The Roy Green Show

Today’s podcast:

Israel has expanded ground operations in its war against Hamas including cutting off telecommunications and accuses Hamas leadership of using hospitals and patients/staff as human shields. - Also, Israel reaction to massed pro-Hamas demonstrations in Canada and open displays of antisemitism and tearing down of posters depicting Hamas hostages kidnapped in Israel.                

Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel Ambassador to Canada

Tim Danson discusses Correctional Service Canada's involvement in preventing serial killer/rapist Paul Bernardo from issuing a statement to media. - As well, Bernardo's parole hearing in a matter of weeks with the French and Mahaffy families in the hearing room just feet away from Kristen and Leslie's murderer.

Guest: Tim Danson. Lawyer for French and Mahaffy families.

Beauties and the Beast: Fair to suggest Justin Trudeau folded on the carbon tax on heating oil because of increasingly plummeting national polling numbers?  

And: 

How informed should Canadians be kept about the goings-on in the Justin Trudeau-Sophie Gregoire divorce proceedings and what is none of the Canadian public's business (at this point Gregoire's new partner in the process of divorcing him. Accusations have begun in both camps.)?

Guests:

Catherine Swift, president Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada. 

       Michelle Simson, former Liberal MP and seatmate to Justin Trudeau in parliament.

       Linda Leatherdale. VP Cambria Canada and former Money Editor, Toronto Sun.

Sophie Gregoire (Trudeau) re-partners. What might we expect? By the book court case, or VIP treatment from the court? "Re-partnered?"

Guest: Vancouver family lawyer and media commentator Scott Taylor.       

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Technical Producer - Santiago Bedoya

Podcast Producer – Tom Craig

Podcast Co-Producers – Michael Downey and David Hunter

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Two stories by Bryan Passifiume in the National Post.

1: As inflation pressures grow, Bank of Canada execs take home millions in bonuses (CTF).

2: Directives to military chaplains urge expunging God, religion from Remembrance Day, public ceremonies. (confirmed by official from Chaplaincy Director's office).

Guest: Bryan Passifiume. National Post, reporter, feature writer.

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Major demonstrations (pro-Israel and pro-Hamas/Palestinian) set for Toronto this weekend. We speak with Toronto Sun feature reporter Joe Warmington who interviewed the former Toronto Mayoral candidate arrested after she tore down a poster of a Hamas kidnap victim resulting in an altercation.

Guest: Joe Warmington. Toronto Sun, feature writer/reporter.

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Sophie Gregoire (Trudeau) re-partners. What might we expect? By the book court case, or VIP treatment from the court? "Re-partnered?"

Guest: Vancouver family lawyer and media commentator Scott Taylor.                                   

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Beauties and the Beast: Fair to suggest Justin Trudeau folded on the carbon tax on heating oil because of increasingly plummeting national polling numbers?  

And: 

How informed should Canadians be kept about the goings-on in the Justin Trudeau-Sophie Gregoire divorce proceedings and what is none of the Canadian public's business (at this point Gregoire's new partner in the process of divorcing him. Accusations have begun in both camps.)?

Guests:

Catherine Swift, president Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada. 

       Michelle Simson, former Liberal MP and seatmate to Justin Trudeau in parliament.

        Linda Leatherdale. VP Cambria Canada and former Money Editor, Toronto Sun.

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Lawyer Tim Danson discusses Correctional Service Canada's involvement in preventing serial killer/rapist Paul Bernardo from issuing a statement to media. - As well, Bernardo's parole hearing in a matter of weeks with the French and Mahaffy families in the hearing room just feet away from Kristen and Leslie's murderer.

Guest: Tim Danson. Lawyer for French and Mahaffy families.

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Israel has expanded ground operations in its war against Hamas including cutting off telecommunications and accuses Hamas leadership of using hospitals and patients/staff as human shields. - Also, Israel's reaction to massed pro-Hamas demonstrations in Canada and open displays of antisemitism and tearing down of posters depicting Hamas hostages kidnapped in Israel.                

Guest: Iddo Moed. Israel Ambassador to Canada

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Today's Podcast:

Israel closer to ground military action against Hamas in Gaza.

Guest: Lt. Colonel Jonathan Conricus. Spokesman for IDF. (we weren't able to connect with this guest yesterday)

Is IDF trained/equipped for urban warfare and does Israel have sufficient troops for a 2 front war? Will U.S. send troops back into the Middle East if Hezbollah engages the IDF? - The hastily arranged Peace Summit in Egypt. Accomplish anything?

Guest: Dr. Christian Leuprecht. International security expert. Professor at Queen's University and Royal Military College. Fellow at the NATO College in Rome. Book: Security, Cooperation, Governance. (University of Michigan Press)

From Jerusalem Rabbi Raphael Shore. Originally from London, Ontario, Rabbi Shore has had three children serve in the IDF with a fourth to enter the IDF shortly.

The Rabbi is also a friend of a family whose child was shot and killed October 7, at the Israeli music festival.

Guest: Rabbi Raphael Shore, Canadian-Israeli film writer, producer. Founder of OpenDor Media, a Jewish educational organization

Bank of Canada argues Canadians perception of inflation rate is wrong. - Surveys of economists show both an expectation BOC will raise the interest rate again this year. Different news story suggests central banks may begin lowering interest rates in 2024 - CPC leader Pierre Poilievre is urging finance minister Chrystia Freeland to reject a proposed RBC takeover of HSBC Canada.

Guest: Dr. Eric Kam. Professor of Macroeconomics, Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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The Quarterly Consumer Debt Index update from MNP LLP: Increasing number of Canadians report a decline in their capacity to handle an interest rate increase. 4 in10 say their ability to cover an additional $130 in interest payments on debt is much worse. MNP CEO: "many Canadians are stretched uncomfortably close to broke."  

Guest: Donna Carson. Licensed insolvency trustee with MNP LLP Calgary

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Meanwhile Ottawa Jewish father David Baker's son was subjected to an antisemitic attack, including being exposed to a swastika, at school. Baker engaged with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board about the incident. Largely satisfied with the response from the OCDSB.

Guest: David Baker, Ottawa father. 

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