The Roy Green Show

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Lawyer Robert Patterson discusses the astronomical rent increases some Canadians saw this year. Originally aired on August 19, 2023. In Vancouver rental prices are the highest in Canada. Average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment vaults to over $3,000 per month. Guest: Robert Patterson, lawyer and tenant advocate at the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, Van...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. More Taylor Swift Mania with Eric Alper! Originally aired on August 13, 2023 The Taylor Swift Eras Tour will stop in Toronto in November 2024, the tour's only Canadian performances and massive numbers of fans clamoring for tickets which went on sale Wednesday. The process of obtaining a ticket through Ticketmaster is exhausting involving the obtaining of a...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Roy and Professsor Jane Kirtley explore the dangers of AI in media. Originally aired on December 2, 2023. AI slithers into mainstream media? Sports Illustrated being accused of the creation of fake stories written by fake humans ...eg 'fake news'?   Guest: Professor Jane Kirtley. Media ethics and the law, University of Minnesota. Learn more about your ad c...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. How much would you be willing to pay for an Andy Warhol painting? Originally aired on December 2, 2023. An Andy Warhol portrait of Mick Jagger, signed by both Warhol and Jagger, will hit the auction block at Cowley Abbott Toronto's live auction of important Canadian and International Art next Wednesday at 4pm EST. The painting is estimated at between $135,...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Roy speaks with metastatic cancer survivor Todd Seals about their shared experience with the disease. Originally aired September 24, 2023. When men ignore health warnings and in this case symptoms of prostate health issues it can and does lead to metastasized prostate cancer. Metastesized prostate cancer is immediately classified as Stage 4. My reality, di...

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: Rents across Canada have achieved unaffordable status for many. Perhaps none more so than Toronto sisters Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Their 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment where they have lived for 3 years and for which they most recently have been paying...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. The Farooq sisters tell their story of astronomical rent increases. Originally aired on September 16, 2023. Rents across Canada have achieved unaffordable status for many. Perhaps none more so than Toronto sisters Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Their 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment where they have lived for 3 years and for which they most recently have been pay...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Take some lessons from Britain's Strictest Headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh. Originally aired on October 8, 2023 Teachers across Canada experiencing violence and harassment from students. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario reports 77% of ETFO members have personally experienced or witnessed violence against staff members. We talk to Britain's 's...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Reflections on 2023's National Truth and Reconciliation Day with artist Adrian Sutherland. Originally aired on September 30, 2023 Guest: Adrian Sutherland. Lifelong resident of Attawapiskat First Nation. International award-winning singer/songwriter. Most recent song Notawe (Father), sung entirely in Adrian's first Cree language. Recorded and mastered by m...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Relive summer's Taylor Swift Mania, and muse on one-hit-wonders with Eric Alper. Originally aired August 27, 2023. The massive appeal of Taylor Swift and 31 million attempts to purchase tickets to her concerts in Toronto in November of 2024. As well, why do some artists become multi-decade successes while others have an occasional hit over the same period...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Joe Warmington takes a look at the Online News Act's impact on Canadian news media. Originally aired on July 15, 2023. Let's look at the Online News Act which Canadians have been commenting on. Let's cut to the chase. Where do you get your news, sports, social commentary today? Then a bit of nostalgia. What did you grow up with? Radio, television, newspape...

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Enjoy Murray Pomerance's take on the Hollywood strikes, and superstars like Tom Cruise, originally aired on July 16, 2023. Hollywood on strike! What is this strike about and why is this one described as very serious. And: Another blockbuster for Tom Cruise with the latest Mission Impossible movie. Is he the most successful Hollywood actor ever? Guest: Mur...

Today’s podcast: The province of Alberta is in conflict with the federal Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, with Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government passing the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act on December 8, 2022. - Smith has since challenged Ottawa on its overreach into provincial consitutionally enshrined jurisdiction over energy development, with the Supreme Court of...

Israel's war with Hamas with the inside Israel perspective. IDF soldiers have died in the war, but Israel considers this a war of survival. What are the thoughts and views of a former Canadian Ambassador to Israel? As well, the Canadian government voting this week for the U.N. resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire without naming Hamas anywhere in the resolution. As well, as our guest poi...

One of the most watched, disturbing and talked about realities of 2023 was the spiraling cost of food. We heard about consumer experiences and concerns regularly. This with 6.8 million Canadians, including 1.8 million children in Canada (U of T) experiencing food insecurity and food banks nationally stretched beyond their capacity to make up for the food shortfall. - There were questions about gro...

The province of Alberta is in conflict with the federal Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, with Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government passing the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act on December 8, 2022. - Smith has since challenged Ottawa on its overreach into provincial consitutionally enshrined jurisdiction over energy development, with the Supreme Court of Canada, by stron...

15-year-old in Kanata, Ontario arrested by RCMP facing terrorism charges. 16 year old in Calgary on Wednesday - Antisemitism increase and calls for Genocide against Jews publicly in Canada, including post-secondary institutions. - Trudeau government voting for UN resolution calling for humanitarian ceasefire without a mention of Hamas. AND: Global News today - Teen terrorists: Does Canada have a y...

Measuring the mood of Canadians on a myriad of issues in 2023 was IPSOS Public Affairs polling for Global News. We review the major opinion trends and ones which we should not be unaware of. As well, a look ahead into 2024 as far as what it is Canadians want, expect and/or refuse to accept is concerned. Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO IPSOS Public Affairs. Author: NEXT. Learn more about your ad choice...

On a personal level 2023 was the year I was diagnosed with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is an increasing concern for men who all too frequently ignore symptoms, as I did. Earlier this year we spoke with Todd Seals who in 2007, at the age of 42, was given just months to live following a metastatic stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis. 16 years later Todd Seals is still very muc...

Today’s podcast: A strained relationship between the province of Saskatchewan and the federal government continued to become increasingly challenged in 2023, resulting in the province passing the Saskatchewan First Act, designed to protect the province from constitutional overreach by the federal government. Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe told us repeatedly the Trudeau government was engaged in at...

Canadian healthcare. - 6.5 million Canadians, out of a population of 40 million, have no primary care (family) physician (up from 5 million). I had the good fortune of benefitting from the personal dedication of Canadian healthcare professionals while hospitalized earlier this year. Likely a story repeated across this nation. Nevertheless, there remain hundreds of thousands of delayed surgical pro...

Indigenous peoples in Canada. Did 2023 see measurable improvement in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Ottawa. as well as provincial governments and what most directly must be addressed in 2024? As long as First Nations continue to be forced to access unsafe water supply, is reconciliation just a word? It was at Cowesses First Nation that Chief Cadmus Delorme announced on December 21...

A strained relationship between the province of Saskatchewan and the federal government continued to become increasingly challenged in 2023, resulting in the province passing the Saskatchewan First Act, designed to protect the province from constitutional overreach by the federal government. Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe told us repeatedly the Trudeau government was engaged in attacks on the prov...

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem yesterday said inflation may be getting close to the bank's target of 2% by the end of next year, and while not making a commitment did say as well the BOC is increasingly confident interest rates will not have to be moved higher in order to get prices back under control. The Canadian economy shuddered in 2023 with the Bank of Canada repeatedly raising interest...

As Israel, in response to the October 7 Hamas murder, rape and kidnapping assault inside its borders continues its war on Hamas and faces an increasingly hostile international response with calls supporting Genocide of Jews and annihiliation of Israel, Canada voted this week in support of a U.N. resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. A motion which did not mention Hamas, a designated by...