The Roy Green Show

Roger’s Communications has completed their takeover with Shaw Communications. It was a 26 Billion dollar deal that will likely have some big effects on our phone bills. And with this merger, it leaves the lions share of the telecommunications market to 3 players: Rogers, Telus and Bell. What will this mean for Cdns phone bills?

Guest: Gerald Wall. CEO of Wall Communications Inc. 

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Cdns are all too familiar with Tim Horton’s “Roll Up The Rim” campaign every year. Right now, there’s still time to play - but what increases your chance of winning and what are the trends we’ve seen this year with players?

Guest: Michael Wallace, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Waterloo

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An Op-ed posted to The Conversation: “ChatGPT: Student insights are necessary to help universities plan for the future”.

Guests: Alpha Abebe, assistant professor in the faculty of humanities at McMaster University

& Fenella Amarasinghe, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, York University, Canada

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50-Years-Ago this past Monday, the first cell phone call was made. Dr Martin Cooper used the first cell-phone call to troll his rival at AT&T. Since then, cellphone technology has evolved dramatically to the point where we essentially have a small computer inside our pocket. Though all that good also brings some bad in regards to the rise in spam calls. How much have we seen this technology grow? And are we winning in the war with the spam calls?

Guest: Carmi Levy, technology analyst and journalist

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Op-Ed: First Target, Then Nordstrom – Why Do Big Retailers Keep Failing In Canada?

Guest: David Soberman, Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto

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This past Monday, NASA announced the crew for the upcoming Artemis II mission, which will see astronauts on a flyby trip to the moon, marking the first time in over 50 years that humans leave low Earth orbit and visit the moon. Cdns especially are excited to hear that Cdn Astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be on that next flight to moon.

Guest: Gordon Osinski, Earth Sciences professor at the University of Western Ontario and director of the Canadian Lunar Research Network

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Today’s podcast:

The Carbon tax will have an increase of 23% to $65 per tonne happening on April 1st, will more increases be coming?

Guest: Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy

An Op-ed in the Toronto Star claims that Cdn Men dislike Trudeau more than Cdn women. What does this mean for the Prime Minister?

Guest: David Coletto. Chief Executive at Abacus Data.

Global News: Putin says Russia will station nuclear weapons in Belarus. Putin claims this is in response to continued military support to Ukraine during the ongoing conflict. Speaking with former Ukrainian Ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba yesterday on the subject, he seems to believe this is just for show. What level of attack on Ukraine is Russia capable of during this time?

Guest: Yuri Felshtinsky. Russian American historian. Co-Author of Blowing Up Russia (book banned in Russia). Felshtinsky's co-author Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian FSB agent, murdered in London by use of polonium on orders from the Kremlin. Conclusion drawn multi-year British inquiry.

Our friend Prof Christian Leuprecht has released a new book titled “Polar Cousins”. A brief description on Google books: Geopolitics and climate change now have immediate consequences for national and international security interests across the Arctic and Antarctic. The world's polar regions are contested and strategically central to geopolitical rivalry. At the same time, rapid political, social, and environmental change presents unprecedented challenges for governance, environmental protection, and maritime operations in the regions.

Guest: Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Munk Snr. Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Regularly called on as expert witness by parliamentary committees. Author: Polar Cousins.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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The Carbon tax will have an increase of 23% to $65 per tonne happening on April 1st, will more increases be coming?

Guest: Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy

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An Op-ed in the Toronto Star claims that Cdn Men dislike Trudeau more than Cdn women. What does this mean for the Prime Minister?

Guest: David Coletto. Chief Executive at Abacus Data.

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Global News: Putin says Russia will station nuclear weapons in Belarus. Putin claims this is in response to continued military support to Ukraine during the ongoing conflict. Speaking with former Ukrainian Ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba yesterday on the subject, he seems to believe this is just for show. What level of attack on Ukraine is Russia capable of during this time?

Guest: Yuri Felshtinsky. Russian American historian. Co-Author of Blowing Up Russia (book banned in Russia). Felshtinsky's co-author Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian FSB agent, murdered in London by use of polonium on orders from the Kremlin. Conclusion drawn multi-year British inquiry.

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