The Roy Green Show

Hurricane Lee, downgraded to a tropical storm is expected to make landfall this weekend in the Atlantic provinces as a weakened, yet still immensely powerful tropical storm. What might Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and Newfoundland and Labrador expect?

Guest: Jim Prime. Warning preparedness meteorologist, Environment Canada. In New Brunswick.

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The largest convening of 2SLGBTQI+ leaders in Canada is taking place in Ottawa today through Monday through the Enchante Network supporting over 200 2LSGBTQI+ community organizations across Canada, as a call to action to combat 2SLGBTI+ hate in Canada.

National polling by IPSOS shows 48% of Canadians say they would be likely to speak up against homophobic or transphobic comments on social media.

Guest: Tyler Boyce, executive director of the Enchante Network and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Today's Podcast:

Canada is a country at the crossroads? Emotional and powerful listener calls (including Stefano from British Columbia) yesterday. We continue today.

Guest: Celina Caesar Chavannes. Former MP for Whitby, Ontario and parliamentary secretary to PM Trudeau in 2015 prior to leaving the Liberal Party caucus and sitting as an independent. Author: Can You Hear Me Now?

Data on Household Food Insecurity 2022, from PROOF. Utoronto.ca reveals 1.8 million Canadian children are living in a food-insecure household struggling to afford the food they need. This is an increase from the 1.4 million children living under such circumstance in 2021.

 Guest: Professor Valerie Tarasuk. Professor Emerita in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto. PROOF shows food insecurity in Canada remains at record highs.

This is the first full weekend of the 2023 NFL season. What do our guests predict the season's outcome will look like? Which team likely to win the Super Bowl? Which team may make a surprise appearance in the Super Bowl? Which team likely to be the surprising disappointment for the '23 season? We'll also fit in the CFL and its 2023 season.

Guests: Greg Mackling, breakfast show host, CJOB radio, Winnipeg and member of Blue Bombers broadcast crew.  

Rick Zamperin, breakfast show host and host of Tiger Cats 5th Quarter post-game program

Now a Quebec judge has been named to head the public inquiry into foreign (China) interference in Canadian federal elections (and more) - and the CPC Convention in Quebec City ended, we speak with former CPC B.C. MP: Kenny Chiu about both issues.

Guest: Kenny Chiu. Former B.C. CPC MP who was targeted for federal election interference by Beijing in 2021 and lost his seat to the Liberal candidate. Also attended the Conservative Party of Canada convention in Quebec City

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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Yellowknife, NWT, residents permitted a return to their endangered city and homes. What have they encountered on the road from Alberta and what did one resident discover on her return home?

Guest: Donna-Lynn Baskin. Resident: Yellowknife, NWT

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Brian Lilley of the Toronto Sun discusses his latest Column: Trudeau Takes Fringe Position on Gender, Schools and Parents.

Guest: Brian Lilley. Sun Columnist.  

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We had a very engaging listener-initiated and driven segment last Sunday on which family dynamic is better for children, the one income or the two income reality? Listener Cody of Alberta sent email detailing how he and his wife established and maintain a one parent at home reality.

Guest: Cody. Explains his family's decision.

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