Roy Green Show

Today’s podcast: Is there any question any longer than war has in fact broken out between Israel and the Iran-sponsored and defined by Canada as a terrorist organization, Hezbollah?  And is the Canadian government increasingly turning its back on our traditional ally Israel? Israel certainly considers this to be so as Israel's Ambassador to Canada suggested on air with us yesterday.  Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel Canadians are drinking less (alcohol). Why might that be at a time of increased tensions? Cost? Something else? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agrifoods Laboratory, Dalhousie University Tor-Sun headline: "Students as young as eight compelled to attend political protest 'field trip.'  An extension on AM 640 Toronto's Greg Brady joining us yesterday about children being walked through antisemitic demonstration by teachers from the Toronto District School Board, parents unaware and/or their objections be damned. Guest: Bryan Passifiume. PostMedia reporte

We will begin to review issues which should take prominence in the upcoming federal election, whenever that may occur between now and next October. Issue 1: Healthcare for Canadians. The number of Canadians without a family doctor, currently at 6.5 million will swell to 10 million, or 25% of the national population. Meanwhile, seeing a specialist can take a year or longer in Canada and some people are dying undiagnosed. What is the possible solution? One argument is the introduction of additional private and insurable healthcare for Canadians. That is constantly decried and the doctor who has been at the forefront of the private healthcare for Canadians argument and has seen his arguments set aside by Canadian courts repeatedly is Dr. Brian Day. Guest: Dr. Brian Day. Founder, Cambie Surgery Centre, Vancouver. Author of My Fight for Canadian Healthcare: A Thirty-Year Battle to Put Patients First. Dr. Day is a past president of the Canadian Medical Association.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon

Investigators for the Commissioner of Canadian Elections agreed that the Chinese government before and during the 2021 federal election was actively engaged in pushing Chinese Canadian voters to vote against British Columbia (Steveston-Richmond East) MP Kenny Chiu. These actions concluded the investigators .. "According to Chinse Canadian interview subjects, this invoked a widespread fear amongst electors, described as a fear of retributive measures from Chinese authorities should a CPC government be elected. This included the possibility that travel to and from China could be interfered with by Chinese authorities, as well as measures being taken against family members or business interests in Canada." Yet, concluded the Canadian Elections investigators, the actions by China did not break the (Canadian) law and urged the review of China's actions against CPC MP Kenny Chiu be halted. Chiu was elected in 2019 and defeated in 2021. Guest: Kenny Chiu. Former Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament. Lea

Canadians are drinking less (alcohol). Why might that be at a time of increased tensions? Cost? Something else? Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agrifoods Laboratory, Dalhousie University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there any question any longer than war has broken out between Israel and the Iran-sponsored and defined by Canada as a terrorist organization, Hezbollah?  And is the Canadian government increasingly turning its back on our traditional ally Israel? Israel certainly considers this to be so as Israel's Ambassador to Canada suggested on air with us yesterday.  Guest: Vivian Bercovici. Former Canadian Ambassador to Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toronto Sun headline: "Students as young as eight compelled to attend political protest 'field trip.'  An extension on AM 640 Toronto's Greg Brady joining us yesterday about children being walked through an antisemitic demonstration by teachers from the Toronto District School Board, parents unaware and/or their objections be damned. Guest: Bryan Passifiume. PostMedia reporter/columnist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The chaos in parliament with CPC opposition day Tuesday and non-confidence motion to be introduced against the Liberal minority government. - Future opposition non-confidence days will eventually defeat this now minority government and a federal election call to follow. Now it's the Quebec premier arguing with the Quebec sovereignist Bloc Quebecois about voting non-confidence in the Trudeau government. Also, just days after tearing up their support agreement for the Trudeau Liberals, Jagmeet Singh's NDP will also be voting to prop up the same Trudeau Liberals on Tuesday.  And just days ago it appeared a fist fight between Singh and CPC leader Poilievre inside parliament became possible. - At the same time the highly unorthodox B.C. Provincial election is fully underway. As well as elections in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan. Has anyone seen anything even similar? Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Brings his perspective as former British Columbia NDP premier and then federal Liberal government health minister. Learn more

Today’s podcast: A jarring week in the Middle East as Hezbollah pagers, walkie talkies and mobile phones blew up, killing 37 people and injuring more than 3,000, including leaders of the terrorist organization. A targeted air strike in Lebanon killed 10 senior Hezbollah commanders according to the IDF with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying "our goals are clear. Our actions speak for themselves."  The UN is warning of "catastrophe." Guest: Iddo Moed. Israeli Ambassador to Canada. Political party war in parliament. Might have reached fist fight encounter between Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh? So how are Canadians nationally viewing this battle before the eventual federal election and do Canadians want a federal election now? Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO. IPSOS Public Affairs on polling for Global News Quebec premier Francois Legault, a former sovereignist PQ cabinet minister is demanding the Bloc Quebecois vote with the Conservative Party to pass a non-confidence in the Justin Trudeau Liberal Party

Toronto District School Board schools/teachers declared they were taking a contingent of school children, aged 12-14, on an Indigenous-themed field trip.   According to parents and a phone video, the kids were walked through a crowd chanting "From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime." There were also members of the Communist Party of Canada the school children were exposed to. This came to light when a parent calling herself Melissa called into Toronto Corus radio AM 640's breakfast program and told host Greg Brady about what had taken place. Guest: Greg Brady. Host of Toronto Today on AM 640. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A jarring week in the Middle East as Hezbollah pagers, walkie-talkies and mobile phones blew up, killing 37 people and injuring more than 3,000, including leaders of the terrorist organization. A targeted air strike in Lebanon killed 10 senior Hezbollah commanders according to the IDF with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying "Our goals are clear. Our actions speak for themselves."  The UN is warning of "catastrophe." Guest: Iddo Moed. Israeli Ambassador to Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the opposition parties tear away at each other, will the Liberal Party benefit? Is there a hidden message in the fact 56% of Canadians told IPSOS they don't want a federal election now? Guest: Andrew Perez. Principal at Perez Strategies. Member of and strategist for the Liberal Party of Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quebec premier Francois Legault, a former sovereignist PQ cabinet minister is demanding the Bloc Quebecois vote with the Conservative Party to pass a non-confidence in the Justin Trudeau Liberal Party government next week. Yves-Francois Blanchet, BQ leader declares the party will vote to support the Liberals, along with the fedreal NDP.  So, now what in Quebec which has so frequently been the default decision-maker in federal elections? Guest: Nino Colavecchio. Former PQ candidate, Montreal radio talk show host and marketing professor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The British Columbia provincial election is underway as of today, with the vote on October 19. Are provincial voters still absorbing the major party announcements of a few weeks ago? Who, if anyone has the inside track? Guest: Mario Canseco. President: ResearchCo.ca, in Vancouver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Political party war in parliament. Might have reached a fist fight encounter between Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh? So how are Canadians nationally viewing this battle before the eventual federal election and do Canadians want a federal election now? Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO. IPSOS Public Affairs on polling for Global News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Podcast: Business Council of Canada, representing Canada's largest companies urging MPs returning to parliament this week to remember "fixing the economy cannot wait." What is needed is "long-term solutions" not "short-term politics." BCC just released its Engines of Growth report. - BCC also warns Canada's new unilateral digital services tax places the cornerstone of our trading relationship, the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement in jeopardy. - Guest comments as well on tentative agreement between Air Canada and pilots union (ALPA). Guest: Goldy Hyder. President/CEO, Business Council of Canada Critical byelections for federal Liberals and NDP will be held tomorrow in Montreal and Winnipeg. Montreal byelection in LaSalle.- Ville Emard - Verdun, the constituency represented by former LPC PM Paul Martin. Winnipeg byelection for the riding of Elmwood Transcona.  Guests: Michelle Simson. Former Liberal MP and seatmate to Justin Trudeau and Dan McTeague. Former Liberal MP (19 years). Now president, Canadians F

 This week's goings-on in the nation's capital per Blacklock's Reporter.  Guest: Tom Korski, Editor. Blacklock's Reporter, @mindingottawa.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 In Winnipeg, a byelection in the riding of Elmwood-Transcona has been held by the NDP. The riding is key to the national New Democrats holding on to their base.  Guest: Richard Cloutier. Co-host of The News On CJOB, Winnipeg and senior reporter with Global News, Manitoba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two byelections in Canada tomorrow. One in Montreal and one in Winnipeg. For the Liberals the Montreal riding LaSalle-Emard-Verdun is critical. The riding was represented by former PM Paul Martin and former minister of justice and solicitor general David Lametti.  Guest: Beryl Wasjman. Editor in chief, The Suburban, Quebec's largest circulation English language weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The CEO of Canada's biggest bank, Dave McKay of RBC, in a speech this past week, said Canada must get "in sync" with the United States and become better at engaging with America's economic system to improve wobbly productivity in this country. We're not doing so at present said McKay, quoting a "very senior person (U.S.) said to us recently, in a group of CEOs, You are not serious people." - How is Canada harming ourselves most?  Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why are almost half of Canadians opting out or undecided about accepting their flu shot this fall (Rexall national poll) and where does the Covid vaccine/boosters experience fit into this situation? Guest: Jason Tetro. Edmonton Microbiologist. The Germ Guy. Books: The Germ Code and The Germ files. Host of The Super Awesome Science Show podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices