The Roy Green Show

Ontario government looking to increase role of private health care. As Canada's 13 different health care systems face crisis is it time for private healthcare options to increase? Or at least private healthcare insurance? We speak with one of Canada's leading private health insurance proponents whose case is destined for the Supreme Court of Canada. Guest: Dr. Brian Day. Founder of Cambie Surgery Centre, Vancouver. Former president of the Canadian Medical Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trudeau government announces the purchase of the F35 fighter plane years after declaring they never would. - this follows the announcement of surface ships for the RCN and the spending $400 million to purchase missile defence systems from the U.S. for Ukraine. Canada's military has had no such missile system for many years. The announced purchase of F35 fighter planes to replace Canada's half-century old CF18's and 15 warships {frigates} for the Royal Canadian Navy is running into complaints of too much spending. This while our NATO allies are making it clear to the federal government they expect Canada to increase its military defence spending substantially. What do we gain with the announced purchases and what does the CAF still require? Guest: Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. Former Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy. former Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and Samuel Associates Senior Defence Analyst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Damar Hamlin's health is improving by the day. Out of hospital, many wondering if the Buffalo Bills defensive back may make an appearance at tomorrow's Bills vs Dolphins playoff game. Guest: Tim O'Shei. Has for years covered the Bills for the Buffalo News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Vancouver man plans to open the city's first crack/heroin/fentanyl commercial outlet, although the sale of such drugs remains a criminal offence. On January 31, B.C. will decriminalize personal-use quantities of heroin, fentanyl, meth, cocaine and MDMA. Posession of less than 2.5 grams of those drugs will no longer be considered illegal. Guest: Dr. Brian Conway. Medical director and infectious diseases specialist a the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre on the city's East Side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meanwhile, Canadian chronic pain patients, increasingly suffering terribly and increasingly thinking of suicide according to a Chronic Pain Association of Canada survey. CCP's are finding it more and more difficult to obtain prescription opioid pain medications which make life bearable. Guests: Barry Ulmer. Executive Director. Chronic Pain Association of Canada. & Sarah. A successful Canadian professional and chronic pain patient. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal immigration ministern Sean Fraser declares Canada needs more newcomers. Sets immigration number at 500,000 by 2025. - Our guest's organization, the Association of Canadian Studies, recently released information from a national poll conducted by Leger on reaction to Liberals immigration numbers. 75% of Canadians said they remain very or somewhat concerned the increased number of newcomers to Canada may negatively impact on already stressed health care, housing and social services. Guest: Jack Jedwab. Executive director. Association of Canadian Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Alberta in 2023. On the first weekend of the year we speak with Premier Danielle Smith about the scheduled provincial election on May 29, 2023. Other issues the premier considers key for the people of Alberta and Alberta's role nationally, including her government's relationship with the federal government. That includes Alberta's challenging Ottawa on Bill C-21 and the premier's response to Ottawa's call to participate in a "just transition" for Alberta's energy sector workers. Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta. In June of 2021, Chief Cadmus Delorme of Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan announced the finding of 751 unmarked graves at a cemetary near the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School. What are the issues of greatest interest and substance for Indigenous people in Canada as we begin 2023, in the spirit of national reconciliation? Guest: Chief Cadmus Delorme. Cowesses First Nation, Saskatchewan. Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is the new threat, but how much of a threat? Is this the year Covid should be declared endemic instead of a public health emergency, particularly as it continues to mutate and present itself in potentially more dangerous forms? - Are vaccines and boosters the answer to keep the wraps on Covid largely in '23? - Preceding variants. How much of a threat do they continue to present. - Vaccines and boosters. As well: So-called superbugs resistent to antibiotics. England's chief public health officer has warned of an apocalypse should superbugs largely negate antibiotics. Guest: Dr. Joseph Blondeau. Clinical microbiologist and head of Clinical microbiology at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital and the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Blondeau is a globally respected leader in microbiology and has published in excess of 160 peer reviewed manuscripts. Recent recipient of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal As the war between Ukraine and Russia begins its second calendar year Putin announced and violated a 36 hour ceasefire January 6 and 7 over Orthodox Christmas which Ukraine president Zelenskyy argued was just a Putin ruse to resupply Russian troops and stop the advances of Ukraine's military. Meanwhile the U.S., France and Germany announce more battlefield armoured vehicles for Ukraine but stop short of the heavy battle tanks Ukraine is asking for. Canada has delivered four M777 Howitzers to Ukraine meanwhile. We feature a year-starting interview with Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada. We will also ask the Ambassador to comment on the fact this is the 3rd anniversary of the shooting down by Iran of Ukraine Airlines Flight PS 752 with dozens of Canadian citizens and permanent residents onboard. Guest: Ambassador Yulia Kovaliv. Ukraine Ambassador to Canada. Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Iran shooting down Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 over Tehran claiming more than 170 lives, including 138 who had ties to Canada. 55 were Canadian citizens, 30 were permanent residents of Canada. Guest: Amir Arsalani. Member of the Association of Families of Flight PS 752 victims. --------------------------------------------- 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

Alberta in 2023. On the first weekend of the year we speak with Premier Danielle Smith about the scheduled provincial election on May 29, 2023. Other issues the premier considers key for the people of Alberta and Alberta's role nationally, including her government's relationship with the federal government. That includes Alberta's challenging Ottawa on Bill C-21 and the premier's response to Ottawa's call to participate in a "just transition" for Alberta's energy sector workers. Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In June of 2021, Chief Cadmus Delorme of Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan announced the finding of 751 unmarked graves at a cemetary near the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School. What are the issues of greatest interest and substance for Indigenous people in Canada as we begin 2023, in the spirit of national reconciliation? Guest: Chief Cadmus Delorme. Cowesses First Nation, Saskatchewan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is the new threat, but how much of a threat? Is this the year Covid should be declared endemic instead of a public health emergency, particularly as it continues to mutate and present itself in potentially more dangerous forms? - Are vaccines and boosters the answer to keep the wraps on Covid largely in '23? - Preceding variants. How much of a threat do they continue to present. - Vaccines and boosters. As well: So-called superbugs resistent to antibiotics. England's chief public health officer has warned of an apocalypse should superbugs largely negate antibiotics. Guest: Dr. Joseph Blondeau. Clinical microbiologist and head of Clinical microbiology at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital and the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Blondeau is a globally respected leader in microbiology and has published in excess of 160 peer reviewed manuscripts. Recent recipient of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the war between Ukraine and Russia begins its second calendar year Putin announced and violated a 36 hour ceasefire January 6 and 7 over Orthodox Christmas which Ukraine president Zelenskyy argued was just a Putin ruse to resupply Russian troops and stop the advances of Ukraine's military. Meanwhile the U.S., France and Germany announce more battlefield armoured vehicles for Ukraine but stop short of the heavy battle tanks Ukraine is asking for. Canada has delivered four M777 Howitzers to Ukraine meanwhile. We feature a year-starting interview with Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada. We will also ask the Ambassador to comment on the fact this is the 3rd anniversary of the shooting down by Iran of Ukraine Airlines Flight PS 752 with dozens of Canadian citizens and permanent residents onboard. Guest: Ambassador Yulia Kovaliv. Ukraine Ambassador to Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Iran shooting down Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 over Tehran claiming more than 170 lives, including 138 who had ties to Canada. 55 were Canadian citizens, 30 were permanent residents of Canada. Guest: Amir Arsalani. Member of the Association of Families of Flight PS 752 victims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3rd anniversary of Iran shooting down of PS 752 Guest: Michael Chong. CPC MP and Foreign Affairs shadow minister Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bryan Kohberger, criminology Ph'D candidate at the Washington State University arrested and charged in the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students. Developments leading to the arrest and charges are many and we're beginning to learn more about the police and scientific investigation which led to Kohberger being arrested by an FBI SWAT team in the early morning hours of December 29. We cover what has been learned, what lies ahead and consider how early the FBI and state and local police may have been investigating Kohberger. Perhaps while Kohberger and his father were driving from Washington State to the parental home in Pennsylvania. Guest: Scott Duffey. Retired Supervisory FBI Special Agent. Co-director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Wilmington University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2023 and the price of oil and how that may/will be reflected at the pump for Canadians as far as gasoline and diesel price is concerned. Guest: Dan McTeague. President. Canadians for Affordable Energy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills improving health. Guest: Terry Totton. Head football coach at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh and Damar Hamlin's high school coach. Criminal drug cartels at war with the Mexican national government. This week virtual open warfare broke out as Ovidio Guzman, son of cartel kingpin El Chapo Guzman was captured by Mexican forces after the president of Mexico had ordered the release of Ovidio in order to avoid continuing assaults by cartel gunmen. Canadian travelers were urged by the federal government to shelter in place in Mexico. Drug cartel members in armoured vehicles on New Year's Day attacked a Mexican state prison and the municipal police HQ in Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. 19 people are killed. 24, including a cartel boss were freed by the heavily armed attackers or escaped. Just days from now President Biden, Prime Minister Trudeau will meet with Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a major North American summit. What is going on in our USMCA partner country when drug cartel killers attack government installatioins? Guest: Ioan Grillo. Journalist/author living and reporting in Mexico. In his book Blood Gun Money: Firearms Trafficking Along America's Iron River, Grillo chases down how America arms gangs and cartels. He talks to arms makers, street corner thugs, hit men, gun buyers and seller and victims, as well as perpetrators of gun violence. Healthcare. Canadians #1 issue at the outset of 2023. How do the two doctors most recently presidents of the Canadian Medical Association identify the most significant healthcare needs of Canadians and what do these doctors declare is critical to repairing our broken national healthcare system? Guests: Dr. Katherine Smart. Immediate past-president, CMA and Yukon pediatrician. Has worked in major urban and rural hospitals. & Dr. Alika Lafontaine. Current president CMA and the Association's first Indigenous president. Listed in the Medical Post's '50 Most Powerful Doctors.' According to the WHO and national public health in Canada the Covid variant XBB.1.5 is the new threat to health globally and here in Canada. (Tomorrow we'll get deeper into this XBB variant threat) How do pharmaceutical companies create new vaccines, boosters and other anti-viral treatments for Covid variants for a complete age range of Canadians when we don't know until the variant is established that it's present in the population? Are governments and particularly the current federal government a help or hindrance? Guest: Paul Lucas. Former president/CEO of Glaxo Smith Kline, Canada. --------------------------------------------- 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

Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills improving health. Guest: Terry Totton. Head football coach at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh and Damar Hamlin's high school coach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Criminal drug cartels at war with the Mexican national government. This week virtual open warfare broke out as Ovidio Guzman, son of cartel kingpin El Chapo Guzman was captured by Mexican forces after the president of Mexico had ordered the release of Ovidio in order to avoid continuing assaults by cartel gunmen. Canadian travelers were urged by the federal government to shelter in place in Mexico. Drug cartel members in armoured vehicles on New Year's Day attacked a Mexican state prison and the municipal police HQ in Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. 19 people are killed. 24, including a cartel boss were freed by the heavily armed attackers or escaped. Just days from now President Biden, Prime Minister Trudeau will meet with Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a major North American summit. What is going on in our USMCA partner country when drug cartel killers attack government installatioins? Guest: Ioan Grillo. Journalist/author living and reporting in Mexico. In his book Blood Gun Money: Firearms Trafficking Along America's Iron River, Grillo chases down how America arms gangs and cartels. He talks to arms makers, street corner thugs, hit men, gun buyers and seller and victims, as well as perpetrators of gun violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Healthcare. Canadians #1 issue at the outset of 2023. How do the two doctors most recently presidents of the Canadian Medical Association identify the most significant healthcare needs of Canadians and what do these doctors declare is critical to repairing our broken national healthcare system? Guests: Dr. Katherine Smart. Immediate past-president, CMA and Yukon pediatrician. Has worked in major urban and rural hospitals. & Dr. Alika Lafontaine. Current president CMA and the Association's first Indigenous president. Listed in the Medical Post's '50 Most Powerful Doctors.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

According to the WHO and national public health in Canada the Covid variant XBB.1.5 is the new threat to health globally and here in Canada. (Tomorrow we'll get deeper into this XBB variant threat) How do pharmaceutical companies create new vaccines, boosters and other anti-viral treatments for Covid variants for a complete age range of Canadians when we don't know until the variant is established that it's present in the population? Are governments and particularly the current federal government a help or hindrance? Guest: Paul Lucas. Former president/CEO of Glaxo Smith Kline, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim O'Shei is a Buffalo News reporter who will this weekend have a major story on how the people of Buffalo are processing what occurred in Cincinatti to Damar Hamlin. How do Bills fans respond to the NFL decision to not complete the Bills/Bengals game and how the league has rearranged its season-ending games schedule? Guest: Tim O'Shei. Buffalo News. Has covered the Bills for many years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the first weekend of 2023 we ask 'where is the price of oil and thereby gasoline and diesel going in 2023? How much more might we be paying at the pumps and just as importantly, how much more might trucking firms be paying for diesel since literally everything owned by Canadians arrived by truck? And the trucker's perspective. The trucking industry has been hurt by Covid, the supply chain shortfalls and the rapidly increasing cost to fuel trucks. How do truckers and trucking firms manage rapidly expanding costs of fuelling their rigs and how much of the increase lands on the consumer? Guest: Ron Foxcroft. Fluke Transport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Families of police officers attacked and killed in the line of duty. Their trauma which endures. Guest: Jason Harnett. Brother Andrew killed New Year’s Eve 2020 during a routine traffic stop in Calgary where he was a CPS Sergeant. Jason Harnett this week attended the funeral for OPP officer Gregorz Pierzchala. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: SurvivorPerspectives.com provides a Survivor Perspective for Change From Military Sexual Trauma Survivors. Front Line Workshops. Already worked with approx 2300 active CAF members, from privates to Generals. Guest: Major Donna Riguidel (ret'd). Director and co-founder of SurvivorPerspectives.com. Survivor of rape. Invictus Games participant for Canada. Year-ender interview on IPSOS Canada polling for Global News in 2022 and a 2023 look-ahead at issues of greatest significance to Canadians. Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO IPSOS Public Affairs. Author: NEXT 2022 year-ender. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has drawn much of the Western world into the conflict on the side of Ukraine as Russians continue missile attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure while the Ukraine military has handed its Russian counterpart a series of significant battlefield defeats. Meanwhile Canada is revoking sanctions exemptions for Nord Stream turbines, according to the federal government. What to expect in 2023? Guest: Olexander Scherba (from Kyiv). Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria, former Ukraine Ambassador at Large. Author, Ukraine vs Darkness: Undiplomatic Thoughts. 2022 year-ender. Food inflation has outpaced general inflation for more than a year in Canada. What lies ahead for 2023? Op ed by our guest: COP15's absurd proposed planetary diet. Also: Canada's Food Price Report 2023. Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Dalhousie University Agri-food Analytics Lab. --------------------------------------------- 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

SurvivorPerspectives.com provides a Survivor Perspective for Change From Military Sexual Trauma Survivors. Front Line Workshops. Already worked with approx 2300 active CAF members, from privates to Generals. Guest: Major Donna Riguidel (ret'd). Director and co-founder of SurvivorPerspectives.com. Survivor of rape. Invictus Games participant for Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Year-ender interview on IPSOS Canada polling for Global News in 2022 and a 2023 look-ahead at issues of greatest significance to Canadians. Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO IPSOS Public Affairs. Author: NEXT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2022 year-ender. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has drawn much of the Western world into the conflict on the side of Ukraine as Russians continue missile attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure while the Ukraine military has handed its Russian counterpart a series of significant battlefield defeats. Meanwhile Canada is revoking sanctions exemptions for Nord Stream turbines, according to the federal government. What to expect in 2023? Guest: Olexander Scherba (from Kyiv). Former Ukraine Ambassador to Austria, former Ukraine Ambassador at Large. Author, Ukraine vs Darkness: Undiplomatic Thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2022 year-ender. Food inflation has outpaced general inflation for more than a year in Canada. What lies ahead for 2023? Op ed by our guest: COP15's absurd proposed planetary diet. Also: Canada's Food Price Report 2023. Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Dalhousie University Agri-food Analytics Lab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2022 Year-ender. Beauties and the Beast panel. Guests focus on the national/provincial issues they consider most significant and look ahead to 2023. Guests: Catherine Swift, president, Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses Canada (CCMB). Fmr president/CEO CFIB. Linda Leatherdale, vice president Cambria, Canada. Fmr Money editor, Toronto Sun. Michelle Simson. Former Liberal member of parliament and parliamentary seatmate to Justin Trudeau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Opportunity exists in Canada for the entrepreneurial spirit. Sam Mercanti with his family arrived in Canada from Italy in the 1960's. Sam and his brothers began the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunity as boys and continue today. The brothers experienced great individual success and are contributors to the wellbeing of Canada and Canadians. Beginning work on the shop floor of his uncles autobody shop in Hamilton, Sam Mercanti rose to create a national Canadian entrepreneurial success story as Canadian founder of CARSTAR. Sam Mercanti's autobiography is RISEN From the Shop Floor: Lessons from an Entrepreneur. Guest: Sam Mercanti (all net income from the book is being donated to Cystic Fibrosis Canada). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: 2022 year-ender and '23 look-ahead including possibility of a federal election interview with the Conservative Party of Canada leader. Guest: Pierre Poilievre Global News story by Sam Cooper, December 13: Secret 2020 Privy Council Office memo found 'active foreign interference network' in 2019 election referencing the Chinese Communist Party. Guest: Sam Cooper. National online journalist, investigative, Global News. Global News: Hockey Canada member branches to vote on slate of nominees for 9 board vacancies. Also, year-ender review of the Hockey Canada scandal in 2022 and what must be done to responsibly address the safe sport issue in Canada. Guest: Allison Forsyth, ITP Sport. Mutiple Canadian skiing championships and represented Canada the Olympic Games. Was herself sexually assaulted by the national ski team coach after which Alpine Canada requested Allison Forsyth not reveal publicly what had taken place. 2022 year-ender interview concerning federal spending and other fiscal matters as assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Officer. One headline: Liberals did not show fiscal restraint in fall update. Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary Budget Officer. Federal International Trade Minister Mary Ng was determined to have contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by the parliamentary Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion. Consequences? An apology. Our guest demands more significant consequences for such action. In 2002, then Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien accepted the resignation of federal defence minister Art Eggleton from cabinet for an ethics violation. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder, Democracy Watch. Democracy Watch calling for action against Minister Ng. --------------------------------------------- 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

2022 year-ender and '23 look-ahead including possibility of a federal election interview with the Conservative Party of Canada leader. Guest: Pierre Poilievre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News story by Sam Cooper, December 13: Secret 2020 Privy Council Office memo found 'active foreign interference network' in 2019 election referencing the Chinese Communist Party. Guest: Sam Cooper. National online journalist, investigative, Global News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News: Hockey Canada member branches to vote on slate of nominees for 9 board vacancies. Also, year-ender review of the Hockey Canada scandal in 2022 and what must be done to responsibly address the safe sport issue in Canada. Guest: Allison Forsyth, ITP Sport. Mutiple Canadian skiing championships and represented Canada the Olympic Games. Was herself sexually assaulted by the national ski team coach after which Alpine Canada requested Allison Forsyth not reveal publicly what had taken place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2022 year-ender interview concerning federal spending and other fiscal matters as assessed by the Parliamentary Budget Officer. One headline: Liberals did not show fiscal restraint in fall update. Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary Budget Officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal International Trade Minister Mary Ng was determined to have contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by the parliamentary Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion. Consequences? An apology. Our guest demands more significant consequences for such action. In 2002, then Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien accepted the resignation of federal defence minister Art Eggleton from cabinet for an ethics violation. Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder, Democracy Watch. Democracy Watch calling for action against Minister Ng. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

World Cup soccer final tomorrow. Two of Canada's group made it to the semi-finals, Morocco and Croatia. Makes us feel better about Canada's performance in Qatar? Guest; George Pakos. Played for Canada in the 1986 World Cup of Soccer in Mexico City. George Pakos scored two of the four goals Canada managed while qualifying for the Mexico City tournament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2022 year-ender interview concerning this year's experiences with the Covid coronavirus and its variants. As well, vaccination and boosters, the wearing masks or not wearing masks. Also, the Respiratory Sycitial Virus and its impact particularly on children. The annual flu and its impact this year. Measles spreading globally. What may lie ahead in 2023? Guest: Dr. Isaac Bogoch. Infectious diseases specialist, Toronto General Hospital and associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: The federal gun legislation. C-21 and its adendum which the government insists does not include hunting rifles and shotguns. We talk to one of the most engaged lawyers on the issue of gun legislation in Canada. Guest: Ed Burlew, lawyer, Toronto Specializes in firearms-related cases. Has defended more than 700 cases of licenced firearms owners since beginning this work in 1999. Lawrence Manzer is a New Brunswick Canadian Armed Forces veteran with 17 years CAF service. In August of 2012, Manzer, in the middle of the night, became aware of an altercation at his neighbour's home, seeing his neighbour engaged with three strangers. Manzer entered the situation with an unloaded shotgun. When police arrived Manzer was arrested and found himself criminally charged. The court case eventually was resolved in Lawrence Manzer's favour and his firearms were returned. Guest: Lawrence Manzer. Global News: RCMP foreign interference investigators visit B.C. friendship societyh. Journalists are Stewart Bell and Sam Cooper. Sam Cooper joins us to share what he has discovered about China's intereference into Canada's affairs to date, including the presence of Chinese police stations in Canada. Guest: Sam Cooper. Investigative reporter online, Global News. - Book, Wilful Blindness: How a criminal network of narcos, tycoons and Chinese Communist Party agents infiltrated the West. Casper the Great Pyrenees dog in Georgia. 20 month old Casper fought off 11 coyotes trying to get at the sheep Casper was guarding. Casper killed 8 of the coyotes, but was badly hurt himself. Guest: Dr. Susan Brosman, veterinarian, Director of medical services, Lifeline Animal (.org). She is the vet who has been caring for Casper and it looks like Casper is going to make it. --------------------------------------------- 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

The federal gun legislation. C-21 and its adendum which the government insists does not include hunting rifles and shotguns. We talk to one of the most engaged lawyers on the issue of gun legislation in Canada. Guest: Ed Burlew, lawyer, Toronto Specializes in firearms-related cases. Has defended more than 700 cases of licenced firearms owners since beginning this work in 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawrence Manzer is a New Brunswick Canadian Armed Forces veteran with 17 years CAF service. In August of 2012, Manzer, in the middle of the night, became aware of an altercation at his neighbour's home, seeing his neighbour engaged with three strangers. Manzer entered the situation with an unloaded shotgun. When police arrived Manzer was arrested and found himself criminally charged. The court case eventually was resolved in Lawrence Manzer's favour and his firearms were returned. Guest: Lawrence Manzer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News: RCMP foreign interference investigators visit B.C. friendship societyh. Journalists are Stewart Bell and Sam Cooper. Sam Cooper joins us to share what he has discovered about China's intereference into Canada's affairs to date, including the presence of Chinese police stations in Canada. Guest: Sam Cooper. Investigative reporter online, Global News. - Book, Wilful Blindness: How a criminal network of narcos, tycoons and Chinese Communist Party agents infiltrated the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Casper the Great Pyrenees dog in Georgia. 20 month old Casper fought off 11 coyotes trying to get at the sheep Casper was guarding. Casper killed 8 of the coyotes, but was badly hurt himself. Guest: Dr. Susan Brosman, veterinarian, Director of medical services, Lifeline Animal (.org). She is the vet who has been caring for Casper and it looks like Casper is going to make it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian firearms owners groups are taking the federal government to court over its controversial legislation. The CSSA, Canadian Sport Schooting Association has initiated court action against Bill C-21. What is the objective of the CSSA? Guest: Tony Bernardo. Executive Director. CSSA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News (December 9), Winnipeg police chief not stepping down amid pressure to search for Indigenous homicide victims. We speak to this news, as well as how Manitobans are responding to the federal government's firearms legislation, particularly as it pertains to shotguns and hunting rifles. - Also, Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe and Alberta premier Danielle Smith have in recent weeks joined us on air to explain their Saskatchewan First Act and the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, with premier Smith suggesting other provinces including Manitoba may show interest in supporting the SK and AB approach. Might Manitobans be interested? Guest: Richard Cloutier, co-host of the News on 680 CJOB weekdays and senior reporter with Global News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blacklock's Reporter feature stories of the week from Ottawa. Guest: Tom Korski. Executive editor. Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Are Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAuley and his deputy minister Paul Ledwell accusing CAF veteran Chrstine Gauthier of being a liar? https://globalnews.ca/news/9326699/veterans-assisted-dying-gauthier-minister/ Christine Gauthier. CAF veteran who testified before the Veterans Affairs Committee in parliament she was offered MAID when speaking with a VAC caseworker. Gauthier also competed for Canada in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics and the Invictus Games. Christine Gauthier wrote a letter to Justin Trudeau and VAC Minister Lawrence MacAuley about her experience with the VAC caseworker. Now the minister and his deputy minister appear to be accusing Gauthier of being untruthful. VAC claims there is no evidence in Gauthier's file that she was offered MAID. The MAID offer was verbal Gauthier told me. VAC confirms four suspected cases. Guest: Christine Gauthier. CAF veteran, Canadian paralympian. Testified she was offered Medical Assistance in Dying by VAC caseworker. MAID offered to Canadian Armed Forces veterans struggling with PTSD and additional health issues. Our guest has spoken to several CAF veterans about this issue on his podcast. As well, testified before parliamentary Veterans Affairs committee. Guest: Mark Meincke. CAF veteran and host of Operation Tango Romeo, The Trauma Recovery Podcast. MAID developments. Mental illness as a sole reason for Medical Assistance In Dying by mid-March a national controversy. As Canada's healthcare peels away, medically assisted death MAD (let's call it what it is) is an increasing issue daily. - As well, Veterans Affairs Canada caseworkers offering MAID to CAF veterans suffering both physical and mental health difficulties (PTSD). Guest: Dr. Stefanie Green. Co-founder and president, Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers . Medical advisor to the BC Ministry of Health MAID oversight committee, Clinical faculty UBC and University of Victoria. Author: This is Assisted Dying. Crises at Canada's childrens/pediatric hospitals as hospital run short of beds. What is driving the crisis, what options are available, how long is this expected to last and what might parents/caregivers do? - Also, Global News: “Premiers demand ‘urgent’ meeting with Trudeau on health funding” - How significantly is Canada's healthcare delivery spiraling downward? Which patients are most affected and how directly? Is anyone immune from the healthcare delivery downturn? Guest: Dr. Katherine Smart. Past president. Canadian Medical Association. Infectious diseases specialists are not of one mind concerning Covid vaccines/boosters. What are the issues? Guest: Dr. Nel Rau. Infectious diseases specialist, Halton region, Ontario. Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto. --------------------------------------------- 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

Are Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAuley and his deputy minister Paul Ledwell accusing CAF veteran Chrstine Gauthier of being a liar? https://globalnews.ca/news/9326699/veterans-assisted-dying-gauthier-minister/ Christine Gauthier. CAF veteran who testified before the Veterans Affairs Committee in parliament she was offered MAID when speaking with a VAC caseworker. Gauthier also competed for Canada in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics and the Invictus Games. Christine Gauthier wrote a letter to Justin Trudeau and VAC Minister Lawrence MacAuley about her experience with the VAC caseworker. Now the minister and his deputy minister appear to be accusing Gauthier of being untruthful. VAC claims there is no evidence in Gauthier's file that she was offered MAID. The MAID offer was verbal Gauthier told me. VAC confirms four suspected cases. Guest: Christine Gauthier. CAF veteran, Canadian paralympian. Testified she was offered Medical Assistance in Dying by VAC caseworker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MAID offered to Canadian Armed Forces veterans struggling with PTSD and additional health issues. Our guest has spoken to several CAF veterans about this issue on his podcast. As well, testified before parliamentary Veterans Affairs committee. Guest: Mark Meincke. CAF veteran and host of Operation Tango Romeo, The Trauma Recovery Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MAID developments. Mental illness as a sole reason for Medical Assistance In Dying by mid-March a national controversy. As Canada's healthcare peels away, medically assisted death MAD (let's call it what it is) is an increasing issue daily. - As well, Veterans Affairs Canada caseworkers offering MAID to CAF veterans suffering both physical and mental health difficulties (PTSD). Guest: Dr. Stefanie Green. Co-founder and president, Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers . Medical advisor to the BC Ministry of Health MAID oversight committee, Clinical faculty UBC and University of Victoria. Author: This is Assisted Dying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices