cover of episode The troubling truth about crime in Canada. Plus: More questions about religion in Quebec’s public schools.

The troubling truth about crime in Canada. Plus: More questions about religion in Quebec’s public schools.

2024/12/6
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Elias Makos caps off the week with Andrew Caddell, a town councillor in Kamouraska, columnist for the Hill Times in Ottawa and President of the Task Force on Linguistic policy, and Justine McIntyre, Strategic consultant and former city councillor.

  • Today is the 35th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, where 14 women were killed. Ahead of this anniversary - the Liberal government announced they would add hundreds of firearms to its list of banned guns
  • While we like to look down at our American neighbors on crime, and a new study does reaffirm that Canada still has much lower murder rate than the U.S. - we actually have higher violent crime and property crime rates.
  • The Saint-Maxime High School in Laval is under investigation by the Laval School Service Center for alleged breaches of Quebec's secularism law