The Roy Green Show

Death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Guest: Sheila Copps. Former Liberal MP and Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Jean Chretien. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Guest: Stephen Ledrew. Former president of the Liberal Party of Canada and friend of PM Mulroney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Guest: Preston Manning. Former leader of the Reform Party. Wrote tribute op ed to Brian Mulroney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux released his Supplemtary Estimates for 2023-24 and has said federal employees salaries and benefits topping $67-Billion is "worrisome." Also: the PBO stated and as Global News reported "the federal government's carbon price could generate more than $5 billion from the federal sales tax over the next seven years, but none of that is directly earmarked for climate programs." Does the PBO stay with his analysis of 2022 that as the carbon tax reaches $170 per ton in 2030, lower income households should continue to receive rebates, but middle and upper-class households should be expected to pay hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, resulting in a net loss. Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary budget officer. News Israel's war cabinet was briefed on Paris talks with mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. over a ceasefire deal in Gaza which would see the return of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel. - Meanwhile in Tel Aviv police broke up a protest calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel. Joins us from Tel Aviv Two years ago today the Russian military was 24 hours into its invasion of Ukraine and experts were predicting a quick end and the fall of the Ukraine military and government. Today, the war continues increasingly difficult for Ukraine, but with Russia having suffered massive losses of soldiers killed or wounded, as well as huge losses in military equipment. Yesterday Prime Minister Trudeau in Kyiv committed to Canada's continued support for Ukraine. Guest: Borys Wrzesnewskyj, former Liberal MP with strong ties to Ukraine. Quite the week in Ottawa and we review with the editor of Blacklock's Reporter. Guest: Tom Korski. Editor: Blacklock's Reporter. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is expected the federal government's long promised Online Harm Bill may be introduced as early as this coming week.- As well, the Senate bill requiring age verification before explicit online material can be accessed is expected. Many experts and privacy advocates have deep concern. David Fraser. One of Canada's leading privacy lawyers, international internet law expert and partner at McInnes Cooper, Halifax. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Eric Kaufman of Buckingham University in the U.K. is Canadian and commissioned a Maru poll of Canadians view of woke policies, finding the views of Canadians largely mirror those represented in Britain and the U.K. In a National Post op ed professor Kaufman writes "the structure of Canadian public opinion indicates that there is considerable potential for right-of-centre parties to increase the salience of culture war issues. Guest: Professor Eric Kaufman, Buckingham University, U.K. and Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux released his Supplemtary Estimates for 2023-24 and has said federal employees salaries and benefits topping $67-Billion is "worrisome." Also: the PBO stated and as Global News reported "the federal government's carbon price could generate more than $5 billion from the federal sales tax over the next seven years, but none of that is directly earmarked for climate programs." Does the PBO stay with his analysis of 2022 that as the carbon tax reaches $170 per ton in 2030, lower income households should continue to receive rebates, but middle and upper-class households should be expected to pay hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, resulting in a net loss. Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary budget officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

News Israel's war cabinet was briefed on Paris talks with mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. over a ceasefire deal in Gaza which would see the return of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel. - Meanwhile in Tel Aviv police broke up a protest calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel. Joins us from Tel Aviv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two years ago today the Russian military was 24 hours into its invasion of Ukraine and experts were predicting a quick end and the fall of the Ukraine military and government. Today, the war continues increasingly difficult for Ukraine, but with Russia having suffered massive losses of soldiers killed or wounded, as well as huge losses in military equipment. Yesterday Prime Minister Trudeau in Kyiv committed to Canada's continued support for Ukraine. Guest: Borys Wrzesnewskyj, former Liberal MP with strong ties to Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quite the week in Ottawa and we review with the editor of Blacklock's Reporter. Guest: Tom Korski. Editor: Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber is suing the federal government and has entered a statement of claims for Ottawa using the Emergencies Act to freeze his bank accounts and credit and debit cards and making the lives of the Barber family, as well as operating their Saskatchewan trucking business exceedingly difficult. The lawsuit follows the Federal Court ruling the Trudeau government violated the Charter rights of all Canadians by invoking the Emergencies Act. According to Barber's lawyers by freezing the bank accounts, credit and debit cards the federal government violated Section 24 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Guest: Chris Barber, owner of C.B. Trucking in Saskatchewan. & Eva Chipiuk. Alberta lawyer representing Barber in his lawsuit against the federal government. Further significant developments during the parliamentary committee hearings concerning the ArriveCan app. Also Information Commissioner investigating allegations of destroyed ArriveCan related documents. Guest: Michael Barrett, CPC shadow minister for Ethics and Accountable Government Former NHL (Buffalo Sabres) and Team Canada goaltender Don Edwards parents were murdered by George Lovie in 1991 near Hamilton, Ontario. Lovie had been dating Don's sister Michelle and when she stopped seeing him Lovie sexually assaulted Michelle. Then, armed with a rifle, he waited for Michelle under the porch one morning. When he emerged Michelle ran to her parents home with Lovie chasing her. Lovie broke into the home and shot to death Donna Edwards, then stabbed Arnold Edwards, several times shouting "how do you like me now?" George Lovie has been living under day parole for some time. Two nights per week at a Correctional Service Canada halfway house and five nights a week at an apartment he has rented. The Edwards family remains very much fearful of Lovie who had a hearing scheduled for March 8 during which the National Parole Board was to hear his appeal for full parole. A great deal has happened in the past few weeks in the case. Guests: Don Edwards and his wife Tannis. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A class-action lawsuit has been launched in Quebec over issues with the Arrivecan app that resulted in thousands of Canadians being instructed to quarantine when they should have been exempt. The class action is open to anyone who travelled to Canada while the app was mandatory for entry (November 21, 2020 to October 1, 2022). Guest: Jeff Orenstein, lawyer at Consumer Law Group in Montreal where the class action suit has been launched. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal NDP and Liberal Party agreed to forming/funding of a national pharmacare program. For millions of Canadians the issue is far more basic. These Canadians often cannot obtain a prescription (or diagnosis) of their serious, even life-threatening illness. At present more than 6 million people in Canada are without a family (primary care) doctor. Some patients are dying. That number will soon reach 10 million, or 25% of the current national population. Family doctors under huge pressure are moving to other medical disciplines or retiring. Where should the emphasis be? Pharmacare or securing sufficient numbers of primary care physicians? Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. President: Canadian Medical Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is this the time to increase private healthcare delivery options in Canada? How does anyone answer "no" with more than 6 million Canadians having no primary care physician? If the answer is "no" is it so truly to protect Canada's public healthcare system, or to protect political capital? Our guest argues Canada's public health care was once the envy of the world, but no longer. He has for decades fought in court and in the court of public opinion for patients to have greater options to seek and obtain the care they immediately require. Guest: Dr. Brian Day, Founder, Cambie Sugery Centre, Vancouver. Author of the soon to be released book "My Fight For Canadian Healthcare: A Thirty-Year Battle to Put Patients First." Former president of the Canadian Medical Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber is suing the federal government and has entered a statement of claims for Ottawa using the Emergencies Act to freeze his bank accounts and credit and debit cards and making the lives of the Barber family, as well as operating their Saskatchewan trucking business exceedingly difficult. The lawsuit follows the Federal Court ruling the Trudeau government violated the Charter rights of all Canadians by invoking the Emergencies Act. According to Barber's lawyers by freezing the bank accounts, credit and debit cards the federal government violated Section 24 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Guest: Chris Barber, owner of C.B. Trucking in Saskatchewan. & Eva Chipiuk. Alberta lawyer representing Barber in his lawsuit against the federal government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Further significant developments during the parliamentary committee hearings concerning the ArriveCan app. Also Information Commissioner investigating allegations of destroyed ArriveCan related documents. Guest: Michael Barrett, CPC shadow minister for Ethics and Accountable Government Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former NHL (Buffalo Sabres) and Team Canada goaltender Don Edwards parents were murdered by George Lovie in 1991 near Hamilton, Ontario. Lovie had been dating Don's sister Michelle and when she stopped seeing him Lovie sexually assaulted Michelle. Then, armed with a rifle, he waited for Michelle under the porch one morning. When he emerged Michelle ran to her parents home with Lovie chasing her. Lovie broke into the home and shot to death Donna Edwards, then stabbed Arnold Edwards, several times shouting "how do you like me now?" George Lovie has been living under day parole for some time. Two nights per week at a Correctional Service Canada halfway house and five nights a week at an apartment he has rented. The Edwards family remains very much fearful of Lovie who had a hearing scheduled for March 8 during which the National Parole Board was to hear his appeal for full parole. A great deal has happened in the past few weeks in the case. Guests: Don Edwards and his wife Tannis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is attempting to walk back his statement "there will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge thed road network" to a Montreal conference earlier in the week. Also stated the federal government wants to get Canadians out of our cars and trucks and living in high density urban areas. Premiers Ford and Smith immediately challenged Gilbeault. - Also the Liberals rebranded the 'Climate Action Incentive Rebate' as the 'Canada carbon rebate.' Guilbeault is also hinting at changes to be announced concerning his energy dictates for provinces, as what he has proposed is receiving heavy pushback from particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan. Trudeau government continues to claim 80% of Canadian households paying the carbon tax will receive more money in rebates than they pay for carbon taxation. Not so according to Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux in interviews with us. Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians for Affordable Energy. The aforementioned Stephen Guilbeault stated in Canada's parliament that Dalhousie University professor Sylvain Charlebois had stated there is no evidence the carbon tax is negatively affecting food pricing in Canada. Professor Charlebois immediatley pushed back declaring he had never such a thing. Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois, Director Agri Foods Lab at Dalhousie University This was a heaveily debated issue 30+ years ago and it's back. NDP sponsored children's rights legislation, Bill 273, would ban spanking of children at home or using force on children at school by supervisory adults (teachers) received support for a second reading in parliament by a 208-115 vote. Section 43 of the Criminal Code (introduced in 1892) and most recently amended by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004, permits parents to spank judiciously, not in anger and with age consideration of children. The Canadian Teachers Federation opposes the NDP bill/ What about parents? And how does a prominent criminal lawyer view the proposed legislation? (It has been argued parents forcing a child into a children's car seat might run afoul of no corporal punishment legislation.) Guest: Ari Goldkind. Criminal lawyer and media commentator. The federal Liberals and NDP are attempting to negotiate a national pharmacare program in order to keep their political alliance alive and prevent a snap election. Is that a sound basis for a program securing pharmaceuticals for Canadians dealing with a need for medications including significant, even life-threatening illness? Would a national pharmacare program be funded sufficiently that the newest and most effective drugs for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses become and/or remain available, or would a pharmacare bureaucracy be underfunded or over-regulated to the point pharmaceutical companies would not make the most recent and effective/expensive drugs available to Canada and Canadians? Guest: Dr. Shawn Whatley. Past president of the Ontario Medical Association and author: When Politics Comes Before Patients. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal Liberals and NDP are attempting to negotiate a national pharmacare program in order to keep their political alliance alive and prevent a snap election. Is that a sound basis for a program securing pharmaceuticals for Canadians dealing with a need for medications including significant, even life-threatening illness? Would a national pharmacare program be funded sufficiently that the newest and most effective drugs for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses become and/or remain available, or would a pharmacare bureaucracy be underfunded or over-regulated to the point pharmaceutical companies would not make the most recent and effective/expensive drugs available to Canada and Canadians? Guest: Dr. Neil Rau. Infectious dieases specialist, assistant professor University of Toronto School of Medicine. Former member of the Ontario committee to evaluate pharmaceuticals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the mood of Canadians today, toward the state of the country and the political parties vying to form the national government? An election could be called at any time this year and must be called by the fall of next year. Abacus polling shows if a federal election were held today Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives would secure a significant majority government, while the Liberals and NDP are neck and neck. How firm is that polling information? Guest: Eddie Sheppard. VP Insights, Abacus Data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is attempting to walk back his statement "there will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge thed road network" to a Montreal conference earlier in the week. Also stated the federal government wants to get Canadians out of our cars and trucks and living in high density urban areas. Premiers Ford and Smith immediately challenged Gilbeault. - Also the Liberals rebranded the 'Climate Action Incentive Rebate' as the 'Canada carbon rebate.' Guilbeault is also hinting at changes to be announced concerning his energy dictates for provinces, as what he has proposed is receiving heavy pushback from particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan. Trudeau government continues to claim 80% of Canadian households paying the carbon tax will receive more money in rebates than they pay for carbon taxation. Not so according to Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux in interviews with us. Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians for Affordable Energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The aforementioned Stephen Guilbeault stated in Canada's parliament that Dalhousie University professor Sylvain Charlebois had stated there is no evidence the carbon tax is negatively affecting food pricing in Canada. Professor Charlebois immediatley pushed back declaring he had never such a thing. Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois, Director Agri Foods Lab at Dalhousie University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This was a heaveily debated issue 30+ years ago and it's back. NDP sponsored children's rights legislation, Bill 273, would ban spanking of children at home or using force on children at school by supervisory adults (teachers) received support for a second reading in parliament by a 208-115 vote. Section 43 of the Criminal Code (introduced in 1892) and most recently amended by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004, permits parents to spank judiciously, not in anger and with age consideration of children. The Canadian Teachers Federation opposes the NDP bill/ What about parents? And how does a prominent criminal lawyer view the proposed legislation? (It has been argued parents forcing a child into a children's car seat might run afoul of no corporal punishment legislation.) Guest: Ari Goldkind. Criminal lawyer and media commentator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal Liberals and NDP are attempting to negotiate a national pharmacare program in order to keep their political alliance alive and prevent a snap election. Is that a sound basis for a program securing pharmaceuticals for Canadians dealing with a need for medications including significant, even life-threatening illness? Would a national pharmacare program be funded sufficiently that the newest and most effective drugs for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other serious illnesses become and/or remain available, or would a pharmacare bureaucracy be underfunded or over-regulated to the point pharmaceutical companies would not make the most recent and effective/expensive drugs available to Canada and Canadians? Guest: Dr. Shawn Whatley. Past president of the Ontario Medical Association and author: When Politics Comes Before Patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Significant questions continue to be raised, in the wake of the auditor general's investigation into the ArriveCan app. Conservative MP Larry Brock, former prosecutor, posted to 'X' yesterday (Friday) "GC Strategies – ArriveScam middlemen who received $20M for doing NO work – still receiving taxpayer funds from active contracts with the Trudeau government. Unbelievable!" Public Safety minister Dominic LeBlanc also quizzed at parliamentary committee about the privacy of Canadians having been violated by federal government agencies. We'll ask. Guest: Larry Brock, CPC MP for Brantford-Brant, Ontario. Former prosecutor. Member Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. Donald Trump and his sons ordered to pay US$346M in New York civil fraud case. Massive judgment with far-reaching implications. What now? Guest: Michael Bachner. Former assistant district attorney in the Rackets Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. In 2006, Canada's economic performance was so outstanding the Economist wrote of Canada as an economic "superstar" and "the only country running current-account and budget surpluses." In 2012, the OECD forecast Canada's economic growth would lead the G7 over the next 50 years. Today writes Philip Cross, appointed Statscan Chief Economic Analyst in 2008, Canada's financial sector has toppled and is known for being "an ATM and safe deposit box for money laundering. The OECD last year downgraded Canada's prospects for economic growth through 2060 to dead last out of 38 nations. Most damaging to Canada's economy "are the obstacles governments have deployed to hamper our energy industry." In 2022 Justin Trudeau claimed there is "no business case" to support LNG exports to Europe (which the Europeans desperately wanted from Canada). "American firms though have signed no fewer than 57supply agreements for Europe for 73 million metric tons of LNG annually" according to the Wall Street Journal. Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics. Toronto Metropolitan University. A two year review by researchers at McMaster University of Covid-19 in schools and daycares has shown schools and daycares were not a source of significant virus transmission when infection prevention and control measures were engaged. The study was published Thursday in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health and included more than 34,000 references in child care settings and schools worldwide. Guest: Dr. Neil Rau. Infectious diseases specialist at Halton Healthcare and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto Medical School. (He repeatedly on air with us challenged the closure of schools which in Ontario reached a minimum of 135 days.) --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Significant questions continue to be raised, in the wake of the auditor general's investigation into the ArriveCan app. Conservative MP Larry Brock, former prosecutor, posted to 'X' yesterday (Friday) "GC Strategies – ArriveScam middlemen who received $20M for doing NO work – still receiving taxpayer funds from active contracts with the Trudeau government. Unbelievable!" Public Safety minister Dominic LeBlanc also quizzed at parliamentary committee about the privacy of Canadians having been violated by federal government agencies. We'll ask. Guest: Larry Brock, CPC MP for Brantford-Brant, Ontario. Former prosecutor. Member Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Trump and his sons ordered to pay US$346M in New York civil fraud case. Massive judgment with far-reaching implications. What now? Guest: Michael Bachner. Former assistant district attorney in the Rackets Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2006, Canada's economic performance was so outstanding the Economist wrote of Canada as an economic "superstar" and "the only country running current-account and budget surpluses." In 2012, the OECD forecast Canada's economic growth would lead the G7 over the next 50 years. Today writes Philip Cross, appointed Statscan Chief Economic Analyst in 2008, Canada's financial sector has toppled and is known for being "an ATM and safe deposit box for money laundering. The OECD last year downgraded Canada's prospects for economic growth through 2060 to dead last out of 38 nations. Most damaging to Canada's economy "are the obstacles governments have deployed to hamper our energy industry." In 2022 Justin Trudeau claimed there is "no business case" to support LNG exports to Europe (which the Europeans desperately wanted from Canada). "American firms though have signed no fewer than 57supply agreements for Europe for 73 million metric tons of LNG annually" according to the Wall Street Journal. Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics. Toronto Metropolitan University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A two year review by researchers at McMaster University of Covid-19 in schools and daycares has shown schools and daycares were not a source of significant virus transmission when infection prevention and control measures were engaged. The study was published Thursday in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health and included more than 34,000 references in child care settings and schools worldwide. Guest: Dr. Neil Rau. Infectious diseases specialist at Halton Healthcare and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto Medical School. (He repeatedly on air with us challenged the closure of schools which in Ontario reached a minimum of 135 days.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Shisheesh is the former Chief of Attawapiskat (northern Ontario First Nation). In early 2016, Attawapiskat made international headlines over the youth suicides and attempted suicides the community was attempting to deal with and without even fundamental resources required. Bruce Shisheesh was the Chief of Attawapiskat at the time. Chief Shisheesh traveled to Ottawa to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who followed the meeting with a letter directly promising a visit to the First Nation community, which had existed without clean drinking water for decades, and Trudeau ended his letter with the words "Indeed, I look forward to visiting Attawapiskat in the near future." 8 years later the struggles in Attawapiskat continue and Mr. Trudeau has not been seen in the community, something Chief Shisheesh reminded me of on 'X' earlier in the week. We have the letter Justin Trudeau sent to Chief Shisheesh in 2016. Guest: Bruce Shisheesh, former Chief of Attawapiskat First Nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2020, Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition politician and anti-corruption crusader and president Vladimir Putin's most consistent challenger was poisoned with a nerve agent which almost ended Navalny's life. Subsequently imprisoned on phony charges (many believe) Navalny was secretly sent to a prison in Russia's far north where he, at age 47, was reported by prison authorities as having died Thursday. Guest: Dr. Anders Aslund. World renowned economist who advised both Russia and Ukraine at different times. Book: Russia's Crony Capitalism. - Aslund following the death of Navalny writes "high time to label Russia a terrorist state." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prime Minister Trudeau and the PM's of New Zealand and Australia posted a statement to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netenyahu warning against an Israeli military full incursion into Rafah. Canada's former Ambassador to Israel, Vivian Bercovici wrote an op ed for the National Post headlined: Rafah must be invaded in order to destroy Hamas. Bercovici then posted to 'X': "In December, just before the infamous Canadian vote at the UN by Canada's Ambassador Bob Rae, PM Trudeau and Melanie Joly had hosted the foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority for afternoon tea. In Ottawa. On a Saturday afternoon. That's a f....k of a long way to travel for a friendly chat." There is more which we'll talk to the Ambassador about. Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I posted two random thoughts to 'X' Thursday which received far more response than expected both on 'X' and by email. 1: Lunacy! @s_guilbeault declaration fed go will provide no funds for new roads/highways. Do Lib MPs not realize they're on the road/highway to unemployment? In the interest of self-preservation cross the floor, facilitate the inevitable a CPC majority government and go now! If they'll have you after strong response the first post was followed by: 2: You have to admit 20 to 30 Lib MP's switching sides and moving @PierrePoilievre into the PMO corner office 'before' the fed elexn would shake up Ottawa like it has never been shaken up before. Sure, fanciful thinking, but you have to step outside the box at least once. Even more 'X' response, as well as email. Guest: Roy Green. We ask listeners to respond to the Thursday 'X' speculation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Alberta premier Danielle Smith on AB office opening in Ottawa, visit to D.C., transgender policy, Charlie Angus private members bill concerning oil/gas industry. Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta Safer supply of drugs program. How effective? Perspectives on open availability of drugs like heroin and opioids to those addicted. A success? A dangerous failure? Guest: Dr. Brian Conway, Medical Director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre. Then: There are chronic pain patients (more than a million Canadians) often suffering debilitating pain and sometimes driven to suicide because continuing successful opioid pain medication regimens through a physician increasingly difficult. Guest: Barry Ulmer. Executive director: Chronic Pain Association of Canada. Ontario Superior Court this past week heard a challenge begun in 2017 against the Safe Streets Act prohibiting panhandling (aggressive) toward a "captive audience" at ATM's or public transit. - Panhandlers at intersections have also been targeted. Could result in up to six months imprisonment. Guest: Harini Sivalingam. Director of the Equality Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. 1: The ArriveCan app. Willful and easy abuse of millions of taxpayer dollars? Auditor general's report tomorrow. 2: Charlie Angus private members bill 372. 3: New developments concerning Canada's interim ethics commissioner. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder, Democracy Watch. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alberta premier Danielle Smith on AB office opening in Ottawa, visit to D.C., transgender policy, Charlie Angus private members bill concerning oil/gas industry. Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Safer supply of drugs program. How effective? Perspectives on open availability of drugs like heroin and opioids to those addicted. A success? A dangerous failure? Guest: Dr. Brian Conway, Medical Director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre. Then: There are chronic pain patients (more than a million Canadians) often suffering debilitating pain and sometimes driven to suicide because continuing successful opioid pain medication regimens through a physician increasingly difficult. Guest: Barry Ulmer. Executive director: Chronic Pain Association of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ontario Superior Court this past week heard a challenge begun in 2017 against the Safe Streets Act prohibiting panhandling (aggressive) toward a "captive audience" at ATM's or public transit. - Panhandlers at intersections have also been targeted. Could result in up to six months imprisonment. Guest: Harini Sivalingam. Director of the Equality Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1: The ArriveCan app. Willful and easy abuse of millions of taxpayer dollars? Auditor general's report tomorrow. 2: Charlie Angus private members bill 372. 3: New developments concerning Canada's interim ethics commissioner. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder, Democracy Watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We speak with CPC MP Larry Brock, member of the Commons Government Operations Committee concerning the spending of more than $50 million on the ArriveCan app. Abuse of public monies? Tomorrow the auditor general releases her report on ArriveCan. Guest: Larry Brock, CPC MP for Brantford-Brant. Member of the Commons Government Operations Committee. Former prosecutor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Super Bowl LVIII *(58). 37% of Canadians will watch the entire game. Are you one of them? Or will you watch only the halftime show with Usher? Are you mostly interested in whether Taylor Swift will make it to the game in Las Vegas after performing yesterday evening in Japan, to be with boyfriend Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs? Have you bet on the game? Or placed prop games? Guest: Greg Brady. Host of Toronto Today with Greg Brady on AM 640, Toronto. Greg has done play-by-play of Super Bowls for the BBC. Where is he today and what does his coverage consist of in 2024? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blacklock's Reporter this past week in Ottawa and a look-ahead to this coming week. Guest: Tom Korski. Editor: Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Supreme Court of Canada ruling on Bill C-92 Child Welfare Reform, engaging First Nations. Guest: Cadmus Delorme. Former Chief, Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: NDP MP Charlie Angus private members Bill 372 (which Angus compares to legislative efforts of the 1990's to punish the tobacco industry for wilfull and incorrect advertising), would result in positive advertising/messaging by oil and natural gas producers and their supporters could result in massive fines and possible imprisonment. Note: Angus did not reply to an invitation to appear on this program) Also: Joe Biden recently placed a temporary halt on issuing U.S. liquid natural gas export licences. Are many (most) First Nations in Canada supportive of encouraging Canada to engage in export of LNG? Guest: Chris Sankey. Former elected councillor at Lax Kw'aalams first nation, businessman, op ed writer and senior Fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute. Sexual assault and Canada's justice system. As five members of the 2018 Team Canada juniors on Monday faced their first day in court on sexual assault charges, we speak with a woman who just weeks ago saw the conclusion of her court case as complainant in a sexual assault case. What was the experience like for our guest? She is accompanied by her lawyer. Guests: Complainant. Cannot be named because of a court-imposed publication ban. Jacob 'Jake" Jesin. Principal at Rotenberg, Shidlowski, Jesin LLP, Toronto. The 2 hour Tucker Carlson interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin, significantly focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Putin engaged in revisionist B.S. as detailed by Russian dissidents including a former Russian opposition leader who was imprisoned for contradicting 'dear leader' V.P. How is the internationally reported on interview viewed in Ukraine? - And Ukraine's president just sacked his top general this week. Guest: Olexander Scherba. Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria and member of the Ukraine diplomatic mission to the United States. - Author: Ukraine vs Darkness, Undiplomatic Thoughts. Vehicle theft in Canada a national crisis? Guest: Amanda Dean. Vice president, Insurance Bureau of Canada, Ontario and Atlantic Canada regions. Bryan Gast. VP Investigative Services, Equite Association. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NDP MP Charlie Angus private members Bill 372 (which Angus compares to legislative efforts of the 1990's to punish the tobacco industry for wilfull and incorrect advertising), would result in positive advertising/messaging by oil and natural gas producers and their supporters could result in massive fines and possible imprisonment. Note: Angus did not reply to an invitation to appear on this program) Also: Joe Biden recently placed a temporary halt on issuing U.S. liquid natural gas export licences. Are many (most) First Nations in Canada supportive of encouraging Canada to engage in export of LNG? Guest: Chris Sankey. Former elected councillor at Lax Kw'aalams first nation, businessman, op ed writer and senior Fellow at the MacDonald-Laurier Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sexual assault and Canada's justice system. As five members of the 2018 Team Canada juniors on Monday faced their first day in court on sexual assault charges, we speak with a woman who just weeks ago saw the conclusion of her court case as complainant in a sexual assault case. What was the experience like for our guest? She is accompanied by her lawyer. Guests: Complainant. Cannot be named because of a court-imposed publication ban. Jacob 'Jake" Jesin. Principal at Rotenberg, Shidlowski, Jesin LLP, Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2 hour Tucker Carlson interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin, significantly focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Putin engaged in revisionist B.S. as detailed by Russian dissidents including a former Russian opposition leader who was imprisoned for contradicting 'dear leader' V.P. How is the internationally reported on interview viewed in Ukraine? - And Ukraine's president just sacked his top general this week. Guest: Olexander Scherba. Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria and member of the Ukraine diplomatic mission to the United States. - Author: Ukraine vs Darkness, Undiplomatic Thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vehicle theft in Canada a national crisis? Guest: Amanda Dean. Vice president, Insurance Bureau of Canada, Ontario and Atlantic Canada regions. And: Bryan Gast. VP Investigative Services, Equite Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investigation of United States president Joe Biden by U.S. special counsel Robert Hur addresses questions concerning Biden's cognitive skills. Hur's report concludes Biden is "an elderly well-meaning man with a poor memory." Biden holds newser to challenge Hur's report and immediately identifies Egypt's president el Sisi as president of Mexico. What impact may the Hur report have on Biden's re-election bid as POTUS? and: Trump's troubles heading into November. U.S. appeals court rules Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution for alleged crimes committed during his presidency, including attempts to subvert the 2020 federal election results, leading to the January, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. Guest: John Zogby. Dean of American pollsters and founder of John Zogby Strategies. Op ed writer for major publications like NY Times, Washington Post and author of: We Are Many, We Are One." - Clients include legacy brands including Coca Cola. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The February 2024 Canadian Maru Household Index about the economy and personal finances finds Canadians at our most negative/pessimistic since tracking began in 2020. "This month's index is like an elevator stalled and hanging by a thread over a deep, dark shaft." Guest: John Wright. Distinguished Fellow, Queen's University and executive vp at Maru Public Opinion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: London Police Service will engage in a news conference tomorrow concerning sexual assault charges against 5 members of the 2018 Team Canada juniors. How is this case likely to move forward from now through the court phase? Does 5 defendants make the cases more difficult? Will the extended time between the alleged assaults and the actions of Hockey Canada and the LPS complicate things for either the prosecution or defence, or both? Guest: Jacob "Jake" Jesin. Law firm of Rotenberg, Shidlowski and Jesin (Toronto). Much experience in sexual assault cases. Alberta premier Danielle Smith's transgender youth policies for the province will engage parents in the decision-making of their children under the age of 18 and roll back medical treatments including surgeries for transgender youth. The policy has met both strong opposition, as well as support. Guest: Tiffany Gillis, trans woman and parent of two school-age children. As well, vice president of a junior oil and gas company based in Calgary. Premier Smith consulted with Tiffany Gillis on the policies for transgender youth. Parliament's ethics committee met this past week to address questions surrounding PM Trudeau's $9300 per night freebie from a "friend" Jamaica vacation over Christmas and New year. Interim ethics commissioner Konrad von Finkenstein refuses to investigate the PM, arguing it was indeed a gift from a friend, albeit a rich one. We speak with two former Liberal MPs who were punished by their party for standing firm with their ethics and while in office, as well as hear their views on Trudeau's Jamaican vacation. It certainly wasn't free for Canadian taxpayers. Guests: Michelle Simson, fmr LPC MP Dan McTeague, fmr LPC MP Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch is very critical of the appointment of von Finkenstein and of his performance as Conflict of Interest (ethics) Commissioner by Trudeau and has much to say about this issue. As well, DM has gone to Federal Court over ethics commissioner rulings or non-rulings. Guest: Duff Conacher, co-founder Democracy Watch. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices