The Roy Green Show

First 2024, MNP Consumer Debt Index released and Canadians' current debt perceptions reaches all-time low. 63% of Canadians concerned about their ability to repay their debts. - 47% regret the amount of debt they've taken on. FINANCES: taking a toll on mental health: 60% of Canadians say their financial situation causes them anxiety, stress (59%), isolation (48%), embarrassment (40%). - 26% making only minimum payments on credit card, minimum payments on lines of credit (19%), 18% say they took from savings, home equity, RSP or alternative methods to pay debt or day-to-day expenses in the last year.

Guest: Linda Paul, licensed insolvency trustee, MNP LTD, British Columbia.

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National focus this week on a crime incident in Peterborough, Ontario. At a convenience store a 22 year old clerk was helping a customer when a male with a baseball bat entered the store, allegedly demanding cash and striking the clerk with the bat. A fight ensued and the clerk grabbed the baseball bat, chased the would-be robber outside the store and allegedly proceeded to hit the man several times with the bat.

The robber was taken to hospital for treatment while the clerk was treated by EMS at the site. - Police then laid an aggravated assault criminal charge against the 22 year old store clerk.

Response was immediate with hundreds of Peterborough residents and others challenging the police decision saying the clerk had acted in self defence, prompting the Peterborough chief of police to take to 'X' and defend his officers and the laying of the charge.

Again, the question is what is permitted as far as self defence is concerned in Canada with inconsistent court rulings having occurred.

Guest: Scott Newark. Former AB Crown attorney, former Executive Officer of the Canadian Police Association, snr. policy advisor to a federal Minister for Public Safety and Vice Chair of the Ontario Office for Victims of Crime.

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Today's podcast:

U.S. and U.K. attack Houthi rebels of Yemen with missile barrage and air strikes after Houthis repeated rocket and missile assaults on international commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Canada played a non-direct role. 

Leads to what possibly? Asymmetric global war underway? POLITICO piece: American intel officials warn of risk of Hezbollah attacking U.S.. 

As well: The possibility of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Guest: Vice Admiral Mark Norman. Former Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff.

Global News: Ottawa was warned about impact of high immigration on housing in 2022. 

Meanwhile, 3 months ago Canadians by strong majority (75%) told Leger Marketing in a national poll that higher immigration numbers of the federal government are causing a housing and healthcare crisis to become worse.

Guest: Christian Bourque. Executive vice-president Leger Marketing

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) releases this statement: Patients, providers suffer as ERs are overwhelmed yet again. Wait times up to 20 hours are being experienced. -

Sept 25, '23, CMAJ article: Without more acute care beds hospitals are on their own to grapple with emergency department crises.  

Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. President, CMA

NFL coaches turnover begins with Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks and Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans removed from their positions. Patriots reportedly hire 37-year-old Jerod Mayo, former linebacker with the team.

NFL playoffs begin today and difficult to pick winners, particularly with brutally cold temps in places like Kansas City. What to expect?

Guests: Greg Brady, host of Toronto Today, on AM 640, Toronto. Has broadcast Super Bowl play-by-play for BBC in the U.K.

Greg Mackling. Co-host of the morning show on 680 CJOB, Winnipeg. Hosts the Blue Bombers half time show and co-host of the Blue Bombers podcast.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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U.S. and U.K. attack Houthi rebels of Yemen with missile barrage and air strikes after Houthis repeated rocket and missile assaults on international commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Canada played a non-direct role. 

Leads to what possibly? Asymmetric global war underway? POLITICO piece: American intel officials warn of risk of Hezbollah attacking U.S.. 

As well: The possibility of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Guest: Vice Admiral Mark Norman. Former Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy and Vice Chief of the Defence Staff.

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Global News: Ottawa was warned about impact of high immigration on housing in 2022. 

Meanwhile, 3 months ago Canadians by strong majority (75%) told Leger Marketing in a national poll that higher immigration numbers of the federal government are causing a housing and healthcare crisis to become worse.

Guest: Christian Bourque. Executive vice-president Leger Marketing

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The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) releases this statement: Patients, providers suffer as ERs are overwhelmed yet again. Wait times up to 20 hours are being experienced. -

Sept 25, '23, CMAJ article: Without more acute care beds hospitals are on their own to grapple with emergency department crises.  

Guest: Dr. Kathleen Ross. President, CMA

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NFL coaches turnover begins with Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, Pete Carroll of the Seattle Seahawks and Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans removed from their positions. Patriots reportedly hire 37-year-old Jerod Mayo, former linebacker with the team.

NFL playoffs begin today and difficult to pick winners, particularly with brutally cold temps in places like Kansas City. What to expect?

Guests: Greg Brady, host of Toronto Today, on AM 640, Toronto. Has broadcast Super Bowl play-by-play for BBC in the U.K.

Greg Mackling. Co-host of the morning show on 680 CJOB, Winnipeg. Hosts the Blue Bombers half time show and co-host of the Blue Bombers podcast.

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The RCMP by its own admission this week failed to meet its own deadline of December 31, 2023, to implement the 130 recommendations from the Mass Casualty Commission following Canada's worst mass-shooting incident his nation's history, April 18, 2020, in Nova Scotia. 

Now the RCMP is saying only "we'll release the implementation details as soon as possible."

Guest: Tim Mills. On the night of April 18, 2020, Tim Mills was the RCMP tactical team leader on that night of horror. Tim Mills was also the RCMP tactical team leader in Moncton, New Brunswick, when a gunman shot and killed 3 RCMP officers and wounded two more. Mills retired from the RCMP over non-support for his tactical team members by senior RCMP officers on April 18, 2020. 

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Roy takes to the phones to hear about your experiences in Canada's overwhelmed healthcare system. We hear stories of a 10 hour wait in an ambulance, care performed in hospital hallways, and more.

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Today's podcast:

Beginning January 1, Saskatchewan, according to premier Scott Moe "removed the carbon tax from home heating, making life more affordable. Saskatchewan families will no longer pay the carbon tax, or the GST on the carbon tax on natural gas or electrical heated" posted the premier to 'X'. - Might the premier and/or cabinet minister face fines or in the absolute extreme a prison sentence. Premier Moe has told us on air the Trudeau government can "bring it on!"

Guest: Scott Moe. Premier: Saskatchewan

Surreal? In Toronto yesterday, as pro-Palestinian demonstrators made their way again onto a highway 401 overpass, causing it to be shut down by police and separating two factions of the demonstrators engaging in intimidation in a heavily Jewish area of the city, Toronto police, instead of removing the demonstrators, acted as a Tim Hortons coffee delivery service and brought the bridge occupiers coffee and donuts purchased by one of their separated fellow demonstrators. All caught on video. 

Guest: Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun columnist. In his column today JW describes the incident as a clear "double-double standard."  

Book - Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada. Authors and professors Christian Leuprecht (Queen's U) and Jamie Ferrill (Charles Sturt U, Australia) write lawmakers at every level of government are disengaged from trying to intercede national financial criminal activity, while police are too engaged with their own investigations to initiate new ones. Massive financial organized crime has almost no chance of being discovered, leading to prosecutions.

Guests: Professor Christian Leuprecht, international security expert at Queen's University and RMC. 

Jamie Ferrill. Financial crimes investigator/instructor at the Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia. Formerly with CBSA

The ethics surrounding the prime minister and the Liberal government go well beyond questions about ethical propriety of Justin Trudeau's Christmas/New Year free from a "friend" Jamaica vacation at a property with a usual daily price tag of $9300. - Are the correct questions being asked? Former parliamentary ethics commissioner Mario Dion (a Trudeau selection in 2018), told the NP "the public has to believe that ethics are taken seriously, and they have yet to have any big evidence of that since 2018." Dion found no less than 5 senior Liberal cabinet ministers, including the PM (for a second time) guilty of ethics violations.

There are though significant questions to be asked about Trudeau's Jamaica vacay and it being cleared by interim ethics commissioner Konrad von Finkenstein.

Guest: Duff Conacher. Co-founder Democracy Watch. Lays out the concerns. 

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