The Roy Green Show

Greg Sword is a British Columbia resident whose 14 year old daughter Kamilah overdosed and died on hydromorphone, a drug her friends reportedly said they obtained from drug users who were defrauding Vancouver's safer drugs supply program.

Guests: Greg Sword.

And: Elenore Sturko. MLA BC United Party. Has worked with Mr. Sword as the party repeatedly calls for an end to the safer supply

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Decriminalization of possession/use of small quantities of otherwise illicit drugs continues to be an issue of pro and con debate in Canada. What is the national police perspective?

Guest: Tom Stamatakis. President, Police Association of Canada (from Vancouver). 

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As the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, Jew-hatred demonstrations continue and occupations exist at universities and colleges in Canada and the U.S. our guest's op ed asks 'Why is only Israel wrong when it defends itself?'

Guest: Dr. David Bercuson. Director emeritus of the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Member of the Aristotle Foundation. 

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The University of Toronto occupation. Students? Mostly not? Why are the tents still there? What next?

Guest: Joe Warmington. Toronto Sun. 

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Two Ontario byelections this week and in both cases premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives won easily over the Liberal and NDP candidates. A precursor to the upcoming federal election? 

Will area codes 416 and 905 in the federal go-round, be it later this year or next year not be sending Liberals or NDP candidates in any appreciable numbers to Ottawa? Will 416 and 905 align with Western Canadian voters who often complain Canada's most populous province pushes aside the voting of the West? We asked this question of Darrell Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Public Affairs.

Then, we take calls from the 905 and 416 area codes in Ontario, who are firm in voting intent in the next federal election.

Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO, IPSOS Public Affairs. 

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Kenny Chiu, former CPC MP for the B.C. riding of Steveston - Richmond East. China interference could have impacted the result of of the 2021 election in the riding which saw Mr. Chiu lose his seat according to yesterday's interim report. Beijing targeted Mr. Chiu on social media, etc.

Guest: Kenny Chiu. Former CPC MP, Steveston-Richmond 

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Today’s podcast:

Just released Dalhousie Agri-foods laboratory study shows almost 60% of Canadians regularly eat food beyond its 'best before' date, with 23% doing so regularly. Among Millenials 41% believe they have become ill after eating potentially unsafe food products in the past year. And Canada's food sector falling behind that of the U.S. in wholesale and industrial prices. Might Canadian companies pull the plug and exit Canada for the United States? 

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

Jew-hatred continues to roil across Canada. 

Guests: Melissa Lantsman. CPC Deputy leader and Jewish Toronto MP who had a bitter exchange with PM Trudeau during Question Period when Trudeau responded to a challenge by Lantsman by accusing Conservative MPs of "standing with people who wave swastikas." 

And:  David Sachs. Jewish Federation of Ottawa. After leaving a Muslim-Jewish interfaith event on parliament hill, Sachs was identified as Jewish by pro-Palestinian demonstrators and was swarmed, requiring a police escort to leave the area. Sachs is engaged in combatting antisemitism by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa.

Global News: "B.C. to ban drug use in all public places in major overhaul of decriminalization."

Premier David Eby on Friday made a formal request to Health Canada for changes to its exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act as the 3 year experiment with decriminalization falters.

Guest: Dr. Brian Conway. Medical director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious Diseaes Centre. East-side of Vancouver.

A report released on Friday by Statscan shows 8.7 million Canadians, or 22.9 per cent of the national population reported some level of food insecurity in 2022. An increase of almost 1.8 million people from the previous year. 

Guest: Professor Valerie Tarasuk. Lead investigator of the University of Toronto's household food insecurity research program PROOF.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig

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Just released Dalhousie Agri-foods laboratory study shows almost 60% of Canadians regularly eat food beyond its 'best before' date, with 23% doing so regularly. Among Millenials 41% believe they have become ill after eating potentially unsafe food products in the past year. And Canada's food sector falling behind that of the U.S. in wholesale and industrial prices. Might Canadian companies pull the plug and exit Canada for the United States? 

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

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Jew-hatred continues to roil across Canada. 

Guests: Melissa Lantsman. CPC Deputy leader and Jewish Toronto MP who had a bitter exchange with PM Trudeau during Question Period when Trudeau responded to a challenge by Lantsman by accusing Conservative MPs of "standing with people who wave swastikas." 

And:  David Sachs. Jewish Federation of Ottawa. After leaving a Muslim-Jewish interfaith event on parliament hill, Sachs was identified as Jewish by pro-Palestinian demonstrators and was swarmed, requiring a police escort to leave the area. Sachs is engaged in combatting antisemitism by the Jewish Federation of Ottawa.

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Global News: "B.C. to ban drug use in all public places in major overhaul of decriminalization."

Premier David Eby on Friday made a formal request to Health Canada for changes to its exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act as the 3 year experiment with decriminalization falters.

Guest: Dr. Brian Conway. Medical director and infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver Infectious Diseaes Centre. East-side of Vancouver.

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