Roy Green Show

NDP house motion in Canada's parliament tomorrow will see a vote of MPs to support or reject the recognizing of a State of Palestine and prohibit the sale of arms to Israel. Guest: Avi Benlolo. Founding chairman and CEO of the Abraham Global Peace Initiative and described as Canada's most prominent expert in Holocaust studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Podcast: Pierre Poilievre's "axe the (carbon) tax" national campaign continues and despite BC premier David Eby not joining the majority of Canada's premiers supporting either ending the carbon tax, or at least delaying the implementation of its April 1 scheduled increase and describing Poilievre's letter to the bc premier requesting his support for the "axe the tax" initiative as something from the Pierre Poilievre "baloney factory" the CPC leader, who national polling shows continues with his national campaign. We speak with Poilievre about carbon tax, national economy (bank economists expressing deep concern), crime and justice, immigration, Melanie Joly's photo with Mahmoud Abbas and more. As well, on Monday a federal NDP motion in parliament will have MPs voting on the NDP's call for Canada's support for the establishment of a State of Palestine, as well as an end to arm shipments from Canada to Israel. Guest: Pierre Poilievre. Leader: Conservative Party of Canada For years it is said that in

Pierre Poilievre's "axe the (carbon) tax" national campaign continues and despite BC premier David Eby not joining the majority of Canada's premiers supporting either ending the carbon tax, or at least delaying the implementation of its April 1 scheduled increase and describing Poilievre's letter to the bc premier requesting his support for the "axe the tax" initiative as something from the Pierre Poilievre "baloney factory" the CPC leader, who national polling shows continues with his national campaign. We speak with Poilievre about carbon tax, national economy (bank economists expressing deep concern), crime and justice, immigration, Melanie Joly's photo with Mahmoud Abbas and more. As well, on Monday a federal NDP motion in parliament will have MPs voting on the NDP's call for Canada's support for the establishment of a State of Palestine, as well as an end to arm shipments from Canada to Israel. Guest: Pierre Poilievre. Leader: Conservative Party of Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon

For years it is said that in the aviation industry the cliche was "if it's not Boeing, I'm not going." Now it's rumoured the cliche has become "if it's Boeing, I'm not going." Boeing's terrible record of producing safe airliners over the last years again earlier this year, as well as last week was highlighted through mishaps involving 737 Max aircraft including the door plug blowing out of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max in January, a 787 Max Dreamliner which plunged without warning injuring up to 50 passengers last week, also last week a tire falling off a Boeing 757 seconds after takeoff from San Francisco airport and the nose wheel of another Boeing 757 airliner broke away while it was taxiing toward takeoff at Atlanta International Airport in January. Boeing is under FAA investigation. Last Sunday I flew from Orlando to Toronto on a 737 Max 8 and it was an uneasy experience. What is going on with Boeing? Guest: Captain Raymond Hall. Former head of the Air Canada Pilots Association and multi-decade Air Canada c

G&M headline: More economists are getting deeply worried about Canada's future - and investors are taking notice. Earlier this month Scotiabank's head of capital markets economics Derek Holt wrote "I'm deeply worried about public policy in my country." Over last weekend BMO chief economist Doug Porter and National Bank strategist Stefane Marion joined the grim chorus. And the OECD projects Canada's economic performance this decade and through to 2060 will be dead last among advanced nations. Meanwhile, we have what the world needs and is willing to purchase, namely natural resources such as oil and natural gas. Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to ethics and ethical behaviour and the stunningly minor penalties for ethics violations for ignoring of ethics from the PM down to the occupants of the very back benches in parliament what is the story?  A former Liberal MP shares with us that not only was there (for her) the demand of unethical behaviour, but as well there were in 2007 significant penalties if that demand was not adhered to by the MP. - As well, our guest's husband was present when coaching on violating ethics took place.  Guest: Michelle Simson, former Liberal MP  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Next Saturday will see the state funeral for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. His son Ben has created a commemorative broadcast titled Remembering Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: a family tribute with Ben Mulroney to be aired on the full Corus radio network.   Guest: Ben Mulroney. Also contributor to AM 640, Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First GC Strategies owner Kristian Firth appears before parliamentary ethics committee challenging the federal auditor general's report on the company's spending of massive amounts of federal government funds after delivering the winning bid for the creation of the ArriveCan app. What's ahead and what are the concerns Canadian taxpayers should continue to harbour about the ArriveCan app's creation? Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder, Democracy Watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get caught up on the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! Today's best of the best: NDP MP Charlie Angus private members Bill 372 (which Angus compares to legislative efforts of the 1990's to punish the tobacco industry for wilfull and incorrect advertising), would result in positive advertising/messaging by oil and natural gas producers and their supporters could result in massive fines and possible imprisonment. Note: Angus did not reply to an invitation to appear on this program) Also: Joe Biden recently placed a temporary halt on issuing U.S. liquid natural gas export licences. Are many (most) First Nations in Canada supportive of encouraging Canada to engage in export of LNG?   Guest: Chris Sankey. Former elected councillor at Lax Kw'alaams first nation, businessman, op ed writer and senior Fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute.  Originally Aired Feb 10, 2024. Is Canada veering (stumbling) toward a late 2024 federal election of our own? Are federal political p

Get caught up on the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! NDP MP Charlie Angus private members Bill 372 (which Angus compares to legislative efforts of the 1990's to punish the tobacco industry for wilfull and incorrect advertising), would result in positive advertising/messaging by oil and natural gas producers and their supporters could result in massive fines and possible imprisonment. Note: Angus did not reply to an invitation to appear on this program) Also: Joe Biden recently placed a temporary halt on issuing U.S. liquid natural gas export licences. Are many (most) First Nations in Canada supportive of encouraging Canada to engage in export of LNG?   Guest: Chris Sankey. Former elected councillor at Lax Kw'alaams first nation, businessman, op ed writer and senior Fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute.  Originally Aired Feb 10, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get caught up on the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! Is Canada veering (stumbling) toward a late 2024 federal election of our own? Are federal political parties fairly focusing on the issues driving Canadian views and concerns, or are the parties in it for their own success? We ask a former premier and federal minister for his thoughts. As well, why are more younger Canadians than younger Ameicans and younger Canadian women supporting Donald Trump? Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Fmr British Columbia premier and former Liberal federal Minister of Health.  Originally Aired Jan 28, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get caught up on the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! This was a heaveily debated issue 30+ years ago and it's back. NDP sponsored children's rights legislation, Bill 273, would ban spanking of children at home or using force on children at school by supervisory adults (teachers) received support for a second reading in parliament by a 208-115 vote. Section 43 of the Criminal Code (introduced in 1892) and most recently amended by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004, permits parents to spank judiciously, not in anger and with age consideration of children. The Canadian Teachers Federation opposes the NDP bill/ What about parents? And how does a prominent criminal lawyer view the proposed legislation? (It has been argued parents forcing a child into a children's car seat might run afoul of no corporal punishment legislation.) Guest: Ari Goldkind. Criminal lawyer and media commentator. Originally Aired Feb 18, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad

Get caught up on the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! The February 2024 Canadian Maru Household Index about the economy and personal finances finds Canadians at our most negative/pessimistic since tracking began in 2020. "This month's index is like an elevator stalled and hanging by a thread over a deep, dark shaft." Guest: John Wright. Distinguished Fellow, Queen's University and executive vp at Maru Public Opinion. Originally Aired Feb 10, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get caught up on the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! Vehicle theft in Canada a national crisis? Guest: Amanda Dean. Vice president, Insurance Bureau of Canada, Ontario and Atlantic Canada regions. And: Bryan Gast. VP Investigative Services, Equite Association. Originally Aired Feb 10, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get caught up on the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! On the issue energy generation, nuclear power is increasingly(?) on the table in Canada. Premier Moe has discussed with us concerning Saskatchewan and in Ontario the Pickering nuclear power plant will undergo a massive multi-billion-dollar refurbishment of its four aging nuclear reactors. Meanwhile the Trudeau government's new clean electricity regs will require future power plants to produce net-zero carbon emissions. Guest: Dr. Chris Keefer, president, Canadians for Nuclear Energy, host of the Decouple Podcast, director of Doctors for Nuclear Energy and staff emergency physician at st. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto. Originally Aired Feb 3, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get caught up on the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! Today's best of the best: We spoke in January about New Brunswick convicted murderers Bobby Mailman and Wally Gillespie. Each was convicted in the 1980's for the same murder. Bobby Mailman spent 18 years in prison and Wally Gillespie spent 21 years imprisoned and yet the were both innocent of the crime. On January 14th, the Chief Justice of New Brunswick on the first day of a retrial acquitted the two men when the Crown said it had no evidence against them. Mailman though is now 76 and dying of cancer, while Gillespie is 80 and living in poverty. Meanwhile the the Justice Minister of New Brunswick has said nothing, even this week, of the wrongful conviction of both men, or about any compensation for the many years they were imprisoned while innocent.   We spoke on January 14th with Ron Dalton, president of Innocence Canada, which through its efforts was able to convince the federal justice minister to hold a secon

Catch up on the best of the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! We spoke in January about New Brunswick convicted murderers Bobby Mailman and Wally Gillespie. Each was convicted in the 1980's for the same murder. Bobby Mailman spent 18 years in prison and Wally Gillespie spent 21 years imprisoned and yet the were both innocent of the crime. On January 14th, the Chief Justice of New Brunswick on the first day of a retrial acquitted the two men when the Crown said it had no evidence against them. Mailman though is now 76 and dying of cancer, while Gillespie is 80 and living in poverty. Meanwhile the the Justice Minister of New Brunswick has said nothing, even this week, of the wrongful conviction of both men, or about any compensation for the many years they were imprisoned while innocent.   We spoke on January 14th with Ron Dalton, president of Innocence Canada, which through its efforts was able to convince the federal justice minister to hold a second trial for Mailman

Catch up on the best of the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! Blacklock's Reporter: From the week of January 22-28 in Ottawa, with as a listener described, "the what the h-ll is going on" stories often resulting in massive spending of taxpayer dollars. An early look at what eventually became the ArriveCan scandal. Guest: Tom Korski. Executive editor. Blacklock's Reporter. Originally Aired Jan 28, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catch up on the best of the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! Safer supply of drugs program. How effective? Perspectives on open availability of drugs like heroin and opioids to those addicted. A success? A dangerous failure? Guest: Dr. Brian Conway, Medical Director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre. Then: There are chronic pain patients (more than a million Canadians) often suffering debilitating pain and sometimes driven to suicide because continuing successful opioid pain medication regimens through a physician increasingly difficult. Guest: Barry Ulmer. Executive director: Chronic Pain Association of Canada. Originally Aired Feb 11, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catch up on the best of the year so far with this weekend's encore presentation of the Roy Green Show! National and sometimes violent farmer protests have erupted across Europe, as farmer with their tractors and other gear, as well as hay bales and more, challenging their governments and EU policies and taxes have and are blocking roads and highways in EU nations. Belgian farmers engaged in throwing debris at the EU parliament in Brussels and bottles as Belgian police. Nations involved include: Belgium, Netherlands, France, Poland, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria. How are Canada's farmers viewing what their counterparts are doing and might we see something similar in Canada, as the European protests grow in number? Canada's farmers have expressed their anger and frustration at the federal government's carbon tax and fertilizer policies. and the WCWGA website warns: "Ottawa to blame for impending food shortage storm." Guest: Carl Stewart. Director of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association.