The Roy Green Show

While inflationary pressure is easing the Bank of Canada is nevertheless expected to raise its interest rate one more time next week. After that? Will Canada experience recessionary pressure for the balance of the calendar year? Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Professor of Macroeconomics at Metropolitan University in Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada announces 200 Senator Armoured Personnel Carriers (suited for police operations more than militaryh) will be shipped to Ukraine's military along with 39 Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (originally intended for the CAF). Justin Trudeau also mused about sending Canadian Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine. However, many of the Canadian Leopards are reporterd to be in sufficient disrepair to not...

Controversy swirling around Alberta premier Danielle Smith concerning CBC news story someone in the premier's office contacted provincial prosecutors. Smith's office denies or unaware. (declined our interview request for today) Guest: Duane Bratt. Political science professor, Mount Royal University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The so-called "just transition" plan which according to Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government is to create a job transformation for traditional energy workers to bridge to a so-called green energy economy. Trudeau has been committed to such a transformation since 2019, but details are absent and this week Blacklock's Reporter revealed a briefing memo federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan...

Russia continues its assault on Ukraine and is said to be preparing for a ramping up of its attack. The Ukraine military continues to ask for NATO battle tanks and NATO allies are deliberating whether to deliver German Leopards to Ukraine. Our guest insists NATO nations must ramp up support for Ukraine and warns Russia that should they somehow manage to defeat the Ukraine military that Russia will...

Global News B.C.: Twin brothers killed in Saanich, B.C. bank shooting 'wanted to shoot and kill police': report. Guest: Darrian Matassa-Fung. Global News B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mexico outlaws smoking outside a family home (that includes open air venues and beaches). - This week it was recommended warning labels be affixed to all alcohol containers in Canada. With healthcare under massive stress and with smoking and excessive consumption of alcohol contributing to serious and negative health outcomes is it ethical for medical institutions (and individual doctors) to impos...

Today’s podcast: Throughout the pandemic and economic upheaval a constant in peoples lives has been their favourite music and artists. Over the past 13 months some of the world's great rock artists have died. Thursday of this week it was singer/songwriter David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash {and Young}. On January 10, guitarist Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group. Beck is often lis...

Throughout the pandemic and economic upheaval a constant in peoples lives has been their favourite music and artists. Over the past 13 months some of the world's great rock artists have died. Thursday of this week it was singer/songwriter David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash {and Young}. On January 10, guitarist Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group. Beck is often listed as one of the...

More on the developing and increasing crisis in Canada's healthcare system as 5 million Canadians have no family physician. Why has healthcare deteriorated to the extent Canadians are dying under-cared for, or while simply waiting for the most basic of care, including in hospital E.R.'s? Note: the federal government and provinces are closing in on a 10 year agreement to fund healthcare. The curren...

The Trudeau government is reviewing "aggressive measures" to clear the immigration backlog. Why is the immigration backlog so large? What might those aggressive measures be? Are the government's plans to permit 500,000 newcomers annually by 2025 realistic? Are the 75% of Canadians who have expressed concern the number is too high and will negatively affect housing, healthcare and government servic...

Stranger attacks. In Toronto 8 teen girls between the ages of 13-16 are charged with second-degree murder in the swarming death of a 59 year old homeless man in December. According to police the girls met on social media and congregated downtown on a Saturday night. - Six teen boys have been charged in a swarming attack which left two store employees injured last November. This after the teens had...

How does an immigrant to Canada from India who became premier of British Columbia and subsequently federal Minister of Health assess the above issue of 'to be fast-tracked into Canada should include a willingness to live in and engage professional skills where those skills are needed? And how does he assess the current healthcare crisis in Canada? Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Former premier of British Co...

Montreal Econonic Institute study on value of availability of duplicate private medical insurance, supplementary to the government-run scheme. Would help lower wait times by mkaing the private system acessible to the middle-class. Very successful in Australia where 45% of the population has a duplicate insurance policy. Guest: Renaud Brossard. Senior director of communications. MEI. Learn more abo...

Today’s podcast: Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada joins us for a question and answer segment on the economy, bail reform and justice, carbon taxes, Poilievre's public challenges of the use of McKinsey as a consultant firm by the Liberals and paying the firm $66 million Poilievre being challenged and criticized for speaking to the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Publi...

Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada joins us for a question and answer segment on the economy, bail reform and justice, carbon taxes, Poilievre's public challenges of the use of McKinsey as a consultant firm by the Liberals and paying the firm $66 million Poilievre being challenged and criticized for speaking to the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy think ta...

Former federal Minister of Finance Bill Morneau in his Where to From Here book is highly critical of Justin Trudeau as prime minister and joins the expanding ranks of previously high ranking Liberal MPs/cabinet ministers disillusioned with Trudeau. Morneau writes "Soon after the election (2015) I came to realize that while his performance skills were superb, his management and interpersonal commun...

NBC News is reporting a key advisor to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccine panel is questioning whether more Covid booster shots are necessary for healthy, younger people. Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that evidence supporting new versions of the boost...

Canadians are Pessimistic as we being 2023 with 83% believing Canada is in recession. Pollara Strategic Insights annual economic outlook. Guest: Dan Arnold. Chief Strategy Officer at Pollara (and formerly very active in the Justin Trudeau election/re-election campaigns at the PMO). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Premiers urge Ottawa to reform bail system after killing of OPP officer. Fourth police officer killed in the line of duty in a matter of months. Guest: Scott Newark. Former Alberta crown attorney, senior policy advisor to a federal public safety minister, fmr executive director of the Canadian Police Association, Vice Chair and Special Counsel for the Ontario Office of Victims of Crime. Learn more...

Do Canadians have reason to feel so pessimistic with 83% believing we are in recession already? Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Professor of Macroeconomics at Toronto Metropolitan University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Canada is embroiled over federal firearms legislation, Bill C-21, a Texas jury is to decide the fate of 'vigilante' who killed a robber in a diner: Associated Press. An individual with a violent criminal past including armed robbery in which a man was killed, and for which the individual in question received a 15 year prison sentence had been in the process of holding up the diner in Houston wh...

Blacklock's Reporter and their Ottawa/federal government/agencies stories to begin the new year. Guest: Tom Korski. Exec editor. Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Last Saturday we began a conversation with the current and immediate past presidents of the Canadian Medical Association about the crisis enveloping Canadian health care. Today Dr's Alika Lafontaine and Katharine Smart continue on our program with their assessment of what Canada's healthcare system is most in need of. Dr. Smart has repeatedly stated "money should follow the patien...

Last Saturday we began a conversation with the current and immediate past presidents of the Canadian Medical Association about the crisis enveloping Canadian health care. Today Dr's Alika Lafontaine and Katharine Smart continue on our program with their assessment of what Canada's healthcare system is most in need of. Dr. Smart has repeatedly stated "money should follow the patient." This as a new...