Roy Green Show

Today’s podcast: Grocery Code of Conduct is a go. But what is it, really and how will it impact the price of lettuce? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agri-foods laboratory, Dalhousie University.    Federal mental health and 'addictions' minister Ya'ra Saks supports Ontario government of Doug Ford and Ottawa will not move to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs like fentanyl, meth, etc. Guest: With a reflective view, Dr. Shawn Whatley. Past president of the Ontario Medical Association and author of: When Politics Comes Before Patients.   Early in the week a wildfire approaching Fort McMurray, AB, with evacuations beginning raised the spectre of 2016 and The Beast. Then came the rains and cooler temps. The wildfire is not out, but no longer the threat of Monday/Tuesday. Guests: Brian Jean. Fort Mac resident and Alberta Minister of Energy and Minerals. Lost his home to The Beast in '16. And: Patty Rustige. Fort Mac resident. She and her Fort Mac firefighter husband also lost

Grocery Code of Conduct is a go. But what is it, really and how will it impact the price of lettuce? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agri-foods laboratory, Dalhousie University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal mental health and 'addictions' minister Ya'ra Saks supports Ontario government of Doug Ford and Ottawa will not move to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs like fentanyl, meth, etc. Guest: With a reflective view, Dr. Shawn Whatley. Past president of the Ontario Medical Association and author of: When Politics Comes Before Patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early in the week a wildfire approaching Fort McMurray, AB, with evacuations beginning raised the spectre of 2016 and The Beast. Then came the rains and cooler temps. The wildfire is not out, but no longer the threat of Monday/Tuesday. Guests: Patty Rustige. Fort Mac resident. She and her Fort Mac firefighter husband also lost their home in the 2016 fire. Husband tasked with trying to save home in a different Fort McMurray neighbourhood to where he and Patty lived. Still rebuilding their home. Son also lost his home.   And: Brian Jean. Fort Mac resident and Alberta Minister of Energy and Minerals. Lost his home to The Beast in '16. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

B.C. Court turns unfaithful U.K. Man's "mistake" into a 'nightmare.' The story of E.S. and G.W. G.W. Is an unfaithful husband from the U.K. who engaged in a relationshp with E.S. whose court claim is G.W. is the father of her child and she has the right to pursue retroactive child support, something G.W. has refused to accept and doesn't want his marriage to be negatively affected by his behaviour. A B.C. Judge has granted E.S. a document which will allow her to pursue $100,000 in retroactive child support in a British court. Our guest says this is also a message for women who have not pursued child support and perhaps because the father has been threatening. We will also return to a term our guest introduced two week ago on the program and which most listeners had never heard before:  "Marriage-like." This is how an unofficial relationship which goes on for some time, even with both parties living in separate homes can be deemed by a court to be "marriage-like" and requiring settlement of assets on breakup

Harrison Butker's speech at Benedictine College in Atcheson, Kansas continues to cause both rage, as well as support as an example of 'freedom of expression/speech.'  Guest: Ben Mulroney. Morning show host, weekends, on AM 640, Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a provisional injunction request by McGill University to remove a pro-Palestinian encampment, where many, if not most participants, are not students or members of any McGill-associated organizations from its front lawn in downtown Montreal. Court rules there have been no provocative incidents and McGill has moved its convocation ceremonies. - Reaction to the situation in Montreal and how this court ruling may impact other demonstrators taking over parts of Canadian university campuses. Guest: Julius Grey. Prominent Quebec constitutional and human rights lawyer. Law professor at McGill for 25 years (defended the case involving a Sikh student wearing a kirpan to class).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Toronto Metropolitan University students sends email to the university administration complaining about our frequent economics issues guest Professor Eric Kam. This time though it's about professor Kam being Jewish and what happened in his class which according to the complaining student "has left many students, including myself, deeply troubled. I hope and trust that you read this email thoroughly and would like this email forwarded to the board of governor at TMU."  The complaint suggests professor Kam displayed the Israeli flag as his background in class Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics. Toronto Metropolitan University. Tells me the story is entirely different to the student's description.   A different Mother's Day story from a mother who desperately loves her heavily addicted to alcohol and drugs adult son in Vancouver and how his life is spiraling downward. The son loves his mother and they communicate, but helping him is extremely difficult and whe

Toronto Metropolitan University students sends email to the university administration complaining about our frequent economics issues guest Professor Eric Kam. This time though it's about professor Kam being Jewish and what happened in his class which according to the complaining student "has left many students, including myself, deeply troubled. I hope and trust that you read this email thoroughly and would like this email forwarded to the board of governor at TMU."  The complaint suggests professor Kam displayed the Israeli flag as his background in class Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics. Toronto Metropolitan University. Tells me the story is entirely different to the student's description. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A different Mother's Day story from a mother who desperately loves her heavily addicted to alcohol and drugs adult son in Vancouver and how his life is spiraling downward. The son loves his mother and they communicate, but helping him is extremely difficult and when the mother convinced her son to go to a hospital ER his treatment there may be a shock. Guest: Sam (mother) about her son Alan and how his addictions are destroying her son's life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mother's Day and a single mother from Toronto sends an email despairing how her children's school and school board are engaged in "cutting" her children from her life and parenting. (declines to go on air because she's afraid her voice will be recognized. Has complained at children's school and at the board) Guest: Michael Zwaagstra. Manitoba teacher/author/op ed writer. Books include: What's Wrong With Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them. And: Scott Taylor: Family lawyer. Taylor Law Group. Langley, B.C.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gazelle Sharmahd. Her father, a German-American national of Iranian descent was kidnapped from the UAE in 2020 by Iranian agents and has been held as a prisoner in Iran since. He was targeted for his journalism and criticism of the Iranian regime. He was tried in an Iranian court and convicted and sentenced to death for the crime of "corruption on earth." Guest: Gazelle Sharmahd. Fighting to save her father's life. She will be a speaker at the 2024 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, beginning May 15. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel's Independence Day celebrations begin tomorrow evening and end Tuesday evening. - Mood in Israel now and view of Netanyahu government? - U.S. suspending arms shipments to Israel - Canada abstaining from UN vote to grant Palestine status at the UN - antisemitic activity at Canadian universities - are Jewish Canadians moving to Israel over fear of Jew-hatred growing in Canada? Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's happening in the nation's capital, and why does it involve Housing Minister Sean Fraser wearing a hard hat? The week's stories from Blacklock's Reporter. Guest: Tom Korski. Editor. Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: The passing of Rex Murphy. Guest: Catherine Swift. Multi-decade friend and president of Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada. Also member of our Beauties and the Beast panel. And: Callers, reflecting on what made Rex special.   Selina Robinson was until recently a senior cabinet minister in the British Columbia provincial NDP government of David Eby. Then her comment on a B'nai Brith organized panel show that before Israel became a state its territory was just "a crappy piece of land with nothing on it," where several hundred thousand people lived, but it didn't produce anything and didn't have an economy. The backlash to MLA Robinson's statement caused her eventual and bitter resignation from cabinet and the NDP party as she claimed antisemitism exists among NDP caucus members. Now MLA Robinson accuses premier Eby of "gaslighting" the Jewish community with empty promises to do something about antisemitism (per Vaughn Palmer in Vancouver Sun). Guest: Selena Robinson

The passing of Rex Murphy. Guest: Catherine Swift. Multi-decade friend and president of Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada. Also member of our Beauties and the Beast panel. And: Callers, reflecting on what made Rex special. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Selina Robinson was until recently a senior cabinet minister in the British Columbia provincial NDP government of David Eby. Then her comment on a B'nai Brith organized panel show that before Israel became a state its territory was just "a crappy piece of land with nothing on it," where several hundred thousand people lived, but it didn't produce anything and didn't have an economy. The backlash to MLA Robinson's statement caused her eventual and bitter resignation from cabinet and the NDP party as she claimed antisemitism exists among NDP caucus members. Now MLA Robinson accuses premier Eby of "gaslighting" the Jewish community with empty promises to do something about antisemitism (per Vaughn Palmer in Vancouver Sun). Guest: Selena Robinson. Independent MLA, British Columbia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada's system of MAID (Medical assistance in dying) is under increased international and national scrutiny and criticism. In 2021, more than 10,000 people chose to die with physician administered drugs. The question of whether mental illness is a sole qualifier for MAID was addressed in parliament, reminding that in 2015 the Supreme Court ruled adults with "a grievous and irremedial medical condition" were eligible for assisted death. Now there is growing fear people under economic strain are accessing MAID.  In 2021, more than 10,000 people accessed MAID in Canada, while at the same time the numbers of doctors engaging in providing medical assistance in dying is dropping. Meanwhile a leading United States medical ethicist is calling for MAID to immediately be adopted in the State of New York.  Guest: Dr. Arthur Caplan. Mitty Professor of Bioethics. NYU Grossman School of Medicine.  Author: Smart Mice, Not so smart People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Split headline: Canada's divorce rate is at its lowest in 50 years. However, Fewer people are entering marriage. This according to a report from the Vanier Institute of the Family. What gives? Hold on though! There's another consideration. What is happening to couples who live together in common-law relationships, but choose not to marry? In 2021, according to the Vanier report, 22.7% of couples were living common-law and when they split up the numbers are shifted to the divorced column. In our efforts to explore these stories, we uncover some truly shocking information about the nitty-gritty of common-law relationships. Guest: Scott Taylor, Taylor Law Group, Langley, British Columbia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NHL playoffs. Great games and uncertain outcomes. - Plus Toronto Maple Leafs really going to change after snr MLSE and team management committed earlier this week following firing of Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe. Guests: Greg Brady. Host of Toronto Today breakfast show on AM 640. Multi-decade sports radio anchor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices