The Roy Green Show

While the world's current focus is on the Israel/Hamas war, Ukraine's war with Russia has entered its third year and news from Ukraine is that the country's military is running seriously low on war fighting equipment and munitions as the U.S. primarily is holding up a major arms shipment due to Republican/Democrat political infighting. NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has floated a plan for...

We speak with Toronto Police Association president Jon Reid about the letter sent by six members of Toronto City Council, two on the police board, challenging police action at pro-Palestinian protests and demonstrations, particularly on March 30 when several people were arrested after clashing with police. The councillors letter includes "it is deeply concerning to hear residents voicing fears abo...

National poll: What Canadians want from the federal government in this month's budget. Global News story. Guest: Sean Simpson. Vice president. IPSOS Public Affairs. Conducted poll for Global News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RBC report on housing in Canada. Toughest time ever to own a house. In Vancouver, it is a full blown crisis. And how does this affect rental reality in Canada's most expensive rental market? Guest: Jinjae Jeong. tenant advocate at the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre (TRAC) in Vancouver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast:   Three premiers appeared before the federal government operations and estimates committee this past week to make the case for delay of tomorrow's federal carbon tax increase (or abandoning the carbon tax entirely). Yesterday we spoke with Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe (one of the three premiers). Today Alberta premier Danielle Smith who also appeared before the parl committee an...

Three premiers appeared before the federal government operations and estimates committee this past week to make the case for delay of tomorrow's federal carbon tax increase (or abandoning the carbon tax entirely). Yesterday we spoke with Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe (one of the three premiers). Today Alberta premier Danielle Smith who also appeared before the parl committee and made the case the...

The senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada Carolyn Rogers last Tuesday in a Halifax speech made the case falling productivity rates in Canada create an "emergency," adding "you've seen those signs that say "in case of emergency, break glass. Well, it's time to break the glass." Meanwhile, according to the OECD Canada will for the next 36 years (2060) will be the laggard and post the worst ec...

Is it foreseeable the federal Liberal and New Democrat parties will formally unite before the next federal election and merge as a permanent combined party? The Liberal Democrat Party of Canada perhaps? (This happened in the U.K. in the 1980's...and in 2003 in Canada as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance merged to form the Conservative Party of Canada.) Guest: M...

In real terms, what happens to gasoline, diesel, home heating, food, clothing and other related costs beginning tomorrow as the carbon tax takes a leap upward for already stretched to the max Canadians? How might it affect particularly younger Canadian adults, 40% of who according to this Global News story https://globalnews.ca/news/10048246/canadians-lose-sleep-inflation-money-cost-of-living-rbc-...

Tomorrow (April 1) in addition to Canadians being saddled with the newest installment of the carbon tax, members of parliament will receive automatic salary increases. The basic MP salary will reach $203,100, with substantially more going to cabinet ministers (additional $96K), opposition party leaders, committee chairs, parliamentary secretaries, etc. Prime Minister Trudeau's salary will increase...

Blacklock's Reporter and this past week in Ottawa.  Guest: Tom Korski. Editor, Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast:   A majority of Canada's premiers calling on the Justin Trudeau federal government to forego the scheduled for April 1 increase in the federal carbon tax. Trudeau insists premiers are lying about the tax when they insist it will only add to the financial burdens Canadian families are experiencing. The parliamentary budget officer told us for a second or third time on air on Februa...

A majority of Canada's premiers calling on the Justin Trudeau federal government to forego the scheduled for April 1 increase in the federal carbon tax. Trudeau insists premiers are lying about the tax when they insist it will only add to the financial burdens Canadian families are experiencing. The parliamentary budget officer told us for a second or third time on air on February 25 the carbon ta...

Professor Sylvain Charlebois (Dalhousie university Agri Foods lab director) posted that according to Statscan the average Canadian is spending less than $250.00 monthly on groceries, a 19% decrease since 2021. According to Dalhousie's Canada Food Price Report the average person should spend $339 per month on healthy food.  Also: Charlebois also posted on Twitter/X that the only media reporting on...

The Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore (timeline) after being struck by the container ship Dali. How does one of Canada's most experienced bridge construction engineers assess the collision and the what might the likelihood be of a bridge collapse under similar circumstance in Canada? Guest: Dr. Hellen Christodoulou, executive vice president, engineering, sustainability and business de...

IPSOS poll: Tories (41%) open 18 point lead over Liberals (23%), lead in every region except Quebec. With CPC widening its lead over the Trudeau/Singh, Liberal/NDP coalition, are we entering territory which will see it almost impossible for the Liberals and New Democrats to recover from? Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO. IPSOS Public Affairs.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

April is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month. The David Foster Foundation is again promoting awareness and highlighting alarming statistics (Canada records one of the worst organ and tissue donor registration rates in the world) and ways people may support.  Guest: Honourary Colonel Michael Ravenhill CEO, David Foster Foundation which provides financial assistance to families of chi...

An email from a listener we're calling George and read on air two weeks ago continues to generate response/reaction. It was sent to Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, Jagmeet Singh and Steven Guilbeault, cc: Pierre Poilievre, Roy Green and includes "we (George's family) are pretty much caved in financially, even after I've been working almost 60 hours overtime a month just to keep my family warm t...

In the summer of 2006, a young Calgary woman was on top of the world. She had a supportive family, amazing friends and a great job. But life as she knew it came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the night on August 6, 2006. In this episode, Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares details of a violent attack- a story that’s every woman’s worst fear. www.calgarycrimestoppers.org - refer...

Today's Podcast Following this week's much amended non-binding parliamentary motion on Israel and Palestinians Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is considering his response. Will it be to cross the floor at join the CPC? Guest: Anthony Housefather. LIberal MP. Mount Royal riding, Montreal. Canada's former Ambassador to Israel publishes an op ed in Sapir magazine in which Vivian Bercovici wri...

Following this week's much amended non-binding parliamentary motion on Israel and Palestinians Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is considering his response. Will it be to cross the floor at join the CPC? Guest: Anthony Housefather. LIberal MP. Mount Royal riding, Montreal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada's former Ambassador to Israel publishes an op ed in Sapir magazine in which Vivian Bercovici writes about anti-Semitic diplomatic rot within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. As well, Ambassador Bercovici on Twitter/X (@vivianbercovivi) challenges Toronto Chief of Police Myron Demkiw for hosting a breakfast for newly arrived Gazan refugees to break Ramadan fast, suggesting the Chi...

Kate (Middleton) The Princess of Wales, announced Friday she has been diagnosed with cancer and outpouring of support has been international. Canadian Cancer Society executive VP Stuart Edmonds has said public revealing of cancer diagnosis by public figures can help raise awareness and encourage others to be tested early and to seek treatment.  Then, we take your calls. Are you living with cancer?...

Canada's justice system:  Headlines. Police advise high-risk sex offender living in Belleville (ON) Supervisor sat in car while repeat B.C. sex offender victimized 11-year-old-girl (Kelowna BC) Law Society loses appeal and must let child sex abuser practise law and his name cannot be revealed (Toronto, ON) Convicted child murderer living in Regina halfway house granted extended freedoms. (Regina,...

The week in Canada's parliament. The Liberal/NDP motion stopping short of the original draft calling for Canada's support for a State of Palestine but supporting an end of Canadian firms selling military equipment to Israel and the carbon tax April 1 hike inspired non-confidence motion efforts by the CPC which had no chance of being passed. How do two very familiar federal political players assess...