The Roy Green Show

The Toronto Maple Leafs have pulled off a blockbuster trade, acquiring Ryan O’Reilly and Noel Acciari from St. Louis in a deal that involves draft picks, prospects… and the Minnesota Wild. Are the Leafs all in? And what are the plans for Canada’s other NHL teams prior to the March 3 trade deadline?

GUEST: Ryan Kennedy, Senior Writer, The Hockey News.

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Today’s podcast:

Half of Canadians say they are concerned they might not have enough money to feed their family.

We follow up as committed to last Sunday on the extended segment we aired on a Global News IPSOS poll which shows 22% of Canadians are "completely out of money." Up 3% since last October.

Breaking it down, 28% of women say they are "completely out of money" while 15% of men say the same. Another 32% say if prices continue to rise they in a matter of months will be "out of money" as well.

Guest; Darrell Bricker. CEO. IPSOS Public Affairs.

What is going to happen to the price of food? Food prices will continue to rise and Dalhousie University releases a study titled "Cashed Out. How a Cashless Economy Impacts Your Grocery Experience, a Canadian Perspective."

Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director Agri-Foods Analytics Laboratory and professor at Dalhousie University

Listener email: Natural gas bill for his home in January of 2021 was $110.23. In January of 2022 the bill was $122.84. January 2023 his gas bill jumped to $210.14, with a carbon tax component of $29.08. Listener adds "what are we going to do when the carbon tax triples?"  

Guest says energy prices will continue to rise. From gasoline and diesel to electricity and natural gas the cost spiral is upward and with more carbon tax on the way.

Guest: Dan McTeague. President, Canadians for Affordable Energy.

LAST WORD to Callers: Are you 'out of money', 'short of money' and what does that mean to you and your family in real terms right now and what might it mean by the end of this year? Have you had to cut food purchases, cut the number of meals at your home, cut the amount of food you eat? - If inflation continues and prices continue to increase are you among the half of Canadians worried they won't be able to afford to feed their families?

Guests: YOU

Op ed in the Hamilton Spectator: Medical Assistance in Dying Needs Some Serious Fixing. We speak with the Hamilton businessman who with his wife, dying of a terminal brain cancer, followed protocols demanded to meet MAID requirements but still heard their doctor refuse to proceed.

Guest: Jeff Paikin. Hamilton businessman who with his wife Andrea, dying of terminal brain cancer, made a decision and followed protocols on when MAID should be engaged.

The United States shoots down China's weather, no, make that surveillance balloon and China expresses its displeasure. United States Air Force General Mike Minihan in an internal communication warned last week the U.S. and China "will fight in 2025."

What to make now of the 'balloon incident'?

As well: Our guest Dr. Christian Leuprecht wrote a 2018 op ed titled "China's silent invasion of Western universities" and pointed to three Canadian universities, Waterloo, Toronto and McGill as being particularly a focus of China and the People's Liberation Army.

This past week federal Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne criticized Canadian universities for collaboration with China's military scientists and declared new national sercurity guidelines were on the way. Globe and Mail reports 50 Canadian universities have conducted extensive research with China's military since 2005.

Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Author of POLAR COUSINS: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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Half of Canadians say they are concerned they might not have enough money to feed their family.

We follow up as committed to last Sunday on the extended segment we aired on a Global News IPSOS poll which shows 22% of Canadians are "completely out of money." Up 3% since last October.

Breaking it down, 28% of women say they are "completely out of money" while 15% of men say the same. Another 32% say if prices continue to rise they in a matter of months will be "out of money" as well.

Guest; Darrell Bricker. CEO. IPSOS Public Affairs.

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What is going to happen to the price of food? Food prices will continue to rise and Dalhousie University releases a study titled "Cashed Out. How a Cashless Economy Impacts Your Grocery Experience, a Canadian Perspective."

Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director Agri-Foods Analytics Laboratory and professor at Dalhousie University

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Listener email: Natural gas bill for his home in January of 2021 was $110.23. In January of 2022 the bill was $122.84. January 2023 his gas bill jumped to $210.14, with a carbon tax component of $29.08. Listener adds "what are we going to do when the carbon tax triples?"  

Guest says energy prices will continue to rise. From gasoline and diesel to electricity and natural gas the cost spiral is upward and with more carbon tax on the way.

Guest: Dan McTeague. President, Canadians for Affordable Energy.

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LAST WORD to Callers: Are you 'out of money', 'short of money' and what does that mean to you and your family in real terms right now and what might it mean by the end of this year? Have you had to cut food purchases, cut the number of meals at your home, cut the amount of food you eat? - If inflation continues and prices continue to increase are you among the half of Canadians worried they won't be able to afford to feed their families?

Guests: YOU

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Op ed in the Hamilton Spectator: Medical Assistance in Dying Needs Some Serious Fixing. We speak with the Hamilton businessman who with his wife, dying of a terminal brain cancer, followed protocols demanded to meet MAID requirements but still heard their doctor refuse to proceed.

Guest: Jeff Paikin. Hamilton businessman who with his wife Andrea, dying of terminal brain cancer, made a decision and followed protocols on when MAID should be engaged.

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The United States shoots down China's weather, no, make that surveillance balloon and China expresses its displeasure. United States Air Force General Mike Minihan in an internal communication warned last week the U.S. and China "will fight in 2025."

What to make now of the 'balloon incident'?

As well: Our guest Dr. Christian Leuprecht wrote a 2018 op ed titled "China's silent invasion of Western universities" and pointed to three Canadian universities, Waterloo, Toronto and McGill as being particularly a focus of China and the People's Liberation Army.

This past week federal Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne criticized Canadian universities for collaboration with China's military scientists and declared new national sercurity guidelines were on the way. Globe and Mail reports 50 Canadian universities have conducted extensive research with China's military since 2005.

Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Author of POLAR COUSINS: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures.

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Research Co polling. Headline: Criticism of Trudeau increases in Western Canada.

Abacus polling. Headline: Conservatives open up an 8-point lead over the Liberals as 70%+ Canadians don't think the Liberal government is focused enough on the cost of living, healthcare or housing.

Guest: Mario Canseco. President. Research Co.

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Federal Liberals backed into a corner by opposition parties and without the votes to pass Bill C-21 remove amendments banning assault-style rifles, hunting rifles and shotguns.

Guest: Tony Bernardo. Executive Director: Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

We track the history of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada as the federal Liberals add legislation delaying mental health as a determinant for MAID.

Guest: Chris Considine. One of Canada's most successful and prominent lawyers who represented Sue Rodriguez ground-breaking physician assisted death requests at the Supreme Court of Canada where the court ruled against by a 5-4 margin on September 30, 1993. Chris Considine has represented many patients who requested medical assistance in dying since the Sue Roderiguez case.

Canada's Health Care. Next week PM Justin Trudeau and the premiers will work toward a new funding model with billions more dollars flowing from Ottawa to the provinces in a formula similar to what Paul Martin promised would fix healthcare for a generation 3 years ago. How will additional billions of dollars directed by the federal government to its provincial counterparts, to be administered by the same bureaucracies improve a terribly broken delivery healthcare delivery system?

and remember in 2005 the Canadian Medical Association approved a motion calling for the availability of private health insurance and services when timely public healthcare is not available.

Guest: Dr. Brian Day. Cambie Surgery Centre in Vancouver. A private care surgical centre. Dr. Day's legal case that each Canadian must have the option to purchase prvate health insurance may be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Chinese weather, no make that surveillance balloon continues its trek high above the United States and particulary where U.S. nuclear missile silos are located (Montana). The U.S. sent out an F22 Raptor fighter plane to observe the balloon over which tensions between China and the U.S. have sufficiently been raised that American Secretary of State Antony Blinken has canceled his planned trip to Beijing.

Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome. Munk Senior Fellow in Security and Defence at the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Author Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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