Montreal’s Icemageddon fails to live up to the hype. Plus: The solution to all of Quebec’s problems is more taxes

Elias was joined on The Big 5 by Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and a political commentator who was a chief of staff in the Harper government and Paul Gott, lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

Among the topics discussed by Neil and Paul were

• More than 200 thousand homes lost power across the province this morning due to freezing rain. That’s about over 35 thousand in Montreal. The REM is also disrupted between Brossard and Gare Central.
• IRIS, the progressive Quebec economic think tank, has a suggestion for how to tackle the province’s gaping deficit, and you’ll never guess what their solution is: higher taxes.
• Global News reports that after Carney visits Norway and London, the Canadian delegation will return home without him.
• For the First time ever, Canada has made it to the quarter finals of the World Baseball Classic