Roy Green Show

Julia Mallot took her 19 year old daughter to St. Mary's General Hospital E.R. in Kitchener, Ontario where her daughter was diagnosed with acute appendicitis while experiencing terrible pain. It took 19 hours, which included the assigning of an E.R. bed, only to have the bed then required for another patient, before Julia Mallot's daughter received very necessary surgery.  (2 weeks ago CMA president Dr. Kathleen Ross joined us to specifically speak about the critical concerns about the condition of Canada's E.R's   Guest: Julia Mallot, mother of 19 year old, op ed writer, Julia Mallot is also a trans person and host of alottamalotta.com where gender identity and ideology are discussed. She agrees with some of Alberta premier Danielle Smith's planned gender identity policy changes but believes additional nuance is required on issues such as hormone therapies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two weeks ago the Federal Court determined the Trudeau government's invoking of the Emergencies Act violated Canadians' protections under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. - Then questions were asked about the so-called COUTTS 4 who have remained held in pre-trial custody and without bail since February 13/14, 2022, after being arrested and charged at the Coutts, Alberta - U.S. border crossing, as truckers and farmers blocked the border while protesting federal Covid-19 mandates.  The four men face charges of conspiracy to commit murder (police officers), possession of a weapon for dangerous purpose and mischief over $5,000.  Lawyers have questioned whether the men's constitutional rights to engage in a fulsome defence of the charges against them have been violated. They had been scheduled to stand trial last June.  This week, an Ontario Superior Court overturned and earlier court acquittal on a mischief charge against Allen Remley, a Freedom Convoy protester in Ottawa. Mr. Remley had been accused by polic

Global News poll: Affordability is the top concern for Canadians as parliament resumes this week. Ipsos Public Affairs poll. Guest: Darrell Bricker, CEO, IPSOS Public Affairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Parliamentary Ethics committee meets on Tuesday as the new parl sessions begin this week. Justin Trudeau's $9,300 per night vacation lodgings donated by a 'friend' on the agenda - and interim Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finkenstein to testify. Democracy Watch writes von Finkenstein has one of the worst enforcement records, adding "he has buried 8 ethics complaints, including about PM Trudeau, and gutted 3 key rules - Is he the lapdog Trudeau has been trying to get as Ethics Commissioner?" Guest: Duff Conacher, co-founder Democracy Watch(.ca), lawyer and author.   Two issues with our guest:  Globe and Mail reports: TD Bank facess stiff penalty from FinTrac for faulty controls to prevent money laundering (in Canada) Book: Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada. Published by McGill-Queen's University Press.  Co-editors: Christian Leuprecht and Jamie Ferrill. and: Top NATO military leaders in Europe are warning publicly that NATO nations must prepare for war with

Parliamentary Ethics committee meets on Tuesday as the new parl sessions begin this week. Justin Trudeau's $9,300 per night vacation lodgings donated by a 'friend' on the agenda - and interim Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finkenstein to testify. Democracy Watch writes von Finkenstein has one of the worst enforcement records, adding "he has buried 8 ethics complaints, including about PM Trudeau, and gutted 3 key rules - Is he the lapdog Trudeau has been trying to get as Ethics Commissioner?" Guest: Duff Conacher, co-founder Democracy Watch(.ca), lawyer and author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two issues with our guest:  Globe and Mail reports: TD Bank facess stiff penalty from FinTrac for faulty controls to prevent money laundering (in Canada) Book: Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada. Published by McGill-Queen's University Press.  Co-editors: Christian Leuprecht and Jamie Ferrill. and: Top NATO military leaders in Europe are warning publicly that NATO nations must prepare for war with Russia. Norway's defence chief saying Europe has three years to prepare for war with Putin's Russia. Norway shares a border with Russia. The head of the British Army, Sir Patrick Saunders, this week said Britain should train a "citizen army" of 120,000 soldiers well prepared and equipped to fight the Russians. Hee called as well for modernization and better equipping the British armed forces. Sweden's Chief of Defence has also warned of war with Russia and Christian Moller, a leading voice at the German council for Foreign Affairs has given a maximum timeline of 6 years before a war with Russia, once war in Ukra

New developments in the story of five members of Team Canada's 2018 junior team facing allegations of sexual assault: Alex Formenton has surrendered to London Ont. police. Criminal defense lawyer Ari Goldkind offers his thoughts on the situation. Guest: Ari Goldkind, Toronto criminal lawyer and media commentator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spoke two weeks ago 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. Two weeks ago 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 two weeks ago 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 and Gillespie (Ron Dalton himself was innocent of the murder of his wife, although he was convicted in he

Blacklock's Reporter: This week in Ottawa with as a listener described, "the what the h-ll is going on" stories often resulting in massive spending of taxpayer dollars. Guest: Tom Korski. Executive editor. Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Israel's response to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) interim response to South Africa's charge that Israel is conducting genocide against Palestinians in Gaza declares the charge to be "false and outrageous" and "it constitutes a shameful exploitation of the Genocide Convention that is not only wholly unfounded in fact and law, but morally repugnant." As well: Individuals in the employ of UN agency UNRWA, which supports the relief and human development of Palestinians, discovered to have supported and aided the Hamas brutality toward Israeli civilians on October 7, '23.  Guest: Israel's Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed   The Federal Court decides Ottawa's invoking of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy activities in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada to have been a violation of all Canadians Charter rights. Response from federal government is the Federal Court decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Guest: Joanna Baron. Executive Director: Canadian Constitu

Israel's response to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) interim response to South Africa's charge that Israel is conducting genocide against Palestinians in Gaza declares the charge to be "false and outrageous" and "it constitutes a shameful exploitation of the Genocide Convention that is not only wholly unfounded in fact and law, but morally repugnant." As well: Individuals in the employ of UN agency UNRWA, which supports the relief and human development of Palestinians, discovered to have supported and aided the Hamas brutality toward Israeli civilians on October 7, '23.  Guest: Israel's Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Federal Court decides Ottawa's invoking of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy activities in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada to have been a violation of all Canadians Charter rights. Response from federal government is the Federal Court decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Guest: Joanna Baron. Executive Director: Canadian Constitution Foundation. Filed court challenge against the invoking of the Emergencies Act Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Globe and Mail reported this week five members of Team Canada's junior team in 2018 are facing sexual assault charges and have been ordered by the London (Ontario) Police Service to turn themselves in. How will the LPS investigation have taken place?   Will the fact none of the players ordered to turn themselves in now refused to do so voluntarily earlier be viewed negatively by police/Crown/courts? And How might a sexual assault case such as this unfold/develop in criminal court? Guests: Hank Idsinga. Former commander of the Toronto Police Service's homicide squad and AM 640 Toronto Crime Specialist. Lead detective in the Bruce McArthur serial killer case. Jacob "Jake" Jesin. Rotenberg, Shidlowski, Jesin: - RSJLaw Jake Jesin. Regularly represents clients facing serious allegations of sexual assault, domestic assault and child abuse.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A question we assembled for today's program: The Super Bowl / Taylor Swift / Travis Kelce intersection.   On February 10, Taylor Swift's Eras tour stops in Tokyo. On February 11, Super Bowl LVIII takes place in Las Vegas On February 16, Taylor Swift's Eras tour resumes in Melbourne If Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs win against the Baltimore Ravens tomorrow and are in the Super Bowl, is it likely Taylor Swift will fly 11 hours and 30 minutes from Tokyo to Las Vegas immediately following her February 10 performance, to be in attendance at the SB supporting boyfriend Travis Kelce in Vegas, February 11 (even in a private jet) and then turn around to fly 16 hours and 48 minutes from Las Vegas to Melbourne to prep for the resumption of the February, 16 Eras tour date? Is this what entertainment world superstars might do, or is it too big an ask, even for love? We ask one of the most knowledgeable music/entertainment experts. - As well for our guest, what are some of the more 'unusual' things music/entertainmen

On Tuesday 28 year old Bezhani Sarvar is alleged to have entered Edmonton city call carrying a long gun and incendiary devices described as long guns. Sarvar, according to Edmonton police statement "once inside City Hall he lit several handheld incendiary devices, believed to be Molotov cocktails, that caused one small fire outside an elevator. He then fired several shots from a long gun into the ceiling, walls and windows." There is reported to be a video, writes Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun, in a column which also appeared in the Edmonton Sun, in which Sarvar is believed to be heard citing "this genocide that's going on in Gaza and throughout the world." The voice on the video, includes "we will rise up against you guys, and we'll put you on trial." Rambles on about climate change, taxes and more. Joe Warmington wonders why this assault at Edmonton City Hall has received so little attention nationally. Joe's column is headlined: "This was a jihad-like terror attack in Canada that no one seems to know

Today’s podcast:   One week after the Alberta electrical grid was in danger of being so overloaded blackouts across the province were very near, premier Danielle Smith posts to 'X' that federal environment minister Guilbeault's various net zero plans for 2035 will cost $-trillions and lead to energy and food insecurity. Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta   As we approach the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is the situation on the ground in Ukraine worsening for the country's defending military?  Globe and Mail reporting forced conscription of military age Ukrainian males is taking place, causing much anxiety in the country. As well, the country's president has said Donald Trump's claim he can stop the war within 24 hours is "very dangerous."  Guest: Olexander Scherba joining us from Kyiv. Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria and member of the Ukraine diplomatic mission to the United States. Author of Ukraine vs Darkness: Undiplomatic thoughts.   Inflation numbers for December of '

One week after the Alberta electrical grid was in danger of being so overloaded blackouts across the province were very near, premier Danielle Smith posts to 'X' that federal environment minister Guilbeault's various net zero plans for 2035 will cost $-trillions and lead to energy and food insecurity. Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we approach the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is the situation on the ground in Ukraine worsening for the country's defending military?  Globe and Mail reporting forced conscription of military age Ukrainian males is taking place, causing much anxiety in the country. As well, the country's president has said Donald Trump's claim he can stop the war within 24 hours is "very dangerous."  Guest: Olexander Scherba joining us from Kyiv. Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria and member of the Ukraine diplomatic mission to the United States. Author of Ukraine vs Darkness: Undiplomatic thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices