The Roy Green Show

Ontario government looking to increase role of private health care. As Canada's 13 different health care systems face crisis is it time for private healthcare options to increase? Or at least private healthcare insurance? We speak with one of Canada's leading private health insurance proponents whose case is destined for the Supreme Court of Canada. Guest: Dr. Brian Day. Founder of Cambie Surgery...

Trudeau government announces the purchase of the F35 fighter plane years after declaring they never would. - this follows the announcement of surface ships for the RCN and the spending $400 million to purchase missile defence systems from the U.S. for Ukraine. Canada's military has had no such missile system for many years. The announced purchase of F35 fighter planes to replace Canada's half-cent...

Damar Hamlin's health is improving by the day. Out of hospital, many wondering if the Buffalo Bills defensive back may make an appearance at tomorrow's Bills vs Dolphins playoff game. Guest: Tim O'Shei. Has for years covered the Bills for the Buffalo News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Vancouver man plans to open the city's first crack/heroin/fentanyl commercial outlet, although the sale of such drugs remains a criminal offence. On January 31, B.C. will decriminalize personal-use quantities of heroin, fentanyl, meth, cocaine and MDMA. Posession of less than 2.5 grams of those drugs will no longer be considered illegal.  Guest: Dr. Brian Conway. Medical director and infectious...

Meanwhile, Canadian chronic pain patients, increasingly suffering terribly and increasingly thinking of suicide according to a Chronic Pain Association of Canada survey. CCP's are finding it more and more difficult to obtain prescription opioid pain medications which make life bearable. Guests: Barry Ulmer. Executive Director. Chronic Pain Association of Canada. & Sarah. A successful Canadian prof...

Federal immigration ministern Sean Fraser declares Canada needs more newcomers. Sets immigration number at 500,000 by 2025. - Our guest's organization, the Association of Canadian Studies, recently released information from a national poll conducted by Leger on reaction to Liberals immigration numbers. 75% of Canadians said they remain very or somewhat concerned the increased number of newcomers t...

Today’s podcast: Alberta in 2023. On the first weekend of the year we speak with Premier Danielle Smith about the scheduled provincial election on May 29, 2023. Other issues the premier considers key for the people of Alberta and Alberta's role nationally, including her government's relationship with the federal government. That includes Alberta's challenging Ottawa on Bill C-21 and the premier's...

Alberta in 2023. On the first weekend of the year we speak with Premier Danielle Smith about the scheduled provincial election on May 29, 2023. Other issues the premier considers key for the people of Alberta and Alberta's role nationally, including her government's relationship with the federal government. That includes Alberta's challenging Ottawa on Bill C-21 and the premier's response to Ottaw...

In June of 2021, Chief Cadmus Delorme of Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan announced the finding of 751 unmarked graves at a cemetary near the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School. What are the issues of greatest interest and substance for Indigenous people in Canada as we begin 2023, in the spirit of national reconciliation? Guest: Chief Cadmus Delorme. Cowesses First Nation,...

Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is the new threat, but how much of a threat? Is this the year Covid should be declared endemic instead of a public health emergency, particularly as it continues to mutate and present itself in potentially more dangerous forms? - Are vaccines and boosters the answer to keep the wraps on Covid largely in '23? - Preceding variants. How much of a threat do they continue to...

As the war between Ukraine and Russia begins its second calendar year Putin announced and violated a 36 hour ceasefire January 6 and 7 over Orthodox Christmas which Ukraine president Zelenskyy argued was just a Putin ruse to resupply Russian troops and stop the advances of Ukraine's military. Meanwhile the U.S., France and Germany announce more battlefield armoured vehicles for Ukraine but stop sh...

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Iran shooting down Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 over Tehran claiming more than 170 lives, including 138 who had ties to Canada. 55 were Canadian citizens, 30 were permanent residents of Canada. Guest: Amir Arsalani. Member of the Association of Families of Flight PS 752 victims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3rd anniversary of Iran shooting down of PS 752 Guest: Michael Chong. CPC MP and Foreign Affairs shadow minister Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bryan Kohberger, criminology Ph'D candidate at the Washington State University arrested and charged in the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students. Developments leading to the arrest and charges are many and we're beginning to learn more about the police and scientific investigation which led to Kohberger being arrested by an FBI SWAT team in the early morning hours of December 29. We...

2023 and the price of oil and how that may/will be reflected at the pump for Canadians as far as gasoline and diesel price is concerned. Guest: Dan McTeague. President. Canadians for Affordable Energy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills improving health.  Guest: Terry Totton. Head football coach at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh and Damar Hamlin's high school coach. Criminal drug cartels at war with the Mexican national government. This week virtual open warfare broke out as Ovidio Guzman, son of cartel kingpin El Chapo Guzman was captured by Mexican forces after the...

Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills improving health.  Guest: Terry Totton. Head football coach at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh and Damar Hamlin's high school coach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Criminal drug cartels at war with the Mexican national government. This week virtual open warfare broke out as Ovidio Guzman, son of cartel kingpin El Chapo Guzman was captured by Mexican forces after the president of Mexico had ordered the release of Ovidio in order to avoid continuing assaults by cartel gunmen. Canadian travelers were urged by the federal government to shelter in place in Mexico...

Healthcare. Canadians #1 issue at the outset of 2023. How do the two doctors most recently presidents of the Canadian Medical Association identify the most significant healthcare needs of Canadians and what do these doctors declare is critical to repairing our broken national healthcare system? Guests: Dr. Katherine Smart. Immediate past-president, CMA and Yukon pediatrician. Has worked in major u...

According to the WHO and national public health in Canada the Covid variant XBB.1.5 is the new threat to health globally and here in Canada. (Tomorrow we'll get deeper into this XBB variant threat) How do pharmaceutical companies create new vaccines, boosters and other anti-viral treatments for Covid variants for a complete age range of Canadians when we don't know until the variant is established...

Tim O'Shei is a Buffalo News reporter who will this weekend have a major story on how the people of Buffalo are processing what occurred in Cincinatti to Damar Hamlin. How do Bills fans respond to the NFL decision to not complete the Bills/Bengals game and how the league has rearranged its season-ending games schedule? Guest: Tim O'Shei. Buffalo News. Has covered the Bills for many years. Learn mo...

On the first weekend of 2023 we ask 'where is the price of oil and thereby gasoline and diesel going in 2023? How much more might we be paying at the pumps and just as importantly, how much more might trucking firms be paying for diesel since literally everything owned by Canadians arrived by truck? And the trucker's perspective. The trucking industry has been hurt by Covid, the supply chain short...

Families of police officers attacked and killed in the line of duty. Their trauma which endures. Guest: Jason Harnett. Brother Andrew killed New Year’s Eve 2020 during a routine traffic stop in Calgary where he was a CPS Sergeant. Jason Harnett this week attended the funeral for OPP officer Gregorz Pierzchala. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: SurvivorPerspectives.com provides a Survivor Perspective for Change From Military Sexual Trauma Survivors. Front Line Workshops. Already worked with approx 2300 active CAF members, from privates to Generals. Guest: Major Donna Riguidel (ret'd). Director and co-founder of SurvivorPerspectives.com. Survivor of rape. Invictus Games participant for Canada. Year-ender interview on IPSO...

SurvivorPerspectives.com provides a Survivor Perspective for Change From Military Sexual Trauma Survivors. Front Line Workshops. Already worked with approx 2300 active CAF members, from privates to Generals. Guest: Major Donna Riguidel (ret'd). Director and co-founder of SurvivorPerspectives.com. Survivor of rape. Invictus Games participant for Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...