The Roy Green Show

A former crown prosecutor who argued cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as being federal Minister of Justice and Solicitor General for Canada shares his thoughts on the increasing number of Canadian police officers injured, wounded and killed while on duty. - As well his view of NCR. 

Guest: Peter MacKay. Former federal Minister of Justice and Solicitor General. 

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Families of slain Canadian police officers among those honoured at today's Police and Peace Officers National Memorial Day ceremonies.

Guest: Jason Harnett. Brother Andrew, Sgt of the Calgary Police Service killed on duty New Year's Eve 2020.   

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The shooting death of British Columbia RCMP Constable Rick O'Brien, as well as the numbers of police officers killed on duty in Canada brings to the fore the issue of what must be done to reduce the risk to police officers.

Today is Police and Peace Officers National Memorial Day with ceremonies and police attendance from across Canada in Ottawa.

Guest: Mark Baxter. President: Police Association of Ontario.   

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The issue of pronoun selection, name change and gender identity among Canada's youth and mandatory reporting by teachers/schools to parents of children under 16 years of age is increasingly polarizing. This week saw marches across Canada supporting these provincial policies and counter-protests. 

The first province to introduce a policy requiring parents be informed if their children under 16 are choosing different pronouns/names was New Brunswick with Policy 713.

Guest: Blaine Higgs. Premier. New Brunswick

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Roy takes to the phones to hear your thoughts on provincial youth pronoun an gender policies in schools.

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In April of 2014, Matthew de Grood attended an end-of-school-term party in a home in Calgary's North-West. de Grood would, in the worst mass killing in Calgary's history, stab to death Kaitlin Perras, 23, Zackariah Rathwell, 21, Jordan Segura, 22, Josh Hunter, 23, and Lawrence Hong, 27. In 2016 de Grood was found NCR (Not Criminally Responsible) and found to be living with undiagnosed schizophrenia. He has since been living at the Edmonton Alberta Hospital and receiving psychiatric treatment, while appearing annually before the Alberta review board to have his case and detention assessed. In September of last year the board determined de Grood posed a "significant risk" to the public and would not be granted an absolute discharge.

de Grood is now seeking to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear and consider his case and grant more freedoms.

We speak with the father of one de Grood's victims.

Guest: Gregg Perras, father of Katie Perras

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When men ignore health warnings and in this case symptoms of prostate health issues it can and does lead to metastasized prostate cancer. Metastesized prostate cancer is immediately classified as Stage 4. My reality, diagnosed in February of this year.

Remarkable and effective very new and significantly life-extending medical treatments available, with more in the pipeline, however, they are not without considerable side effects which some men tolerate better than others.

Todd Seals (toddseals63.blogspot.com) at age 42 was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer and given months to live and well before the newest drugs became available. 17 years later Todd is very much alive and while the cancer remains a threat, Todd Seals has become a much talked and written about survivor, motivator, as well as a contributor to U.S. World and News Report.

His addresses his life since diagnosis 17 years ago and metastatic prostate cancer. 

Guest: Todd Seals and Roy Green speak about the journey and experience of living with Stage 4 metastasized prostate cancer, Seals with 17 years experience while I am just beginning that journey as modern medicine is hopefully increasingly turning this killer into a treatable chronic illness. 

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Today's podcast:

Death of Ridge Meadows detachment B.C., RCMP officer Rick O'Brien, with two additional officers injured.

Tomorrow is Police and Peace Officers National Memorial Day with thousands of officers and their families attending ceremonies in Ottawa.

Guest: Jason Harnett. Will be in Ottawa attending ceremonies. His brother Sergeant Andrew Harnett of the Calgary Police Service was dragged to his death during a routine traffic stop on New Year's Eve 2020. (Sentencing of the then still young offender found guilty of manslaughter should take place next week.)  

PM Justin Trudeau alleging India involved in murder of Canadian Sikh leader and proponent for an independent Khalistan, Hardeep Singh Nijjar. What is the view/opinion expressed in India about the Trudeau allegation, which the PM refuses to elaborate on. 

 Guest: (pre-recorded Thursday) -w Shivam Vij. Independent Indian journalist based in New Delhi. Wrote op ed for Washington Post in 2018, following Justin Trudeau's much criticized visit to India: Why is India being really rude to Justin Trudeau?

Opinion/view of developing conflict between Canada and India.

Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Former premier, British Columbia. Former Liberal member of parliament and federal Minister of Health. Emigrated to Canada from India.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Canada

Guest: Borys Wrzesnewskyj. Member Ukrainian Canadian Congress and former Liberal MP Toronto. Sat with PM Trudeau in parliament during Ukraine president's first virtual message. 

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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Reuters: 'Canada's declining productivity streak adds to inflation problem.' Canada's productivity has in eleven of the last 12 quarters fallen to 2016 levels. Tiff Macklem, BOC Governor: "Weak productivity growth has been a serial problem for Canada." Why? Impact where and how deeply?

AND:

Assessing the Liberals Bill C-56. New Housing and Groceries Affordability Act, introduced into parliament on Thursday. 

Guest: Professor Eric Kam. Macroeconomist, Toronto Metropolitan University.

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While Ottawa accelerates its climate agenda British Prime Minister Rishi Sumak puts the brakes on U.K.'s climate commitments in order to not impose "unacceptable costs" on British families. Sumak delaying a ban on gasoline and diesel vehicles five years and confirms British households will 'never" be forced to "rip out their existing boiler and replacei with a heat pump."  

Guest: Dan McTeague. President: Canadians for Affordable Energy. 

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