Roy Green Show

Vice Admiral Mark Norman shares his thoughts on the conflict in Gaza, and the possible impacts of a cease-fire. Guest: Vice Admiral Mark Norman, former Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s 1986 and Michael Morrison is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. A chance to leave his life of poverty in Newark and start afresh. It’s a job offer he can’t afford to refuse. Michael has no idea what this new job has in store. But he soon realizes: he’s just joined ‘the biggest gang in America’. Join Seren Jones to hear Michael’s story and find out what it means to be both Black and Blue. Want to hear more? You can follow along on your favourite podcast app here: https://link.chtbl.com/blackandblue-rssdrop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vivian Bercovici is a former Canadian Ambassador to Israel (2014-2016). Writes regular op. ed. pieces on Israel and now the war with Hamas. "Mother of Canadian murdered by Hamas given cold shoulder by Trudeau government." "Israel braces for what may come next." Guest: Vivian Bercovici.     Israel (IDF) ramps up its ground operation against Hamas in Gaza. Guest: Yaakov Katz. Former editor-in-chief, The Jerusalem Post. Also served as the JP's military reporter and defence analyst for a decade. Author of Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power. Co-author of Israel vs Iran - The Shadow War. Much admired/beloved Friends actor and Saturday Night Live host Matthew Perry dies of drowing at his home in California. This morning, on AM 640's Toronto This Weekend, Steve Paikin interviewed his brother, Jeff Paikin, about Jeff's friendship with Matthew, formed 30 years ago when Jeff lived in California. The Roy Green show aired a replay of their conversation. Television critic Bill

Vivian Bercovici is a former Canadian Ambassador to Israel (2014-2016). Writes regular op. ed. pieces on Israel and now the war with Hamas. "Mother of Canadian murdered by Hamas given cold shoulder by Trudeau government." "Israel braces for what may come next." Guest; Vivian Bercovici.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel (IDF) ramps up its ground operation against Hamas in Gaza. Guest: Yaakov Katz. Former editor-in-chief, The Jerusalem Post. Also served as the JP's military reporter and defence analyst for a decade. Author of Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power. Co-author of Israel vs Iran - The Shadow War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Much admired/beloved Friends actor and Saturday Night Live host Matthew Perry dies of drowing at his home in California. This morning, on AM 640's Toronto This Weekend, Steve Paikin interviewed his brother, Jeff Paikin, about Jeff's friendship with Matthew, formed 30 years ago when Jeff lived in California. The following is a replay of their conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Television critic Bill Brioux reflects on the legacy of the late Matthew Perry. Guest: Bill Brioux. Brioux.tv: the podcast. Senior member Television Critics Association of North America. From Toronto.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Sylvain Charlebois: "Regardless of what some experts claim, we still lack a complete understanding of how the carbon tax is affecting Canada's food security. Therefore, pausing the carbon tax across the food supply chain is crucial at this time." Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Dalhousie Unversity. Director of the Agri foods analytics lab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A National Post op-ed written by Adam Legge proposes that net-zero grid rules unfit for realities of Canadian geography. Guest: Adam Legge. President, Business Council of Alberta. His op ed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Girl Guides Canada is refusing to participate in the Kanata, Ontario, Santa Claus parade. Reason? Unable to participate in any activities to do with "faith-based beliefs, behaviours and traditions." Conflicts with the GGC DEI policy.  GGC declined to be interviewed by me. Guest: Allan Hubley. Kanata, ON, city councillor.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Israel has expanded ground operations in its war against Hamas including cutting off telecommunications and accuses Hamas leadership of using hospitals and patients/staff as human shields. - Also, Israel reaction to massed pro-Hamas demonstrations in Canada and open displays of antisemitism and tearing down of posters depicting Hamas hostages kidnapped in Israel.                 Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel Ambassador to Canada   Tim Danson discusses Correctional Service Canada's involvement in preventing serial killer/rapist Paul Bernardo from issuing a statement to media. - As well, Bernardo's parole hearing in a matter of weeks with the French and Mahaffy families in the hearing room just feet away from Kristen and Leslie's murderer. Guest: Tim Danson. Lawyer for French and Mahaffy families.   Beauties and the Beast: Fair to suggest Justin Trudeau folded on the carbon tax on heating oil because of increasingly plummeting national polling numbers?   And:  How informed should Canadians be kept

Two stories by Bryan Passifiume in the National Post. 1: As inflation pressures grow, Bank of Canada execs take home millions in bonuses (CTF). 2: Directives to military chaplains urge expunging God, religion from Remembrance Day, public ceremonies. (confirmed by official from Chaplaincy Director's office). Guest: Bryan Passifiume. National Post, reporter, feature writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Major demonstrations (pro-Israel and pro-Hamas/Palestinian) set for Toronto this weekend. We speak with Toronto Sun feature reporter Joe Warmington who interviewed the former Toronto Mayoral candidate arrested after she tore down a poster of a Hamas kidnap victim resulting in an altercation. Guest: Joe Warmington. Toronto Sun, feature writer/reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Beauties and the Beast: Fair to suggest Justin Trudeau folded on the carbon tax on heating oil because of increasingly plummeting national polling numbers?   And:  How informed should Canadians be kept about the goings-on in the Justin Trudeau-Sophie Gregoire divorce proceedings and what is none of the Canadian public's business (at this point Gregoire's new partner in the process of divorcing him. Accusations have begun in both camps.)? Guests: Catherine Swift, president Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada.         Michelle Simson, former Liberal MP and seatmate to Justin Trudeau in parliament.         Linda Leatherdale. VP Cambria Canada and former Money Editor, Toronto Sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawyer Tim Danson discusses Correctional Service Canada's involvement in preventing serial killer/rapist Paul Bernardo from issuing a statement to media. - As well, Bernardo's parole hearing in a matter of weeks with the French and Mahaffy families in the hearing room just feet away from Kristen and Leslie's murderer. Guest: Tim Danson. Lawyer for French and Mahaffy families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel has expanded ground operations in its war against Hamas including cutting off telecommunications and accuses Hamas leadership of using hospitals and patients/staff as human shields. - Also, Israel's reaction to massed pro-Hamas demonstrations in Canada and open displays of antisemitism and tearing down of posters depicting Hamas hostages kidnapped in Israel.                 Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel Ambassador to Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Podcast: Israel closer to ground military action against Hamas in Gaza. Guest: Lt. Colonel Jonathan Conricus. Spokesman for IDF. (we weren't able to connect with this guest yesterday)   Is IDF trained/equipped for urban warfare and does Israel have sufficient troops for a 2 front war? Will U.S. send troops back into the Middle East if Hezbollah engages the IDF? - The hastily arranged Peace Summit in Egypt. Accomplish anything? Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. International security expert. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Fellow at the NATO College in Rome. Book: Security, Cooperation, Governance. (University of Michigan Press)   From Jerusalem Rabbi Raphael Shore. Originally from London, Ontario, Rabbi Shore has had three children serve in the IDF with a fourth to enter the IDF shortly. The Rabbi is also a friend of a family whose child was shot and killed October 7, at the Israeli music festival. Guest: Rabbi Raphael Shore, Canadian-Israeli film writer, producer. Founder o

The Quarterly Consumer Debt Index update from MNP LLP: Increasing number of Canadians report a decline in their capacity to handle an interest rate increase. 4 in10 say their ability to cover an additional $130 in interest payments on debt is much worse. MNP CEO: "many Canadians are stretched uncomfortably close to broke."   Guest: Donna Carson. Licensed insolvency trustee with MNP LLP Calgary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meanwhile Ottawa Jewish father David Baker's son was subjected to an antisemitic attack, including being exposed to a swastika, at school. Baker engaged with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board about the incident. Largely satisfied with the response from the OCDSB. Guest: David Baker, Ottawa father.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices