The Roy Green Show

Grocery Code of Conduct is a go. But what is it, really and how will it impact the price of lettuce?

Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director: Agri-foods laboratory, Dalhousie University. 

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Federal mental health and 'addictions' minister Ya'ra Saks supports Ontario government of Doug Ford and Ottawa will not move to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs like fentanyl, meth, etc.

Guest: With a reflective view, Dr. Shawn Whatley. Past president of the Ontario Medical Association and author of: When Politics Comes Before Patients.

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Early in the week a wildfire approaching Fort McMurray, AB, with evacuations beginning raised the spectre of 2016 and The Beast. Then came the rains and cooler temps. The wildfire is not out, but no longer the threat of Monday/Tuesday.

Guests: Patty Rustige. Fort Mac resident. She and her Fort Mac firefighter husband also lost their home in the 2016 fire. Husband tasked with trying to save home in a different Fort McMurray neighbourhood to where he and Patty lived. Still rebuilding their home. Son also lost his home.  

And: Brian Jean. Fort Mac resident and Alberta Minister of Energy and Minerals. Lost his home to The Beast in '16.

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B.C. Court turns unfaithful U.K. Man's "mistake" into a 'nightmare.'

The story of E.S. and G.W. G.W. Is an unfaithful husband from the U.K. who engaged in a relationshp with E.S. whose court claim is G.W. is the father of her child and she has the right to pursue retroactive child support, something G.W. has refused to accept and doesn't want his marriage to be negatively affected by his behaviour. A B.C. Judge has granted E.S. a document which will allow her to pursue $100,000 in retroactive child support in a British court.

Our guest says this is also a message for women who have not pursued child support and perhaps because the father has been threatening.

We will also return to a term our guest introduced two week ago on the program and which most listeners had never heard before:  "Marriage-like." This is how an unofficial relationship which goes on for some time, even with both parties living in separate homes can be deemed by a court to be "marriage-like" and requiring settlement of assets on breakup as the court would in a disolved marriage claim.

Guest: Scott Taylor. Family lawyer (Taylor Law Group) in Langley, B.C. 

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Harrison Butker's speech at Benedictine College in Atcheson, Kansas continues to cause both rage, as well as support as an example of 'freedom of expression/speech.' 

Guest: Ben Mulroney. Morning show host, weekends, on AM 640, Toronto.

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A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a provisional injunction request by McGill University to remove a pro-Palestinian encampment, where many, if not most participants, are not students or members of any McGill-associated organizations from its front lawn in downtown Montreal. Court rules there have been no provocative incidents and McGill has moved its convocation ceremonies. - Reaction to the situation in Montreal and how this court ruling may impact other demonstrators taking over parts of Canadian university campuses.

Guest: Julius Grey. Prominent Quebec constitutional and human rights lawyer. Law professor at McGill for 25 years (defended the case involving a Sikh student wearing a kirpan to class). 

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Today’s podcast:

Toronto Metropolitan University students sends email to the university administration complaining about our frequent economics issues guest Professor Eric Kam. This time though it's about professor Kam being Jewish and what happened in his class which according to the complaining student "has left many students, including myself, deeply troubled. I hope and trust that you read this email thoroughly and would like this email forwarded to the board of governor at TMU."  The complaint suggests professor Kam displayed the Israeli flag as his background in class Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics. Toronto Metropolitan University. Tells me the story is entirely different to the student's description.

A different Mother's Day story from a mother who desperately loves her heavily addicted to alcohol and drugs adult son in Vancouver and how his life is spiraling downward. The son loves his mother and they communicate, but helping him is extremely difficult and when the mother convinced her son to go to a hospital ER his treatment there may be a shock.

Guest: Sam (mother) about her son Alan and how his addictions are destroying her son's life.

Mother's Day and a single mother from Toronto sends an email despairing how her children's school and school board are engaged in "cutting" her children from her life and parenting. (declines to go on air because she's afraid her voice will be recognized. Has complained at children's school and at the board)

Guest: Michael Zwaagstra. Manitoba teacher/author/op ed writer. Books include: What's Wrong With Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them.

And: Scott Taylor: Family lawyer. Taylor Law Group. Langley, B.C. 

Gazelle Sharmahd. Her father, a German-American national of Iranian descent was kidnapped from the UAE in 2020 by Iranian agents and has been held as a prisoner in Iran since. He was targeted for his journalism and criticism of the Iranian regime. He was tried in an Iranian court and convicted and sentenced to death for the crime of "corruption on earth."

Guest: Gazelle Sharmahd. Fighting to save her father's life. She will be a speaker at the 2024 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, beginning May 15.

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Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig

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Toronto Metropolitan University students sends email to the university administration complaining about our frequent economics issues guest Professor Eric Kam. This time though it's about professor Kam being Jewish and what happened in his class which according to the complaining student "has left many students, including myself, deeply troubled. I hope and trust that you read this email thoroughly and would like this email forwarded to the board of governor at TMU."  The complaint suggests professor Kam displayed the Israeli flag as his background in class Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomics. Toronto Metropolitan University. Tells me the story is entirely different to the student's description.

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A different Mother's Day story from a mother who desperately loves her heavily addicted to alcohol and drugs adult son in Vancouver and how his life is spiraling downward. The son loves his mother and they communicate, but helping him is extremely difficult and when the mother convinced her son to go to a hospital ER his treatment there may be a shock.

Guest: Sam (mother) about her son Alan and how his addictions are destroying her son's life.

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Mother's Day and a single mother from Toronto sends an email despairing how her children's school and school board are engaged in "cutting" her children from her life and parenting. (declines to go on air because she's afraid her voice will be recognized. Has complained at children's school and at the board)

Guest: Michael Zwaagstra. Manitoba teacher/author/op ed writer. Books include: What's Wrong With Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them.

And: Scott Taylor: Family lawyer. Taylor Law Group. Langley, B.C. 

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