Joining Elias on this morning's show were: Dan Delmar, Co-founder of the content marketing firm TNKR Media and co-host of the podcast Inspiring Entrepreneurs Canada, and Tasha Kheiriddin, a writer and commentator for the National Post, GZero Media, and Substack.

Among the topics discussed were:

• A new Leger poll out this week says that 84 percent of Canadians are proud to be Canadian.
• Prime Minister Mark Carney says the Liberal climate plan he inherited was "too expensive" for Canadians and "too divisive" to be sustainable, arguing today's world demands a different approach.
• U.S. authorities say they have seen a significant increase in illegal crossings of the U.S. border from Quebec to Vermont in recent weeks.
• When you ask AI chatbots for answers, should they be politically biased?
• The 60 people came from 20 different countries, including Angola, Chile, China, Colombia, Greece, India, Ireland, Romania, Senegal, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Joining Elias on this morning's show were Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Graham Singh, CEO of Releven.

Among the topics discussed were:

• Former Quebec Premier Francois Legault took to X to share his version of a patriotic message for July 1st.
• If you are the owner of a heated pool, hot tub or heated driveway, Hydro-Quebec is coming after you.
• A Montrealer wants to take Google to court over something we’ve probably all encountered: Connected devices listening to us, and then delivering ads to us based on what was heard.
• A judge in Ontario has handed down a tougher sentence to a man who keeps robbing liquor stores because he doesn’t believe that the Canada Border Services Agency will deport him.
• New research says Canadians who have made the decision to move to the U.S are doing it not only because of job opportunities but for better access to health care.

Joining Elias on this morning's show were Dan Delmar, political analyst and co-founder of TNKR Media, and Victor Henriquez, Public affairs and crisis management specialist at Public Strategy and Conseil.

Among the topics discussed were:

• Air Canada has a new CEO; Anko Van der Werff. He can speak French. But he’s not Canadian. Is this an improvement?
• With signs that read “Not one more inch,” people living around Jarry Park are banding together to fight Tennis Canada’s proposal to build a new retractable roof stadium on the site.
• What if every young Canadian spent a year serving their country, not just in the military?
• Quebec will start testing certain truck drivers from Ontario that want to start driving commercial vehicles here.