Lowell Green
TheLowell Green Show: weekdays 10:00am - Noon
It's a 2 hour cruise to the island of sanity
each weekday morning as Lowell Green navigates listeners through
to the real issues that are affecting Ottawa. Lowell Green
takes a tough stand against restrictive laws on issues
like the smoking ban in our bars, restaurants, and in our Legion
Halls, bans on pesticide use in Ottawa, city halls, and dogs
on leashes. Government slip-ups and boondoggles highlight some of the other
issues people want to know more about. Lowell Green, the man
who gets things done in Canada's Capital.
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About Lowell Green
Lowell started his career at CKPC Brantford after graduating from MacDonald College of McGill University in 1956.
After a year in Brantford he covered the uranium boom in Elliot Lake for CKSO-TV Sudbury - the first privately owned TV station in Canada.
He then came to Montreal as a radio editor for United Press International. He won international awards for his covereage of the Springhill Mine Disaster. Stories appeared in the newspapers around the world. His story is still featured today in the Springhill Mine Museum.
Hired as the first TV newscaster for CFCF-TV, Montreal, but came to Ottawa as news and Farm Editor for CFRA in 1960 when CFCF was delayed in opening.
He launched the Greenline, Canada's most successful opt-in line show in 1966. He also conducted Canada's only radio help line-the Green Action Line which assisted countless people with problems ranging from faulty washing machines to raising thousands for burned out families and a life saving operation for a little girl.
During his tenure on the Greenline, Lowell co-founded Big Brothers of Ottawa and the Help Santa Toy Parade, the only such parade in Canada where people bring toys and money to Santa for distribution to less fortunate children. Lowell also was one of four founders of what is now Algonquin Travel - Canada's largest privately owned travel agency and founding the Little Farm Pet Shop, which when he and his wife sold was the largest pet shop in Ottawa. It was during this time that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau awarded Lowell a special trophy to acknowledge his efforts as presenting the radio and television editorials which did the most to bring about better understanding between English and French speaking Canadians
When Lowell retired from the Greenline in July 1978 he was conducting the longest running open line show with one host in Canada. One of the achievements he is very proud of is his successful campaign to preserve Canada's Centennial Flame, today a centerpiece of Parliament Hill. Plans were to dismantle the flame at the conclusion of our Centennial year-1967. Lowell launched a write in campaign with more than 40,00 signatures, even persuaded the local gas company to donate the gas which fuels the flame and fInally the Federal Government caved in and agreed to preserve the flame.
A story he uncovered while covering the launch of Canada's first
satellite-Alouette 1 created a storm in the U.S. Senate and earned him
a spot on Canada's most popular TV show-Front Page Challenge. Today
Lowell's historic live broadcast of the rocket launch is preserved in
Canada's National Archives
After a short time broadcasting for CFRB in Toronto and opening new businesses, Lowell returned to Ottawa to launch the Lowell Green show in 1994. Today he has the top rated talk show in all of Canada and his time slot between 10am and noon has more listeners of all ages during that time slot than any other of the some 27 radio stations in Ottaw-Gatineau.
He is today the most honored radio broadcaster in the Country, having won more than a dozen awards from various veterans groups including the coveted Helen Keller Award. He has also won the Community Builder Award which hangs on the walls of Ottawa City Hall, the Queen's Golden Jubilee Award, a special Chief of the Defense Staff Medal from Rick Hillier and has had a day named after him by the Mayor of Ottawa.
He has also been presented with the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association. Most recently Lowell traveled to Vancouver to accept presentation of the Golden Ribbon Award from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters for his community work outside broadcasting. His appeals to his listeners raised more than $80,000 to help save the John McRae Medals from being sold outside Canada, his efforts on behalf ofthe veterans of Canada's wartime merchant navy is credited with obtaining for them and their spouses long overdue pensions. More than 20,000 people signed a giant petition Lowell erected on Parliament Hill. He raised $280 thousand dollars to send Canadian veterans of the Battle or Ortona back to a Christmas Eve dinner in Ortona where they sat down with veterans of the German army against which they fought. He appealed one morning for $30,000 to send a four year old boy for a life saving operation to a hospital in Cleveland and at the end of three hours had raised more than $125,000. The boy, Aiden Russell, was a featured guest at Lowell Green's roast attended by more than 850 fans and which incidentally raised more than $50,000 used to buy beef from local farmers which was then ground into hamburger and donated to local food banks.
Somehow Lowell has found time to write four books, all of which are Canadian Best Sellers.
During one two day event at a local Chapters Store, Lowell signed 750 books which may very well be a Canadian record. He is presently working on his fifth book and insists that we also mention the fact that his is the very proud grandfather to three of the greatest children in the world!
Great books by Lowell Green
It’s Hard to Say Goodbye: It’s almost over…God, I’ve loved it!
It’s Hard to Say Goodbye takes us on a final rollicking cruise through Lowell’s remarkable 50 plus years in Canadian broadcasting. The triumphs and tragedies, the loves and adventures, the fools and wise men he’s encountered and reported on along the way. Anyone who has ever spent any time in Ottawa or the Valley will recognize many of the characters here! This is Lowell’s poignant, funny, and, above all, fond farewell to broadcasting.
“Tough, honest, intelligent, wise and hypocrisy’s most feared enemy, Lowell Green-Canada’s king of radio talk-show hosts-should be declared a national heritage icon. This book is a must-read!”
-Earl McRae, Ottawa Sun columnist
“Hilarious! If you grew up in Ottawa or the Valley, you’ve got to read this book. Even if you didn’t grow up around here, you’ll find this one of the best reads of the year.”
-J. J. Clarke, CJOH-TV personality
To order your personalized copy, please click on the book cover.
How the granola-crunching, tree-hugging thug huggers are wrecking our country! Now in its 3rd printing!
If this book doesn’t get your blood boiling you may need a transfusion!
Tough-minded, humorous, well-researched and proudly politically incorrect, this book will drive Canada’s leftists absolutely crazy!
In the unique style that has endeared him to one of Canada’s largest and most loyal radio audiences, best-selling author Lowell Green launches an all-out exposé on those Canadians he says are wrecking our country. He tackles issues ranging from our dangerous refugee, immigration and multicultural policies to the soft-on-crime-gang with their needle and crack-pipe handouts, the Kyoto Accord, Canada’s homeless “industry,” and much more.
Now available in trade paper edition, Lowell Green's first book, The
Porkchop and Other Stories: A Memoir is still available for sale.
Mary Cook says Lowell's new book The Porkchop and Other Stories: A Memoir is her kind of book - "you will want to read it, then read it again!" It will be in bookstores shortly. If you would like an autographed, personalized edition, or dedicated to someone as a gift edition click here.
