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Montreal Now with Aaron Rand Podcast

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Aaron Rand gets Montrealers through the end their work day with the latest news and compelling conversation. The show includes analysis from former NDP leader Tom Mulcair and The Montreal Gazette’s James Mennie. Also expect a laugh or a challenge with the Empire Gold News Quiz!

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Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

After losing their daughter to a drunk driver this family is fighting for tougher laws 01.11.2023

Antoine Bittar, lost 26-year-old daughter Jessica to an impaired driver

He traveled the globe and has this to share about the food that we eat 01.11.2023

Taras Grescoe, Montreal journalist and Author of eight nonfiction books including his newly released book, The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavours of the Past - ‘

MULCAIR: Some new polling numbers will have Francois Legault very worried. 31.10.2023

Tom Mulcair , CJAD 800 Commentator

MENNIE: Transit funding is a game of chicken between Quebec and Montreal - and we’re in the middle 31.10.2023

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

How did they accidentally grow hundreds of pumpkins in their tiny backyard? 31.10.2023

Chris Paul Farrias, Ontario resident, content producer with over 300 pumpkins

Jean-François Lisée: Legault set this up in such a transparent way 30.10.2023

Jean-François Lisée, Former PQ leader

MENNIE: Students, strikes and sovereignty - is Murphy’s Law part of the CAQs legislative agenda? 30.10.2023

James Mennie, Montreal Gazette

How AI could help bring in more blood donations for those in need 30.10.2023

Olivier Chartrand, Vice-President at OVA  & Patrice Lavoie, Spokesperson for Hema Quebec

HEURTEL: Housing… what it says about both the Legault and Plante administrations 28.10.2023

David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst

Bringing joy to those in impoverished and war-torn areas, the cost of Halloween candy this year, how music can ease your pain, & why employees are quitting after being promoted 27.10.2023

Guillaume Vermette, Yahoo the Humanitarian Clown from Trois-Rivières Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, ‘The Food Professor’, Senior Director at Agri-Food Analytics Lab, and Professor of Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University – Mathieu Roy, Associate Professor in the department of Psychology at McGill University CHRIS DIMAKOS, CJAD 800 Legal Contributor

How are we doing compared to the rest of North America with Airbnb’s? 27.10.2023

David Wachsmuth Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance Associate Professor, School of Urban Planning McGill University

New research links screen time and ADHD symptoms amongst teens 27.10.2023

Patricia Conrod, Researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine

MENNIE: It doesn’t matter if the STM or Quebec are bluffing. Downtown Montreal can’t survive a reduction of public transit 27.10.2023

James Mennie, Montreal Gazette

Business Brief with Amanda Lang: Amazon brings in better than expected earnings. 27.10.2023

Amanda Lang, Host of Taking Stock which airs Friday evening at 6:00 on BNN Bloomberg and on the iHeart radio network

Quebec’s nurses union votes unanimously to go on strike 27.10.2023

Jenny Rhee, President of Nurses Union MUHC

MULCAIR: The Wheels are falling off the CAQ Kart. 26.10.2023

Tom Mulcair , CJAD 800 Commentator

MENNIE: Legault says Québecers are “solidaire” - he now faces 500,000 public employees ready to prove it. 26.10.2023

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

Listening to your favourite music can help ease your pain 26.10.2023

Mathieu Roy, Associate Professor in the department of Psychology at McGill University

NDG philanthropist is preparing to sell poppies ahead of Remembrance Day 26.10.2023

CARL ANDERSEN has become somewhat of a local NDG legend because of his philanthropic pursuits

Try not to get cancelled this year: A Montreal Now Parody 26.10.2023
Six former premiers want the government to drop their Bill 15 revisions of the health care network 25.10.2023

Aaron Derfel, health reporter with the Montreal Gazette

HEURTEL: It’s a slap in the face of the English-speaking community 25.10.2023

David Heurtel, Former Quebec liberal cabinet minister, Council at Fasken and political analyst

MENNIE: Clearly, the common front knows how to get Legault’s attention 25.10.2023

JAMES MENNIE, Montreal Gazette

How one Quebec humanitarian clown brings joy to those in impoverished and war-torn areas 25.10.2023

Guillaume Vermette, Yahoo the Humanitarian Clown from Trois-Rivières 

One doctor says it’s time to push back on the health crisis in Quebec 24.10.2023

Dr. Steven Grover, Attending Physician and researcher at the Montreal General Hospital

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