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Home > Roy Green Show > Roy Green Show Podcast, Oct, 8: Hockey Canada scandal continues. Anthony Housefather. – Remember what the Hockey Canada scandal began with? - Dr. Isaac Bogoch, Health Canada Approved Booster Vaccines. - Prof. Duane Bratt, On New AB Premier Danielle Smith.
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Roy Green Show Podcast, Oct, 8: Hockey Canada scandal continues. Anthony Housefather. – Remember what the Hockey Canada scandal began with? - Dr. Isaac Bogoch, Health Canada Approved Booster Vaccines. - Prof. Duane Bratt, On New AB Premier Danielle Smith.

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:43:10
Publish Date: 2022-10-08 21:30:00
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Today’s podcast:

Hockey Canada wobbles badly at parliamentary committee hearing. Testimony by board chair Andrea Skinner, defending HC management does not go over well. Tim Hortons, Bank of Nova Scotia and Telus have withdrawn their HC sponsorships, Hockey Quebec is withholding player registrations fees from Hockey Canada and the Ontario Hockey Federation is poised to do the same.

Guest: Anthony Housefather. Liberal MP, Montreal. Member parliamentary committee investigating Hockey Canada. Described Skinner's support of Hockey Canada management team as "Trump like."

Remember what the Hockey Canada scandal began with? A secret fund to pay settlements to victims of sexual abuse by players on national teams. Some $8.9 million had been paid already and in recent days the news became more concerning.

Guest: Allison Forsyth. Former Olympic skier (2002), Board member at AthletesCAN (Cdn national teams athletes). Partner/COO at ITP Sport. Safe sport consulting and programming agency. She was sexually assaulted by former national ski team coach Bertrand Charest, who was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexual assaults on numerous skiers, but had his sentence reduced because he was judge "low risk" to reoffend.

Health Canada approves the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster vaccine that targets the BA.4 snd BA.5 strains of the Omicron Covid variant. This is for those 12 years of age and older.

Guest: Dr. Isaac Bogoch. Infectious diseases specialist, Toronto General Hospital and associate professor of medicine, University of Toronto.

Danielle Smith wins UCP leadership race and is Alberta premier-designate.

Guest: Professor Duane Bratt. Political science, Mount Royal University, Calgary. Author Blue Storm: The Rise and Fall of Jason Kenney.

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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