The Andrew Carter Morning Show (Tuesday November 19, 2024)

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The best of the city's best morning show in a small package. This is the Andrew Carter podcast. Are you a parent who dreads? Head days, most of the time, maybe you're scrambling to find something to do with the kids, keep the market by during the day. There's a new program that might be able to help with that inspire Montreal. Alexandra Hiscox is founder of the program and she's here to explain more about how this could help you and your kids. Good morning, Alexandra.

Good morning. So this is for kids age like 10 to 15 kind of thing? Yes, exactly, ages 10 to 15 or aiming to the pre-teen-teen age range. Okay, so what do you offer? So we offer immersive activities, essentially whenever school's out, so on pet days during March break and throughout the summer as well for that age group.

So we go on different activities. We take care of transportation of meals for the day. And so we'll have a meeting point somewhere on the West Island or somewhere else in Montreal, depending on the day. And we'll take a bus, take them to the outing today and bring them back. Okay. So when you say it's almost like a field trip? Yes. Yes. A field trip pretty much every day. Okay. What's an immersive activity?

We try to take them to activities that are fun for them that are enjoyable and that are maybe more hands-on, but where they can also learn things. So an example of that is our aviation day. So we pick up the kids and we take them to the airports. And at the airport, they get to go in plane hangers. They get to go inside planes, private planes, regular planes. They get to meet with aircraft, maintenance crews, pilots.

And then towards the end of the day, they get to fly a plane simulator. They can even go on a plane ride or a helicopter ride. They get to learn a little bit about just the world and aviation in general. They have like a meeting greets with a air traffic controller. So it's very, very immersive, but they also get to learn a couple of things along the way too. Okay. So what another example, you've got the aviation. What else do you do?

Yeah, so we have an upcoming one. It's at, it's a 70s retro stream arcade day. So they're going to be doing arcade. So it's unlimited arcade games. We have 70s disco roller skating.

uh, bowling, they have board games. Um, so that's just a little bit about that specific day, but they also get to meet with the director of operations of that facility. So they get to learn a little bit about how they came up with the idea to open something like that, um, and learn a little bit more about how they run it on the day to day. Where can you get 70s roller skating at the, the disco rollers? Right. Where is? This is the Mirabelle.

Oh, yeah, they didn't open the old record tech. Did they know? That would be pretty cool, though, if they did. No kidding. Alexander Hiscox, founder of Inspire Montreal. So some of these things sound like they could be pretty expensive. What are your prices like? It definitely depends on the day. We're trying to do a healthy balance of everything. Obviously, something like aviation when you're talking about flights is a lot more expensive.

But we do have days that are starting off at about just $50 a day, where we'll take them to different places around Montreal. Like one of them is like a ninja factory, kind of like the show Wipeout, where they get to do activities like that parkour. So it really depends. So as low as 50 and up to depending on the activity, it could be $400 for the aviation day. Okay. And so this is, I guess you've got a list of the pet days and it depends on what school board saw.

Yes, it varies a lot. So the best way to find out more is to you have a website, I assume? Yes, we do. It's InspireMTL.com and we also have, we're on social media, so it would be Inspire underscore MTL on Instagram or Inspire Montreal on Facebook. Okay, good idea. Is it going well so far? How long you've been doing this?

So it's something that we just started. We had just opened up in the fall. The response has been quite positive so far. We've spoken to a lot of parents, a lot of teachers, and they've also the same thing. They're like, you know, this is just amazing because

It's sort of that age group that's forgotten a little bit in terms of activities and even in schools. They're too old to go to pet days at schools or the schools don't offer anything, but they're too young to work and stay home alone. So it's a win-win for everybody. Yeah, it's a good idea. Hey, good luck with this, Alexandra. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Alexandra Hiscox is founder of the program called Inspire Montreal.

A power-packed version of the number one morning show in Montreal. If you're on the fly, this is the Andrew Carter podcast. Okay, let's dive into some of the newspapers, Judy. Op-ed in the Gazette, Quebec Liberal Party National Policy Chair lays out the argument for a Quebec Constitution.

And it looks as though the provincial liberals, this is Andre Pratt writing, by the way, on behalf of the provincial liberals, a little stung maybe by some of the commentary that followed their convention when they talked about that constitution, Robert Libman.

basically said, aren't there other things that they could be focusing rather than the Constitution? So in this piece in the Gazette today, Andre Pratas saying, well, we're doing a bunch of other things, but it's a good idea to pursue this idea of the Constitution. And he lays out his arguments, including that the Liberal Party's Constitution for Quebec would enshrine the rights of Anglos to services in English and to manage their own institutions.

you know, bolster what protections already are, there are for those things in the Canadian Constitution and the Quebec Health Services Act. So it would be kind of a formal recognition. And he also denies that the resolution was pushed through over concerns of several anglophones, prat as saying, no, it got wide support from Anglos and Franco's within the party.

uh... reshar martin on this year now tomorrow several weeks out now from his uh... past his uh... prostate to cancer uh... surgery and gets a lot of questions a lot personal questions yeah he said he opens his column today by saying hey hey guys how's your pop-eye the pop-eye is what he calls his his penis so uh... he's pointing out that uh... today is the is process prostate cancer awareness day and he talks about

thanks to Procure, that organization. He has found some masculine solidarity following his surgery. But he tells his story about going to a concert. Where was he? It was Raku-Vazin the other day. And, you know, some guy, several rows over, shouts out, hey, Richard, I had my prostate out too, and I couldn't get an erection.

And he's saying that this is great. This is great. The guys are talking about this, about their recovery after prostate cancer surgery, that they are actually communicating with each other and supporting each other and the slap on the back when things get rough following prostate cancer surgery. So he's being very open about it and really quite admirable in his approach. And he says, that's the key to reaching men about this.

Come in on an angle. Never, you know, write in their face. Come in on an angle with humor. A couple of columns in the journal regarding M&A Harun Boazzi.

Yes, Buazie Joseph Akalk in the journal calls him the pyromaniac who sets fire to his own house, i.e. the the guy who's not so good for his own party and that's Quebec solider in this case. The M&A Buazie is the one who implied that

In the National Assembly, he sees examples of othering and scapegoating of immigrants and anything other than D'Souche Quebecers. He said he sees that every day. Joseph Fakal says that the lessons to be learned from this whole thing, one of them is that Gabrielle Nato Dubois is a very weak leader because he tried to

condemn the remarks without obliging Boazzi to retract and apologize for them. And also he's saying that, you know, what Quebec Solidair is doing now is trying to make Boazzi into a victim by denouncing all the racist attacks that have been directed his way since he made his comments.

Whereas Fakal says, calls him an irresponsible firebrand who belches vomit. This is the Andrew Carter podcast. Like what you hear, catch the show live Monday to Friday 5 30 to 9. Now that I think of it, I've never, have you ever heard anybody say social media is good for your mental health? Your promise, you said, that's it. I just can't take this anymore.

You might want to get rid of your apps altogether, but a new study says there may be an alternative without logging off completely. Here, give us his take on this study. Carmi Levy, CTV's tech analyst. Morning, Carvey. Good morning, Andrew. Good to be here. Yeah, so what are we learning from this? I mean, probably on a weekly basis, I say, you know what? I got to get off this. I got to get off this thing.

Yeah, and I say the same thing. I think we all recognize by now the corrosive, toxic impact of social media that we feel we need to compare ourselves to others. We feel we're falling short. There's a ton of abuse on these platforms. And this research out of the University of British Columbia suggests that when we do that, when we get off of social media, we delete the app or we restrict the hours that we use on it.

It does have a certain impact. There is a benefit to it. It does sort of let us regain control of our mental health because it takes us away from those toxic triggers. But it's not a permanent solution. After a while, we start missing the people that we're connecting with on social media. There's that fear of missing out, that connectedness that social media gives us.

And the longer that we're away from it, this research suggests that those benefits of disconnecting kind of get reversed. And so what they're suggesting is, by all means, if getting off of social media helps you to sort of redeem some balance and control, then by all means do so because there are those temporary benefits of reduction in social comparison, better control over depression and anxiety and things like that.

We also need to be more mindful of how we use the technology. In other words, as we're using social media, pay attention to how we make connections with other people. Pay attention to the interpersonal relationships. Be very deliberate about how we connect to other people so that we get more out of the experience and we're less likely to be harmed by it. So there are kind of two ways of looking at it and just apparently unplugging it isn't as

like it think is and this data confirms that. Okay, so what's the easiest way in your experience, easiest way to take a little break? How do you take a break from Facebook or Instagram or whatever Twitter or whatever you want? I set alarms during the day and I have deliberate times during the day when I simply don't use the apps anywhere. And so that I can focus on the things that I need to focus on. By day, most of what I do is I write.

And so while I'm writing, I can't constantly be flipping back and forth to social media apps. So I actually schedule time where this is my focus time and I'm not using the apps and I'm not checking email or I'm not checking anything notifications or, you know, not going to bother me. I've also gone through my notifications and I've significantly reduced them so that I don't get a ping every time somebody comments or reacts to something that I've posted.

And then, you know, also what I do is I will go through periods where if I don't need it for work, I remove the app completely from my phone. I still have them on my computer. I still have them on my tablet. But the phone is the real key here because that's the device that you always have on you. And if you're constantly being cleaned from social media by this device that's in your pocket, it's very difficult to disconnect from it, very difficult to regain that sense of control

over your mental health because you never really get a chance to do just that. It is an addiction for some, though. I mean, it's something or a habit. It's certainly a habit. You wake up in the morning, first thing you do, you don't have your coffee and you spend an hour on Facebook. It is. And I've tried to be more mindful of what that usage looks like. And so when I sort of feel that I'm doing scrolling where I'm just scrolling limitlessly or aimlessly without really getting anything done and without any sort of real end point

That's the moment where I say, OK, that's enough. Like, I'm going to get up and I'm going to do something else. I think we have to be, you know, we used to use apps in a very specific way. We would open them up. We would get what we needed done. And then we would get out of the app. Whereas with social media, we can go to look something up. And then three hours later, we can wonder where all that time. Hi, I'm Jennifer Reed, host of a Woman Like You podcast. Big thanks to our partners, CTV News, Shopping Trends, and Amazon Canada for making this show possible.

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I think that's the killer. And that ultimately is what sort of drives a lot of these negative mental health impacts that we're seeing today. Thanks, Carmi. Appreciate it. A different look at the world of entertainment with John Moore, weekday mornings at 720. Everywhere you look, the theme song, John, to Full House. And how are you doing? John Moore and entertainment. I'm OK. Yeah. Happy Tuesday. Happy Tuesday to you, too. Why are we playing the Full House theme song?

Well, we were talking beforehand about Dave Coolier, the actor from Full House, who is battling cancer and he shaved his head to get ready for his cancer treatment. And John Stamos is pictured on social media, also bald, although it should be said he's just wearing a bald cap, but he showed up to give him a bit of a boost. Okay. Remind me who Jalil White is again.

uh... he played uh... steve erkel ollie erkel yeah yeah yeah you know he's actually a really really interesting guy i sat down to do an interview with him because he was doing a reality show of some kind and he talked about the fact that he was brought on for a single episode of family matters and you'll remember this character he wore like cis spenders and his pants were too high and he had a funny voice and he became the star and to the point where a lot of the other actors kind of had their noses out of joint

But I guess he's got a new memoir out because he's talking about the fact that he started doing the show in 1989 when he was 12. He played the character for 10 years, so he matured over the years. And at one point, the pants being all hiked up became, shall we say, a bit of an issue, owing to something that should perhaps not be referred to as the little soldier. So the producers had to make some adjustments in order to avoid the distraction.

Congratulations. And it very well. That was a wonderful dance. It was good skating. Well, I mean, you know, you and I have had the same challenges over the years. I don't think so. No.

you know who i uh... who i ran into uh... yesterday uh... an actor i didn't ever never knew his name but it's such a great job on that uh... television series ghosts uh... uh... devin long and he plays the viking uh... on that and the i saw that saw this guy at the gym and said i said to uh... my friend emirious of this this this guy has to be a professional athlete

Sure enough, he used to play football. But he's man. I said to him, you are a lot of man. And he said, I used to be even more man. But just such a nice guy, cool guy. And it was really nice to me. Oh, cool. Yeah, it's funny. I go to a gym. I go to three different gyms in a good life chain. But one of them is where all the hipsters work out. I go to one downtown. And every guy has got a sleeve tattoo. I always figure they're just bartenders and doorman.

But yeah, you can feel somewhat chagrined at your own physical state when you look at these great hunks. No, I mean, it's not even it's it's like, I don't know, it's like an elephant to a mouse, honestly. The town crier in province town has passed away.

Yeah, you know, I bring this up because, I mean, I've been going to Provincetown every summer for 30 years. And I just like people who have character. And I was thinking, you know, there are people in Toronto and in Montreal in my experience who bring life to the city and character to the city. I mean, Ziggy Eichenbaum is one of them. Nick Oftomar used to be one of them in Montreal.

And the town crier in Provincetown, definitely. His name was Kenneth Lonergan. He was famous for this wonderful phrase. He would walk through the town, dressed as a pilgrim, ringing a bell, and say, all is well in Provincetown because all of you are here. And I remember when he retired, I actually tracked him down on LinkedIn and sent him an email because I just thought that he was part of the real character of that town.

That town has a lot of character. When I got off the ferry and walked up onto the main street, the first thing I saw was a middle-aged man in a beer dressed as snow white riding a bicycle.

Yeah, I know that thought. Cool guy. Oh, no, no. That town has more than enough character. I remember there was one summer we were there and there was a huge down blast. This line squall came into town. And as soon as it cleared, there were like 10 guys dressed as Dorothy from Oz running down the street. You have a great day, John. Good too. John Moore, CJAD entertainment. Catch Tom Mulcair live Monday to Friday at 7.35 AM and 5.05 PM. Tom Mulcair?

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How are you doing this morning, Tom? How are you doing this morning? Just fine, Andrew. How are you doing this morning? I'm OK. But there, you know, I wouldn't like to be the CAC government right now in France while ago. They're coming at them from everywhere. In the health sector, they're complaining about the budget. Basically, there's not a sector where they're not complaining about the budget cuts.

Well, you and I evoked this right at the beginning of this season. I remember back in August, it was one of the first conversations we had. I said, keep an eye on this. They're in serious financial trouble. They're going to be cutting left, right, and center, which is exactly what they're doing because they've got to show some numbers this week. It's not just numbers. They're showing to the average Quebec voter. These are numbers that go to the financial markets, and this is the key here.

Swabek could suffer. And Durfoe, Iron Durfoe's exit was on this as well over the weekend as was I before that. This is something that could affect Quebec's credit rating. And what does that mean? That means that every time we go to the market to borrow money, which we have to do,

then we be paying more everything costs more and it's a spiral you get into that spiral everything costs more than you have to cut more and what's left to cut Andrew i don't know if you've been anywhere near our health system recently but it's in a shambles and i talked to you yesterday about the 569 positions that were not being filled in the valve but an almost identical number are not being filled right now on the south shore so how do you get out of this vine and we have this new

health saunty Quebec that's supposed to be there to try to fix things up.

But the first thing that they've been told is that their only job is to cut, cut, cut. So going down river, you go all the way down to the gas bay, they thought that they were going to be dealing with a $10 million deficit. But then the government came in last week and said, no, no, no. You know the $20 million deficit you already had earlier in the year that we told you you were going to be able to forget about? We can't forget about it anymore. Now you've got to cut more. So there is literally nothing left to cut. And the fact that they're doing this so radically shows one, a total lack of planning by the CAC, two,

responsibility on a key motion. This is one of the key missions of the government, which is to take to take care of our health care. And this goes back to two things that Legault did. As we were heading into the 2022 election, he said he was going to send out $500 checks to families right away, which he did that summer. Just before the election, he said there was another $4 to $600 check coming out after the election. And he actually sent that money. And at the same time, he cut taxes impossible.

to cut taxes at the by billions of dollars. At the same time, you're sending out checks for billions of dollars. So guess what? Quebec is broke. We are, perhaps, technically insolvent right now.

and this is a huge problem. So everything else is just window dressing. This is the key issue facing Quebec at the present time. Isn't always interesting is so interesting. We always assume that somebody with a business background is going to come in and be able to do well, but you really need to be such a like a fine balance of knowing how to hold on to the purse strings and be an expert in public policy as well. It's not as easy as it looks.

No, but I mean, of all the people who have ever sat in the chair of Premier of Quebec, Legault was one of the best prepared. He had been minister of several important things, including health minister. He was education minister, the two biggest ministries. And how many times did he tell us during the 2018 campaign when he defeated Quiard? Because Quiard was all about austerity and cutting. So he was going to do better.

And what did he say? I'm an accountant. I know how to do this stuff. So apparently we elected an accountant who doesn't know how to count because now we're in dire trouble and there's, again, this is a spiral that sets itself in and you can't get out of it.

Uh, what do you make it? What was the, the point of a unanimous, um, motion in the, uh, that was voted in in the, um, in the House of Commons yesterday regarding, uh, condemning the, uh, assassination attempt on, uh, on Erwin Kotler. What was that? Like, what, what does that do? Immediately none, nothing in the, in the immediate time. In other words, okay, who in the House of Commons is not going to vote in favor.

of emotion condemning Iran for threatening urban conflict. And that's the easy part. But what it is also, I mean, this might seem like a bit of a stretch. You remember when there was that terrorist attack in Ottawa going back about a decade? The next day, Stephen Harper and I had spoken and we'd spoken to Trudeau and said, we're going back into the house the next morning. And not as if nothing had happened because we spoke to it and we gave speeches about it and so forth. But it was a way of saying,

we're going to be speaking in one voice by our presence in the House that nobody's going to shut down Canadian democratic institutions with a terrorist attack. I think on a much smaller scale because this is an attempt and it's a threat, but it's super serious. So the House of Commons in one voice is saying, this is not on. You cannot threaten us or any member of this House or in this case, a former member. So it was a strong willed approach by Parliament unanimously.

no politics around this. It was just straight. This isn't gonna happen in Canada. I thought it was worthwhile just for that.

I'm playing with Minister Randy Buessano had to apologize three days ago for not being more clear about his indigenous identity. He previously referred to himself as a non-status adopted Cree. He said his great grandmother was a full-blooded Cree woman. This is regarding some interest that he had in a so-called indigenous company that received government stuff now. Now, what's the deal? Is he indigenous or not? And does he have to resign?

Today's national post has the newest information on this. And I think that the fairest reading is no, he is not indigenous, although he's has this sort of vague claim through either adoption or a grandmother. But the national post has actually taken the trouble to go through all of the papers. And it looks very sketchy even that part. The bit that's the most troublesome from Trudeau's point of view, because he has to decide whether or not this guy gets to stay in cabinet because Trudeau can't put him out as an MP, but he can certainly put him out of cabinet.

The most troublesome part is the part that you mentioned with regard to this company. It's this company. So he was elected in 15 state and MP until 19 was booted out in 19 reelected in 21. So that company that he was part of was bidding on government contracts saying that it was indigenous. That part is in shambles. And then there was one of his partners said, well, in some of the emails that went before part of the committee, well, we'll ask Randy about this or Randy is saying that. So he said, so the Randy is blessed.

And believe it or not, this guy from his company said, no, I was talking about another Randian. Hi, I'm Jennifer Reed, host of a Woman Like You podcast. Big thanks to our partners, CTV News, Shopping Trends, and Amazon Canada for making this show possible.

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They brought him into committee and they made him admit that he was outright lying. So this is the type of stink bomb that a chief of staff of a prime minister should have taken care of a long time ago. Katie Telfer's had bigger fish to fry, fair enough. But Trudeau shouldn't even have to be worried about this. Blasano should already be gone. By the way, Andrew, that's going to be on top of the six count of six members of his cabinet who have resigned or are not coming back. And if left,

And he hasn't replaced them yet. So this would be number seven. So Trudeau is absolutely due for a cabinet shuffle. That's the very least. And Barcelona, I think his career as a cabinet minister is over. Remember in 2015 when that very nice Justin Trudeau promised to bring back my mail delivery, my mail delivery door to door? He also talked about the even the slightest hint of wrongdoing. The slightest whiff of a slight smell, even just like an inkling.

and they'd be gone. Whatever happened to that? Whatever happened to that? That was then and this is now. I remember one of his favorite answers was because it's 2015. I guess the answer today is well because it's 2024 and he gets to do it every once even if it's in complete contradiction with what he's promised.

Don't miss the two-minute checkup with Dr. Mitch weekday mornings at 750. Hello, Dr. Mitch. Good morning to you, sir. So I've been taking vitamin D every day, and I don't know if I should bother or not. What does vitamin D do? Is this something we need? Yeah. So basically vitamin D, it's tough to get it from food. I know we say that vitamin D is added to milk and to other some other dairy products, but the truth of the matter is when you actually measure the vitamin D content,

of those foods. It's very variable. That's problem number one. It's tough to get it from food sources. And we know that the main source of vitamin D for most people is the sun striking the skin and the skin it takes cholesterol derivatives and makes that from them vitamin D in a very effective way of doing it. Problem is as you get older it doesn't do it as well and so you have more problems making the vitamin D on your own and two

We have a certain time of year rapidly approaching, which we will not call. But during that period of time, the sun tricks through the sky in a different angle. And so it is less strong and you're wearing more layers of clothing. So you can't usually get the 15 minutes of direct sun exposure on your arms or on your face that you would need or most of us would need to make enough vitamin D. So many of us become vitamin D deficient. So who cares?

Well, the truth of the matter is vitamin D is important for a number of things. Number one, bone health. It's what helps us take calcium from our diet and make it into healthy bone. Bone is constantly being turned over. You need a constant supply of calcium and vitamin D to be able to do that well. Number one, we also think that vitamin D is involved at least partially in our immune system and how well it works. And three, there's some hints that vitamin D may be playing a role in other things such as this study in the Journal of Endocrinology.

And what they basically showed that is if you are overweight, more than 25 BMI, if you were low in vitamin D and they gave you vitamin D, they could help you to control your high blood pressure and reduce your high blood pressure. So vitamin D made, I even play a role in heart health, vascular health, the blood vessels, and in lowering your blood pressure. In this case, they were vitamin D deficient. And so you might want to check with your doctor and have your vitamin D level checked at some point

during the winter months to see how much of a supplement that you need for most of us if you're taking anywhere from four hundred international units to a thousand international unit today or ten thousand international units once a week that's probably a safe dose for most people and it will probably keep your vitamin d levels at least over the winter months where it needs to be and so i usually suggest that people if they can't get to a doctor can't get their vitamin d levels checked

make sure that they're getting of calcium in their diet if not at on calcium and start a vitamin D supplement maybe sometime in October November and continue it until sometime March or April and around we're talking anywhere from four hundred to about a thousand international units a day or some doctors like to prescribe ten thousand units once a week so you don't have to think of it you don't have to remember to take it more than just once a week so you can take a like that once a week i've heard i've heard of that

Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people do that. And it's a lot simpler, right? It's a, you don't have to take it. Remember taking the pill every day. You just remember to take it. You one day a week, your Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, whatever day you want. Um, and so a lot of people prefer taking it that way. And it's a lot easier for them. Okay. So, um, what food can I get it from? Do you know, they're very few foods. There's, you know, your classic cod liver oil, right?

uh... i don't know if it's available anymore is it in the it's in milk but they put it in milk don't they add it to dairy products and milk yes and that was he back in the twenties in the thirties we saw a lot of kids who were developing uh... very thin bones very weak bones in a disease that you may ever heard of ricketts yeah and basically that was because of low vitamin deal levels so one of the public health moves that they did to kind of protect people was to add vitamin d to the milk

so that when you drank your milk you released getting some of vitamin d and practically eliminated rickett almost entirely when people may not know if there's some people have problems with vitamin d metabolism and specifically small group uh... in uh... seems to change also issued you in part of club back and uh... very famous geneticist at the children's uh... scriver up basically discovered the importance of vitamin d

by studying Ricketts in this population that lacked the necessary genetics to be able to metabolize vitamin D personally, properly rather. And so we have a direct Montreal connection in terms of vitamin D and understanding it. Thanks very much.

My pleasure. That's Dr. Mitch Schulman. Getting up with you weekday mornings. Twenty years and counting. Andrew Carter on the voice of Montreal. CJAD 800. All right. There's a really did you take part in this. The Dollards Civic Center. Past eight years. This is the eighth year it's been going on. It's called the the Fezdavol of trees that because you know the the shriners they wear the Fezis. Get it? The Fezdavol of trees.

So you can win the Christmas trees which are magically decorated, along with various themes, and loaded with gifts underneath.

cost $2 to get in, and the tickets are only a dollar each, and they have all sorts of baked goods and all sorts of stuff. Garro Zulamian is the chief of Rabanne, is that it? So you're like, what's that, second in command? Second in command in Karnak Shriners, representing the Shriners in Quebec. Okay.

And and we're very excited to have Dominic Rotondo here who's Anthony DB as you a master controls uncle married to his His mother's sister What's it what's it like to be in a famous family like that Dominic? Oh, it's a lot of fun. Yeah

So tell me about this event at the dollar. It's like basically Thursday through Sunday, but there are specific hours right each day. That's correct. It's Thursday to Sunday. So we start the event on Thursday 2 p.m. It goes up to 6 p.m. and Friday starts from

2 p.m. again up to 9 and Saturday and Sunday it's 10 to 6 for Saturday and Sunday 10 to 4.30 where we're having the big draw of all the trees that we have on end.

Okay, so that's a pretty reasonable per ticket dollar per ticket for the raffle. That's correct. And you raise a lot of money. Actually, we do raise a lot of money that's going to help us for our operational costs. Okay, just try this. Wonderful. The ves, fez devil of trees. That's great. At the Dollar Pacific Center.

How are the the the Karnak Shriners doing? Is it a healthy organization? A lot of a lot of interest in this now? Actually, we do. As you see right now, the building is under construction. We're going to be moving in into our new building next year by spring, hopefully. And where is that building? It's on sources and dollars.

Okay. Sources. And next year, Carnegie is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Really? Really? And it's the hospital's 100th anniversary as well here in Montreal. Okay. Now, you guys are, I'm sorry to tell you that you're not exactly young. I mean, you're not old. You're around, I would say you're around my age, but it's like, are you getting younger people joining the Shriners? Lady, yes, we do. Yeah, really. We would say the

Earliest the youngest member that we have. It's his 28. Okay. Okay, so it's nice. So it's bringing down. Yeah, so so so is there some sort of special like anyone can join the Shriners or not? You have to be a Mason first. You got to be a Mason and then how do you become a Mason?

You got to kill somebody? You're looking at me like if there's some sort of secret. You have to join the organization to be part of the organization. Then once you're in it, then you become a shriner if you're willing to join the shriners. And it's all about helping people.

Helping people, especially the kids. That's the aim of the organization. Helping the kids. Okay. The festival of trees this weekend, Thursday. Now, the time I had on this flyer you gave me said four to nine on Thursday. Is that right? Because you told me two to know. It's supposed to be two. It's supposed to be two. Okay.

for Friday. Thursday, four to nine Friday, two to nine. That's correct. Whatever it's written down to six. Okay. So Thursday through through Sunday, the festival of trees, $2 to get in sounds fantastic. A dollar per ticket to raffle ticket. And you can win not only the fully decorated tree, but all the gifts that are underneath it. That's correct. And the tickets can also be purchased online for people that can make it to the to the event.

Yes. The Shriners have a website. That's cool. That's cool. So what's the website? What's the website? Festival of trees.org. Festival of trees.org. Once you're in it, you will see all the trees and you can choose pick your tree and buy your tickets online. Garro Zulamian, Chief Raban of the Karanak Shriners, and Anthony's uncle Dominic, Dominic Rotondo.

Guys, thanks very much for coming in. Thank you for the pleasure. Yeah, keep up the good work. Sounds like from the bedroom to the bus stop, the kitchen table to the car. Thanks for starting your day with us, the Andrew Carter Morning Show. CJAD 800. It is 823. Patty Lovett Reed is on the line, our finance expert. How you doing there, Patty? Good morning, Andrew. I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. So who are the Jackpot generation, your kids? My kids. Yes.

I guess any millennial really between the ages of 28 and 43, you know, this jackpot generation, there has been so much written on this. When they talk about over the next two years, baby boomers will pass a reported trillion dollars. And we're not waiting for it to happen. It's actually happening. And the average amount of inheritance ends at 948,000 dollars.

And it's typically given to those whose parents, shall I say, have been associated with the housing market. Can you think about the risk? I don't know if you've had it with your children, but you know, baby boomers, you know, we were in a fortunate situation, post-war economy, publicly funded institutions, healthcare, affordable housing. If it weren't in a while, we got higher rates, but it didn't last long.

And I remember being that parent that said to my children, you know, if you work as hard as we did, you will get by. You will be fine. But when I think about it and I'm really more objective, we did have defined pensions. They were the norm. There were good pain manufacturing jobs that we've been. This is now.

Yeah, it's interesting. I'm still on the fence when it comes to what I want to think about this, because I think back to my grandparents' generation. Right. And just how much more frugal they were.

Uh-huh. Then my parents, my parents were really frugal. But you know what, like how it's become, we've just become, uh, we've become spendthriffs as we, uh, you know, we have a lot of stuff we don't need. And it's not only baby boomers who are responsible for all of this, but there's a lot of waste, you know. There is a lot of waste. I don't disagree with you at all. And you know, the reality is the housing market has gotten very expensive.

According to many reports, one third of first-time homeowners came up with their down payment for family members, that 15,000. And so when you think about it, and in the same camp you are, I don't ever really recall receiving a dime from my parents, nor did my parents receive money from their parents. And yet there have been many times where we have said,

surprise, here's here's some money and we can afford to do this and do with it what you'd like. And the expression is, and I kind of think it's a little off putting, but people want to give with a warm hand as opposed to a cold hand. And they're often saying, you know, if I wait until my demise and trust me, no one likes to talk about their demise. I'm in the business and I don't. But if you wait until then,

It may be at a time when your children given the economic landscape. They really don't need the money. They probably won't need the help that they need today. Right. It is interesting because you never know how much money you need in retirement, but the truth is a lot of us will die with a lot of money and a lot more than we need in our lifetime. So you just don't know. That's the question, right? You don't know how much you're going to need.

And you know what, to your point, there are three things we don't really talk about, sex, death, and money. I think we should talk about all three. You want to talk about sex all of a sudden, you're becoming a sex therapist? You know, I've moved off my core comfort and safety. Well, it certainly is more interesting than your core compass. Come on, come on. Very interesting. Patty, you have a great day.

Thanks. We're not done talking about this topic. No, no, no, no. And you can, if you're changing your will, you can leave. You'll put me in it if you want to, by the way. See you later, bud. Listen to the Andrew Carter Morning Show Live Monday to Friday, 5 30 to 9.