Vivian Krause writes strongly challenged columns for the Financial and National Post, about American environment group funding for Canadian organizations opposed to oil sands and Canadian pipelines. 

Guest:  Vivian Krause. 

CALLERS

Are ethics/standards slipping in news/opinion MSM in Canada and the U.S.? Do MSM reports reflect a left-wing bias? 

Guest: Jane Kirtley. Silha Professor of Media Ethics and the Law at the University of Minnesota.

Is there left-wing bias in news/opinion MSM in Canada and the U.S.?  

Callers

Energy East has been cancelled. Quebec politicians are celebrating and claiming responsibility.  

 Guest:  Michelle Rempel. CPC MP, Calgary Nose Hill.

 Are the disputes over the building new pipelines to deliver Alberta and Saskatchewan oil sands oil to international markets highlighting the splits which exist in Canada and endangering this country's future?   

CALLERS

Two issues are particularly causing strongly opinionated views on air, via social media and email. This hour we open phones to the issues creating this listener/caller feedback.

1) PIPELINES:   The cancellation of Energy East this week. Is the regional discord over building of new pipelines for Alberta oil to get to international markets creating a threat for Canada's continued confederation?

2) NEWCOMERS:  This coming Wednesday Ottawa is loosening the requirements to become a Canadian citizen and Canada's borders are increasingly porous with Ottawa doing little to halt illegal crossing into Canada other than warning refugee claims may be rejected.  As the U.S. expels hundreds of thousands of people, will most of them head for Canada and be permitted entry...and if you challenge any such development do you expect to be labeled as intolerant and racist?  And if you do, are you?

Guest: Senator Denise Batters.

CALLERS

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Two issues are particularly causing strongly opinionated views on air, via social media and email. This hour we open phones to the issues creating this listener/caller feedback.

1) PIPELINES:   The cancellation of Energy East this week. Is the regional discord over building of new pipelines for Alberta oil to get to international markets creating a threat for Canada's continued confederation?

2) NEWCOMERS:  This coming Wednesday Ottawa is loosening the requirements to become a Canadian citizen and Canada's borders are increasingly porous with Ottawa doing little to halt illegal crossing into Canada other than warning refugee claims may be rejected.  As the U.S. expels hundreds of thousands of people, will most of them head for Canada and be permitted entry...and if you challenge any such development do you expect to be labeled as intolerant and racist?  And if you do, are you?

CALLERS

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A cruel Facebook posting by a senior CBS VP saw her fired by the network. There’s a lot of opinion that Haley Geftman-Gold's posting she "was not even sympathetic" to the victims of the Las Vegas massacre because "country music fans often are Republican," backs up the view that much MSM is left-wing and that their news and opinion broadcasting follows that direction all the way to becoming "fake news."  Was the firing for a personal posting on social media justified?

 Guest:  Chantal Goldsmith. VP/partner, labour and employment practice, Samfiru Tumarkin LLP.

 Do you detect left-wing bias in news/opinion MSM in Canada and the U.S.?

 Callers

The Roy Green Show

Energy East has been cancelled. Quebec politicians are celebrating and claiming responsibility.  

 Guest:  Michelle Rempel. CPC MP, Calgary Nose Hill.

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Vivian Krause writes strongly challenged columns for the Financial and National Post, about American environment group funding for Canadian organizations opposed to oil sands and Canadian pipelines. 

Guest:  Vivian Krause. 

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A cruel Facebook posting by a senior CBS VP saw her fired by the network. There’s a lot of opinion that Haley Geftman-Gold's posting she "was not even sympathetic" to the victims of the Las Vegas massacre because "country music fans often are Republican," backs up the view that much MSM is left-wing and that their news and opinion broadcasting follows that direction all the way to becoming "fake news."  Was the firing for a personal posting on social media justified?

 Guest:  Chantal Goldsmith. VP/partner, labour and employment practice, Samfiru Tumarkin LLP.

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Are ethics/standards slipping in news/opinion MSM in Canada and the U.S.? Do MSM reports reflect a left-wing bias? 

Guest: Jane Kirtley. Silha Professor of Media Ethics and the Law at the University of Minnesota.

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How will the Liberal Government’s plans for tax changes impact Canadians’ abilities to access proper mental health care?

Guest: Senator Denise Batters.

The Roy Green Show Podcast

Following the mass shooting in Las Vegas last weekend, the topic of gun ownership is once again being widely debated. What is the fundamental reason behind all the shootings and deaths in the United States?

An epidemiologist at the University of Illinois argues the shootings are a 'public health issue'. He warned the Governor of Illinois that a surge in shootings in Chicago would take place after funding was cut for the CeaseFire program (now called Cure Violence). He was right.

Guest: Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist at the University of Illinois and founder of Cure Violence
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Tracey Wilson argues that legal gun owners need to come out of the closet in order to alter public opinion of who owns firearms and to reduce the stigma around the people who do.
 
Guest: Tracey Wilson, Orleans chairwoman of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
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Almost immediately, ISIS claimed responsibility for last weekend's mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Graeme Wood is an ISIS expert, author and Atlantic magazine contributor who wrote a piece for Atlantic titled, "Why did the Islamic State claim the Las Vegas shooting?"

Guest: Graeme Wood, has interviewed IS members, author of “The Way of Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State”
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Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he has listened to Canadians about his tax fairness plan and is prepared to act on what he has heard. 

However, Richard Kurland says he has a simple plan that will lead to income tax fairness.

Guest: Richard Kurland, national immigration lawyer in Vancouver
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Calgary Mayoral candidate Bill Smith has widened his lead over incumbent Naheed Nenshi since last week's Mainstreet polling.

Is it over for Nenshi?

Guest: Quito Maggi, president of Mainstreet Research
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Roy is joined by two of the Beauties and Brian Jean, leadership candidate for the United Conservative Party of Alberta, to discuss the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline.

Guests: Catherine Swift
Linda Leatherdale
Brian Jean, candidate for leadership of the United Conservative Party of Alberta

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Roy is joined by two of the Beauties and Brian Jean, leadership candidate for the United Conservative Party of Alberta, to discuss the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline.

Guests: Catherine Swift
Linda Leatherdale
Brian Jean, candidate for leadership of the United Conservative Party of Alberta

(Photo: Codie McLachlan/The Canadian Press)

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