Roy Green Show

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 me

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

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

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

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While taking calls after our interview with Prof. Tarasuk, we spoke with a man identifying himself as Derek from Edmonton. He told us about a family he knows in rural Alberta struggling so greatly with food insecurity that the parents often skip meals to make sure their kids can eat. The story touched Roy's heart, and the hearts of our listeners. Guest: Derek, a caller from Edmonton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News reported this past Tuesday "Budget 2024 failed to spark 'political reboot' for Liberals, polling suggests." Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO, IPSOS Public Affairs. Conducted exclusive polling on the issue for Global news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian Medical Association continues to insist the capital gains tax changes introduced in the 2024 federal budget will ham physician recruitment and retention across Canada. Guest: Dr. Joss Reimer. President-elect, Canadian Medical Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the Edmonton Oilers positioned to dispatch the Los Angeles Kings from the Stanley Cup playoffs? And what makes the Oilers a special team this year with the potential to end the 30-year drought of Canadian NHL teams winning the Cup? Guest: Cam Moon. regular season NHL play-by-play voice of the Oilers on 630 CHED. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: PM Justin Trudeau on Wednesday challenged Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe saying "good luck with that" concerning the premier's decision to no longer collect the federal carbon tax and remit to Ottawa, adding CRA is "very, very good at getting money it is owed." What does the Saskatchewan premier say in response to the challenge be Mr. Trudeau? Guest: Scott Moe. Premier. Saskatchewan. Replies to PM. Questions linger over the Umar Zameer first degree murder charge in the death of Toronto police Detective Constable Jeffrey Northrup and reaction to the trial of Mr. Zameer which came to an end last Sunday with a not guilty jury verdict, as well as the trial judge's "deepest apologies" expressed to Mr. Zameer. Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw's statement following the verdict that police "were hoping for a different outcome" has caused the Canadian Civil Liberties Association to engage and on Thursday the CCLA wanted to know what steps the Toronto Police Services Board will take to ensure the Ch