The Roy Green Show

Israel engages in U.S. proposed ceasefire talks with Hamas. Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel, from Tel Aviv.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is questioning what the Liberal government and specifically the federal minister of justice did to to a greater extent vet the past of Birju Dattani before appointing Dattani as the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission with his "long history of antisemitic posts, including that the use of terrorism was a 'rational and well-calculated st...

Post to X by Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia and former federal minister of health: "the country that I came to in 1968 has been pushed back into medieval hatreds by unprinciple, lazy and gutless politicians who bend to all hateful, racist, identiest, uniquest and exclusivist whimsies." Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The week in Ottawa. The news and goings on per Blacklock's Reporter. Guest: Tom Korski. Editor. Blacklock's Reporter.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux reporting federal online harms billwill create a 3-pronged $200 million bureaucracy. - Automatic tax filing could see Canadians get billions in unclaimed benefits says PBO. - EV battery deal to cost taxpayers $5.8 billion more than government estimates. (works with 4:33pm segment). Is the federal government improving its fiscal position wit...

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux reporting federal online harms billwill create a 3-pronged $200 million bureaucracy. - Automatic tax filing could see Canadians get billions in unclaimed benefits says PBO. - EV battery deal to cost taxpayers $5.8 billion more than government estimates. (works with 4:33pm segment). Is the federal government improving its fiscal position with trillion dollar...

Significantly important nations in Europe have reset or are in the process of resetting its political compass and leaning decidedly to the right, with the exception of the U.K. which has swung significantly to the left of centre. Guest: Katja Hoyer. German/Anglo political scientist, author, author of blog Zeitgeist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nat'l Post op ed: Hydromorphone pills seized in London (ON) skyrockets 3,000% after safer supply expanded: police have been aware of the problem for years, but have not made it public. Guest: Adam Zivo. Op ed author.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financial Post op ed: Time to abandon EV mandates. (but now there's a push for electric bicycles in Canada) Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians for Affordable Energy and @gaspricewizard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leger poll: Most Canadians expect Justin Trudeau to try to hang on to the PM title/job until the federal election likely next year. What's the breakdown though? Guest: Andrew Enns. Snr VP Leger Marketing, Central Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada appears poised to move the political governance needle to the right and elect a Pierre Poilievre-led CPC majority government. However, an American listener living in Canada sent an email in which he outlines how Justin Trudeau may manufacture another Liberal majority government victory and writes "Canadians are that stupid." Guets: Callers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Today's podcast: In a television interview a few days ago Kevin O'Leary, Chairman of O'Leary Ventures and four time Emmy Award winning 'Mr. Wonderful' on Shark Tank said "Canada is one of the richest countries on earth run by idiots. I wouldn't let them run a candy store. They have no idea what they're doing." Of PM Justin Trudeau O'Leary said "he is the worst manager Canada has ever had. Total in...

In a television interview a few days ago Kevin O'Leary, Chairman of O'Leary Ventures and four time Emmy Award winning 'Mr. Wonderful' on Shark Tank said "Canada is one of the richest countries on earth run by idiots. I wouldn't let them run a candy store. They have no idea what they're doing." Of PM Justin Trudeau O'Leary said "he is the worst manager Canada has ever had. Total incompetency undern...

On the eve of Canada Day, the Ambassador of Israel, one of Canada's most staunch allies joins us with a Canada Day message from Israel and Israelis to Canada and Canadians. - Has Israel's concern about how it is portrayed by the Canadian government nationally and internationally grown? - What is Israel's response to the discovery Birju Dattani, the newly appointed head of the Canadian Human Rights...

Earlier this month in Etobicoke, Ontario, a mass shooting took place with two men fatally shot. A 14 year old was one of 2 suspects who is alleged to have fired more than 50 times into a community gathering at a local school. The youth has been charged with 2 counts of first degree murder, as well as 7 counts of attempted murder. He cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The victims...

As Canada Day approaches, we look for the best in our country. Are there Canadians who have inspired you? Events in Canadian history that make you proud? Canadian inventions, innovations, or just really nice places? Our callers bring us brilliant stories from all across the country, and from all walks of life. Guests: Callers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is PM Justin Trudeau facing similar pressure experienced by PM Stephen Harper in 2015, when Trudeau, leading the Liberals swept into power with Canadians awarding Trudeau a majority government under the promise of "sunny ways." Listener correspondence increasingly is nostalgic about Stephen Harper and wishing SH were today PM.  Well, let's test the waters on this day before Canada Day. Let's face...

What is happening to new home sales in Canada's largest city? According to the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) sales of new houses and condominiums is staggering. New home sales across the GTA in May of this year was 71% lower than May of 2023, as well as 71% lower than the 10 year average for the month of May. Why is this happening?  Guest: Dave Wilkes. President/CEO BIL...

The airline mechanics strike continues to ground Westjet operations leaving passengers literally scrambling and holding tickets for flights that will not get off the ground. Later today we're joined by a senior member of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), now though it's the rights of passengers we'll address. Guest: Gabor Lukaks. Head of the Air Passenger Rights Association Lear...

Today's podcast: Joe Biden. Current POTUS, but following Biden's debate performance this week against former POTUS Donald Trump, under heavy pressure to forgo accepting the Democrat Party nomination for president at the August party convention in Chicago heading toward the November 5 U.S. general election. And there was Donald Trump and his performance in the debate. There appears no movement to d...

Joe Biden. Current POTUS, but following Biden's debate performance this week against former POTUS Donald Trump, under heavy pressure to forgo accepting the Democrat Party nomination for president at the August party convention in Chicago heading toward the November 5 U.S. general election. And there was Donald Trump and his performance in the debate. There appears no movement to deny Trump the Rep...

Globe and Mail story this week reports Harjit Sajjan in 2021, when Minister of National Defence "instructed special forces to rescue Afghan Sikhs during fall of Kabul. The story relates the 225 Afghan Sikhs in question had no connection to Canada, while Canada's military, including the elite special operators at JTF 2, had been tasked at rescue/evacuation of Canadian citizens and Afghans who had w...

Global News Canadians and Canada Day poll conducted byu IPSOS. 70% of Canadians believe Canada is broken. The number is higher among the youngest demographics. Canadian pride has taken a tumble. Bricker: "these are the saddest numbers I've seen on this topic in 30 years. Frankly, I'm worried about us."  Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO, IPSOS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Canadians at large wish by a significant majority to see Justin Trudeau step aside as prime minister (68% according to IPSOS polling for Global News). Also engaged in the calls for Trudeau to leave office are current and former Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers, yet Trudeau has shown no inclination to leave office. We ask two former Liberal members of parliament to share their thoughts and as well...

A news story which dominated national headlines just weeks ago. The urgency has not ended, nor even diminished, even though it's not a daily topic of discussion now, except among Canadians directly engaged. The issue of drug addiction, the "safer supply (of drugs)" and the sale of 'safer supply' drugs by addicts who received them free to Canadian teens is a national concern, centred in British Col...