Roy Green Show

This week in Canadian politics. Talking the Trudeau split, PM's remarks on housing, and the state of the government. Guest: Bryan Passifiume, reporter with the National Post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An update on everything surrounding the Trump indictment.   Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Global News’ Washington Correspondent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jackson Proskow on his conversation with Daniel Hodges, who was assaulted on Jan. 6, and what Hodges said he wants Americans to keep in mind as Trump is indicted   Guest: Jackson Proskow, the Washington Bureau Chief with Global News  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IPSOS Polling on how Canadians view the military.   Guest: Darrell Bricker, IPSOS CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taylor Swift is coming to Canada and an update on developments in the music industry. Guest: Alan Cross, broadcaster with Q107 and 102.1 the Edge and a commentator for Global News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Global News: Trudeau defends Canada's military spending against U.S. senator's scolding. Alaska senator Dan Sullivan rips into Canada's lack of proper military spending, missing our 2% GDP military spending promise, compromising our allies and directly asking the incoming Command General of NORAD, Lt. General Gregory Guillot to confront his Canadian counterparts on this issue.    Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Queen's University and Royal Military College. International security expert. Fellow at the NATO College in Rome. Book: Security. Cooperation. Governance. University of Michigan Press.    Police in Canada are using licence plate scanners to identify drivers in arrears on fines. U.S. police are now actively using AI to identify likely criminals by the way a vehicle is being driven and they have arrested individuals fleeing from serious criminal charges.  If this initiative were adopted in Canada would it be a clear violation of Charter protected privacy rights? Guest: Daniel Konikoff.

What the heck is going on in Hollywood? Actors, producers, writers strike. Top grossing films of 2023 are Super Mario Brothers and Barbie. Oppenheimer is gathering momentum and the 'Barbenheimer' phenomenon is underway as moviegoers see the Barbie movie and Oppenheimer often on the same day. Murray Pomerance has strong views about what is going on with 'publicity instead of film' and films themselves, particularly Oppenheimer which Murray describes as "drab and hopeless and awful." He likes the Barbie movie though. Guest: Murray Pomerance. Independent scholar and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. One of the most respected scholars and authors of film. His most recent book, just out in paperback, is Color it True: Impressions of Cinema.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What level of support do unions have among Canadians, particularly when unions vote to strike in high impact on national issues situations? Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO IPSOS Public Affairs. IPSOS polled Canadians for Global News on this issue during PSAC strike in April of this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News: B.C. port strike: Unionized workers vote to reject proposed contract settlement. Impact on national economy of further B.C. ports, particularly Vancouver, work stoppage. Guest: Matthew Holmes. Snr. VP, Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News: Trudeau defends Canada's military spending against U.S. senator's scolding. Alaska senator Dan Sullivan rips into Canada's lack of proper military spending, missing our 2% GDP military spending promise, compromising our allies and directly asking the incoming Command General of NORAD, Lt. General Gregory Guillot to confront his Canadian counterparts on this issue.    Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Queen's University and Royal Military College. International security expert. Fellow at the NATO College in Rome. Book: Security. Cooperation. Governance. University of Michigan Press.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Police in Canada are using licence plate scanners to identify drivers in arrears on fines. U.S. police are now actively using AI to identify likely criminals by the way a vehicle is being driven and they have arrested individuals fleeing from serious criminal charges.  If this initiative were adopted in Canada would it be a clear violation of Charter protected privacy rights? Guest: Daniel Konikoff. Director of the Privacy, Technology and Surveillance Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trudeau tears up his cabinet while more Liberal MPs are opting out of politics and the federal Liberals are slipping precipitously in national voter support. What do two former Liberal MPs believe is going on inside the party? Guests: Michelle Simson & Dan McTeague  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Follow up to last Sunday's RGS when Scott Moe joined us and challenged, more directly than previously, the Trudeau government as increasing the East/West divide, based on an op-ed by Yukon University professor Ken Coates and did not resist when I asked the premier if his fellow premiers across Canada have had it with the PM. Guest: Professor Ken Coates. We spoke with KC for 10 minutes last Sunday, but there's much more to be unpacked. Does Professor Coates see any parallels between the development of the politically successful Quebec sovereignty movement and what is developing in Western Canada. I related how I was present in Quebec when Rene Levesque gave personality to the Quebec sovereignty issue and was there for the election of the first PQ MNA's. I asked Ken Coates if he sees parallels in the West. His response: "They are fighting mad. Imagine this scenario. The Liberals appoint a Minister of Industry with a mandate to reduce emissions produced by manufacturing and processing. The focus would be on manu

On today's podcast: What might the full story be concerning former RCMP officer William Majcher? Arrested a week ago in Vancouver and charged with foreign interference, Majcher was granted bail on Tuesday of this week. It is alleged in and RCMP news release that Majcher "used his knowledge and his extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People's Republic of China." As well, it is alleged "Majcher contributed to the Chinese government's efforts to identify and intimidate an individual outside the scope of Canadian law." These offences are contained in the Security of Information Act.  Majcher had on several occasions been a house guest of author (22 Murders) and former Globe and Mail editor Paul Palango. Guest: Paul Palango, Author, 22 Murders, shares his experience with Bill Majcher and what was said at the time Majcher was a guest of Palango. Economy-related headlines over the past few days concerning Canada's current economic reality. Global News: Economy h

Three people, including a 16 and 12-year-old have been charged in a series of robberies of sports trading cards in the GTA, with a gun involved. When police arrested two of the suspects, they found a loaded firearm. Charges have been laid against the youths and the adult who was in violation of bail conditions.  The question we're asking though is one we first posed approx. 30 years ago to massive response. A 12-year-old at the time was involved in convenience store robberies and flashed a handgun in the process. The question was and is again: should a police officer encounter a 12-year-old child brandishing a very real, or real-looking handgun and that child points the real or real-looking gun at the police officer, what must the police officer do in order to protect anyone in the immediate vicinity and the officer's own life? Open fire, or hold fire because of the apparent age of the offender? Guest: Ari Goldkind. Criminal Lawyer and Media Commentator.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a

Where do Canadians by a very significant margin expect already exorbitant food prices to be in six months time? 71% nationally say food prices will be higher than today. Who or what is the main reason for the cost of food taking an ever larger bite out of personal and family budgets? Grocery chains and food outlets argue 39%. the largest group in the Yahoo Canada/Maru Public Opinion survey. This, as we discussed last weekend, as some 6.9 million Canadians, including 1.8 million children suffer with food insecurity (hunger) daily. What is the bottom line expression from Canadians expressed in this national survey?  Guest: John Wright. Executive vice president, Maru Public Opinion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What might the full story be concerning former RCMP officer William Majcher? Arrested a week ago in Vancouver and charged with foreign interference, Majcher was granted bail on Tuesday of this week. It is alleged in and RCMP news release that Majcher "used his knowledge and his extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People's Republic of China." As well, it is alleged "Majcher contributed to the Chinese government's efforts to identify and intimidate an individual outside the scope of Canadian law." These offences are contained in the Security of Information Act.  Majcher had on several occasions been a house guest of author (22 Murders) and former Globe and Mail editor Paul Palango. Guest: Paul Palango, Author, 22 Murders, shares his experience with Bill Majcher and what was said at the time Majcher was a guest of Palango. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Economy-related headlines over the past few days concerning Canada's current economic reality. Global News: Economy hit 'sharp reversal in June. What this means for the Bank of Canada. Global News: Bank of Canada prepared to raise rates further if inflation progress stall.   Globe and Mail editorial board: Canada's economy is stagnating - we must acknowledge this new, unpleasant reality.   In the U.S. the Fed raised its short-term interest rate to 5.3%, the highest since 2001. My lead to higher mortgage rates, auto loans, credit card interest rates and higher business borrowing costs. So where are we now and what should we be preparing for, with a huge shortage of housing and rents also increasing massively across Canada? Guest: Professor Eric Kam, Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U\FO'S / UAP'S and alien life forms recovered? U.S. Congressional Oversight Committee heard witness accounts Wednesday, including that the U.S. has alien craft and alien biological material. Guest: Chris Rutkowski. Canadian science writer who has written extensively on UFO's and related subjects. Degrees in science and education. Author of, When They Appeared: Falcon Lake 1967: The Inside Story of a UFO Close Encounter.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tasha Kheriddin op ed 'Toronto high school principal commits suicide after being accused of being a white racist at a TDSB DEI seminar. Richard Bilkszto was a friend of Tasha Kherridin. The case has taken on international proportions and the incident is being investigated by the Ontario Ministry of Education. The TDSB has engaged the services of an outside investigative organization.  Meanwhile the DEI facilitator, Kike Ojo-Thompson, head of the KOJO Institute says she welcomes the investigation and challenges what is alleged to have occurred at the DEI training session, suggesting 'right-wing' media are attempting to use the incident to discredit DEI training. The lawyer representing Richard Bilkszto's family says she has a recording of the entire episode.  Guest: Tasha Kheiriddin. National Post Op Ed: Principal's death shows that schools are focusing on the wrong things.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices