The Roy Green Show

This weekend marks the first anniversary of the death in Iran of Mahsa Amini, the young woman (22) arrested by the so-called Morality Police for defying the country's hijab laws. Nationwide protests erupted and dozens of young Iranian protesters are reported to have been shot and killed by police. Mahsa Amini's father detained by security forces and warned to not commemorate his daughter's death before being released.

Guest: Masih Alinejad. Iranian journalist/activist. Founder of #WhiteWednesdays & #MyCameraIsMyWeapon. Author: The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran. Her life under constant threat.

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With parliament set to resume the past week-plus in Ottawa has not been uneventful. We're joined by the executive editor of Blacklocks Reporter @mindingottawa on "X".

Guest: Tom Korski. Exec editor, Blacklock's Reporter.

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Alberta premier Danielle Smith joins us on the E. coli outbreak in various city daycares which used a centralized kitchen. As of Friday 337 confirmed cases. 12 hospitalized. -- The premier is challenging the Trudeau government on a new federal tax on homes and argues new home builds will increase the cost of a new home in Alberta by at least $35,000 and $71,000 in Ontario. -- Premier Smith will also address the first meeting of the Alberta-Ottawa working group on emissions reduction and energy development - Also tweets her commitment "to standing alongside Alberta in ensuring the continued prosperity of our oil and natural gas sector."

Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier of Alberta

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What is E. coli, which E. coli bacteria attack the body (intestinal wall). Conditions which foster and spread life-threatening E. coli bacteria.- We all have E. coli in our systems and most of it is not of concern. However, the E. coli which infected over 300 children at Calgary daycares, 12 of who remained in hospital Friday is known as Shiga toxin-producing E.Coli and it can be deadly.

As well: Flu season close. The new Covid strain. Vaccines/boosters for both. Public doubt and resistance to be vaccinated stated over social media. Why should we agree to more Covid vaccinations? We were told at the outset that the first two vaccinations would be all we would require.

Guest: Dr. Joesph Blondeau. Clinical microbiologist and head of clinical microbiology at Saskatoon's Royal University and Hospital and at the University of Saskatchewan.

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How close to the fnancial breaking point is half the Canadian population and who are they? Already this year we have spoken about 52% of Canadians being within $200 of not being able to meet their monthly financial obligations, while 24% nationally would have to borrow money or sell something if they had to raise $500 in 24 hours to pay bills.

and: Is Trudeau government pitching Hail Mary's in an attempt to slow down increasingly falling support of Canadians?

Guest: Darrell Bricker. CEO, IPSOS Public Affairs. Author: NEXT: Where to Live, What to Buy and Who will Lead Canada's Future?

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Courts in dissaray in Ontario at this time because of staffing issues and health concerns within courtrooms (mold). Hundreds of criminal cases (and maybe more) may be thrown out because of not meeting required timelines from charges being laid to a trial concluded, per the Supreme Court Jordan decision of 2016. Might killers walk?Not the first time. In 2017 a report by the Senate standing committee on legal and constitutional affairs, revealed tens of thousands of criminal cases may have to be thrown out for the same reason.

And then there's the issue of NCR. Not Criminally Responsible. NCR has been a national headlines creating reality and is again in British Columbia with premier David Eby "whitel hot" angry over the release of an NCR psychiatric patient, Blair Evan Donnelly, who stabbed his teenage daughter to death and last weekend stabbed three people at the Light Up Chinatown festival in Vancouver.

Also making news this week, Matthew de Grood of Calgary who stabbed 5 university students to death at a Calgary house party in 2014. de Grood was found to be NCR 2 years later because of undiagnosed schizophrenia and was sent to the Alberta Hospital in Edmonton where he receives ongoing psychiatric treatment. Last year the Alberta Review Board assessed de Grood as a continuing significant threat to the public and not entitiled to an absolute discharge. Now de Grood is appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada in order to gain a conditional discharge with additional freedoms.

Guest: Scott Newark. Former Alberta Crown prosecutor, Fmr executive officer of the Canadian Police Association, Vice-chair of the Ontario Office for Victims of Crime and senior policy advisor to the federal and Ontario Public Safety Ministers.

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Today’s podcast:

Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe critical of Justin Trudeau India G20 messaging. Argues damages trade relationship with one of the SK's and Canada's most significant trading partners.

Plus: the premier muses about engaging the Charter notwithstanding clause to defend his government's pronoun/sex education for students under 16 and their parents policy.

Guest: Scott Moe. Premier. Saskatchewan.

Rents across Canada have achieved unaffordable status for many. Perhaps none more so than Toronto sisters Yumna and Khadeja Farooq. Their 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment where they have lived for 3 years and for which they most recently have been paying $2,500 monthly rent was suddenly raised by $7,000 to $9,500 per month, to begin November 1, 2023. The sisters sought legal advice and will join us to share what they have found out. (Their building was constructed after 2018 making it exempt from rent control.)

Guests: Yumna and Khadeja Farooq.

The federal government has summoned the CEO's of Canada's largest grocery chains to parliament next week. Ottawa is making sweeping changes to the Competition Act that target the largest grocery chains and the government is threatening the chains with increased taxes if food prices don't stabilize by Thanksgiving.

Our guest has been invited to participate in the meeting between the grocery chain CEO's and Industry Minister Francois-Phillippe Champagne.

Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois, head of the Agri-Foods Analytics Lab at Dalhousie, University.

The United Auto Workers union in the U.S. has begun simultaneous but limited strikes against Detroit's three automakers, Ford, GM and Stellara at plants in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio,with 13,000 autoworkers walking off the job. The union is demanding a roughly 40% pay increase and additional concessions. The automakers have countered with an approximately 20% increase offer. When might this morph into a full U.S.-wide strike and what might we expect from Canada's autoworkers represented by UNIFOR? UNIFOR's contract with automakers in this country expires next Tuesday and although the union is negotiating only with Ford at present, is a full Canadian walkout of autoworkers possible and what would the impact on our national economy be? 

In the U.S. a full walkout would remove approximately 150,000 workers from the job. President Biden waded into the dispute Friday, calling on the automakers to exercise fairness and and the strike.

Guest: Lana Payne. President, UNIFOR, Canada

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The Business Council of Canada has sent letters to both prime minister Justin Trudeau and official opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, alerting to the fragile economic / business climate in Canada.

Guest: Heather Scofield. Senior |Vice President, Strategy. Business Council of Canada.

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Global News B.C: B.C. prohibits illegal drugs from playgrounds, spray and wading pools, skate parks.

Guest: Darrian Matassa-Fung. Online journalist, Global News, BC.

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The London, Ontario terrorism trial of Nathaniel Veltman, charged with first degree murders of four members of a London Muslim family.

Guest: Ben Harrietha, reporter AM 980, London, in court covering the trial.

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