Roy Green Show

IPSOS poll for Global News: 43% of Canadians remain concerned about feeding their families. 63% could not absorb any unexpected costs of $1,000.  Guest: Mike Colledge - President, ESG lead, IPSOS Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Pakistani citizen living in Canada arrested in Quebec on the way to New York City where he is alleged to have planned a mass murder of Jewish Americans on or about October 7. Guest: Stewart Bell. National online journalist, investigative, Global News Assessing federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh tearing up confidence and supply agreement with Justin Trudeau and federal Liberal Party.   Guest: Karl Belanger. Former press secretary/advisor to federal NDP leader Jack Layton as Layton and NDP formed official federal opposition in 2011. Also interim director of the federal NDP. - Principal at Traxxion Strategies Following the federal government's announcement of a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs entering Canada, as well as a 25% tariff on imported Chinese steel and aluminum, Beijing again targets Canada's canola exports with an anti-dumping investigation which could lead to a "billion dollar hit" for this country and our supply chain. Particularly hard it would be Manitoba and Saskatchewan farmers and t

Is the Conservative Party of Canada the chief beneficiary of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh tearing up his confidence and supply agreement with Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party? Are the Conservatives expecting a federal election before the end of 2024? Guest: Andrew Scheer. House leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and former Party leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Foreign student visas and foreign students attending Canadian universities in record numbers. What are the issues associated with this reality? - As well, Canadian university campuses are now in many cases virulently antisemitic places where Jewish students and some staff and faculty fear for their safety. Guest says domestic post-secondary enrollment is falling and international students have become economic life support. It also states there is a "terrifying spread of antisemitism" on college and university campuses in Canada. Guest: Professor Ken Coates. Heads the Indigenous Governance program at Yukon University—one of Canada's most respected academics and author of many books dealing with academia and Indigenous issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following the federal government's announcement of a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs entering Canada, as well as a 25% tariff on imported Chinese steel and aluminum, Beijing again targets Canada's canola exports with an anti-dumping investigation which could lead to a "billion dollar hit" for this country and our supply chain. Particularly hard it would be Manitoba and Saskatchewan farmers and the provincial economies. Additionally, China has taken its argument before the World Trade Organization.  Guest: Dave Marit. Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Air Canada pilots strike "looming." If you're about to fly A.C. the airline is advising travellers to check-in for their flights status no later than 60 minutes prior to departure time. Should a pilots strike take place how will this be addressed? Airline Pilots Association and Air Canada only, or would federal political parties engage as they did during the CN CPKC lockout/walk out? Not so likely with the Liberals having lost the contractual support of the NDP? Guest: Captain Raymond Hall - Former Air Canada Boeing 767 captain and chair of the Air Canada Pilots Associaton when pilots and the airline faced a national strike previously. Raymond Hall is also a lawyer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pakistani citizen living in Canada arrested in Quebec on the way to New York City where he is alleged to have planned a mass murder of Jewish Americans on or about October 7. Guest: Stewart Bell. National online journalist, investigative, Global News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Assessing federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh tearing up confidence and supply agreement with Justin Trudeau and federal Liberal Party.   Guest: Karl Belanger - Former press secretary/advisor to federal NDP leader Jack Layton as Layton and NDP formed official federal opposition in 2011—also interim director of the federal NDP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Canada's courts fail to apply proper sentencing to drunk drivers who kill. Criminal code permits life in prison, but most sentences in the 3-4 year range. Guest: Ari Goldkind. Criminal lawyer. Media commentator Sheri Arsenault's son Bradley and two of his friends were killed in 2012 when a drunk driver's truck smashed into the car they were driving. Sheri Arsenault has been challenging successive federal governments to change criminal legislation to hold drunk drivers who kill to a higher level of personal responsibility and with more severe consequences than delivered by Canadian courts. Her work was set to bear fruit until the 2015 federal election shelved legislation which had been approved by then Canadian justice minister and attorney general Peter MacKay. Guests: Sheri Arsenault, lost her son in 2012 to a drunk driver The Temporary Foreign Workers Program, introduced by Pierre Trudeau in 1972 is chaotic and a failure under the Justin Trudeau government. - Also, private lawyers in Cana

 Sheri Arsenault's son Bradley and two of his friends were killed in 2012 when a drunk driver's truck smashed into the car they were driving. Sheri Arsenault has been challenging successive federal governments to change criminal legislation to hold drunk drivers who kill to a higher level of personal responsibility and with more severe consequences than delivered by Canadian courts. Her work was set to bear fruit until the 2015 federal election shelved legislation that had been approved by then-Canadian justice minister and attorney general Peter MacKay. Guests: Sheri Arsenault, lost her son in 2012 when a drunk driver crashed into the car they were driving Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Temporary Foreign Workers Program, introduced by Pierre Trudeau in 1972 is chaotic and a failure under the Justin Trudeau government. - Also, private lawyers in Canada have put in place a website where an individual's support of pro-terrorist organizations (such as publicly supporting Hamas) can be reported to CBSA as a likely immigration violation. Guest: Richard Kurland. Vancouver immigration lawyer who has advised the federal and Quebec governments on immigration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian consumers, according to Equifax this past week, are $2.5 trillion in debt and credit card debt at its highest in 17 years. ($1 trillion = 1,000 x $1 billion). Canadians on average are over $2.00 in debt for each dollar earned. Guest: Linda Leatherdale from our Beauties and the Beast panel and former MONEY editor at the Toronto Sun who first alerted us to the massive consumer debt growth several years ago when Canadians owed approx $1.40 for each dollar earned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Canada's courts fail to apply proper sentencing to drunk drivers who kill. The criminal code permits life in prison, but most sentences are in the 3-4 year range. Guest: Ari Goldkind. Criminal lawyer. Media commentator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who hasn't wanted to find a car that connects to his or her youth? Legally purchased classic cars have now been repossessed by the Ontario Provincial Police because the cars were reported stolen by an antique car dealer. Many unanswered questions Guest: Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun. His story. Guest: Sam Grosso. His 1960 Buick LeSabre one of the OPP repossessed vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leger national poll on Conservatives maintaining large lead over the Liberals, with the NDP support in a dive Guest: Andrew Enns. Executive VP, Central Canada, Leger Marketing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Increasing danger concerning possible terror/ISIS supporter-like attacks in Western nations including Canada. In Austria, where the CIA informed Austrian intelligence agencies of an ISIS-like plot with the intent to kill "tens of thousands" of Taylor Swift fans attending her concerts in Vienna, was the cause for the concerts this month to be canceled. In Canada, a parliamentary committee hearing is underway following the arrests and charges against 62 year old Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi and his 26 year old son Mostafa alleged to have been within hours of launching a terror murder attack in Toronto when they were arrested.  Will there be action or just poli-talk? Guest: Phil Gurski. President/CEO Borealis Risk Consulting. Former strategic analyist at CSIS specializing in violent Islamist-inspired homegrown terrorism and radicalization.  B.C. Provincial politics and British Columbians voting habits during federal elections are often a bit of a mystery to other Canadians. This week the sudden collapse of the BC

TICKETS GO ON SALE 4 a.m. EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME Aug 31 as OASIS will be rocking it out again in concert next summer! Old enmities between brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher have been overcome and OASIS, the British Super Band is returning to touring in Ireland, Wales and England, with tours outside Europe being discussed.  Other bands/rock acts to likely follow? And which have successfully already done this, or failed in the attempt? Also, what makes certain rock acts impervious to time? Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Burton Cummings come to mind? Guest: Eric Alper, multi-JUNO Award-winning music publicist.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Trudeau government scrambles to right the Temporary Foreign Workers Program chaos, with federal finance minister Chrystia Freeland challenging both post-secondary colleges and universities, as well as employers, Professor Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Dalhousie University AgriFood lab expresses concerns that the TFWP will, or already has reached into the food chain. Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agrifood laboratory, Dalhousie University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are Canada's teachers unions almost invariably opposed to decisions taken by provincial governments on the right side of the political spectrum? Do conservative provincial governments engage in battles with teachers unions in an attempt to satisfy their base?   Today and following a UNESCO advisory to end the use of mobile phones in classrooms worldwide, Ontario is the canary in the classroom for our discussion.   As students return to school in Ontario (and elsewhere in Canada) controversy over the ban/partial ban of classroom mobile phone use continues.  Guest: Karen Littlewood. President. Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

B.C. Provincial politics and British Columbians' voting habits during federal elections are often a bit of a mystery to other Canadians. This week the sudden collapse of the BC United Party with leader Kevin Falcon standing beside BC Conservatives leader John Rustad and announcing BCU was suspending its provincial campaign just two months prior to the vote and throwing his support to the Conservatives in order not to split the right-of-center vote. Why? Leaves MLA's for the official opposition BCU in limbo. So, what now on Canada's Pacific Coast?  Should we expect a merger of the federal Liberal and New Democrat parties before the upcoming national election? We ask a former B.C. NDP premier who became federal Minister of Health in the Paul Martin Liberal government for his view of the British Columbia unexpected development and for his thoughts on an announcement of a federal left-wing party comprised of what are now the LPC and NDP.  Guest: Ujjal Dosanh. Fmr British Columbia NDP premier and federal Liberal M