Roy Green Show

On January 1, the carbon tax rose again. The Clean Fuel Regulation which began in July of last year is at approximately 25% of its impact by 2030 and the PBO told us on air the CFR will most directly hurt Canadians least able to afford the increased cost. What lies ahead, as well with gasoline, natural gas and diesel costs? Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians for Affordable Energy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Trudeau's challenged 'free' Christmas/new year vacation in Jamaica occupying a $9,300 nightly rental residence owned by a 'friend' of the Trudeau family. Planned intimidation of Jewish residents of Toronto, including arson. Guest: Lorrie Goldstein. Editor emeritus, Toronto Sun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Jeffrey Epstein human trafficking and release of 170 names, including the very rich and famous, previously withheld in court documents (not all are suspected of engaging in sexual assault of teen girls). More names to come. What's ahead? Guest: Ari Goldkind. Toronto criminal lawyer and media commentator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Take a look back at Roy's best interviews of 2023 with our end-of-year encore presentations of the Roy Green Show! Today's presentation includes: Sophie Gregoire (Trudeau) re-partners. What might we expect? By the book court case, or VIP treatment from the court? "Re-partnered?" Guest: Vancouver family lawyer and media commentator Scott Taylor.  Originally Aired Oct. 28, 2023.       In Vancouver rental prices are the highest in Canada. Average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment vaults to over $3,000 per month. Guest: Robert Patterson, lawyer and tenant advocate at the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, Vancouver. (TRAC). TRAC also advises on rents across the province. Other provinces not far behind B.C. Originally Aired Aug. 19, 2023. The Taylor Swift Eras Tour will stop in Toronto in November 2024, the tour's only Canadian performances and massive numbers of fans clamoring for tickets which went on sale Wednesday. The process of obtaining a ticket through Ticketmaster is exhausting involving the obtaining o

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Roy, and lawyer Scott Taylor discuss the meaning of the phrase "re-partnered." Originally aired on October 28, 2023. Sophie Gregoire (Trudeau) re-partners. What might we expect? By the book court case, or VIP treatment from the court? "Re-partnered?" Guest: Vancouver family lawyer and media commentator Scott Taylor.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Lawyer Robert Patterson discusses the astronomical rent increases some Canadians saw this year. Originally aired on August 19, 2023. In Vancouver rental prices are the highest in Canada. Average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment vaults to over $3,000 per month. Guest: Robert Patterson, lawyer and tenant advocate at the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, Vancouver. (TRAC). TRAC also advises on rents across the province. Other provinces not far behind B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. More Taylor Swift Mania with Eric Alper! Originally aired on August 13, 2023 The Taylor Swift Eras Tour will stop in Toronto in November 2024, the tour's only Canadian performances and massive numbers of fans clamoring for tickets which went on sale Wednesday. The process of obtaining a ticket through Ticketmaster is exhausting involving the obtaining of access codes and the vast majority of fans will be disappointed.  Also, this week Canadian rock guitarist and founder of The Band, Robbie Robertson died at age 80.  Guest: That Eric Alper. 16 time Juno Award winner, 6 time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week who has worked with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time (thatericalper.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Roy and Professsor Jane Kirtley explore the dangers of AI in media. Originally aired on December 2, 2023. AI slithers into mainstream media? Sports Illustrated being accused of the creation of fake stories written by fake humans ...eg 'fake news'?   Guest: Professor Jane Kirtley. Media ethics and the law, University of Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. How much would you be willing to pay for an Andy Warhol painting? Originally aired on December 2, 2023. An Andy Warhol portrait of Mick Jagger, signed by both Warhol and Jagger, will hit the auction block at Cowley Abbott Toronto's live auction of important Canadian and International Art next Wednesday at 4pm EST. The painting is estimated at between $135,000 - $175,000.   Guest: Rob Cowley, president of Cowley Abbott and Canadian art specialist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Roy speaks with metastatic cancer survivor Todd Seals about their shared experience with the disease. Originally aired September 24, 2023. When men ignore health warnings and in this case symptoms of prostate health issues it can and does lead to metastasized prostate cancer. Metastesized prostate cancer is immediately classified as Stage 4. My reality, diagnosed in February of this year. Remarkable and effective very new and significantly life-extending medical treatments available, with more in the pipeline, however, they are not without considerable side effects which some men tolerate better than others. Todd Seals (toddseals63.blogspot.com) at age 42 was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer and given months to live and well before the newest drugs became available. 17 years later Todd is very much alive and while the cancer remains a threat, Todd Seals has become a much talked and written about survivor, motivator, as well as a contributor to U.S. W

Take a look back at Roy's best interviews of 2023 with our end-of-year encore presentations of the Roy Green Show! Today's presentation includes: Rents across Canada have achieved unaffordable status for many. Perhaps none more so than Toronto sisters Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Their 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment where they have lived for 3 years and for which they most recently have been paying $2,500 monthly rent was suddenly raised by $7,000 to $9,500 per month, to begin November 1, 2023. The sisters sought legal advice and will join us to share what they have found out. (Their building was constructed after 2018 making it exempt from rent control.) Guests: Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Originally aired Sept. 16, 2023. Teachers across Canada experiencing violence and harassment from students. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario reports 77% of ETFO members have personally experienced or witnessed violence against staff members. We talk to Britain's 'strictest headmistress' about how students must beh

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. The Farooq sisters tell their story of astronomical rent increases. Originally aired on September 16, 2023. Rents across Canada have achieved unaffordable status for many. Perhaps none more so than Toronto sisters Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Their 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment where they have lived for 3 years and for which they most recently have been paying $2,500 monthly rent was suddenly raised by $7,000 to $9,500 per month, to begin November 1, 2023. The sisters sought legal advice and will join us to share what they have found out. (Their building was constructed after 2018 making it exempt from rent control.) Guests: Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Take some lessons from Britain's Strictest Headmistress, Katharine Birbalsingh. Originally aired on October 8, 2023 Teachers across Canada experiencing violence and harassment from students. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario reports 77% of ETFO members have personally experienced or witnessed violence against staff members. We talk to Britain's 'strictest headmistress' about how students must behave in school or face consequences. Also, how at her inner city London school the emphasis is on the 3R's. The approach is yielding great success. although not without its critics. Guest: Katharine Birbalsingh. Headmistress, Michaela Community School, Wembley, London, UK (spent some years of her youth in the Toronto area attending school here). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Reflections on 2023's National Truth and Reconciliation Day with artist Adrian Sutherland. Originally aired on September 30, 2023 Guest: Adrian Sutherland. Lifelong resident of Attawapiskat First Nation. International award-winning singer/songwriter. Most recent song Notawe (Father), sung entirely in Adrian's first Cree language. Recorded and mastered by multi Grammy Award winning producer Colin Linden and mastered by another multi Grammy Award winner Greg Calbi. - Adrian as well addresses issues facing First Nations and life at Attawapiskat where homes are barely insulated against freezing winter temperatures and drinking water remains unsafe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Relive summer's Taylor Swift Mania, and muse on one-hit-wonders with Eric Alper. Originally aired August 27, 2023. The massive appeal of Taylor Swift and 31 million attempts to purchase tickets to her concerts in Toronto in November of 2024. As well, why do some artists become multi-decade successes while others have an occasional hit over the same period of time and yet others are so-called 'one hit wonders'? Guest: Eric Alper (thatericalper.com). 16-time JUNO Award winner and nominated six times as Publicist Of The Year during Canadian Music Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Joe Warmington takes a look at the Online News Act's impact on Canadian news media. Originally aired on July 15, 2023. Let's look at the Online News Act which Canadians have been commenting on. Let's cut to the chase. Where do you get your news, sports, social commentary today? Then a bit of nostalgia. What did you grow up with? Radio, television, newspapers? What do you miss? And frankly, who needs the tech "giants?" Just go to the websites of the individual Canadian news outlets and forget about Meta and Google. Guest: Joe Warmington. Columnist. PostMedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Replays of Roy's best interviews of 2023. Enjoy Murray Pomerance's take on the Hollywood strikes, and superstars like Tom Cruise, originally aired on July 16, 2023. Hollywood on strike! What is this strike about and why is this one described as very serious. And: Another blockbuster for Tom Cruise with the latest Mission Impossible movie. Is he the most successful Hollywood actor ever? Guest: Murray Pomerance. Is an independent scholar and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Melbourne. His most recent book, just out in paperback, is COLOR IT TRUE: Impressions of Cinema. One of the most respected authors of books about film and the actors and directors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: The province of Alberta is in conflict with the federal Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, with Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government passing the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act on December 8, 2022. - Smith has since challenged Ottawa on its overreach into provincial consitutionally enshrined jurisdiction over energy development, with the Supreme Court of Canada, by strong majority supporting Alberta's position energy development is provincial government domain. Smith has, like Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe, declared Ottawa is endangering national unity with its demands for elimination of fossil fuels to produce so-called 'clean' energy by 2030. Like Scott Moe, Danielle Smith was in Dubai for COP 28 and is not at all pleased with the positions adopted in Dubai by federal environment minister Stephen Guilbeault. Will the conflict between Alberta continue in 2024 and what might it look like and how is, in the premier's view, the Trudeau government stepping on provinc

Israel's war with Hamas with the inside Israel perspective. IDF soldiers have died in the war, but Israel considers this a war of survival. What are the thoughts and views of a former Canadian Ambassador to Israel? As well, the Canadian government voting this week for the U.N. resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire without naming Hamas anywhere in the resolution. As well, as our guest points out, Hamas is a designated terrorist organization by the Canadian government. In 2018, a motion at the U.K. to condemn Hamas was rejected. As well, the radicalization of youth concerns. Guest: Viviian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israell. Joining us from Tel Aviv. Attended ceremony at Hostage Square on Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most watched, disturbing and talked about realities of 2023 was the spiraling cost of food. We heard about consumer experiences and concerns regularly. This with 6.8 million Canadians, including 1.8 million children in Canada (U of T) experiencing food insecurity and food banks nationally stretched beyond their capacity to make up for the food shortfall. - There were questions about grocers engaging in profiteering at the expense of consumers and grocery chain CEO's were summoned to appear before parliament more than once. Food inflation outpaced general inflation for months on end. How do we assess 2023 and what should we expect for 2024? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director of the Agri Foods Lab at Dalhousie University and Project Lead for the 24th edition of Canada's Food Price Report 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices