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The Roy Green Show

Are Canada’s small and medium sized businesses being targeted by the federal and provincial governments?  On Monday, in Ontario, the minimum wage rises to $14 per hour. Next October, in Alberta it will raise to $15 per hour. 

New tax regulations for small businesses will soon take effect and the Trudeau government demands the introduction of carbon taxes in 2018. 

Guests: Dan Kelly, CEO and president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business-

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says ISIS terrorists who have returned to Canada could be an "extraordinarily powerful voice" against being radicalized and traveling abroad to join a terror group. 

Why should we let Canadians who joined ISIS – and may have either participated in horrific criminal and genocidal violence or supported such actions – be counseled and reintegrated into Canadian society? 

Guests: Raheel Raza, president of the council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow, public speaker and consultant for Interfaith and Intercultural diversity, outspoken advocate for gender equality and activist for women's rights internationally, and author of “Their Jihad, Not My Jihad” 

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, former US Navy Lieutenant Commander, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, nuclear cardiologist&past president of the Arizona Medical Association and author of “Battle for the Soul of Islam”

-On social media this week, Roy shared a list of chronic pain patients aged 30 and under who committed suicide because they were denied the opioid medication that enabled them to get by on a day-to-day basis.

 In the United States, the story isn’t too different from what chronic pain patients experience in Canada.

 Guest: Dr. Thomas Kline, MD, PhD. in Maryland and author of “The Myth that Prescriptions Caused the Opioid Crisis”-

For the last edition of Beauties and the Beast of 2017, Roy and the Beauties select an issue from the past year to focus on during their discussion. 

Guests: Catherine SwiftLinda Leatherdale

Michelle Simson 

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