The Roy Green Show

Today’s podcast: Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow. - attempts continue to negotiate a permanent ceasefire with Israel. Israel demands the return of hostages abducted by Hamas last October 7 as precondition.  Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel Ambassador to Canada.   Toronto Maple Leafs lose in overtime in Game 7 of the first Stanley Cup series to the Boston Bruins. The Leafs now begin the 58th consecutive...

Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow. - attempts continue to negotiate a permanent ceasefire with Israel. Israel demands the return of hostages abducted by Hamas last October 7 as precondition.  Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel Ambassador to Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toronto Maple Leafs lose in overtime in Game 7 of the first Stanley Cup series to the Boston Bruins. The Leafs now begin the 58th consecutive year of the team rebuild in pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Leafs fans equally "bewildered, despairing and thoroughly p----d off" according to a listener email this morning. Guest: Greg Brady. Host of Toronto Today on our Corus radio station AM 640.   Learn more...

It is so-called Boycott Loblaws month in Canada. Challenges of providing food for Canada. Guest: Gary Sands. VP Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers.  And: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director Dalhousie University Agri-Foods laboratory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Universities occupations continue. In Canada, McGill, U of Ottawa, U of T, UBC with new one scheduled for UMB this week. How does one of Canada's most prominent academics interpret? Who is behind these protests and how to view rising antisemitism. Guest: Professor Ken Coates. Professor emeritus University of Saskatchewan. Now at Yukon University, chair of Indigenous governance program. Consultant...

MacDonald Laurier Institute paper: Canada's Resource Sector: Protecting the Golden Goose. Co-authored by Jack Mintz, Distinguished Fellow MLI. Philip Cross, Senior Fellow MLI.  Guest: Philip Cross, former chief economics analyst at Statistics Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following yesterday's conversation with B.C. father Greg Sword who's 14-year-old daughter died of a drug overdose, today it is a British Columbia businesswoman's fight against decriminalization of illicit drugs and the 'safer drugs' program. She has faced discrimination from the provincial government, when walking her 10- and 12-year-old children has been subjected to half peace sign (in duplicate...

Today’s podcast: From the interim report concerning foreign interference in Canada's elections - to B.C.'s premier David Eby's request the criminal code be modified to once again permit police to intervene in illicit public drug use, while Eby simultaneously insists the 3 year drug decriminalization pilot program will continue - to his op ed in the National Post challenging Canada's corporations t...

From the interim report concerning foreign interference in Canada's elections - to B.C.'s premier David Eby's request the criminal code be modified to once again permit police to intervene in illicit public drug use, while Eby simultaneously insists the 3 year drug decriminalization pilot program will continue - to his op ed in the National Post challenging Canada's corporations to stop engaging l...

Justice Marie Josee Hogue interim report on foreign (China) election interference in Canada.   Guest: Michel Juneau Katsuya. Former CSIS Chief of the Asia-Pacific unit. Following MJK's warning of China interference in Canada his CSIS unit was shut down. MJK wrote the preface and afteword for The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party started a hybrid war in America's backyard. Learn more a...

Greg Sword is a British Columbia resident whose 14 year old daughter Kamilah overdosed and died on hydromorphone, a drug her friends reportedly said they obtained from drug users who were defrauding Vancouver's safer drugs supply program. Guests: Greg Sword. And: Elenore Sturko. MLA BC United Party. Has worked with Mr. Sword as the party repeatedly calls for an end to the safer supply Learn more a...

Decriminalization of possession/use of small quantities of otherwise illicit drugs continues to be an issue of pro and con debate in Canada. What is the national police perspective? Guest: Tom Stamatakis. President, Police Association of Canada (from Vancouver).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, Jew-hatred demonstrations continue and occupations exist at universities and colleges in Canada and the U.S. our guest's op ed asks 'Why is only Israel wrong when it defends itself?' Guest: Dr. David Bercuson. Director emeritus of the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Member of the Aristotle Foundation.  Learn more ab...

The University of Toronto occupation. Students? Mostly not? Why are the tents still there? What next? Guest: Joe Warmington. Toronto Sun.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Ontario byelections this week and in both cases premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives won easily over the Liberal and NDP candidates. A precursor to the upcoming federal election?  Will area codes 416 and 905 in the federal go-round, be it later this year or next year not be sending Liberals or NDP candidates in any appreciable numbers to Ottawa? Will 416 and 905 align with Western Can...

Kenny Chiu, former CPC MP for the B.C. riding of Steveston - Richmond East. China interference could have impacted the result of of the 2021 election in the riding which saw Mr. Chiu lose his seat according to yesterday's interim report. Beijing targeted Mr. Chiu on social media, etc. Guest: Kenny Chiu. Former CPC MP, Steveston-Richmond  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Today’s podcast: Just released Dalhousie Agri-foods laboratory study shows almost 60% of Canadians regularly eat food beyond its 'best before' date, with 23% doing so regularly. Among Millenials 41% believe they have become ill after eating potentially unsafe food products in the past year. And Canada's food sector falling behind that of the U.S. in wholesale and industrial prices. Might Canadian...

Just released Dalhousie Agri-foods laboratory study shows almost 60% of Canadians regularly eat food beyond its 'best before' date, with 23% doing so regularly. Among Millenials 41% believe they have become ill after eating potentially unsafe food products in the past year. And Canada's food sector falling behind that of the U.S. in wholesale and industrial prices. Might Canadian companies pull th...

Jew-hatred continues to roil across Canada.  Guests: Melissa Lantsman. CPC Deputy leader and Jewish Toronto MP who had a bitter exchange with PM Trudeau during Question Period when Trudeau responded to a challenge by Lantsman by accusing Conservative MPs of "standing with people who wave swastikas."  And:  David Sachs. Jewish Federation of Ottawa. After leaving a Muslim-Jewish interfaith event on...

Global News: "B.C. to ban drug use in all public places in major overhaul of decriminalization." Premier David Eby on Friday made a formal request to Health Canada for changes to its exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act as the 3 year experiment with decriminalization falters. Guest: Dr. Brian Conway. Medical director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious...

A report released on Friday by Statscan shows 8.7 million Canadians, or 22.9 per cent of the national population reported some level of food insecurity in 2022. An increase of almost 1.8 million people from the previous year.  Guest: Professor Valerie Tarasuk. Lead investigator of the University of Toronto's household food insecurity research program PROOF. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

While taking calls after our interview with Prof. Tarasuk, we spoke with a man identifying himself as Derek from Edmonton. He told us about a family he knows in rural Alberta struggling so greatly with food insecurity that the parents often skip meals to make sure their kids can eat. The story touched Roy's heart, and the hearts of our listeners. Guest: Derek, a caller from Edmonton. Learn more ab...

Global News reported this past Tuesday "Budget 2024 failed to spark 'political reboot' for Liberals, polling suggests." Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO, IPSOS Public Affairs. Conducted exclusive polling on the issue for Global news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian Medical Association continues to insist the capital gains tax changes introduced in the 2024 federal budget will ham physician recruitment and retention across Canada. Guest: Dr. Joss Reimer. President-elect, Canadian Medical Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the Edmonton Oilers positioned to dispatch the Los Angeles Kings from the Stanley Cup playoffs? And what makes the Oilers a special team this year with the potential to end the 30-year drought of Canadian NHL teams winning the Cup? Guest: Cam Moon. regular season NHL play-by-play voice of the Oilers on 630 CHED. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices