Roy Green Show

A new on air broadcast career begins. Tom Craig who for the past year has with determination and success taken on the role of tech producer / call screener for RGS is leaving us to begin his very first on air venture, The Tom Craig Show, in Port Alberni, British Columbia. Exciting time, as those of us who have spent years at the microphone well remember the adrenaline-rushing, heart-pounding experience of hosting our first program. Guest: Tom Craig Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: European military commanders warning of imminent war with Russia (within the next 2 years).  With that backdrop the NATO conference took place this week in Washington where President Joe Biden's mental acuity continued to be questioned and Canada increasingly came under pressure from senior U.S. government, as well as other NATO officials demanding this country invest at least 2% of GDP into military spending immediately. What do we make of Trudeau's assurance Canada will reach that objective by 2032, but with no details provided? Also on the table continuing NATO spending and providing armament to Ukraine in its ongoing war with Putin's Russia. - Is the West on the cusp of full out war with Russia and perhaps China? Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Royal Military College and Queen's University. Editor of the Canadian Military Journal. Previously Eisenhower fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. His latest book is Security, Cooperation, Governance. Published by the Universi

European military commanders warning of imminent war with Russia (within the next 2 years).  With that backdrop the NATO conference took place this week in Washington where President Joe Biden's mental acuity continued to be questioned and Canada increasingly came under pressure from senior U.S. government, as well as other NATO officials demanding this country invest at least 2% of GDP into military spending immediately. What do we make of Trudeau's assurance Canada will reach that objective by 2032, but with no details provided? Also on the table continuing NATO spending and providing armament to Ukraine in its ongoing war with Putin's Russia. - Is the West on the cusp of full out war with Russia and perhaps China? Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Royal Military College and Queen's University. Editor of the Canadian Military Journal. Previously Eisenhower fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. His latest book is Security, Cooperation, Governance. Published by the University of MIchigan Pres

MAID. Medical Assistance in Dying. Canadian federal law Bill C-7 allows a person in Canada who meets specific medical/health criteria to be granted MAID. Still contested by various individuals and groups, increasingly Canadians are dying with a physician's or nurse practitioner's direct assistance. We speak with a BC family doctor who has, by her own estimate, helped more than 400 patients to die. Guest: Dr. Ellen Wiebe. Former family physician, now co-director of the Willow Clinic in Vancouver and board member and research director of the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Op ed: University of Windson shamefully caves to anti-Israel protesters. Are Canadian universities true hotbeds for antisemitism and how to address? Guest: Avi Benlolo. Founder and CEO of the Abraham Global Peace Initiative Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Something's Rotten in Denmark at least with that country's livestock carbon tax. Beginning in 2030 Denmark's livestock farmers, as in cattle, sheep and pigs, will be forced to remit a carbon tax for their farm animals farts and belching. Might it be possible that Canada, without fully considering the impact, would introduce a similar tax here?   Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Senior director. Agri Foods Analytics Lab, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia       Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A sudden pause in the war of words and legal action between the federal and Saskatchewan governments. A hearing scheduled at the Federal Court yesterday was cancelled as the Saskatchewan and federal governments are in reportedly in talks.  On Monday the Saskatchewan Attorney General stated the province had sought and been granted an emergency injunction to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from any collection/garnishment action by CRA against the province's bank account under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. According to CRA, Saskatchewan owes Ottawa more than $50 million under the Act, while the province argues the Trudeau government's demands are unconstitutional.  This after the federal government earlier this year removed the tax on home heating oil for Atlantic Canada for 3 years, but refused to extend the tax pause to other provinces and other means of home heating. Saskatchewan has neither collected, nor remitted to Ottawa any taxes on home heating fuels since January 1, 2024, as Premier Scott M

Tonight Canada's national soccer team faces off against Uruguay iin the Cope America, the world's oldest major soccer tournament playing for the 3rd place medal.  Brazil, considered by millions worldwide to be the world's greatest soccer nation has already been eliminated from the COPA competition.  Canada's national team coach Jesse Marsch is also calling out the COPA organization for biased refereeing against Canada and that COPA organizers don't want Canada to succeed.           Guest: George Pakos. Multi goal-scoaring member of the first-ever Canadian national soccer team to qualify for a World Cup in 1986. That Team Canada left the '86 World Cup after just three games. 0 wins, 0 goals and 3 losses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warren is a Western Canada listener and American immigrant to Canada who sent our program an email in which he argues if Donald Trump wins the November 5, U.S. general election and is returned to the White House as president, it is possible that Justin Trudeau may be returned as PM, perhaps with a majority government. Warren suggests Trudeau would make next year's federal election about running against Donald Trump and not Pierre Poilievre, who Trudeau will say "is a MAGA stooge who gets all his orders from Trump in the White House."    Warren fears "anti-Americanism plays well in Canada, especially in the East. So if Donnie Two-Scoops is back, Justin will be too. Canadians are that stupid."  We read Warren's email on air and there was non-stop response/reaction. Warren listened and sent a follow-up email about what he heard. Guest: Warren in Western Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 294: On the evening of December 21, 1883, near Bloomfield, Ontario, visitor Peter Lazier was murdered by two intruders at the farmhouse of Quakers Gilbert and Margaret Jones. The community, deeply affected, quickly organized a search. They traced footprints in the snow, leading to Joseph Thomset and the Lowder family's homes near West Lake. By the next day, Joseph Thomset and brothers David and George Lowder were arrested and charged with murder. The legal process moved rapidly. The coroner's inquest began the next day, followed by formal proceedings within a week. The trial, held at the Prince Edward County Courthouse in Picton just five months later, suggested the motive was robbery, aimed at stealing the $555 Gilbert Jones earned from selling hops. George Lowder and Joseph Thomset were found guilty of murder and hanged in June of 1884. Many felt justice was served, but others believed the law got it wrong, acting hastily without sufficient evidence. Sources: Prince Edward County The Canadian Encycl

Today's podcast: On the minds and conscience of Canadians. Questions continue about actions by former federal minister of defence Harjit Sajjan and the fate of Afghan interpreters who went into battle with the CAF and saved Canadian lives but who were left behind facing death by the Taliban during the panicked/chaotic evacuation. Guest: Major Mark Campbell. PPCLI. Major Campbell was a career soldier in the Canadian army who lost both legs to an IED in Afghanistan and who previously shared with us that Afghan interpreters saved Canadian lives and were the first targets for insurgents during firefights. One such interpreter who served with Major Campbell is featured in our next segment.  During a live broadcast in August of 2021, as panic engulfed Kabul and thousands of Afghans, including CAF interpreters desperately attempted to escape capture and death by the Taliban by securing places of Canadian evacuation flights we broadcast a live interview with two of the interpreters. One had been able to flee the co

On the minds and conscience of Canadians. Questions continue about actions by former federal minister of defence Harjit Sajjan and the fate of Afghan interpreters who went into battle with the CAF and saved Canadian lives but who were left behind facing death by the Taliban during the panicked/chaotic evacuation. Guest: Major Mark Campbell. PPCLI. Major Campbell was a career soldier in the Canadian army who lost both legs to an IED in Afghanistan and who previously shared with us that Afghan interpreters saved Canadian lives and were the first targets for insurgents during firefights. One such interpreter who served with Major Campbell is featured in our next segment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During a live broadcast in August of 2021, as panic engulfed Kabul and thousands of Afghans, including CAF interpreters desperately attempted to escape capture and death by the Taliban by securing places of Canadian evacuation flights we broadcast a live interview with two of the interpreters. One had been able to flee the country without assistance and joined us from Dallas, TX, but still was denied entry to Canada. The other remained with his family somewhere near Kabul desperately praying they would receive the call from the Canadian government in response to his pleas to Ottawa for evacuation.   Guests: "Left behind Alex" who had served with Major Mark Campbell in Afghanistan. Mr. Khan, the on-air name this interpreter permitted us to use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NATO talk in Washington include deliberations on continued weapons/financial support for Ukraine. Meetings in Ukraine also taking place in Europe. Guest: Olexander Scherba, Ukraine Ambassador at Large joining us from Austria. Author: Ukraine vs Darkness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel engages in U.S. proposed ceasefire talks with Hamas. Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel, from Tel Aviv.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is questioning what the Liberal government and specifically the federal minister of justice did to to a greater extent vet the past of Birju Dattani before appointing Dattani as the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission with his "long history of antisemitic posts, including that the use of terrorism was a 'rational and well-calculated strategy.'" Guest: Melissa Lantsman. Deputy leader, Conservative Party of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Post to X by Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia and former federal minister of health: "the country that I came to in 1968 has been pushed back into medieval hatreds by unprinciple, lazy and gutless politicians who bend to all hateful, racist, identiest, uniquest and exclusivist whimsies." Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The week in Ottawa. The news and goings on per Blacklock's Reporter. Guest: Tom Korski. Editor. Blacklock's Reporter.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux reporting federal online harms billwill create a 3-pronged $200 million bureaucracy. - Automatic tax filing could see Canadians get billions in unclaimed benefits says PBO. - EV battery deal to cost taxpayers $5.8 billion more than government estimates. (works with 4:33pm segment). Is the federal government improving its fiscal position with trillion dollar national debt, deficits and debt servicing costs? Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary budget officer Significantly important nations in Europe have reset or are in the process of resetting its political compass and leaning decidedly to the right, with the exception of the U.K. which has swung significantly to the left of centre. Guest: Katja Hoyer. German/Anglo political scientist, author, author of blog Zeitgeist. Nat'l Post op ed: Hydromorphone pills seized in London (ON) skyrockets 3,000% after safer supply expanded: police have been aware of the problem for years, but have not made it public. G

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux reporting federal online harms billwill create a 3-pronged $200 million bureaucracy. - Automatic tax filing could see Canadians get billions in unclaimed benefits says PBO. - EV battery deal to cost taxpayers $5.8 billion more than government estimates. (works with 4:33pm segment). Is the federal government improving its fiscal position with trillion dollar national debt, deficits and debt servicing costs? Guest: Yves Giroux. Parliamentary budget officer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices