The Roy Green Show

Ottawa investing $1 billion in nuclear energy. (Darlington, Ontario) Guest: Dr. Chris Keefer. President: Canadians for Nuclear Energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's Rouleau Commission developments from the perspective of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Surprises? Shocks? Anything heard to support fedgov invoking of Emergencies Act? Guest: Cara Zwibel. Lawyer and Director of the CCLA's Fundamental Freedoms Program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada's delegation to the Queen's funeral spent almost $400,000 for hotel rooms in London alone. Postmedia story by Brian Lilley. Guest: Brian Lilley. Political Columnist, Toronto Sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: On Monday Canada's premiers called for new and sustainable healthcare funding partnership with the federal government through the Canada Health Transfer. - Meanwhile the Canadian Medical Association alerts: "Critical family physician shortage must be addressed." Some 4.8 million Canadians have no family doctor. Guest: Dr. Lawrence Loh. President: College of Family Physicians of Ca...

On Monday Canada's premiers called for new and sustainable healthcare funding partnership with the federal government through the Canada Health Transfer. - Meanwhile the Canadian Medical Association alerts: "Critical family physician shortage must be addressed." Some 4.8 million Canadians have no family doctor. Guest: Dr. Lawrence Loh. President: College of Family Physicians of Canada.  Learn more...

Food insecurity in Canada. Almost 6 million Canadians living in food insecurity, including 1.4 million children last year. And today? - It's income and not cost of food which is the greater problem says our guest. - Also says food banks are not the solution to the greater issue of food insecurity. Guest: Professor Valerie Tarasuk. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto and lead...

State of readiness of the CAF as the threat to Canada's claims of Arctic sovereignty will likely be tested. - Also CAF nowhere near its personnel requirements. - Our military hardware is insufficient, old and not what CAF members need to defend Canada and/or project military strength through our NATO alliance. - The PBO projects cost for Canada's 15 new warships to be $88 billion. Last year's esti...

RCMP investigating 3 reported Chinese police stations in Canada. China has a history of kidnapping individuals it wants to subjected to the country's justice system. Guest: Peter Humphrey. Former Reuters journalist, then owner of a corporate risk assessment firm in China. Arrested with his wife, imprisoned, faced a series of bogus charges, held in terrible conditions for 23 months before being dep...

Public Order Emergency Commission hearing continued this week, with Ontario premier Doug Ford and ON deputy premier Sylvia Jones creating headlines for refusing to comply with a Commission summons to testify. Ford and Jones are challenging the summons in federal court. Guest: Ari Goldkind. Lawyer and media commentator from Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Topp is the Canadian military reservist who spoke out against the forced removal of hundreds of unvaccinated CAF members while in uniform. Topp was facing 2 charges for doing so. Now facing four additional charges of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline laid by the CAF under the National Defence Act. Topp also walked across Canada protesting vaccine mandates for military per...

Gasoline up 20 cents this week but will drop 9 cents tomorrow. What to expect going foreward? - Liberal MP Ken McDonald from Avalon, Newfoundland votes with CPC for a carbon tax exemption for home heating oil. Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians for Affordable Energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bank of Canada raises interest rate; mild recession early '23; inflation; global economy impact on Canada; Canadian housing market. Guest: Moshe Lander. Economics professor, Concordia University, Montreal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Op ed in National Post: Pierre Poilievre is the great uniter in Canadian politics. Guest: Ted Morton. Prof Emeritus and executive Fellow at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary. Former Minister of Finance and Minister of Energy, Alberta. Wrote the op ed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Dr. Theresa Tam worries about a "worst case Covid" season. Will Canadians listen and opt for another vaccination (or more)? Guest: Dr. Isaac Bogoch. Infectious diseases. Toronto General Hospital. Canadians are going hungry increasingly as food inflation rises. According to Food Banks Canada, 7 million Canadians reported going hungry between March of 2020 and March of 2022. Guest:...

Dr. Theresa Tam worries about a "worst case Covid" season. Will Canadians listen and opt for another vaccination (or more)? Guest: Dr. Isaac Bogoch. Infectious diseases. Toronto General Hospital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadians are going hungry increasingly as food inflation rises. According to Food Banks Canada, 7 million Canadians reported going hungry between March of 2020 and March of 2022. Guest: Kirstin Beardsley. CEO. Food Banks Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RGS has been added to the course outline for Professor Eric Kam's macroeconomics students at Toronto's Metropolitan University. RGS is also required listening for professor Kam's students so they, according to Dr. Kam, "learn about the real world." Guests: Professor Eric Kam and 2 of his students: Eileen and Tyler. Students of professor Kam engaged in listening to and discussing content of RGS in...

Blacklock's Reporter's Ottawa stories/developments including the Rouleau Commission on the Emergencies Act. Guest: Tom Korski. Executive editor, Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Op ed: Canada is a lightweight nation. Financial Post Guest: Diane Francis, writer of the op ed. Journalist, author, editor-at-large, National Post. Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. Expert on Canada and Canada-U.S. relations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Resentment in the Canadian Federation. Canadians in every province are resentful about their province's place in the federation. The result of the new Resentment Index from the Confederation of Tomorrow survey. Guest: Charles Breton. Executive director: Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Food inflation and food costs. Even when food inflation slows it doesn't mean food prices will begin to lower, only that they'll slow down as far as increasing costs are concerned. And while inflation slowed to 6.9% in September, food inflation rose to 11.4%, a 41-year high. Guest: Sylvain Charlebois. Professor, Dalhousie University. Director Agri-Foods Analytics Laboratory Much b...

Food inflation and food costs. Even when food inflation slows it doesn't mean food prices will begin to lower, only that they'll slow down as far as increasing costs are concerned. And while inflation slowed to 6.9% in September, food inflation rose to 11.4%, a 41-year high. Guest: Sylvain Charlebois. Professor, Dalhousie University. Director Agri-Foods Analytics Laboratory. Learn more about your...

Much being said about major grocery chains profits and Loblaws freezing no name foods costs for a few months. But what about the independent grocers across Canada? How do they establish pricing? What are their challenges? Guest: Giancarlo Trimarchi. Independent grocery stores owner in GTA (Vince's Markets). Also Chair of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers. Learn more about your ad choi...

Jagmeet Singh challenging major grocers chains nationally on too much profit at this time. Guest: Jagmeet Singh. Federal NDP leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Invoking of the Emergencies Act. Public Order Emergencies Commission hearings to date. Canadian Civil Liberties Association has not heard anything to justify invoking of the E.A. Guest: Cara Zwibel. Director: Fundamental Freedoms Program, Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices