What is it like inside Canada’s Prisons? What will happen to the Eagle Spirit Pipeline? What does Barry Sherman’s cousin have to say?

The Roy Green Show

Doug Ford has officially launched his campaign for leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative party. What will his candidacy bring to Canadian politics?

 

Guest: Doug Ford

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It’s been one month since Ontario’s minimum wage was raised to $14. In a matter of months, the minimum wage in Alberta will become $15.

 

With minimum wage set to climb in other provinces, how have Canadian businesses reacted? Are we on the road to losing tens of thousands of jobs as predicted?

 

Guest: Dan Kelly, president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business

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More than 30 First Nations leaders in Alberta and British Columbia are backing the $16 billion proposed Eagle Spirit pipeline project that would run from Alberta to northern British Columbia.

 

The coalition has started a GoFundMe appeal for $1 million to fight the federal government in their attempt to overturn the proposed oil-tanker ban on British Columbia’s north coast.

 

Guest: Calvin Helin, Eagle Spirit chairman, lawyer and son of a B.C. First Nations Chief

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Kerry Winter is the cousin of pharmaceutical billionaire Barry Sherman, who was found dead along with his wife in their Toronto home in December. Police say they’re investigating their deaths as a double-homicide but Winter has told police that it was a murder/suicide.

 

The CBC's "Fifth Estate" reports that Winter failed a lie detector test after saying Barry Sherman had asked him to kill his wife Honey in the 1990s.

 

Guest: Kerry Winter, cousin of Barry Sherman

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Larry Nassar has been sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for the sexual abuse of hundreds of girls. On Thursday, a father of three of the girls charged at Nassar in the courtroom.

 

What happens to child sexual predators when they go to prison and inmates become aware of their crimes?

 

Guest: Lee Chapelle, founder of CanadianPrisonConsulting.com, spent more than 20 years behind bars, including three maximum security prisons

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Yesterday in the weekly Beauties and the Beast segment, Linda Leatherdale said "income tax should be affordable”. Roy and Linda expand upon that idea.

 

Guest: Linda Leatherdale, vice president of Cambria Canada & former money editor of the Toronto Sun

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