Roy Green Show Podcast, Aug 19: Chanine Carr, Jayme Doll, Donna-Lynn Baskin, Wildfires Continue. - Pierre Poilievre, Challenges Trudeau & Guilbeault. - Prof Yoshua Bengio, Threat of AI to Humanity. - Robert Patterson, Tenant Crushing Rents in Vancouver.
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Show Notes
Today's Podcast
Stories of the wildfires raging near Yellowknife and Kelowna. We hear first from a Yellowknife resident who was recently evacuated, then from the program director of AM1150 in Kelowna, and finally from the first Global News reporter deployed to Yellowknife.
Guests: Donna-Lynn Baskin, Yellowknife resident.
Chanine Carr, Program Director, AM1150, Kelowna.
Jayme Doll, Global News Reporter.
Canada's housing crisis. Inflation rose again in July. Consumer prices as well. For first time since pandemic Canada's inflation rate was higher than that of the U.S. BMO chief economist Douglas Porter: "there's no use sugar-coating this one. This is not a good report for the Bank of Canada." -other indicators though show a slight cooling of the national economy.
Western provinces continue their challenge of federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault's move to remove fossil fuels from electricity generation by 2035. (furious AB premier Danielle Smith last Sunday. SK premier Scott Moe tomorrow).
Guest is critical of Guilbeault heading for Beijing this month as executive vice-chair of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. Chairperson is Ding Xuexiang. China Vice Premier.
Toronto Star reports unnamed Liberal MPs grousing about Justin Trudeau leading the party and worry about losing the next fed election as badly as former Ontario Liberal Party under premier Kathleen Wynne lost the provincial election. Not enough seats retained for official party status.
Guest's appeal to women voters and new kinder/gentler image makeover.
Guest: Pierre Poilievre. Leader Conservative Party of Canada
A 2-part feature on Artificial Intelligence this weekend (Part 2 tomorrow). Global News' story in June headlined: "Why AI's top minds think it could end humanity and how we can stop it." - Also this week Canadian government consulting on a generative AI Code of Conduct.
Just how dangerous to the existence of humanity is artificial intelligence and why?
Guest: Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder/scientific director Mila-Quebec AI Institute. His research helped create the groundwork for today's AI technology. Described as a "godfather" of AI development. Concerned AI we have today may lead to a massive catastrophe.
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.
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Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor
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