cover of episode Justin Trudeau takes one out from the Poilievre playbook. Plus: Fed up with porch pirates, the people fight back

Justin Trudeau takes one out from the Poilievre playbook. Plus: Fed up with porch pirates, the people fight back

2024/5/14
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Elias Makos is joined by Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia, and Neil Drabkin, a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government.

  • Justin Trudeau is taking one from the Poilievre playbook - using social media to release a highly-polished video defending the capital gains tax increase announced in his government’s budget
  • People fed up with porch pirates are getting more and more creative to stop would-be package thieves
  • There’s a video circulating online which shows a Montreal business owner dumping water on a homeless person sleeping in his entranceway