The Roy Green Show

Global News B.C.: Twin brothers killed in Saanich, B.C. bank shooting 'wanted to shoot and kill police': report.

Guest: Darrian Matassa-Fung. Global News B.C.

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Mexico outlaws smoking outside a family home (that includes open air venues and beaches). - This week it was recommended warning labels be affixed to all alcohol containers in Canada.With healthcare under massive stress and with smoking and excessive consumption of alcohol contributing to serious and negative health outcomes is it ethical for medical institutions (and individual doctors) to impose a prohibition on tobacco and alcohol use in order to obtain expensive and challenging surgeries? Abstaining from alcohol for six months prior to being eligible for liver transplantation was the regulation previously in Canada (is no longer). - In the U.K. hospitals and individual doctors/surgeons have refused to perform difficult and expensive surgeries (heart bypass/transplants) and orthopedic procedures on smokers who refused to quit. - In the U.S. hospitals have refused to employ smokers. 

Are such edicts fair or unfair and ethically indefensible?  A Winnipeg family doctor some years ago announced he would refuse to keep patients on his roster who refused to stop smoking. How does a prominent medical bioethicist view this issue?

Guest: Dr. Arthur Caplan. Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Author: Smart Mice, Not So Smart People.

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Today’s podcast:

Throughout the pandemic and economic upheaval a constant in peoples lives has been their favourite music and artists. Over the past 13 months some of the world's great rock artists have died. Thursday of this week it was singer/songwriter David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash {and Young}. On January 10, guitarist Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group. Beck is often listed as one of the top five rock guitarists ever. Other rock artists who have died since January 2022 include Chrstine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, Meatloaf, Jim Seals, Ronnie Hawkins, Jerry Lee Lewis,

We talk about the influence of the rockers of the 60's and 70's who increasingly are dying.

Guest: Alan Cross. Broadcaster/writer on music. - Weekdays 102.1 The Edge, Toronto. Host of The Ongoing History of New Music, Sundays on 102.1 The Edge. 

And: ajournalofmusicalthings.com.

More on the developing and increasing crisis in Canada's healthcare system as 5 million Canadians have no family physician. Why has healthcare deteriorated to the extent Canadians are dying under-cared for, or while simply waiting for the most basic of care, including in hospital E.R.'s? Note: the federal government and provinces are closing in on a 10 year agreement to fund healthcare. The current and immediate past presidents of the Canadian Medical Association have told us twice in the past two weeks that more money for healthcare is not the only path to resolving healthcare crisis. Key would be change to the money following the patient.

Guest: Dr. Shawn Whatley. Past president, Ontario Medical Association. Author of When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing. and No More Lethal Waits: Ten Steps to Transform Canada's Emergency Departments.

The Trudeau government is reviewing "aggressive measures" to clear the immigration backlog. Why is the immigration backlog so large? What might those aggressive measures be? Are the government's plans to permit 500,000 newcomers annually by 2025 realistic? Are the 75% of Canadians who have expressed concern the number is too high and will negatively affect housing, healthcare and government services, being unfair and exclusionary?

Guest: Richard Kurland. Immigration lawyer in Vancouver. Has advised the federal and Quebec governments on immigration policies.

Stranger attacks. In Toronto 8 teen girls between the ages of 13-16 are charged with second-degree murder in the swarming death of a 59 year old homeless man in December. According to police the girls met on social media and congregated downtown on a Saturday night. - Six teen boys have been charged in a swarming attack which left two store employees injured last November. This after the teens had been told to leave a retail outlet after causing a disturbance. And in Toronto an elderly woman was allegedly pushed to the pavement yesterday hitting her head. She never regained consciousness and died. A man has been charged. Is criminal law sufficiently punitive for such assaults?  Also, the bail system. Premiers have unanimously demanded the federal justice minister address bail where serious crime is alleged. This after an individual released on bail was charged with the murder of an OPP officer.

Guest: Ari Goldkind. Ciminal lawyer and media commentator.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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Throughout the pandemic and economic upheaval a constant in peoples lives has been their favourite music and artists. Over the past 13 months some of the world's great rock artists have died. Thursday of this week it was singer/songwriter David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash {and Young}. On January 10, guitarist Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group. Beck is often listed as one of the top five rock guitarists ever. Other rock artists who have died since January 2022 include Chrstine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, Meatloaf, Jim Seals, Ronnie Hawkins, Jerry Lee Lewis,

We talk about the influence of the rockers of the 60's and 70's who increasingly are dying.

Guest: Alan Cross. Broadcaster/writer on music. - Weekdays 102.1 The Edge, Toronto. Host of The Ongoing History of New Music, Sundays on 102.1 The Edge. 

And: ajournalofmusicalthings.com.

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More on the developing and increasing crisis in Canada's healthcare system as 5 million Canadians have no family physician. Why has healthcare deteriorated to the extent Canadians are dying under-cared for, or while simply waiting for the most basic of care, including in hospital E.R.'s? Note: the federal government and provinces are closing in on a 10 year agreement to fund healthcare. The current and immediate past presidents of the Canadian Medical Association have told us twice in the past two weeks that more money for healthcare is not the only path to resolving healthcare crisis. Key would be change to the money following the patient.

Guest: Dr. Shawn Whatley. Past president, Ontario Medical Association. Author of When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing. and No More Lethal Waits: Ten Steps to Transform Canada's Emergency Departments.

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The Trudeau government is reviewing "aggressive measures" to clear the immigration backlog. Why is the immigration backlog so large? What might those aggressive measures be? Are the government's plans to permit 500,000 newcomers annually by 2025 realistic? Are the 75% of Canadians who have expressed concern the number is too high and will negatively affect housing, healthcare and government services, being unfair and exclusionary?

Guest: Richard Kurland. Immigration lawyer in Vancouver. Has advised the federal and Quebec governments on immigration policies.

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Stranger attacks. In Toronto 8 teen girls between the ages of 13-16 are charged with second-degree murder in the swarming death of a 59 year old homeless man in December. According to police the girls met on social media and congregated downtown on a Saturday night. - Six teen boys have been charged in a swarming attack which left two store employees injured last November. This after the teens had been told to leave a retail outlet after causing a disturbance. And in Toronto an elderly woman was allegedly pushed to the pavement yesterday hitting her head. She never regained consciousness and died. A man has been charged. Is criminal law sufficiently punitive for such assaults?  Also, the bail system. Premiers have unanimously demanded the federal justice minister address bail where serious crime is alleged. This after an individual released on bail was charged with the murder of an OPP officer.

Guest: Ari Goldkind. Ciminal lawyer and media commentator.

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How does an immigrant to Canada from India who became premier of British Columbia and subsequently federal Minister of Health assess the above issue of 'to be fast-tracked into Canada should include a willingness to live in and engage professional skills where those skills are needed? And how does he assess the current healthcare crisis in Canada?

Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Former premier of British Columbia and former federal Minister of Health.

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Montreal Econonic Institute study on value of availability of duplicate private medical insurance, supplementary to the government-run scheme. Would help lower wait times by mkaing the private system acessible to the middle-class. Very successful in Australia where 45% of the population has a duplicate insurance policy.

Guest: Renaud Brossard. Senior director of communications. MEI.

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Today’s podcast:

Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada joins us for a question and answer segment on the economy, bail reform and justice, carbon taxes, Poilievre's public challenges of the use of McKinsey as a consultant firm by the Liberals and paying the firm $66 million Poilievre being challenged and criticized for speaking to the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy think tank which has openly questioned the negative impact of residential schools on Indigenous children and communities.

Guest: Pierre Poilievre. CPC leader.

Former federal Minister of Finance Bill Morneau in his Where to From Here book is highly critical of Justin Trudeau as prime minister and joins the expanding ranks of previously high ranking Liberal MPs/cabinet ministers disillusioned with Trudeau. Morneau writes "Soon after the election (2015) I came to realize that while his performance skills were superb, his management and interpersonal communication abilities were sorely lacking," adding that advice from his department on directing spending related to COVID-19 was "basically disregarded in favour of winning a popularity contest."  We speak with two former Liberal MPs with direct knowledge of Justin Trudeau.

Guests: Celina Caesar-Chavannes, former Liberal MP for Whitby, Ontario and parliamentary secretary to the prime minister. Book: Can You Hear Me Now?

& Michelle Simson. Former Liberal MP, Scarborough Southwest, Ontario and parliamentary seatmate to Justin Trudeau

NBC News is reporting a key advisor to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccine panel is questioning whether more Covid booster shots are necessary for healthy, younger people. Dr. Paul Offit is a pediatrician and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that evidence supporting new versions of the booster shots for the Omicron variant which were authorized by the FDA in August is "underwhelming."

Guest: Dr. Neil Rau. Infectious diseases specialist, Halton Region, Ontario. Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Medical School.

Canadians are Pessimistic as we being 2023 with 83% believing Canada is in recession. Pollara Strategic Insights annual economic outlook.

Guest: Dan Arnold. Chief Strategy Officer at Pollara (and formerly very active in the Justin Trudeau election/re-election campaigns at the PMO).

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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