The Roy Green Show

Bank of Canada raises the key interest rate to his highest level in 22 years (4.75%) What are the implications and possibilities? 

Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Child killers are released from prison in Canada. Harold Smeltzer abducted, sexually assaulted, murdered and disposed of five year old Kimberley Thompson of Calgary in a garbage bag. Smeltzer had assaulted more than 40 women and girls. Today, still assessed a moderate to high risk to reoffend, Smeltzer is living in a halfway house and has been granted overnights away from the halfway house by the Natonal Parole Board.

Guest: Tina. Kimberley Thompson's sister. Shares with us the impact of her sister's murder and her killer's approved absences from prison. 

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The current Stanley Cup final may end in a few nights time in Las Vegas.

The last time a Canadian NHL team hoisted the Stanley Cup was 1993, when the Montreal Canadiens accomplished the feat. What will it take for another Canadian team to win the Cup? During this playoff run Canadians pinned their hopes on the Maple Leafs and Oilers.

Guest: Kelly Hrudey. Fmr NHL goaltender, including with the Los Angeles Kings in the '92-'93 Stanley Cup finals aganst the Montreal Canadiens. Now longtime Hockey Night in Canada commentator/analyst. Also dealt with mental health issues as a player and later as a broadcaster. 

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Four federal by-elections scheduled for June 19. One in Ontario, one in Quebec and two in Manitoba. The by-election the country will be watching most closely is Portage-Lisgar in MB where former CPC interim leader Candice Bergen retired. Conservative Party candidate now Candice Bergen's former campaign manager Brandon Leslie. Running against the CPC is People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier. Does Bernier have a hope of winning the riding?

Meanwhile in Winnipeg South, where Liberal MP Jim Carr died last December, some 48 candidates are running with Jim Carr's son Ben Carr carrying the Liberal banner.

Guest: Richard Cloutier. Corus radio 680 CJOB, Winnipeg and Global News Winnipeg. Richard joins us from Portage-Lisgar riding.

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Today’s podcast:

Special rapporteur David Johnston resigns.

Guest: Michael Cooper. CPC shadow minister for Democratic Renewal and member of the parliamentary procedures committee (quizzed Johnston)

Growing fear and reality of homelessness. Homeowners facing major mortgage increases if variable. - Rents are hugely more expensive and rental properties dwindling in number. Last Sunday we spoke with B.C. former business owner Peter now living in his car.

Guest: Tim Richter. Founder/CEO Canadian Association to End Homelessness (CAEH) (may have good news about Peter in Kelowna by then)

As the national outrage continues over the moving of Paul Bernardo from Millhaven maximum security prison in Ontario to a medium security institution in Quebec where mainly sex offenders are incarcerated, it must be brought into and remain in the mind of Canadians that Canada's justice system is opening prison doors to convicted murderers. Or preparing to.

Guest: Don Edwards. Former NHL star goaltender with the Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs and Team Canada is writing his memoir with the working title, "After the Game: Victim of Violence." Don Edwards parents were brutally murdered by George Lovie in 1991 who in turn was sentenced to 25 years in prison prior to parole eligibility. In 2013, the parole board extended day parole to Lovie. Now Lovie is permitted four nights a week at his own apartment and Don Edwards and his family fear full parole is next for Lovie who they have fought relentlessly against being released

Wildfires in Canada: Public perceptions of risk, air quality and health, disaster preparedness and lessons learned from previous wildfires.

Guest: Professor Michael Mehta. Geography and Environmental Studies. Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.

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Bill and his wife are also living in their car in B.C. and have been for the last year-plus

Guest: Bill. Bill and his wife are also living in their car in B.C. and have been for the last year-plus

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Ontario premier Doug Ford mused about Bernardo "this SOB needs to be in maximum security 23 hours a day. As a matter of fact, I'd go one step further. That one hour he's out should be in the general population (intent is clear.

Inmates committee at Joyceville prison told me during a live broadcast inside the prison about what happens to mass child killers if released into a general population, speaking then about B.C. child serial killer Clifford Olson "he would be murdered." 

How do we in Canada feel about capital punishment for the worst of the worst, like child killers? How has the lawyer for the French and Mahaffy families responded to the moving of Bernardo to medium security incarceration in Quebec?

Guest: Tim Danson. Lawyer for the French and Mahaffy families.

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Bank of Canada raises interest rate to 4.75%. Highest in 22 years and Canadians are hurting and worrying. How is this affecting food security?

Guest; Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Founder of the AgriFoods lab and professor at Dalhousie University.

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Global News: Trudeau is meeting with Zelenskyy in Ukraine during surprise visit.

Guest: Borys Wrznewskyj. Former Liberal MP. Invited to sith with Trudeau during president Zelenskyy's address to the Canadian parliament last year.

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Canadians don't intend to retire. Maru poll.

Guest: John Wright. Snr Vp, Maru poll.

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