married four days later NIK NANOS, Chair of Nanos Research JEAN MORRISON, Internet Sensation, went viral for dancing at the Super Bowl halftime show ALANA BEST, Author and World Traveler, from B.C.

What does the future hold for the ‘Montreal Community Contact’ newspaper?
Emar Mitchel, Egbert Gaye’s son

Mennie: With adversaries like the Trudeau government, Meta doesn’t need allies.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Business Brief with Amanda Lang: Non-permanent residents in Canada undercounted by one million.
AMANDA LANG, Host of Taking Stock which airs Friday evening at 6:00 on BNN Bloomberg and on the iHeart radio network

$1.5 million to fight the decline of French in Montreal
Dominique Ollivier, City Councillor and Executive Committee Chair

Mennie: Poilievre starts targeting the Bloc and things are getting real.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

The federal Liberals are seeing a dive in popularity among younger voters
NIK NANOS, Chair of Nanos Research

Montreal area Walmart store accused of discrimination against transgender customer
SETH DAY, Transgender person faced discrimination at Walmart bathroom

Dominique Anglade has no regrets on resigning as leader of Quebec Liberal party
DOMINIQUE ANGLADE, former leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec and now HEC Professor

Mennie: Quebec transport minister and apparent highway code scofflaw Genevieve Guilbault speaks out... softly
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

What traveling over 26 countries with her family made her appreciate about Canada
ALANA BEST, Author and World Traveler, from B.C.

A Black family kicked off an Air Canada flight says they were discriminated against
KEITH WRIGHT, He and his family were kicked off Air Canada Flight

Former tenant of Old Montreal building that burned down recounts living there for two years
CATHERINE JOYAL, a former tenant of the Old Montreal building that burned down and claimed the lives of 7 people

Mennie: Legault government is proof you don’t have to be credible to be popular.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

How to keep your kids safe from being targets of 'sextortion' in Canada
JAMIE QUINN, Sexuality Education (Sex Ed) consultant at the English Montreal School Board (EMSB)

Does Netflix know you better than your own friends and family?
GATSBY FRIMPONG, Co-Founder and CEO of Gatsby TV

Mennie: Trudeau 2023 is devolving into Harper 2015.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

This woman woke up from a coma to get married four days later
SARAH KIMPENSKA, Ontario woman, Woke from coma and got married four days later

Are cracks already showing in Quebec’s new road-safety strategy?
ROBERT LIBMAN, Architect and building planning consultant, Former Equality Party MNA, Montreal Gazette political columnist

Checking in with internet sensation Jean Morrison who turns 101 years old today
JEAN MORRISON, internet sensation, went viral for dancing at the Super Bowl halftime show, turning 101 today!

Mennie: Will Bernard Drainville be expelled from class?
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Business Brief with Amanda Lang: What are the hopes & expectations of a housing plan?
AMANDA LANG, Host of Taking Stock which airs Friday evening at 6:00 on BNN Bloomberg and on the iHeart radio network

‘There’s no explanation for this’: International students are being forced to leave their English school because of Bill 96
RUSSELL COPEMAN, Executive Director of the Quebec English School Boards Association

Annual Caring for Kids Radiothon raises over $1.3 million for Montreal Children's Hospital
Today was the 20th edition of the annual Caring for Kids Radiothon. CJAD 800 along with sister stations CHOM 97 7, 95.9 Virgin Radio and TSN 690 joined together to share stories of families and their kids in an effort to raise money for the the Montreal Children's Hospital.

Mennie: The as yet uncalled Jean-Talon byelection is already drenched in nastiness.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

When will Quebec's cellphone ban in schools go into effect at the EMSB?
JOE ORTONA, Chair of the English Montreal School Board

For the first time ever, more than half of Quebecers can converse in English
JACK JEDWAB, President of the Association for Canadian Studies

Quebec recommends COVID-19 booster dose this fall for vulnerable individuals
DR MITCH SHULMAN, CJAD 800 Health Expert

Mennie: McGill and Concordia students embarrass local transit “experts” and Quebec is (justifiably) furious.
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

‘It’s completely impossible’: Montreal man with motorized scooter says Montreal's new REM is inaccessible
JULIEN GASCON-SAMSON, Montreal man who uses a motorized scooter, says REM is inaccessible

Quebec seeking to implement cell phone ban in elementary and high school classrooms
KELLY GREIG, CTV News Montreal Reporter

Mennie: Feeling safer after those Highway Code amendments? Me neither
JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

This Quebecer is the first Canadian to win the North Pole Marathon
PATRICK CHARLEBOIS, Quebec Marathon runner becomes first to win the North Pole Marathon

Residents of an NDG apartment building are alleging their new landlord wants them out
DR. MYRNA LASHLEY, Associate Professor in the department of Psychiatry at McGill University

How concerning is long COVID? How long does it last?
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