Roy asks callers what they think of the announcement that an increase in asylum claims in Canada could result in an 11-year wait for a hearing and nearly $3 billion in federal social supports for claimants.

(Photo: Lars Hagberg/The Canadian Press)

An internal government analysis has found that an increase in asylum claims in Canada could result in an 11-year wait for a hearing and nearly $3 billion in federal social supports for claimants in the meantime.

(Photo: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Roy and the Beauties discuss Amazon acquiring Whole Foods and more.

Guests: Catherine Swift
Linda Leatherdale
Michelle Simson

(Photo: Reed Saxon/AP Photo)

The judge in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case has declared a mistrial after jurors failed to break a deadlock.

Guest: Gloria Allred, famed Los Angeles civil rights lawyer with clients accusing Cosby of sexual assault

(Photo: Matt Rourke/The Canadian  Press)

An internal government analysis has found that an increase in asylum claims in Canada could result in an 11-year wait for a hearing and nearly $3 billion in federal social supports for claimants in the meantime.

Instead of turning away people who are entering Canada illegally from the U.S., the federal government has announced a 'study' of the situation.  

Guests: Richard Kurland, immigration lawyer from Vancouver and advisor to the federal and Quebec governments
Martin Collacott, former Canadian Ambassador to Syria and Lebanon

(Photo: Courtesy of CBSA)

Following the shooting of GOP Congressman Steve Scalise, many people took to social media with flippant and crass remarks about the attack.

Guest: Tereza Litza, social media content manager and writer, and author of “Do social media change our behaviors?”

(Photo: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)

Roy asks callers if they think Bill Cosby is guilty or not guilty.

(Photo: Matt Rourke/The Canadian Press)

The Roy Green Show Podcast

Following the shooting of GOP Congressman Steve Scalise, many people took to social media with flippant and crass remarks about the attack.

Guest: Tereza Litza, social media content manager and writer, and author of “Do social media change our behaviors?”

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An internal government analysis has found that an increase in asylum claims in Canada could result in an 11-year wait for a hearing and nearly $3 billion in federal social supports for claimants in the meantime.

Instead of turning away people who are entering Canada illegally from the U.S., the federal government has announced a 'study' of the situation.  

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The judge in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case has declared a mistrial after jurors failed to break a deadlock.

Guest: Gloria Allred, famed Los Angeles civil rights lawyer with clients accusing Cosby of sexual assault

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Roy and the Beauties discuss Amazon acquiring Whole Foods and more.

Guests: Catherine Swift
Linda Leatherdale
Michelle Simson

The Roy Green Show Podcast


A pain specialist in the United States read Roy’s blog and heard his interview with Federal Minister of Health Dr. Jane Philpott about chronic pain patients being forced to go without the medication they need to live a normal life.

Guest: Dr. Lynn Webster, past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and producer of the documentary “The Painful Truth”

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Dawn Rae Downton is a freelance journalist who writes opinion pieces for the Globe & Mail. She’s also a chronic pain sufferer who has a severe plan for when she no longer has access to her opioid medication.

She wrote a column for the Globe & Mail entitled: “I don't use fentanyl to get high. It lets me live without chronic pain.”

Guest: Dawn Rae Downton

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Morgan is a 38-year-old woman who has tried all the suggested alternatives to opioids for her chronic pain

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Catherine is a successful businesswoman who has been arbitrarily refused specific and needed opioid pain medication by a doctor who has never seen or spoken to her.

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Vaden Earle is a Hamilton author & NGO worker in the Dominican Republic.

In 2009, he and his wife began the process of adopting a Haitian child. It’s now 2017 and the couple is still fighting to bring their daughter home to Canada.

Guest: Vaden Earle, www.bringwidlenehome.com

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Robert Hall was one of two Canadians kidnapped, tortured and beheaded in the Philippines by Islamist terror group Abu Sayyaf nearly one year ago.

E-petition 696, as put forward by the families of Robert Hall and John Ridsdel, is scheduled to be read into the parliamentary record this week. The petition demands the federal government change its methods for dealing with Canadians who are kidnapped.

Guests:  Bonice Thomas, sister to Robert Hall
Gord Bibby, cousin to Robert Hall

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