The Big Five is the quintessential Montreal podcast, and the best way to get caught up on the top stories impacting the city. Every weekday, host Elias Makos and a roster of Montreal thought leaders debate and inform.

Elias Makos is joined by Raphaël Melançon, political analyst for CTV Montreal and CJAD 800, and columnist for the Montreal Gazette, and Sue Smith, Montreal journalist and broadcaster.

• Quebec's party leaders square off tonight in the first of two crucial back-to-back election debates on TVA.
• A leaked internal document revealed an eight billion dollar Santé Québec computer system project facing a six billion dollar funding shortfall.
• Federal Liberal MPs voiced alarm over a surprise caucus plan to privatize and open Canada's major airports to foreign investment.
• The MUHC launched a medical study paying healthy volunteers under forty to intentionally infect themselves with the influenza virus.