Roy Green Show

Today’s podcast: Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow. - attempts continue to negotiate a permanent ceasefire with Israel. Israel demands the return of hostages abducted by Hamas last October 7 as precondition. Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel Ambassador to Canada. Toronto Maple Leafs lose in overtime in Game 7 of the first Stanley Cup series to the Boston Bruins. The Leafs now begin the 58th consecutive year of the team rebuild in pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Leafs fans equally "bewildered, despairing and thoroughly p----d off" according to a listener email this morning. Guest: Greg Brady. Host of Toronto Today on our Corus radio station AM 640. It is so-called Boycott Loblaws month in Canada. Challenges of providing food for Canada. Guest: Gary Sands. VP Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers. Universities occupations continue. In Canada, McGill, U of Ottawa, U of T, UBC with new one scheduled for UMB this week. How does one of Canada's most prominent academics interpret? Who is behind these protests and how to view rising antisemitism. Guest: Professor Ken Coates. Professor emeritus University of Saskatchewan. Now at Yukon University, chair of Indigenous governance program. Consultant to Indigenous groups and governments in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, as well as the United Nations. Books include: From Treaty Peoples, to Treaty Nation. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig 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

Holocaust Remembrance Day tomorrow. - attempts continue to negotiate a permanent ceasefire with Israel. Israel demands the return of hostages abducted by Hamas last October 7 as precondition. Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel Ambassador to Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toronto Maple Leafs lose in overtime in Game 7 of the first Stanley Cup series to the Boston Bruins. The Leafs now begin the 58th consecutive year of the team rebuild in pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Leafs fans equally "bewildered, despairing and thoroughly p----d off" according to a listener email this morning. Guest: Greg Brady. Host of Toronto Today on our Corus radio station AM 640. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is so-called Boycott Loblaws month in Canada. Challenges of providing food for Canada. Guest: Gary Sands. VP Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers. And: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director Dalhousie University Agri-Foods laboratory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Universities occupations continue. In Canada, McGill, U of Ottawa, U of T, UBC with new one scheduled for UMB this week. How does one of Canada's most prominent academics interpret? Who is behind these protests and how to view rising antisemitism. Guest: Professor Ken Coates. Professor emeritus University of Saskatchewan. Now at Yukon University, chair of Indigenous governance program. Consultant to Indigenous groups and governments in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, as well as the United Nations. Books include: From Treaty Peoples, to Treaty Nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MacDonald Laurier Institute paper: Canada's Resource Sector: Protecting the Golden Goose. Co-authored by Jack Mintz, Distinguished Fellow MLI. Philip Cross, Senior Fellow MLI. Guest: Philip Cross, former chief economics analyst at Statistics Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following yesterday's conversation with B.C. father Greg Sword who's 14-year-old daughter died of a drug overdose, today it is a British Columbia businesswoman's fight against decriminalization of illicit drugs and the 'safer drugs' program. She has faced discrimination from the provincial government, when walking her 10- and 12-year-old children has been subjected to half peace sign (in duplicate) from passersby. Her business has been boycotted (restaurant/bar) and writes to me: "I see so many people muzzled to speak and I see why businesses do not. This has been an awful experience. I would not wish it on anyone." And: A caller from Penticton B.C. who works with the unhoused community takes us through the impact of drug decriminalization from his perspective. Guest: Tanya Finley. In addition to being a business owner with more than 40 employees she is an active volunteer with the Nelson, B.C. Chamber of Commerce and Nelson police foundation. Soccer coach for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: From the interim report concerning foreign interference in Canada's elections - to B.C.'s premier David Eby's request the criminal code be modified to once again permit police to intervene in illicit public drug use, while Eby simultaneously insists the 3 year drug decriminalization pilot program will continue - to his op ed in the National Post challenging Canada's corporations to stop engaging lobbyists to seek favour from the federal government - to Tuesday's expulsion from parliament for using the word "wacko" in relation to Justin Trudeau and the B.C. Safe Supply program we speak with the federal leader of the official opposition. Guest: Pierre Poilievre. Leader, Conservative Party of Canada Justice Marie Josee Hogue interim report on foreign (China) election interference in Canada. Guest: Michel Juneau Katsuya. Former CSIS Chief of the Asia-Pacific unit. Following MJK's warning of China interference in Canada his CSIS unit was shut down. MJK wrote the preface and afteword for The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party started a hybrid war in America's backyard. Greg Sword is a British Columbia resident whose 14 year old daughter Kamilah overdosed and died on hydromorphone, a drug her friends reportedly said they obtained from drug users who were defrauding Vancouver's safer drugs supply program. Guests: Greg Sword. And: Elenore Sturko. MLA BC United Party. Has worked with Mr. Sword as the party repeatedly calls for an end to the safer supply --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig 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

From the interim report concerning foreign interference in Canada's elections - to B.C.'s premier David Eby's request the criminal code be modified to once again permit police to intervene in illicit public drug use, while Eby simultaneously insists the 3 year drug decriminalization pilot program will continue - to his op ed in the National Post challenging Canada's corporations to stop engaging lobbyists to seek favour from the federal government - to Tuesday's expulsion from parliament for using the word "wacko" in relation to Justin Trudeau and the B.C. Safe Supply program we speak with the federal leader of the official opposition. Guest: Pierre Poilievre. Leader, Conservative Party of Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justice Marie Josee Hogue interim report on foreign (China) election interference in Canada. Guest: Michel Juneau Katsuya. Former CSIS Chief of the Asia-Pacific unit. Following MJK's warning of China interference in Canada his CSIS unit was shut down. MJK wrote the preface and afteword for The Mosaic Effect: How the Chinese Communist Party started a hybrid war in America's backyard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Sword is a British Columbia resident whose 14 year old daughter Kamilah overdosed and died on hydromorphone, a drug her friends reportedly said they obtained from drug users who were defrauding Vancouver's safer drugs supply program. Guests: Greg Sword. And: Elenore Sturko. MLA BC United Party. Has worked with Mr. Sword as the party repeatedly calls for an end to the safer supply Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Decriminalization of possession/use of small quantities of otherwise illicit drugs continues to be an issue of pro and con debate in Canada. What is the national police perspective? Guest: Tom Stamatakis. President, Police Association of Canada (from Vancouver). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, Jew-hatred demonstrations continue and occupations exist at universities and colleges in Canada and the U.S. our guest's op ed asks 'Why is only Israel wrong when it defends itself?' Guest: Dr. David Bercuson. Director emeritus of the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Member of the Aristotle Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The University of Toronto occupation. Students? Mostly not? Why are the tents still there? What next? Guest: Joe Warmington. Toronto Sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Ontario byelections this week and in both cases premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives won easily over the Liberal and NDP candidates. A precursor to the upcoming federal election? Will area codes 416 and 905 in the federal go-round, be it later this year or next year not be sending Liberals or NDP candidates in any appreciable numbers to Ottawa? Will 416 and 905 align with Western Canadian voters who often complain Canada's most populous province pushes aside the voting of the West? We asked this question of Darrell Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Public Affairs. Then, we take calls from the 905 and 416 area codes in Ontario, who are firm in voting intent in the next federal election. Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO, IPSOS Public Affairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kenny Chiu, former CPC MP for the B.C. riding of Steveston - Richmond East. China interference could have impacted the result of of the 2021 election in the riding which saw Mr. Chiu lose his seat according to yesterday's interim report. Beijing targeted Mr. Chiu on social media, etc. Guest: Kenny Chiu. Former CPC MP, Steveston-Richmond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Just released Dalhousie Agri-foods laboratory study shows almost 60% of Canadians regularly eat food beyond its 'best before' date, with 23% doing so regularly. Among Millenials 41% believe they have become ill after eating potentially unsafe food products in the past year. And Canada's food sector falling behind that of the U.S. in wholesale and industrial prices. Might Canadian companies pull the plug and exit Canada for the United States? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director Dalhousie University Agri-Foods laboratory. Jew-hatred continues to roil across Canada. Guests: Melissa Lantsman. CPC Deputy leader and Jewish Toronto MP who had a bitter exchange with PM Trudeau during Question Period when Trudeau responded to a challenge by Lantsman by accusing Conservative MPs of "standing with people who wave swastikas." And: David Sachs. Jewish Federation of Ottawa. After leaving a Muslim-Jewish interfaith event on parliament hill, Sachs was identified as Jewish by pro-Palestinian demonstrators and was swarmed, requiring a police escort to leave the area. Sachs is engaged in combatting antisemitism by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa. Global News: "B.C. to ban drug use in all public places in major overhaul of decriminalization." Premier David Eby on Friday made a formal request to Health Canada for changes to its exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act as the 3 year experiment with decriminalization falters. Guest: Dr. Brian Conway. Medical director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious Diseaes Centre. East-side of Vancouver. A report released on Friday by Statscan shows 8.7 million Canadians, or 22.9 per cent of the national population reported some level of food insecurity in 2022. An increase of almost 1.8 million people from the previous year. Guest: Professor Valerie Tarasuk. Lead investigator of the University of Toronto's household food insecurity research program PROOF. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig 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

Just released Dalhousie Agri-foods laboratory study shows almost 60% of Canadians regularly eat food beyond its 'best before' date, with 23% doing so regularly. Among Millenials 41% believe they have become ill after eating potentially unsafe food products in the past year. And Canada's food sector falling behind that of the U.S. in wholesale and industrial prices. Might Canadian companies pull the plug and exit Canada for the United States? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director Dalhousie University Agri-Foods laboratory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jew-hatred continues to roil across Canada. Guests: Melissa Lantsman. CPC Deputy leader and Jewish Toronto MP who had a bitter exchange with PM Trudeau during Question Period when Trudeau responded to a challenge by Lantsman by accusing Conservative MPs of "standing with people who wave swastikas." And: David Sachs. Jewish Federation of Ottawa. After leaving a Muslim-Jewish interfaith event on parliament hill, Sachs was identified as Jewish by pro-Palestinian demonstrators and was swarmed, requiring a police escort to leave the area. Sachs is engaged in combatting antisemitism by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News: "B.C. to ban drug use in all public places in major overhaul of decriminalization." Premier David Eby on Friday made a formal request to Health Canada for changes to its exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act as the 3 year experiment with decriminalization falters. Guest: Dr. Brian Conway. Medical director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious Diseaes Centre. East-side of Vancouver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices