The Roy Green Show

First 2024, MNP Consumer Debt Index released and Canadians' current debt perceptions reaches all-time low. 63% of Canadians concerned about their ability to repay their debts. - 47% regret the amount of debt they've taken on. FINANCES: taking a toll on mental health: 60% of Canadians say their financial situation causes them anxiety, stress (59%), isolation (48%), embarrassment (40%). - 26% making...

National focus this week on a crime incident in Peterborough, Ontario. At a convenience store a 22 year old clerk was helping a customer when a male with a baseball bat entered the store, allegedly demanding cash and striking the clerk with the bat. A fight ensued and the clerk grabbed the baseball bat, chased the would-be robber outside the store and allegedly proceeded to hit the man several tim...

Today's podcast: U.S. and U.K. attack Houthi rebels of Yemen with missile barrage and air strikes after Houthis repeated rocket and missile assaults on international commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Canada played a non-direct role.  Leads to what possibly? Asymmetric global war underway? POLITICO piece: American intel officials warn of risk of Hezbollah attacking U.S..  As well: The possibility...

U.S. and U.K. attack Houthi rebels of Yemen with missile barrage and air strikes after Houthis repeated rocket and missile assaults on international commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Canada played a non-direct role.  Leads to what possibly? Asymmetric global war underway? POLITICO piece: American intel officials warn of risk of Hezbollah attacking U.S..  As well: The possibility of all-out war b...

Global News: Ottawa was warned about impact of high immigration on housing in 2022.  Meanwhile, 3 months ago Canadians by strong majority (75%) told Leger Marketing in a national poll that higher immigration numbers of the federal government are causing a housing and healthcare crisis to become worse. Guest: Christian Bourque. Executive vice-president Leger Marketing Learn more about your ad choic...

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) releases this statement: Patients, providers suffer as ERs are overwhelmed yet again. Wait times up to 20 hours are being experienced. - Sept 25, '23, CMAJ article: Without more acute care beds hospitals are on their own to grapple with emergency department crises.   Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. President, CMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

NFL coaches turnover begins with Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks and Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans removed from their positions. Patriots reportedly hire 37-year-old Jerod Mayo, former linebacker with the team. NFL playoffs begin today and difficult to pick winners, particularly with brutally cold temps in places like Kansas City. What to expe...

The RCMP by its own admission this week failed to meet its own deadline of December 31, 2023, to implement the 130 recommendations from the Mass Casualty Commission following Canada's worst mass-shooting incident his nation's history, April 18, 2020, in Nova Scotia.  Now the RCMP is saying only "we'll release the implementation details as soon as possible." Guest: Tim Mills. On the night of April...

Roy takes to the phones to hear about your experiences in Canada's overwhelmed healthcare system. We hear stories of a 10 hour wait in an ambulance, care performed in hospital hallways, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: Beginning January 1, Saskatchewan, according to premier Scott Moe "removed the carbon tax from home heating, making life more affordable. Saskatchewan families will no longer pay the carbon tax, or the GST on the carbon tax on natural gas or electrical heated" posted the premier to 'X'. - Might the premier and/or cabinet minister face fines or in the absolute extreme a prison sent...

Beginning January 1, Saskatchewan, according to premier Scott Moe "removed the carbon tax from home heating, making life more affordable. Saskatchewan families will no longer pay the carbon tax, or the GST on the carbon tax on natural gas or electrical heated" posted the premier to 'X'. - Might the premier and/or cabinet minister face fines or in the absolute extreme a prison sentence. Premier Moe...

Surreal? In Toronto yesterday, as pro-Palestinian demonstrators made their way again onto a highway 401 overpass, causing it to be shut down by police and separating two factions of the demonstrators engaging in intimidation in a heavily Jewish area of the city, Toronto police, instead of removing the demonstrators, acted as a Tim Hortons coffee delivery service and brought the bridge occupiers co...

Book - Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada. Authors and professors Christian Leuprecht (Queen's U) and Jamie Ferrill (Charles Sturt U, Australia) write lawmakers at every level of government are disengaged from trying to intercede national financial criminal activity, while police are too engaged with their own investigations to initiate new ones. Massive financial organized crime has almost no...

The ethics surrounding the prime minister and the Liberal government go well beyond questions about ethical propriety of Justin Trudeau's Christmas/New Year free from a "friend" Jamaica vacation at a property with a usual daily price tag of $9300. - Are the correct questions being asked? Former parliamentary ethics commissioner Mario Dion (a Trudeau selection in 2018), told the NP "the public has...

Are Canadians sufficiently engaged to unequivocally say "yes/no" on matters affecting our lives, or will we choose the "wellwhaddyagonnado" path of least resistance in 2024? And, what the heck is it that we do and don't want?   Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO. IPSOS Public Affairs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Goings on during the first week of 2024 in the nation's capital, as detailed by Blacklock's Reporter. Guest: Tom Korski. Executive editor, Blacklock's Reporter  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: How is the population of Israel reacting to the war with Hamas and is war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon only a matter of time? As well, our guest has a two-part interview on her podcast with the mother and father of a 23 year old badly wounded Israeli hostage taken by Hamas. Guest: Ambassador Vivian Bercovici. Former Cdn Ambassador to Israel and publisher of The State of Tel...

How is the population of Israel reacting to the war with Hamas and is war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon only a matter of time? As well, our guest has a two-part interview on her podcast with the mother and father of a 23 year old badly wounded Israeli hostage taken by Hamas. Guest: Ambassador Vivian Bercovici. Former Cdn Ambassador to Israel and publisher of The State of Tel Aviv on Substack....

As we begin 2024, the reality remains 6.8 million Canadians, including 1.8 million children live in food insecurity. How will 2024 most likely develop on the food cost, inflation, accusations of shrinkflation, accusations of profiteering by grocery chains and parliamentary involvement develop? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agri Foods laboratory at Dalhousie University.  Learn more...

So, where are we as far as our economic wellbeing is concerned on this first full weekend of 2024? Stock markets are showing signs of recovery and there are predictions of inflation falling along with BOC interest rates. But is that realistic or pie-in-the-sky peddling? Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

On January 1, the carbon tax rose again. The Clean Fuel Regulation which began in July of last year is at approximately 25% of its impact by 2030 and the PBO told us on air the CFR will most directly hurt Canadians least able to afford the increased cost. What lies ahead, as well with gasoline, natural gas and diesel costs? Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians for Affordable Energy Learn more...

Justin Trudeau's challenged 'free' Christmas/new year vacation in Jamaica occupying a $9,300 nightly rental residence owned by a 'friend' of the Trudeau family. Planned intimidation of Jewish residents of Toronto, including arson. Guest: Lorrie Goldstein. Editor emeritus, Toronto Sun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Jeffrey Epstein human trafficking and release of 170 names, including the very rich and famous, previously withheld in court documents (not all are suspected of engaging in sexual assault of teen girls). More names to come. What's ahead? Guest: Ari Goldkind. Toronto criminal lawyer and media commentator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Take a look back at Roy's best interviews of 2023 with our end-of-year encore presentations of the Roy Green Show! Today's presentation includes: Sophie Gregoire (Trudeau) re-partners. What might we expect? By the book court case, or VIP treatment from the court? "Re-partnered?" Guest: Vancouver family lawyer and media commentator Scott Taylor.  Originally Aired Oct. 28, 2023.       In Vancouver r...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Roy, and lawyer Scott Taylor discuss the meaning of the phrase "re-partnered." Originally aired on October 28, 2023. Sophie Gregoire (Trudeau) re-partners. What might we expect? By the book court case, or VIP treatment from the court? "Re-partnered?" Guest: Vancouver family lawyer and media commentator Scott Taylor.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...