The Roy Green Show

Friday was the anniversary (June 23, 1985) of Canada's deadliest terror attack as Air India Flight 182 was bombed on its journey from Vancouver to Delhi, via Montreal and London. 329 passengers were killed, 280 were Canadian. 38 years later the Angus Reid Institute polled Canadians on how much we know about this terrorist attack. 90% of Canadians confess to having little (61%) or no (28%) knowledge and 58% of Canadians under 35 have never heard of the attack. 

Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Former premier of British Columbia and federal Liberal minister of health. He, his wife and 3 sons had reserved seats on Flight 182 and canceled a few days before departure. Dosanjh wrote about the attack and what led to it in his autobiography JOURNEY AFTER MIDNIGHT: India, Canada and the Road Beyond. 

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RCMP communication with Democracy Watch confirming it had misled DW by sending a letter dated May 25, 2023 saying it is currently investigating the allegation the Prime Minister and other members of the Trudeau cabinet obstructed the SNC-Lavalin prosecution.

Subsequently the RCMP issued statements that the investigation ended in January of '23, contradicting its own letter to Democracy Watch sent May 25 of this year. 

Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder of Democracy Watch.  

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Today’s podcast:

The grave dangers posed by too quickly developing A.I. Could it lead to the end of the human race?

Guest: Professor Joshua Bengio. Founder and scientific director, Mila-Quebec AI Institute. Considered one of the godfathers of AI development. Professor Bengio's research helped to create the groundwork for our AI technology today. When/if AI surpasses our human intelligence might AI wipe out humanity? Professor Bengio is a signatory to a letter by international entities which in part reads "mitigating the risk of AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

The national debt - a ticking time bomb for future generations.

Guest: Frank Stronach, founder of Magna International, one of Canada's largest global companies. Inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. (NP op ed)

Professor Ross McKitrick Nat Post op ed: The truth about forest fires goes up in climate-change smoke. Forest fires, writes Mckitrick, peaked in the 1980's.

Guest: Ross McKitrick. Professor of Economics economics and CBE Fellow in Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate.

Titanic submersible 'catastrophic implosion'. Our guest questions how much in the way of international, limited and expensive search and rescue resources should be deployed to attempt rescue operations for private adventure-seeking ventures.  

Guest: Professor Ali Asgary. Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management. York University, Toronto. (op ed The Conversation)

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As parliament recesses early for the summer break and another cabinet shuffle is rumoured, the week in Ottawa through the lens of Blacklock's Reporter.

Guest: Tom Korski. Executive editor, Blacklcks Reporter.

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Often described as Putin's private army, the Wagner mercinary group, some 25,000 strong has moved into Russia calling on the Russian military not to oppose them and vowing to bring the Russian military high command to 'justice.' Putin describes Wagner and their leader Yevgeny Prighozin as 'treasonous.' This as the Ukrainian military's counteroffensive against the Russian military continues. 

Guest: Ambassador Olexander Scherba, from Ukraine. Ukraine's Ambassador to Austria and member of the diplomatic mission to Washington. Book, Ukraine vs Darkness: Undiplomatic thoughts. 

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Bread price fixing and $50 million fine to Canada Bread now owned by Mexico's Grupo Bimbo. It took the Competition Bureau 8 years to conclude its investigation with an admission by Grupo Bimbo. Previously (2017) Loblaws and Weston Bakeries admitted their role in the bread price-fixing affair with Loblaws offering Canadians a $25 gift certificate. Now the price of bakery products is up 24% writes our guest. How are consumers reacting? Fuels the 'supermaket chains gouging stressed consumers' position? What does the $50 million fine represent?

Guest: Sylvain Charlebois. Professor of food distribution and policy and the director of the Agri-Food Lab at Dalhousie University. Co-host of The Food Professor podcast. G&M op ed: In price-fixing case, $50 million fine on Grupo Bimbo's Canda Breat was a hollow victory.

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The grave dangers posed by too quickly developing A.I. Could it lead to the end of the human race?

Guest: Professor Yoshua Bengio. Founder and scientific director, Mila-Quebec AI Institute. 

Considered one of the godfathers of AI development. 

Professor Bengio's research helped to create the groundwork for our AI technology today. When/if AI surpasses our human intelligence might AI wipe out humanity? Professor Bengio is a signatory to a letter by international entities which in part reads "mitigating the risk of AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." 

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The national debt - a ticking time bomb for future generations.

Guest: Frank Stronach, founder of Magna International, one of Canada's largest global companies. Inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. (NP op ed)

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Professor Ross McKitrick Nat Post op ed: The truth about forest fires goes up in climate-change smoke. Forest fires, writes Mckitrick, peaked in the 1980's.

Guest: Ross McKitrick. Professor of Economics economics and CBE Fellow in Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate.

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Titanic submersible 'catastrophic implosion'. Our guest questions how much in the way of international, limited and expensive search and rescue resources should be deployed to attempt rescue operations for private adventure-seeking ventures.  

Guest: Professor Ali Asgary. Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management. York University, Toronto. (op ed The Conversation)

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