What is the price of sensationalized Islamophobia reports? Will Children’s Aid involve itself with the Joshua Boyle case? Can expressing religious beliefs be a hate crime?

The Roy Green Show Podcast

 

Canadian politicians didn’t wait for police to finish their investigation before they publicly condemned an alleged attack on an 11-year-old girl, who claimed a man cut her hijab while she was on her way to school. Of course, police concluded that the incident was made up and didn’t actually happen.

 

Following this, a column was published in the Washington Post – “Phony Islamophobia panic is ruining Canadian politics” by J.J. McCullough.

 

Guest:  J.J. McCullough, Canadian political columnist, commentator and cartoonist, http://www.jjmccullough.com

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Roy brings Scott Newark in to speak on the subject of whether or not there should be concern about children’s well-being in the homes of troubled families.

 

In particular, should children’s aid be involved in the case of the children of Joshua Boyle? What about the children in the Khadr home?

 

Guest: Scott Newark, former Alberta crown prosecutor, executive officer of the Canadian Police Association, security adviser to the Canadian and Ontario governments, adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University

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Lord Pearson of Rannoch, a member of the British House of Lords and former leader of the UKIP party, asked the House of Lords whether Christians could be arrested for a hate crime by saying that Jesus is the only son of the one true God. The government representative refused to comment on the question.

 

 

 

Guest: Sam Hailes, Editor for Premier Christian magazine and commentator on Premier Christian radio in the U.K.

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We may soon find out whether an appeal of the Equitas lawsuit dismissal by the B.C. Court of Appeal will be registered.  

 

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Hamilton, Ont. a couple of weeks ago, 900 CHML’s Bill Kelly asked for the prime minister to comment on the lawsuit.

 

Guest: Major Mark Campbell, PPCLI, lost both legs in an IED attack in Afghanistan, and a member of the Equitas lawsuit

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One of South Africa’s largest cities, Cape Town, could be the world’s first major municipality to run out of water due to an unprecedented drought. The dams are drying up and contingency plans are rolling out very slowly. 

 

April 21st will be "Day Zero" when the water supply will be cut off because there’s simply not enough water left in the reservoirs.

 

What happens when the taps are shut off for millions of people?

 

Guest: Giovanna Gerbi, journalist, and resident of Cape Town

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