The Roy Green Show

First 2024, MNP Consumer Debt Index released and Canadians' current debt perceptions reaches all-time low. 63% of Canadians concerned about their ability to repay their debts. - 47% regret the amount of debt they've taken on. FINANCES: taking a toll on mental health: 60% of Canadians say their financial situation causes them anxiety, stress (59%), isolation (48%), embarrassment (40%). - 26% making only minimum payments on credit card, minimum payments on lines of credit (19%), 18% say they took from savings, home equity, RSP or alternative methods to pay debt or day-to-day expenses in the last year. Guest: Linda Paul, licensed insolvency trustee, MNP LTD, British Columbia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National focus this week on a crime incident in Peterborough, Ontario. At a convenience store a 22 year old clerk was helping a customer when a male with a baseball bat entered the store, allegedly demanding cash and striking the clerk with the bat. A fight ensued and the clerk grabbed the baseball bat, chased the would-be robber outside the store and allegedly proceeded to hit the man several times with the bat. The robber was taken to hospital for treatment while the clerk was treated by EMS at the site. - Police then laid an aggravated assault criminal charge against the 22 year old store clerk. Response was immediate with hundreds of Peterborough residents and others challenging the police decision saying the clerk had acted in self defence, prompting the Peterborough chief of police to take to 'X' and defend his officers and the laying of the charge. Again, the question is what is permitted as far as self defence is concerned in Canada with inconsistent court rulings having occurred. Guest: Scott Newark. Former AB Crown attorney, former Executive Officer of the Canadian Police Association, snr. policy advisor to a federal Minister for Public Safety and Vice Chair of the Ontario Office for Victims of Crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: U.S. and U.K. attack Houthi rebels of Yemen with missile barrage and air strikes after Houthis repeated rocket and missile assaults on international commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Canada played a non-direct role. Leads to what possibly? Asymmetric global war underway? POLITICO piece: American intel officials warn of risk of Hezbollah attacking U.S.. As well: The possibility of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. Guest: Vice Admiral Mark Norman. Former Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. Global News: Ottawa was warned about impact of high immigration on housing in 2022. Meanwhile, 3 months ago Canadians by strong majority (75%) told Leger Marketing in a national poll that higher immigration numbers of the federal government are causing a housing and healthcare crisis to become worse. Guest: Christian Bourque. Executive vice-president Leger Marketing The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) releases this statement: Patients, providers suffer as ERs are overwhelmed yet again. Wait times up to 20 hours are being experienced. - Sept 25, '23, CMAJ article: Without more acute care beds hospitals are on their own to grapple with emergency department crises. Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. President, CMA NFL coaches turnover begins with Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks and Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans removed from their positions. Patriots reportedly hire 37-year-old Jerod Mayo, former linebacker with the team. NFL playoffs begin today and difficult to pick winners, particularly with brutally cold temps in places like Kansas City. What to expect? Guests: Greg Brady, host of Toronto Today, on AM 640, Toronto. Has broadcast Super Bowl play-by-play for BBC in the U.K. Greg Mackling. Co-host of the morning show on 680 CJOB, Winnipeg. Hosts the Blue Bombers half time show and co-host of the Blue Bombers podcast. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor 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

U.S. and U.K. attack Houthi rebels of Yemen with missile barrage and air strikes after Houthis repeated rocket and missile assaults on international commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Canada played a non-direct role. Leads to what possibly? Asymmetric global war underway? POLITICO piece: American intel officials warn of risk of Hezbollah attacking U.S.. As well: The possibility of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. Guest: Vice Admiral Mark Norman. Former Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News: Ottawa was warned about impact of high immigration on housing in 2022. Meanwhile, 3 months ago Canadians by strong majority (75%) told Leger Marketing in a national poll that higher immigration numbers of the federal government are causing a housing and healthcare crisis to become worse. Guest: Christian Bourque. Executive vice-president Leger Marketing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) releases this statement: Patients, providers suffer as ERs are overwhelmed yet again. Wait times up to 20 hours are being experienced. - Sept 25, '23, CMAJ article: Without more acute care beds hospitals are on their own to grapple with emergency department crises. Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. President, CMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NFL coaches turnover begins with Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks and Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans removed from their positions. Patriots reportedly hire 37-year-old Jerod Mayo, former linebacker with the team. NFL playoffs begin today and difficult to pick winners, particularly with brutally cold temps in places like Kansas City. What to expect? Guests: Greg Brady, host of Toronto Today, on AM 640, Toronto. Has broadcast Super Bowl play-by-play for BBC in the U.K. Greg Mackling. Co-host of the morning show on 680 CJOB, Winnipeg. Hosts the Blue Bombers half time show and co-host of the Blue Bombers podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The RCMP by its own admission this week failed to meet its own deadline of December 31, 2023, to implement the 130 recommendations from the Mass Casualty Commission following Canada's worst mass-shooting incident his nation's history, April 18, 2020, in Nova Scotia. Now the RCMP is saying only "we'll release the implementation details as soon as possible." Guest: Tim Mills. On the night of April 18, 2020, Tim Mills was the RCMP tactical team leader on that night of horror. Tim Mills was also the RCMP tactical team leader in Moncton, New Brunswick, when a gunman shot and killed 3 RCMP officers and wounded two more. Mills retired from the RCMP over non-support for his tactical team members by senior RCMP officers on April 18, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roy takes to the phones to hear about your experiences in Canada's overwhelmed healthcare system. We hear stories of a 10 hour wait in an ambulance, care performed in hospital hallways, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: Beginning January 1, Saskatchewan, according to premier Scott Moe "removed the carbon tax from home heating, making life more affordable. Saskatchewan families will no longer pay the carbon tax, or the GST on the carbon tax on natural gas or electrical heated" posted the premier to 'X'. - Might the premier and/or cabinet minister face fines or in the absolute extreme a prison sentence. Premier Moe has told us on air the Trudeau government can "bring it on!" Guest: Scott Moe. Premier: Saskatchewan Surreal? In Toronto yesterday, as pro-Palestinian demonstrators made their way again onto a highway 401 overpass, causing it to be shut down by police and separating two factions of the demonstrators engaging in intimidation in a heavily Jewish area of the city, Toronto police, instead of removing the demonstrators, acted as a Tim Hortons coffee delivery service and brought the bridge occupiers coffee and donuts purchased by one of their separated fellow demonstrators. All caught on video. Guest: Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun columnist. In his column today JW describes the incident as a clear "double-double standard." Book - Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada. Authors and professors Christian Leuprecht (Queen's U) and Jamie Ferrill (Charles Sturt U, Australia) write lawmakers at every level of government are disengaged from trying to intercede national financial criminal activity, while police are too engaged with their own investigations to initiate new ones. Massive financial organized crime has almost no chance of being discovered, leading to prosecutions. Guests: Professor Christian Leuprecht, international security expert at Queen's University and RMC. Jamie Ferrill. Financial crimes investigator/instructor at the Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia. Formerly with CBSA The ethics surrounding the prime minister and the Liberal government go well beyond questions about ethical propriety of Justin Trudeau's Christmas/New Year free from a "friend" Jamaica vacation at a property with a usual daily price tag of $9300. - Are the correct questions being asked? Former parliamentary ethics commissioner Mario Dion (a Trudeau selection in 2018), told the NP "the public has to believe that ethics are taken seriously, and they have yet to have any big evidence of that since 2018." Dion found no less than 5 senior Liberal cabinet ministers, including the PM (for a second time) guilty of ethics violations. There are though significant questions to be asked about Trudeau's Jamaica vacay and it being cleared by interim ethics commissioner Konrad von Finkenstein. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder Democracy Watch. Lays out the concerns. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor 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

Beginning January 1, Saskatchewan, according to premier Scott Moe "removed the carbon tax from home heating, making life more affordable. Saskatchewan families will no longer pay the carbon tax, or the GST on the carbon tax on natural gas or electrical heated" posted the premier to 'X'. - Might the premier and/or cabinet minister face fines or in the absolute extreme a prison sentence. Premier Moe has told us on air the Trudeau government can "bring it on!" Guest: Scott Moe. Premier: Saskatchewan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surreal? In Toronto yesterday, as pro-Palestinian demonstrators made their way again onto a highway 401 overpass, causing it to be shut down by police and separating two factions of the demonstrators engaging in intimidation in a heavily Jewish area of the city, Toronto police, instead of removing the demonstrators, acted as a Tim Hortons coffee delivery service and brought the bridge occupiers coffee and donuts purchased by one of their separated fellow demonstrators. All caught on video. Guest: Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun columnist. In his column today JW describes the incident as a clear "double-double standard." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Book - Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada. Authors and professors Christian Leuprecht (Queen's U) and Jamie Ferrill (Charles Sturt U, Australia) write lawmakers at every level of government are disengaged from trying to intercede national financial criminal activity, while police are too engaged with their own investigations to initiate new ones. Massive financial organized crime has almost no chance of being discovered, leading to prosecutions. Guests: Professor Christian Leuprecht, international security expert at Queen's University and RMC. Jamie Ferrill. Financial crimes investigator/instructor at the Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia. Formerly with CBSA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ethics surrounding the prime minister and the Liberal government go well beyond questions about ethical propriety of Justin Trudeau's Christmas/New Year free from a "friend" Jamaica vacation at a property with a usual daily price tag of $9300. - Are the correct questions being asked? Former parliamentary ethics commissioner Mario Dion (a Trudeau selection in 2018), told the NP "the public has to believe that ethics are taken seriously, and they have yet to have any big evidence of that since 2018." Dion found no less than 5 senior Liberal cabinet ministers, including the PM (for a second time) guilty of ethics violations. There are though significant questions to be asked about Trudeau's Jamaica vacay and it being cleared by interim ethics commissioner Konrad von Finkenstein. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder Democracy Watch. Lays out the concerns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are Canadians sufficiently engaged to unequivocally say "yes/no" on matters affecting our lives, or will we choose the "wellwhaddyagonnado" path of least resistance in 2024? And, what the heck is it that we do and don't want? Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO. IPSOS Public Affairs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Goings on during the first week of 2024 in the nation's capital, as detailed by Blacklock's Reporter. Guest: Tom Korski. Executive editor, Blacklock's Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: How is the population of Israel reacting to the war with Hamas and is war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon only a matter of time? As well, our guest has a two-part interview on her podcast with the mother and father of a 23 year old badly wounded Israeli hostage taken by Hamas. Guest: Ambassador Vivian Bercovici. Former Cdn Ambassador to Israel and publisher of The State of Tel Aviv on Substack. From Tel Aviv. As we begin 2024, the reality remains 6.8 million Canadians, including 1.8 million children live in food insecurity. How will 2024 most likely develop on the food cost, inflation, accusations of shrinkflation, accusations of profiteering by grocery chains and parliamentary involvement develop? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agri Foods laboratory at Dalhousie University. So, where are we as far as our economic wellbeing is concerned on this first full weekend of 2024? Stock markets are showing signs of recovery and there are predictions of inflation falling along with BOC interest rates. But is that realistic or pie-in-the-sky peddling? Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University 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 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 --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor 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

How is the population of Israel reacting to the war with Hamas and is war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon only a matter of time? As well, our guest has a two-part interview on her podcast with the mother and father of a 23 year old badly wounded Israeli hostage taken by Hamas. Guest: Ambassador Vivian Bercovici. Former Cdn Ambassador to Israel and publisher of The State of Tel Aviv on Substack. From Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we begin 2024, the reality remains 6.8 million Canadians, including 1.8 million children live in food insecurity. How will 2024 most likely develop on the food cost, inflation, accusations of shrinkflation, accusations of profiteering by grocery chains and parliamentary involvement develop? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agri Foods laboratory at Dalhousie University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So, where are we as far as our economic wellbeing is concerned on this first full weekend of 2024? Stock markets are showing signs of recovery and there are predictions of inflation falling along with BOC interest rates. But is that realistic or pie-in-the-sky peddling? Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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). Originally Aired Aug. 13, 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. Originally Aired Dec. 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 Originally Aired Dec. 2, 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. World and News Report. His addresses his life since diagnosis 17 years ago and metastatic prostate cancer. Guest: Todd Seals and Roy Green speak about the journey and experience of living with Stage 4 metastasized prostate cancer, Seals with 17 years experience while I am just beginning that journey as modern medicine is hopefully increasingly turning this killer into a treatable chronic illness. Originally Aired Sept. 24, 2023. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig Podcast Co-Producers – Tom McKay, Ben Straughan and Matt Taylor 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

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. World and News Report. His addresses his life since diagnosis 17 years ago and metastatic prostate cancer. Guest: Todd Seals and Roy Green speak about the journey and experience of living with Stage 4 metastasized prostate cancer, Seals with 17 years experience while I am just beginning that journey as modern medicine is hopefully increasingly turning this killer into a treatable chronic illness. 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: 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 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). Originally aired Oct. 8, 2023. Reflections on 2023 National Truth and Reconciliation Day with artist Adrian Sutherland. 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. Originally aired Sept. 30, 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. Originally aired Aug. 27, 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. Originally aired Jul. 15, 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. Originally Aired Jul. 16, 2023 --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig Podcast Co-Producers – Tom McKay and Matt Taylor 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

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 provincial jurisdiction? Note: we also ask the premier for her reaction to 15-year-old being arrested near Ottawa Friday and facing like terrorism charges in court tomorrow. A 16-year-old was arrested by the RCMP in Calgary on similar grounds by RCMP on Wednesday. Youth radicalization concerns? Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta 15-year-old in Kanata, Ontario arrested by RCMP facing terrorism charges. 16-year-old in Calgary on Wednesday - Antisemitism increase and calls for Genocide against Jews publicly in Canada, including post-secondary institutions. - Trudeau government voting for UN resolution calling for humanitarian ceasefire without a mention of Hamas. AND: Global News today - Teen terrorists: Does Canada have a youth radicalization problem? Guest: Avi Benlolo. Heads Abraham Global Peace Initiative. Canadian Embassy in Israel hosted exclusive screening of AGPI documentary The Future of Israel and its Defenders. Guest: Mercedes Stephenson. Contributed to the story. Global News Ottawa Bureau Chief and host of the network's flagship national political affairs program The West Block. Measuring the mood of Canadians on a myriad of issues in 2023 was IPSOS Public Affairs polling for Global News. We review the major opinion trends and ones which we should not be unaware of. As well, a look ahead into 2024 as far as what it is Canadians want, expect and/or refuse to accept is concerned. Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO IPSOS Public Affairs. Author: NEXT. On a personal level 2023 was the year I was diagnosed with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is an increasing concern for men who all too frequently ignore symptoms, as I did. Earlier this year we spoke with Todd Seals who in 2007, at the age of 42, was given just months to live following a metastatic stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis. 16 years later Todd Seals is still very much alive and living well, although he continues to battle his cancer. - New, excellent, but hugely expensive medications are available today, but weren't when Todd was first diagnosed. His story has been reported on by major media and health organizations. Todd rejoins us today with a message for all men, their significant others and families. HIs message is personal, direct and filled with humour. Do not let 2023 pass without acknowledging symptoms and make sure 2024 is the year of treatment and maximizing life. Guest: Todd Seals. Stage 4, metastatic cancer survivor. In the Men's Health piece Todd is quoted this way "they say people faced with death have two choices: pick up the gloves or pick up a shovel. I've always been a fighter." --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor 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

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

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 provincial jurisdiction? Note: will also ask the premier for her reaction to 15 year old being arrested near Ottawa Friday and facing like terrorism charges in court tomorrow. A 16 year old was arrested by the RCMP in Calgary on similar grounds by RCMP on Wednesday. Youth radicalization concerns? Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15-year-old in Kanata, Ontario arrested by RCMP facing terrorism charges. 16 year old in Calgary on Wednesday - Antisemitism increase and calls for Genocide against Jews publicly in Canada, including post-secondary institutions. - Trudeau government voting for UN resolution calling for humanitarian ceasefire without a mention of Hamas. AND: Global News today - Teen terrorists: Does Canada have a youth radicalization problem? Guest: Avi Benlolo. Heads Abraham Global Peace Initiative. Canadian Embassy in Israel hosted exclusive screening of AGPI documentary The Future of Israel and its Defenders. Guest: Mercedes Stephenson. Contributed to the story. Global News Ottawa Bureau Chief and host of the network's flagship national political affairs program The West Block. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Measuring the mood of Canadians on a myriad of issues in 2023 was IPSOS Public Affairs polling for Global News. We review the major opinion trends and ones which we should not be unaware of. As well, a look ahead into 2024 as far as what it is Canadians want, expect and/or refuse to accept is concerned. Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO IPSOS Public Affairs. Author: NEXT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a personal level 2023 was the year I was diagnosed with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is an increasing concern for men who all too frequently ignore symptoms, as I did. Earlier this year we spoke with Todd Seals who in 2007, at the age of 42, was given just months to live following a metastatic stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis. 16 years later Todd Seals is still very much alive and living well, although he continues to battle his cancer. - New, excellent, but hugely expensive medications are available today, but weren't when Todd was first diagnosed. His story has been reported on by major media and health organizations. Todd rejoins us today with a message for all men, their significant others and families. HIs message is personal, direct and filled with humour. Do not let 2023 pass without acknowledging symptoms and make sure 2024 is the year of treatment and maximizing life. Guest: Todd Seals. Stage 4, metastatic cancer survivor. In the Men's Health piece Todd is quoted this way "they say people faced with death have two choices: pick up the gloves or pick up a shovel. I've always been a fighter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: A strained relationship between the province of Saskatchewan and the federal government continued to become increasingly challenged in 2023, resulting in the province passing the Saskatchewan First Act, designed to protect the province from constitutional overreach by the federal government. Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe told us repeatedly the Trudeau government was engaged in attacks on the province over Ottawa's energy policy which was endangering national unity. - Has the situation eased at all, or should we expect ever more acrimony in 2024? Guest: Scott Moe. Premier. Saskatchewan. Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem yesterday said inflation may be getting close to the bank's target of 2% by the end of next year, and while not making a commitment did say as well the BOC is increasingly confident interest rates will not have to be moved higher in order to get prices back under control. The Canadian economy shuddered in 2023 with the Bank of Canada repeatedly raising interest rates and inflation climbing so significantly a many Canadians told pollsters they are "tapped out" and 40% lose sleep each night worrying about their personal financial reality, Canadian homeowners in large numbers have concerns they will not be able to afford their homes as mortgage rates climb. Canadians are living with $2.4 trillion debt according to Equifax as 2023 comes to a close. Are we headed into a 2024 recession? Are we experiencing a recession now (even if its not technical)? Is the BOC's Governor's prognosis real or pie in the proverbial sky? Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroecnomist. Toronto Metropolitan University. As Israel, in response to the October 7 Hamas murder, rape and kidnapping assault inside its borders continues its war on Hamas and faces an increasingly hostile international response with calls supporting Genocide of Jews and annihiliation of Israel, Canada voted this week in support of a U.N. resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. A motion which did not mention Hamas, a designated by Canada terrorist organization by name. Nevertheless, does Israel have concern it is, by the nature of its military assault on Gaza in pursuit of Hamas' leaders, becoming increasingly isolated internationally and compromising positive engagement with governments in the region developed over decades? Israel's Ambassador to Canada declared the Trudeau government's support of the U.N. motion to be "naive." Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel's Ambassador to Canada. Canadian armed forces (CAF) lack of world class war-fighting equipment in this increasingly unstable world significantly alarms one of Canada's most decorated and respected military leaders. (CAF members forced to purchase off the shelf personal gear).. In March of this year our guest delivered a major speech at the annual Conference of Defence Associations Institute in Ottawa to which he provided me exclusive access and during which he warned "we are not taking defence and secuirity seriously in this country and our way of life is jeopardy as a result." Guest: Vice Admiral Mark Norman (ret'd). Former Commander, Royal Canadian Navy and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor 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

Canadian healthcare. - 6.5 million Canadians, out of a population of 40 million, have no primary care (family) physician (up from 5 million). I had the good fortune of benefitting from the personal dedication of Canadian healthcare professionals while hospitalized earlier this year. Likely a story repeated across this nation. Nevertheless, there remain hundreds of thousands of delayed surgical procedures, as well as treatment for illnesses including cancers and cardiac concerns with patients on lengthy wait lists. What were the greatest challenges, as well as healthcare achievements of 2023 and what is absolutely most necessary to markedly improve healthcare delivery in 2024? Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. Family physician in Coquitlam and New Westminster, B.C. and President of Canadian Medical Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Indigenous peoples in Canada. Did 2023 see measurable improvement in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Ottawa. as well as provincial governments and what most directly must be addressed in 2024? As long as First Nations continue to be forced to access unsafe water supply, is reconciliation just a word? It was at Cowesses First Nation that Chief Cadmus Delorme announced on December 21, 2021, an estimated 751 unmarked graves had been discovered at the site of the former residential school. It was at Cowesses First Nation the first Coordination Agreement under the Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Metis Children, Youth and Families was signed in the presence of PM Justin Trudeau, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Cowesses First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme in July of 2021. Guest: Cadmus Delorme. Former Chief of Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A strained relationship between the province of Saskatchewan and the federal government continued to become increasingly challenged in 2023, resulting in the province passing the Saskatchewan First Act, designed to protect the province from constitutional overreach by the federal government. Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe told us repeatedly the Trudeau government was engaged in attacks on the province over Ottawa's energy policy which was endangering national unity. - Has the situation eased at all, or should we expect ever more acrimony in 2024? Guest: Scott Moe. Premier. Saskatchewan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem yesterday said inflation may be getting close to the bank's target of 2% by the end of next year, and while not making a commitment did say as well the BOC is increasingly confident interest rates will not have to be moved higher in order to get prices back under control. The Canadian economy shuddered in 2023 with the Bank of Canada repeatedly raising interest rates and inflation climbing so significantly a many Canadians told pollsters they are "tapped out" and 40% lose sleep each night worrying about their personal financial reality, Canadian homeowners in large numbers have concerns they will not be able to afford their homes as mortgage rates climb. Canadians are living with $2.4 trillion debt according to Equifax as 2023 comes to a close. Are we headed into a 2024 recession? Are we experiencing a recession now (even if its not technical)? Is the BOC's Governor's prognosis real or pie in the proverbial sky? Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroecnomist. Toronto Metropolitan University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Israel, in response to the October 7 Hamas murder, rape and kidnapping assault inside its borders continues its war on Hamas and faces an increasingly hostile international response with calls supporting Genocide of Jews and annihiliation of Israel, Canada voted this week in support of a U.N. resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. A motion which did not mention Hamas, a designated by Canada terrorist organization by name. Nevertheless, does Israel have concern it is, by the nature of its military assault on Gaza in pursuit of Hamas' leaders, becoming increasingly isolated internationally and compromising positive engagement with governments in the region developed over decades? Israel's Ambassador to Canada declared the Trudeau government's support of the U.N. motion to be "naive." Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel's Ambassador to Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices