CEO of Canadian Business Council on cost of rail blockades; Canadian FIB Pres Dan Kelly on blockades and small business; Former BC Premier Ujjal Dosanjh’s view of rail blockades; CPC leadership candidate & MP Erin O’Toole says blockades should be removed; Prof. Adam Earnheardt, on rising anger against MB’s Astros

The Roy Green Show Podcast

What is the real cost of the rail blockades, in dollars as well as their indirect impact on and to Canada's economy and on the nation's corporations?  How long can Canada's largest companies weather this storm?

Guest: Goldie Hyder.  President/CEO, Business Council of Canada (representing Canada's CEO's)

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Drying up shipments and cash flow the rail blockades impact on Canada's small and medium sized business sector was very significant already last weekend according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. How is it impacting Canada's largest employer  sector a week later?  

Guest: Dan Kelly, President/CEO CFIB

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Former ​British Columbia Premier, attorney general and former federal Minister of Health, Ujjal Dosanjh shares his thoughts on the blockades and fed gov decision-making.

Guest; Ujjal Dosanjh, Former Premier, British Columbia. 

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Erin O'Toole, CPC leadership candidate, MP and former federal cabinet minister is saying publicly 

Canadian law should have been enforced and rail blockades removed by police.

Guest: Erin O'Toole, CPC leadership candidate, MP for the electoral riding of Durham

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And there is other news in the rest of the world:  Public and MLB players reaction to the Houston Astros 2017 World Series cheating scandal is growing in intensity. The Astros are permitted to retain the World Series winners banner/title, their WS rings, WS winners cheques and bragging rights according to now openly ridiculed and attacked MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.
Astros players are being threatened by opposing teams players. Bookmakers are publishing odds on how often Astros players will be thrown at by opposing pitchers and speculation grows about 'spikes-up' slides into second base, the territory patrolled for the Astros by their 2017 World Series MVP Jose Altuve. 

Guest:  Professor Adam Earnheardt, of Kent State University; Founding member of the International Association for Communications and Sport; author of Judging Athlete Behaviours and Sports, Fans, Identity and Socialization: Exploring the Fandemonium 

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