Counterpoint Monday, April 15th, 2019
The Alex Pierson Show · 640 Toronto / Curiouscast
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Show Notes
On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by:
ANDY STINTON
SMALL BUSINESS MAN
MICHAEL DIAMOND
WITH UPSTREAM STRATEGY GROUP.
Topics include:
Alberta, which heads to the polls tomorrow, could be the final nail in the Trudeau carbon tax, but for now it is in a courtroom as Ontario, and four other provinces fight to stop a tax that will drive the price up on everything.
Ontario is pausing all capital funding for a proposed high-speed rail corridor from Toronto to Windsor. The previous Liberal government had planned to connect Toronto to London, Ont., by 2025 and extend the line to Windsor, Ont., by 2031.
We finger wag our children over almost everything. We spend decades terrifying them about the affects of smoking- and now record numbers of kids are vaping and no one seems to care, other than the tobacco companies who can’t wait to get them addicted.
A motion going to city council this week could make it a requirement for business owners to clean up cigarette butts outside their establishment. So they want businesses to have to put a receptacle outside the business.
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