Roy Green Show

Photo: (Ben Nelms/Bloomerg) Stephen Harper warns not to be surprised if Donald Trump ends NAFTA. Trump is laying more hurdles in front of negotiators.   Guest:  Catherine Swift. Economist. WorkingCanadians.ca.  Former President/CEO, Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Roy Green Show Joshua Boyle, his wife Caitlan Coleman, and their three children are back in Canada after being held captive by the Haqqani network in Afghanistan for the past five years.   Guest: Scott Newark, former Alberta prosecutor, executive officer of the Canadian Police Association, security advisor to the governments of Ontario & Canada, and current security and justice analyst and Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University - England's Chief Medical Officer says antibiotic resistance could spell the "end of modern medicine" and warns of a "post-antibiotic apocalypse."    Guest: Jason Tetro, “The Germ Guy”, Microbiologist and author of The Germ Code - Earlier this week, there was widespread backlash over an initiative on the Canada Revenue Agency’s website that involved taxing employee discounts.   A spokesperson for National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier says the government is pulling the wording of the initiative from the CRA website and will hold an internal review on the wor

Roy and the Beauties discuss the allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein and the ongoing issue of “tax fairness” with the federal Liberal government. Guests: Catherine Swift Linda Leatherdale Michelle Simson(Photo: Yann Coatsaliou/AFP/Getty Images) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sally Quinn may be the ultimate Washington insider. She’s one of the most famous and powerful women in the United States. Does the climate in Washington today seem reminiscent of the Watergate era? Guest: Sally Quinn, Washington Post journalist, columnist, network news anchor, married to Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, Memoir: “Finding Magic”(Photo: J. David Ake/The Associated Press) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roy asks callers if they're small business owners or if they work in retail, and what they thought when they heard about the CRA's initiative to tax employee discounts.(Photo: Mario Beauregard/The Canadian Press) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are Canadians committed to evading taxes? How strongly is the underground tax-evasion economy performing?Guest: Dan Kelly, president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business(Photo: Chris Young/The Canadian Press) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roy asks callers if they're small business owners or if they work in retail, and what they thought when they heard about the CRA's initiative to tax employee discounts.(Photo: Mark Blinch/Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Earlier this week, there was widespread backlash over an initiative on the Canada Revenue Agency’s website that involved taxing employee discounts. A spokesperson for National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier says the government is pulling the wording of the initiative from the CRA website and will hold an internal review on the wording change. Guest: CPC Senator Denise Batters(Photo: Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Airing tonight, a Global News report investigates a troubling trend of leaks and spills in the Sarnia, Ontario area – and how it impacts the people who live nearby.Guest: Carolyn Jarvis, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Global News(Photo: Trevor Owens/Global News) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

England's Chief Medical Officer says antibiotic resistance could spell the "end of modern medicine" and warns of a "post-antibiotic apocalypse."  Guest: Jason Tetro, “The Germ Guy”, Microbiologist and author of The Germ Code(Photo: Mel Evans/The Canadian Press/AP) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joshua Boyle, his wife Caitlan Coleman, and their three children are back in Canada after being held captive by the Haqqani network in Afghanistan for the past five years. Guest: Scott Newark, former Alberta prosecutor, executive officer of the Canadian Police Association, security advisor to the governments of Ontario & Canada, and current security and justice analyst and Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University(Photo: Haqqani Network/Handout) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Roy Green Show   Energy East has been cancelled. Quebec politicians are celebrating and claiming responsibility.      Guest:  Michelle Rempel. CPC MP, Calgary Nose Hill. - Vivian Krause writes strongly challenged columns for the Financial and National Post, about American environment group funding for Canadian organizations opposed to oil sands and Canadian pipelines.    Guest:  Vivian Krause.  - A cruel Facebook posting by a senior CBS VP saw her fired by the network. There’s a lot of opinion that Haley Geftman-Gold's posting she "was not even sympathetic" to the victims of the Las Vegas massacre because "country music fans often are Republican," backs up the view that much MSM is left-wing and that their news and opinion broadcasting follows that direction all the way to becoming "fake news."  Was the firing for a personal posting on social media justified?    Guest:  Chantal Goldsmith. VP/partner, labour and employment practice, Samfiru Tumarkin LLP. - Are ethics/standards slipping in new

Two issues are particularly causing strongly opinionated views on air, via social media and email. This hour we open phones to the issues creating this listener/caller feedback.   1) PIPELINES:   The cancellation of Energy East this week. Is the regional discord over building of new pipelines for Alberta oil to get to international markets creating a threat for Canada's continued confederation?   2) NEWCOMERS:  This coming Wednesday Ottawa is loosening the requirements to become a Canadian citizen and Canada's borders are increasingly porous with Ottawa doing little to halt illegal crossing into Canada other than warning refugee claims may be rejected.  As the U.S. expels hundreds of thousands of people, will most of them head for Canada and be permitted entry...and if you challenge any such development do you expect to be labeled as intolerant and racist?  And if you do, are you? Guest: Senator Denise Batters. CALLERS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Photo: (File/ Global News) Two issues are particularly causing strongly opinionated views on air, via social media and email. This hour we open phones to the issues creating this listener/caller feedback. 1) PIPELINES:   The cancellation of Energy East this week. Is the regional discord over building of new pipelines for Alberta oil to get to international markets creating a threat for Canada's continued confederation? 2) NEWCOMERS:  This coming Wednesday Ottawa is loosening the requirements to become a Canadian citizen and Canada's borders are increasingly porous with Ottawa doing little to halt illegal crossing into Canada other than warning refugee claims may be rejected.  As the U.S. expels hundreds of thousands of people, will most of them head for Canada and be permitted entry...and if you challenge any such development do you expect to be labeled as intolerant and racist?  And if you do, are you? CALLERS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are ethics/standards slipping in news/opinion MSM in Canada and the U.S.? Do MSM reports reflect a left-wing bias?  Guest: Jane Kirtley. Silha Professor of Media Ethics and the Law at the University of Minnesota. Is there left-wing bias in news/opinion MSM in Canada and the U.S.?   Callers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Photo: (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) A cruel Facebook posting by a senior CBS VP saw her fired by the network. There’s a lot of opinion that Haley Geftman-Gold's posting she "was not even sympathetic" to the victims of the Las Vegas massacre because "country music fans often are Republican," backs up the view that much MSM is left-wing and that their news and opinion broadcasting follows that direction all the way to becoming "fake news."  Was the firing for a personal posting on social media justified?  Guest:  Chantal Goldsmith. VP/partner, labour and employment practice, Samfiru Tumarkin LLP.  Do you detect left-wing bias in news/opinion MSM in Canada and the U.S.?  Callers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vivian Krause writes strongly challenged columns for the Financial and National Post, about American environment group funding for Canadian organizations opposed to oil sands and Canadian pipelines.  Guest:  Vivian Krause.  CALLERS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Energy East has been cancelled. Quebec politicians are celebrating and claiming responsibility.    Guest:  Michelle Rempel. CPC MP, Calgary Nose Hill.  Are the disputes over the building new pipelines to deliver Alberta and Saskatchewan oil sands oil to international markets highlighting the splits which exist in Canada and endangering this country's future?    CALLERS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Roy Green Show Podcast   Following the mass shooting in Las Vegas last weekend, the topic of gun ownership is once again being widely debated. What is the fundamental reason behind all the shootings and deaths in the United States? An epidemiologist at the University of Illinois argues the shootings are a 'public health issue'. He warned the Governor of Illinois that a surge in shootings in Chicago would take place after funding was cut for the CeaseFire program (now called Cure Violence). He was right. Guest: Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist at the University of Illinois and founder of Cure Violence-Tracey Wilson argues that legal gun owners need to come out of the closet in order to alter public opinion of who owns firearms and to reduce the stigma around the people who do. Guest: Tracey Wilson, Orleans chairwoman of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights-Almost immediately, ISIS claimed responsibility for last weekend's mass shooting in Las Vegas. Graeme Wood is an ISIS expert, author and Atlan

Roy is joined by two of the Beauties and Brian Jean, leadership candidate for the United Conservative Party of Alberta, to discuss the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline. Guests: Catherine Swift Linda Leatherdale Brian Jean, candidate for leadership of the United Conservative Party of Alberta(Photo: Codie McLachlan/The Canadian Press) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices