The Roy Green Show

Federal Liberals backed into a corner by opposition parties and without the votes to pass Bill C-21 remove amendments banning assault-style rifles, hunting rifles and shotguns. Guest: Tony Bernardo. Executive Director: Canadian Shooting Sports Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We track the history of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada as the federal Liberals add legislation delaying mental health as a determinant for MAID. Guest: Chris Considine. One of Canada's most successful and prominent lawyers who represented Sue Rodriguez ground-breaking physician assisted death requests at the Supreme Court of Canada where the court ruled against by a 5-4 margin on September...

Canada's Health Care. Next week PM Justin Trudeau and the premiers will work toward a new funding model with billions more dollars flowing from Ottawa to the provinces in a formula similar to what Paul Martin promised would fix healthcare for a generation 3 years ago. How will additional billions of dollars directed by the federal government to its provincial counterparts, to be administered by th...

The Chinese weather, no make that surveillance balloon continues its trek high above the United States and particulary where U.S. nuclear missile silos are located (Montana). The U.S. sent out an F22 Raptor fighter plane to observe the balloon over which tensions between China and the U.S. have sufficiently been raised that American Secretary of State Antony Blinken has canceled his planned trip t...

The federal government has been silent about this until now. Canada's Innovation Minister is committing to bring forward new national security guidelines to better protect the newest science and technology from falling into the control of China as Ottawa vows to curb Canadian university research with Chinese military scientists.  AND Global News reports: Mendicino says national security "at no tim...

The Montreal Economic Institute has tracked the effects of the Supreme Court of Canada granting Quebeckers (and only Quebeckers) the right to purchase private health insurance in the so-called 2005 Chaouili Decision. Quebec is consistently now the province with the highest public approval for mixed and private healthcare in Canada according to the Montreal Economic Institute. France and Sweden are...

Controversy continues over a statement published by Canada's Special Representative on Islamaphobia, Amira Elghawaby concerning Quebecers and the province's Secularism Bill 21 with Elghawaby writing a majority of Quebecers appear to be swayed by "anti-Muslim sentiment." Quebec premier Francois Legault and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet wanting Elghawaby removed from her position and...

Canada's housing market has become our national obsession, and with good reason. Years of skyrocketing prices are now meeting surging mortgage rates, and the result is some of the least affordable housing in the world. What's driving that affordability crisis, and what comes next? On this episode of Free Lunch by The Peak, we speak with Mike Moffatt, a Senior Director at the Smart Prosperity Insti...

Today’s podcast: Russia under new pressure as increasing military armament from the West will arrive for Ukraine in its war with Russia. Battle tanks approved, long range missile systems and fighter planes under consideration. Guest: Ambassador Olexander Scherba. Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria and member of the Ukraine diplomatic mission to the United States. Author: Ukraine vs Darkness. Mas...

Russia under new pressure as increasing military armament from the West will arrive for Ukraine in its war with Russia. Battle tanks approved, long range missile systems and fighter planes under consideration. Guest: Ambassador Olexander Scherba. Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria and member of the Ukraine diplomatic mission to the United States. Author: Ukraine vs Darkness. Learn more about you...

Mass shootings continue unabated in the U.S. Some 40 mass shootings in 2023 already. We speak with Christian Heyne, vice presidnet of Policy and Programs at Brady United (United Against Gun Violence), one of the most influential national anti gun violence/crime organizations in the United States. Jim Brady, a gun owner and President Ronald Reagan's Press Secretary survived a gunshot to his head du...

Tom Caldwell is chairman of Caldwell Securities in Toronto. Seats on the NYSE and TSX. Caldwell in an audio visual presentation on Caldwell Securities website raises the question of whether today Canada remains a country we are proud of. - Caldwell asks what are the objectives and ambitions of government politicians. Answers politicians are preoccupied by gaining votes through photo opportunities....

The conversation black fathers in the United States have with their sons over interaction with U.S. police. In the wake of the brutal beating by five Memphis police officers on Tyre Nichols which resulted in the death of Nichols and the firing of the five officers who also face murder charges, the issue of the conversation black fathers have with their sons over how to engage U.S. police officers...

Researchers on earth have received a radio signal from an ancient galaxy nearly nine billion lightyears away. From an era long before our own solar system materialized. - An asteroid the size of a delivery truck came to within 3600 km of earth on Thursday. The closest such encounter in recorded history and much closer than satellites in orbit around the earth. Reason to be fearful or concerned? -...

The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco. Global News: Ticketmaster says cyberattack, bots to blame for Taylor Swift debacle. -- The U.S. Senate heard a hearing during which a Ticketmaster executive from the parent company Live Nation argued the company does not hold a ticket sale monopoly and that the Ticketmaster Taylor Swift sale was targeted by software bots which illegally obtained tickets then f...

Today’s podcast: Is the relationship between the minority federal government and provincial governments deteriorating. Earlier this week Quebec premier Legault took to Twitter posting Justin Trudeau is attacking the Quebec nation and last weekend Trudeau visited Saskatoon and made it a point to not invite Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe to the event. - Guest posts to Twitter that leaders of allied...

Is the relationship between the minority federal government and provincial governments deteriorating. Earlier this week Quebec premier Legault took to Twitter posting Justin Trudeau is attacking the Quebec nation and last weekend Trudeau visited Saskatoon and made it a point to not invite Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe to the event. - Guest posts to Twitter that leaders of allied nations Germany a...

As Canada's federal government readies for what will no doubt be a stormy session we speak with Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre and what Mr. Poilievre told his caucus the focus of the party will be when parliament reopens. - Also, thoughts on the first anniversary of the so-called Freedom Convoy ensconced in Ottawa. Guest: Pierre Poilievre. Leader. Conservative Party of Canada...

22% of Canadians are "completely out of money." The number rises to 28% for women. IPSOS polling for Global News. Breaking down what that means across Canada. Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO IPSOS Public Affairs, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stranger assaults on the increase across Canada with particular attention being paid to such attacks on public transit in Toronto and Vancouver. How much of the issue deals with mental health concerns and how are victims of stranger assaults faring following these random and violent confrontations? Guests: Julia Rady. Victim of a violent stranger attack on Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Wrote o...

Three legal/court issues. Section 43 of Canada's Criminal Code states a schoolteacher, parent of persion in standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of correction toward a pupil or child, as the case may be, who is under his care, if the force does not exceed what is reasonable under the circumstances. -- The Supreme Court of Canada upholds mandatory minimum sentencing...

Hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk as BOC raised key interest rate for 8th time on Wednesday, economists warn. - Economists warn fedgov of turbulent year for Canada's economy. - Leaders of allies Germany and Japan visit Canada seeking LNG export commitment. Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Professor of Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Today’s podcast: The National Capital Commission is in the process of renaming the Sir John A MacDonald Parkway in Ottawa. Three City of Ottawa council members proposed the name change in the spirit of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples because MacDonald authorized the creation of residential schools when he served as Canada's first prime minister in the 1880's. The NCC announced Thursday the...

The National Capital Commission is in the process of renaming the Sir John A MacDonald Parkway in Ottawa. Three City of Ottawa council members proposed the name change in the spirit of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples because MacDonald authorized the creation of residential schools when he served as Canada's first prime minister in the 1880's. The NCC announced Thursday the new name of the p...

Tom, an RGS listener in Manitoba sent email about his increased costs dealing with energy like his natural gas heating bill. For December $526 with the carbon tax component $96 and his rebate cheque from the federal government at $104. And, writes Tom "there's still the hidden portion of the tax in my gasoline, at the grocery store, drug store, clothing store, etc purchases." Tom continues "in my...