Roy Green Show
6,422 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsRoy Green’s resume is outstanding. He is a three time consecutive winner of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters national Gold Ribbon award, Canada’s most prestigious broadcast award. Listeners need not read his resume to know that Roy is a passionate advocate for the average Canadian, with an unshakable desire for justice and a deep and abiding love for his country. No wonder Roy’s show has been cited by Canada’s parliamentary newspaper as required listening for federal politicians. You can also listen to the Roy Green Show live on these stations: 900 CHML Hamilton, Global News Radio 640 Toronto, 980 CFPL London, 680 CJOB Winnipeg, 630 CHED Edmonton, 770 CHQR Calgary, 980 CKNW Vancouver, 650 CKOM, 980 CJME, & Radio NL.
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Roy Green - Sat Dec 20 - Australia Hostage Taking
December 21, 2014 06:36 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBSydney, Australia hostage taking and killing of hostages & the radical 'Imam'. And Peshawar, Pakistan, targeted killing of more than 100 children. Who are we dealing with? In Sydney? In Canada? In Peshawar? Should we be concerned about so-called 'soft target' attacks and killings in Canada, the U.S. and other Western nations? If there is an effective way to counter radicalization and what do two Canadian Muslims, one a former jihadi, say is the manner in which to accomplish this objective? G...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 20 - Trip Around The World
December 21, 2014 06:28 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBJordan Axani has found his Elizabeth Gallagher and they will leave for their around the world trip today. She with a boyfriend remaining at home. OK....it's planned to be platonic and she's just filling a ticket that was bought for Axani's now ex-girlfriend. A registered charity has begun from this story (aticketforward.org) and more than 60,000 international stories have been done about this trip with Jordan Axani and Elizabeth Gallagher. Guest: Jordan Axani See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 20 - B & B Segment
December 21, 2014 06:27 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB2:05-:27: The Rehtaeh Parsons story, as the Nova Scotia public prosecutor's office declares no charges will be filed against media using Rehtaeh Parsons name as long as it's not done in a derogatory manner. Guests: Glen Canning. Rehtaeh's father David Butt (lawyer/legal advisor to Kids Internet Safety Alliance) - 2:30-:55: Dalhousie Univ male dentistry students posting online about raping female classmates. Based on president of Dal U's response, can't help but...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 14 - Hockey Moms Panel
December 15, 2014 05:42 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBOntario woman leaves her 9 month old baby boy in her car with the engine running while she pays for her gasoline purchase. Car is stolen with the baby inside. 30 minutes later the car and baby are found abandoned. Police say no charges likely against the mother. That "this could happen to anyone". Really? Should mother face a charge by police, or investigation by Children's Aid Society? Guests: - Michelle Olson. Alberta. Teacher. Past-pres Home by Choice, Alta - Sheila Gunn-Reid. Stay at hom...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 14 - Scott Newark
December 15, 2014 05:41 - 18 minutes - 17 MBSupreme Court of Canada rules police may conduct a limited search of a suspect's mobile phone without obtaining a prior search warrant. The Supreme Court of Canada also agrees to hear the federal government's appeal of the Alberta Court of Appeal's decision that Omar Khadr who confessed to five crimes including murder during his trial at Guantanamo Bay prison must be permitted to serve his remaining time in a provincial prison. The federal government wants Khadr to serve his time in a federa...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 14 - Refugees In Canada
December 15, 2014 05:40 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBYesterday we spoke about the federal government's decision to accept approximately 1300 refugees from Syria. However The government will give priority to religious minorities in Syria who Ottawa identifies as being persecuted. That may mean Muslims will be excluded from the list of refugees Canada is willing to accept from Syria. Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, fmr U.S. Navy Lt. Commander and Sunni Muslim whose family emigrated from Syria and who still has family in Syria questioned Ottawa's decision. Cal...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 14 - Working Overtime
December 15, 2014 05:38 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBIn the U.S. a major class action lawsuit proposal has been filed against Home Depot arguing the company is in violation of federal labour law "for not compensating supervisors for time spent answering after-hours emails, calls and texts." We've heard on-air complaints from employees that their employers expect them to work at home on company business and that employees are not compensated for that extra time on the job. If the lawsuit against Home Depot is successful will that require employe...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 14 - Tragic Death Of Brian Sinclair
December 15, 2014 05:35 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBThe tragic story of the death of Brian Sinclair in a Winnipeg hospital emergency room waiting room. An inquest into the death of Mr. Sinclair, a double amputee, who died of a treatable bladder infection after being ignored for 34 hours, resulted in 63 recommendations for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Mr. Sinclair's family point at "racism against aboriginal people in Canada's health care system" (Global News) as the cause and suggest the inquest was a "wasted opportunity" to get at ...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 14 - Sgt Maj Barry Westholm
December 15, 2014 05:33 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBLast weekend we spoke about the issue of the federal government's lump sum vs lifetime disability pension issue for injuries suffered by military veterans while in service. Colonel Pat Stogran, Canada's first veterans ombudsman, Major Mark Campbell, double-amputee and one of seven former CAF members leading a class-action lawsuit against the federal government and Sgt. Major Barry Westholm, who resigned from the CAF over the lack of proper treatment for veterans at the JPSU (Joint Personnel S...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 13 - Hippocatres Health Institute
December 14, 2014 05:52 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThe Hippocrates Health Center in Florida, where two aboriginal 11 year old girls, Makayla Sault being one, were taken for cancer treatment, is being sued by former employees who allege through their lawyer they were fired illegally because they voiced worry "ethical transgressions in regard to the medical treatment of patients at the facility" were taking place. The former employees include a medical doctor accuse the directors of HHI (Brian Clement and his wife Anna Gahns-Clement) of 'unlice...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 13 - Oil Prices
December 14, 2014 05:51 - 7 minutes - 6.86 MBThe price of oil is plummeting. Now under $60 a barrel, how will this affect the Canadian economy and individual Canadians? What is the impact on oil producing provinces? Central Canada will benefit with manufacturing and exports particularly so. Provincial and federal minister of finance meet Monday. Guest: Tom Caldwell, Chairman at Caldwell Securities See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Roy Green - Sat Dec 13 - Refugees In Canada
December 14, 2014 05:49 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBHow is the U.S. Senate report on Enhanced Interrogation reverberating on social networking among Muslims, particularly young Muslims perhaps on the path to potential radicalization? Also, the federal government will accept just over 1000 Syrian refugees to Canada, but insists the majority must be from minority Syrian communities, like Christian. Is this a direct denial of access to Canada for Muslims? How is this decision by Ottawa reverberating on social networking among young Muslims? Gues...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 13 - NFL And Supporting Domestic Violence
December 14, 2014 05:47 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBUp next on the show... NFL star running back Adrian Peterson appeal of his suspension from playing football until at least April 15 of next year has been denied by an arbitrator, after the NFLPA decided to challenge the Commissioner's suspension of the 2012 'Most Valuable Player'. Also this week NFL owners adopted a new 'personal conduct policy'. After the domestic violence case of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and the Minnesota Vikings Peterson, the NFL was under significant...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 13 - B&B Segment
December 14, 2014 05:46 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBWeekly B&B segment with Catherine Swift, Linda Leatherdale and Michelle Simson. Today's issues: drop in the price of oil and its consequences; Pan Am Games executives expense-spending on the public dime; Ontario Auditor General's report...and why does panelist and former Liberal MP Michelle Simson have "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters displayed of her? Guests: - Catherine SwiftEconomist/Working Canadians.com - Linda Leatherdale, Independent Business journalist: Lindaleatherdale.com - Michel...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 7 - Canadian Police
December 08, 2014 05:49 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBPart 2 of segments on policing. Yesterday, questions following policing in the U.S. in the deaths of Michael Brown of Ferguson, MO and Eric Garner of New York City. Today we ask about Canada's police. Is there a set of rules for police officers and a different set of rules for the rest of us...and if so, is that the way it should be, given the different realities police can encounter while on the job? In Montreal a provincial police officer driving an unmarked cruiser on a non-emergency ass...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 7 - White Privilege
December 08, 2014 05:48 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MB(White) privilege. A Georgetown University student in Washington, D.C. and his roommate were held at gunpoint and mugged recently. The student wrote a column for the campus paper stating he isn't angry. In fact, he "can hardly blame (the muggers)." "Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as thugs". Friedfield writes the inequality gap in Washington, D.C., fuels these kinds of crimes. Mean...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 7 - Military Veterans
December 08, 2014 05:47 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBOn yesterday's program we spoke with the former military veterans ombudsman, Col Pat Stogran and fmr Sgt. Major Barry Westholm about the class-action lawsuit brought by seven veterans of the Canadian military against the federal government for changing compensation for military veterans injured while in service. A lump sum payment has replaced the lifetime disability pension which was in place before all the political parties in Ottawa voted for this change in the so-called New Veterans Chart...
Roy Green - Sun Dec 7 - Keystone Pipeline
December 08, 2014 05:46 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBNorth Dakota Republican Senator John Hoeven will join us to speak to the Republican Party's determination to persuade President Obama to approve the Keystone pipeline building along the proposed U.S. route. North Dakota itself now has more oil than the Gulf of Mexico. What impact do falling oil prices have on the determination of Republicans to persuade Obama to sign on to Keystone? Guest: John Hoeven, Senator (R). North Dakota. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Roy Green - Sun Dec 7 - Sylvia Peterson
December 08, 2014 05:44 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBWhy does a woman keep the fact she was raped a secret for years, even decades?: Why do survivors of rape often reveal what happened to them together (numbers of women now accusing Bill Cosby of rape)? Guest: Sylvia Peterson. Sexual assault victim who kept her abuse secret for decades before revealing her past to her husband and family. Sylvia Peterson also has more than 30 years experience as a volunteer in Washington State prisons. Author of Laura and Me: A Sex Offender and Victim Search T...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 6 - Police Behaviour And Violence
December 07, 2014 05:44 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBThe violence in Ferguson, Missouri in the death of Michael Brown vs mostly non-violent protest in various U.S. cities in the death of Eric Garner of New York City, both at the hands of a white police officer, with neither officer indicted criminally by grand juries. University of Pennsylvania associate professor of religion Anthea Butler wrote a column in which she claimed former Ferguson, MO, police officer Darren Wilson, when Wilson shot Michael Brown, acted as an agent to the 'god of whit...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 6 - Military Verterans
December 07, 2014 05:42 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBWhy is the federal government of Canada opposing military veterans from the Afghanistan campaign who have launched a class action lawsuit against the government for removing the disability pension for wounded veterans in favour of a one-time lump sum payment? Why is Ottawa challenging Major Mark Campbell who lost both of his legs above the knee in Afghanistan and is one of the veterans who launched the class-action? Why does the federal government argue in court it has no social contract w...
Roy Green - Sat Dec 6 - Jane Kirtley
December 07, 2014 05:41 - 18 minutes - 17 MBSocial networking is ripping into Rolling Stone magazine for its retraction of support for a woman who gave a detailed accounting of how she was gang-raped at a University of Virginia frat party. Rolling Stone yesterday, in an apology by its editor Will Dana, focused on a long piece it published last month about "Jackie" and her claim of being gang-raped. Rolling Stone did not interview any of the men Jackie said organized and participated in the sexual assault, and because, says Rolling Ston...