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Lowell Green
Lowell Green (7 July 1936 – 14 February 2026) was a Canadian radio personality, journalist and author, best known as the host of The Lowell Green Show, a conservative morning talk show that aired on the Ottawa, Ontario, radio station CFRA. He wrote newspaper articles and autobiographical, historical and fictional books.
Green was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, on 7 July 1936, to Canadian parents, and immigrated to Canada. He graduated from Macdonald Agricultural College of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in 1956.
Green started his radio broadcasting career in Brantford, Ontario, and subsequently moved to radio stations in Sudbury, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. In 1960, he was hired by G. Campbell McDonald at CFRA as a news and farm reporter. In 1966, he began hosting Greenline, and eventually became the longest-running open-line talk show host in North America. He retired briefly from radio in the 1980s, but returned in 1990.
In 1993, he returned to CFRA and hosted The Lowell Green Show until his official retirement on 4 January 2016. He continued contributing to the station's weekly "midday program News and Views with Rob Snow" until a Bell Media restructuring in mid-November 2019. On occasion, he can be heard calling into The Rob Snow Show, now airing on CIWW.
Green was controversial at times. Several complaints have been made against him to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC). In a 1994 complaint to the CBSC, listeners alleged that Green had been rude and abusive to a caller who identified herself as a Christian. Although the CBSC determined that Green's conduct had contravened its guidelines on discrimination, it also decided that the station had responded appropriately, and the group did not prescribe any further action. In 2006 and 2008, the council censured Green for his treatment of a Muslim man who challenged Green on the way the radio show host portrays Islam. In June 2017, there was controversy as to whether Indigo Books and Music had pulled Green's latest book, Amazing But True!, from its bookshelves in stores in Canada.
On 31 December 2019, in an emotional farewell, Green ended his radio career on CFRA with the following final words:
I believe, that we all have a responsibility, more than that, we have a duty, to do whatever we can, in whatever fashion we can, to make a better world for our children.
And CFRA Nation, you have done your duty, and I hope and pray that you'll continue to do so. Thank you all, goodbye.
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Lowell Green
Lowell Green (7 July 1936 – 14 February 2026) was a Canadian radio personality, journalist and author, best known as the host of The Lowell Green Show, a conservative morning talk show that aired on the Ottawa, Ontario, radio station CFRA. He wrote newspaper articles and autobiographical, historical and fictional books.
Green was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, on 7 July 1936, to Canadian parents, and immigrated to Canada. He graduated from Macdonald Agricultural College of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in 1956.
Green started his radio broadcasting career in Brantford, Ontario, and subsequently moved to radio stations in Sudbury, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. In 1960, he was hired by G. Campbell McDonald at CFRA as a news and farm reporter. In 1966, he began hosting Greenline, and eventually became the longest-running open-line talk show host in North America. He retired briefly from radio in the 1980s, but returned in 1990.
In 1993, he returned to CFRA and hosted The Lowell Green Show until his official retirement on 4 January 2016. He continued contributing to the station's weekly "midday program News and Views with Rob Snow" until a Bell Media restructuring in mid-November 2019. On occasion, he can be heard calling into The Rob Snow Show, now airing on CIWW.
Green was controversial at times. Several complaints have been made against him to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC). In a 1994 complaint to the CBSC, listeners alleged that Green had been rude and abusive to a caller who identified herself as a Christian. Although the CBSC determined that Green's conduct had contravened its guidelines on discrimination, it also decided that the station had responded appropriately, and the group did not prescribe any further action. In 2006 and 2008, the council censured Green for his treatment of a Muslim man who challenged Green on the way the radio show host portrays Islam. In June 2017, there was controversy as to whether Indigo Books and Music had pulled Green's latest book, Amazing But True!, from its bookshelves in stores in Canada.
On 31 December 2019, in an emotional farewell, Green ended his radio career on CFRA with the following final words:
I believe, that we all have a responsibility, more than that, we have a duty, to do whatever we can, in whatever fashion we can, to make a better world for our children.
And CFRA Nation, you have done your duty, and I hope and pray that you'll continue to do so. Thank you all, goodbye.
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