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Today’s podcast: Canada's courts fail to apply proper sentencing to drunk drivers who kill. Criminal code permits life in prison, but most sentences in the 3-4 year range. Guest: Ari Goldkind. Criminal lawyer. Media commentator Sheri Arsenault's son Bradley and two of his friends were killed in 2012 when a drunk driver's truck smashed into the car they were driving. Sheri Arsenault has been challenging successive federal governments to change criminal legislation to hold drunk drivers who kill to a higher level of personal responsibility and with more severe consequences than delivered by Canadian courts. Her work was set to bear fruit until the 2015 federal election shelved legislation which had been approved by then Canadian justice minister and attorney general Peter MacKay. Guests: Sheri Arsenault, lost her son in 2012 to a drunk driver The Temporary Foreign Workers Program, introduced by Pierre Trudeau in 1972 is chaotic and a failure under the Justin Trudeau government. - Also, private lawyers in Canada have put in place a website where an individual's support of pro-terrorist organizations (such as publicly supporting Hamas) can be reported to CBSA as a likely immigration violation. Guest: Richard Kurland. Vancouver immigration lawyer who has advised the federal and Quebec governments on immigration --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical Producer - Phil Figuerido  Podcast Producer - Jonathan Chung If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Sheri Arsenault's son Bradley and two of his friends were killed in 2012 when a drunk driver's truck smashed into the car they were driving. Sheri Arsenault has been challenging successive federal governments to change criminal legislation to hold drunk drivers who kill to a higher level of personal responsibility and with more severe consequences than delivered by Canadian courts. Her work was set to bear fruit until the 2015 federal election shelved legislation that had been approved by then-Canadian justice minister and attorney general Peter MacKay. Guests: Sheri Arsenault, lost her son in 2012 when a drunk driver crashed into the car they were driving Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are Canada's teachers unions almost invariably opposed to decisions taken by provincial governments on the right side of the political spectrum? Do conservative provincial governments engage in battles with teachers unions in an attempt to satisfy their base?   Today and following a UNESCO advisory to end the use of mobile phones in classrooms worldwide, Ontario is the canary in the classroom for our discussion.   As students return to school in Ontario (and elsewhere in Canada) controversy over the ban/partial ban of classroom mobile phone use continues.  Guest: Karen Littlewood. President. Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Post to X by Ujjal Dosanjh, former premier of British Columbia and former federal minister of health: "the country that I came to in 1968 has been pushed back into medieval hatreds by unprinciple, lazy and gutless politicians who bend to all hateful, racist, identiest, uniquest and exclusivist whimsies." Guest: Ujjal Dosanjh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PSAC Strike continues into its second week. Cdns as a whole are divided over the issue of higher pay, though most Cdns support union demands for wage premiums. And as the strike continues, one concern that is arguably most important amongst the average Canadian: How it impacts you. How it impacts Cdns, wage raises, etc. Guest: Dave Korzinski, Research director, Angus Reid Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s take a look at our political round-up for the week. Guest: Lorrie Goldstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week saw the firing of prominent Fox Host Tucker Carlson. Regardless of how people viewed him, his influence in right-wing politics is undisputed. With his departure from the major network, is his influence still going to have power in today’s media? Guest: John Le Boutillier, Former Fox host of political insiders, political analyst and former congressman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The situation in Sudan continues to develop this week, with evacuations ongoing. This all as well after the leaked U.S. report claiming Trudeau said that Canada will never meets its military spending target with NATO. Guest: David Perry, Canadian Institute of Global Affairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast: Recapping the week that was in Canadian Politics and Elsewhere Guest: Tasha Kheiriddin. Principle at navigator, political analyst author of The right path and substacker Russian NGO that built ties with Canadian academics, professionals took direction from Moscow’s spies, FBI alleges – continued interference. Guest: Marcus Kolga, Senior Fellow with the McDonald Laurier Institute. Renaming landmarks, buildings and a cultural reckoning. Guest: Gordon Walker, former Ontario cabinet minister. The Current Men’s health crisis. Guest: Derek Griffith, Professor, Health Management and Policy and Professor, Department of Oncology at Georgetown University and Chair of Global Action on Men's Health. --------------------------------------------- Host – Arlene Bynon  Executive Producer – Kelsey Campbell  Content Producer – Demi Knight Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How the PSAC strike could set the precedent for future wages. Guest: Charles Smith, political science professor, University of Saskatchewan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices