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The Roy Green Show Correctional Service Canada has started a needle exchange program to begin in Canadian prisons. Is this beneficial for inmates or does it bring too much unnecessary risk to the prisoners and to the guards? As well, the Canada Border Services Agency has moved border officers from other posts to Quebec City, in response to the thousands of illegal border crossings from the U.S. An...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his NYU commencement audience that we must not "cocoon ourselves in an ideological, social or intellectual bubble." But in a recent column for the Washington Post, J.J. McCullough argues that Trudeau hasn't even "the slightest interest in discovering that someone you vehemently disagree with might have a point." Guest:  J.J. McCullough, Canadian pundit, political...

Major General David Fraser was commanding officer for the largest battle in NATO history, Operation Medusa. Much of the information about this historic 2006 battle against the Taliban has never made its way to the public. Major General Fraser is now bringing the story of Operation Medusa to light with his new book, 'Operation Medusa: The Furious Battle That Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban' And...

According to the Director for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, a reduction of 90 million tonne per year of greenhouse gasses would result in only 0.001 or 0.002 degrees Celsius of less global warming by 2100 than would otherwise occur, and it would come at a huge cost to Canadians. Guest: Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition (THE CANADIAN PRESS I...

Laura Kaminker is running as the NDP candidate for Mississauga Centre’s MPP position. She has a history of speaking dismissively about wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day and on acknowledging military veterans. But is this enough of a reason to dismiss her from the election, or are we focusing too much on comments from years ago in this election? Guest: Joe Warmington, Columnist with the Toronto Su...

Correctional Service Canada has started a needle exchange program to begin in Canadian prisons. Is this beneficial for inmates or does it bring too much unnecessary risk to the prisoners and to the guards? As well, the Canada Border Services Agency has moved border officers from other posts to Quebec City, in response to the thousands of illegal border crossings from the U.S. And Hassen Diab is a...

The Roy Green Show Doug Ford says he can commit to cutting provincial gasoline tax by 10 cents per litre if he's elected Premier. But if he can, why can't the other candidates do it as well? And why can't the federal government cut gasoline taxes? Guest: Dan McTeague, GasBuddy.com-A horrific school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, has left ten people dead and multiple people wounded. The suspect is a...

It’s time for Beauties and the Beast, our weekly segment where there is no room for political correctness. Guests: Catherine SwiftLinda LeatherdaleMichelle Simson (Photo: Owen Humphreys pool photo via AP) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The MS-13 gang are responsible for particularly brutal murders, with the number of victims reportedly in the range of 70,000. National security agencies fear that MS-13 members are entering Canada among the many thousands of migrants who are illegally crossing the border and claiming refugee status. How worried should Canadian officials be? Guest:  Ioan Grillo, Author of ‘Gangster Warlords’  (Phot...

Today at the now well-known Roxham Road border crossing between New York and Quebec, "no borders" supporters and "shut the border" supporters will be protesting and are expected to clash. The fact remains that Canada's border and entry laws are being disregarded. Is this the responsibility directly of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? Guest:  Michelle Rempel. Immigration critic. CPC. MP Nose Hill, Ca...

Following another horrific school shooting, families and friends are again mourning the loss of their loved ones. What should be done to reasonably prevent events like these taking place again? Guest:  Dr. Frank Farley. Psychologist & L.H. Carnell Professor at Temple University, Former president of the American Psychological Association, his specialties include extreme behaviour (Photo: Stuart Vil...

A horrific school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, has left ten people dead and multiple people wounded. The suspect is a 17 year old loner and bullied teen. Again we ask why events like this occur, and whether or not the depiction of firearms in the media plays a significant part. Guest:  Tony Bernardo. Executive Director CILA, the Canadian gun owners lobby group in Ottawa (Photo: Michael Ciaglo/Hous...

Doug Ford says he can commit to cutting provincial gasoline tax by 10 cents per litre if he's elected Premier. But if he can, why can't the other candidates do it as well? And why can't the federal government cut gasoline taxes? Guest: Dan McTeague, GasBuddy.com - What do the people of Ontario think the party leaders should do about gas prices? Roy opens the lines and takes calls. (Photo: Patrick...

The Royal Wedding has turned our focus to the relevance of the royal family in Canada in 2018. Last year IPSOS conducted a national poll for Global News and found that 61% of Canadians described the Royals as "simply celebrities and nothing more." Even though it is extremely difficult from a constitutional perspective, is it time for Canada to separate itself from The Royal Family? Guest:  Darrell...

The Roy Green Show Iran is making headlines, threatening retaliation against the U.S. for withdrawing from the JCPOA. Will the people of Iran suffer again because of renewed sanctions and will they again take to the streets calling for an end of their oppressive religious government? Meanwhile, our guest has accused Western governments of doing nothing to help Iranians who risk their lives protest...

Scott Newark and Roy look at the questions surrounding multiple high tension, high profile cases. Could Alek Minassian’s lawyers be setting the stage for a Not Criminally Responsible plea? What should the response be to the revelation of a self-confessed ISIS assassin living in Toronto, and has the situation changed now that he has retracted his confession? What do we know about the deadly knife t...

In a recent column for the National Post, Tristin Hopper called out the "myth" that Western Canada would be richer if we only refined our own oil. Since 1970 only one refinery has been built in Western Canada and that is, in Tristian’s words, "kind of a boondoggle." Guest: Tristin Hopper, opinions writer with the National Post, his recent column is ‘Why Canada shouldn't refine the oil it exports’​...

It's been a while since we asked Canadians for their view of the American president. But given what Donald Trump has accomplished and all he has been accused of, how does his performance as U.S. President contrast with Justin Trudeau's performance as Canadian Prime Minister? Roy opens the phone lines and asks, who is a more credible national and international leader? Photo: (Adrian Wyld/CP) Learn...

Tomorrow the United States will open its new embassy in Jerusalem on the 70th birthday of the State of Israel. The result of a decision taken by U.S. President Donald Trump whose domestic approval numbers are up. Elsewhere, the POTUS is about to engage in a historic meeting with North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-Un, and some suggest that this has put him in line for a Nobel Peace Prize.   But former...

Iran is making headlines, threatening retaliation against the U.S. for withdrawing from the JCPOA. Will the people of Iran suffer again because of renewed sanctions and will they again take to the streets calling for an end of their oppressive religious government? Meanwhile, our guest has accused Western governments of doing nothing to help Iranians who risk their lives protesting in the streets...

As the Ontario election campaign moves forward, members of the Ontario Coalition of Manufacturers are asking  for a mutually cooperative relationship with political parties. Failure to create such an arrangement may result in decades old companies, that employ thousands, having to close shop in Canada and move to the United States. Both of our guests have been courted by the U.S. on a regular basi...

The Roy Green Show U.S. President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the leaders of the U.K., Germany and France are lamenting the decision, while Stephen Harper, former Australian prime minister John Howard & the former prime minister of Northern Ireland took out a full page NY Times ad supporting the move.   What are the pote...

Beauties and the Beast, the weekly discussion with our panel of three high profile, outspoken and successful women. On the table today: The Ontario and Alberta elections, misuse of photography, and Catherine, Linda, Michelle and Roy go all in with their predictions for next year’s federal elections. Guests: Catherine SwiftLinda LeatherdaleMichelle Simson (Photo: The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette)...

For many military veterans who fought for Canada, surviving on a day-to-day basis back home is a challenge they hadn't anticipated. Often, they endure battles with mental health issues like PTSD, suffer from the lasting scars of severe wounds or – in far too many cases – end up homeless. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau told a town hall meeting that Canada’s veterans are “asking for more than we can give...

An ISIS killer is possibly living free and unencumbered in Toronto. A man going by the name Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi gave an interview for a New York Times podcast in which he claimed he was a former ISIS executioner who had killed multiple times while in Syria. When the issue was raised during Question Period by CPC House Leader Candice Bergen, Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale refused to...