The Alex Pierson Show
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New polling finds Ontarians think they're really good at driving - but are they?
Alex Pierson speaks with Dan Arnold, chief strategy officer at Pollara, about new polling that found Ontarians are VERY confident in their driving abilities. However, data from the OPP say driving in the province has only gotten more dangerous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PM Trudeau says online harms bill is about protecting kids - but will it harp down on freedom of expression?
Alex Pierson speaks with Dr. Brett Caraway, Associate Professor with the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto, about the long-promised online harms legislation, which the Liberals say is focused on primarily protecting children on the internet and not focused on restricting expression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
NDP and Liberals come to an agreement on pharmacare - but is it sustainable?
Alex Pierson speaks with Kristen Watt, Pharmacist and owner of Kristen’s Pharmacy in Southampton, Ontario, about her concerns with the pharmacare deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More are turning to TikTok for news content as papers shut down, newsrooms get cut - but is it a legitimate source for news?
Alex Pierson speaks with Dr. Nicole Blanchett, an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Journalism and a former producer with CityTV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A second asylum seeker has died after waiting hours for shelter space in Peel Region - what needs to change?
Alex Pierson speaks with Kizito Musabimana, executive director of the Rwandan Canadian Healing Centre, about the tragic passing of another African migrant seeking shelter in Peel Region. Ms. Delphina Ngigi was a refugee claimant and widow with four children, who are back home in Kenya. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ford government to give Ontario universities, colleges funding boost - but what do we get for our investment?
Alex Pierson speaks with Dr. David Haskell, associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and a social scientist, Senior Fellow with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
City councillor won't take family on transit following viral TikTok warning about safety on TTC
Alex Pierson speaks with Karen Stintz, former city councillor and Chair of the TTC, about safety concerns on the TTC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lynx Air to cease operations Monday, files for creditor protection
Alex Pierson speaks with Duncan Dee, former chief operating officer at Air Canada, about how Lynx Air says its final flights will take place on Sunday as the company files for creditor protection, less than two years after the low-cost airline took to the skies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check: ''Breach of trust by Governed officials,'' ArriveCan scandal continues
Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss the Department of Public Works has ''sufficient suspicion'' of wrongdoing in ArriveCan contracting, a manager testified yesterday, Cabinet is shelving a long-threatened bill to regulate truth and disinformation on the internet, Housing Minister Sean Fraser has launched national fundraising but yesterday would not comment on whether he is campaigning to lead the Liberal Party. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two random shootings in Jane & Driftwood leaving residents on edge
Alex Pierson speaks with Marcell Wilson, a former street gang member and co-founder of the non-profit One By One Movement, about two random shootings leaving residents in Toronto's Jane & Driftwood area on edge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is Canada's military ready to respond should it be called upon?
Alex Pierson speaks with Dr. Christian Leuprecht, Professor at Royal Military College of Canada, expert on security and defence and author of 'Security. Cooperation. Governance,' about Canada's lack of defence spending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Conservatives eye subpoena threat for firm in ArriveCan controversy
Alex Pierson speaks with Michael Barrett, MP for Leeds - Grenville - Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, and Conservative ethics critic, about the ongoing ArriveCAN scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Uncovering UNWRA: When did the agency lose its way?
Alex Pierson speaks with Hillel Neurer, an international human rights lawyer and Executive Director of United Nations Watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why isn't the government meeting with child care operators to help the $10-a-day program succeed?
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'Stop the emotion of hate': Canadian woman disinvited from speaking at event due to past Israeli military service
Alex Pierson speaks with Leah Goldstein, Canadian and 1st woman to win a grueling 3,000-mile bike race across the United States, about being disinvited as a speaker at the Ottawa International Women's day event due to serving with the Israel Defense Forces three decades ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check: ''Where is this phantom 10 dollar daycare?''
Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland by cabinet order has granted herself authority to increase federal borrowing this fiscal year to a record $517 billion, the Commons government operations committee has ordered a ten-year audit of all federal payments to a contractor implicated in ArriveCan irregularities. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Inflation slowed sharply to 2.9% in January thanks to gas prices
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Moshe Lander, Economist with Concordia University, about how the annual rate of inflation across the country eased half a percentage point in January thanks largely to lower gas prices, according to Statistics Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canadians are relocating to Alberta - what's behind the movement?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Nadine Faule, a realtor who specializes in helping clients relocate to Calgary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Do diversity workshops reduce prejudice? One researcher finds they make increase it
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Mike Ramsay, Trustee with the Waterloo Region District School Board, who’s worked on government DEI initiatives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alexei Navalny, fierce Putin critic and jailed opposition leader, has died.
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Marcus Kolga, Senior Fellow Macdonald-Laurier Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad, about Alexei Navalny, the fiercest critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Navalny died in prison Friday, according to international media reports citing Russian prison officials. Navalny's allies decried his December prison transfer to the Arctic Circle as yet another attempt to force him into silence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check: Who recieved a quarter of a billion dollars to do no work?
Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss Federal departments suspending all work with an Ontario contractor implicated in ArriveCan irregularities, the Government Leader in the Senate said yesterday, Canada Border Services Agency President can't account for the disappearance of federal documents used in sweetheart contracting under the $59.5 million ArriveCan program. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Loblaws goes after Toronto-based artist for his 'Roblaw$' t-shirts
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Christopher Lambe, Toronto-based artist behind parody shirts targeting large corporations, including Loblaws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mayor Chow, City Council approve Toronto police $20M budget increase
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw following City Council approving Toronto Police's $20-million boost for its 2024 operating budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'I lost it': Quebec father considering legal action against teacher who listed his son's artwork for sale
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Joel DeBellefeuille, Quebec father whose son’s artwork was listed for sale online by his teacher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
''My car was shaking, sputtering and within 15 mins, it died.'' Fuel diluted with water
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Laci Frazier, a Guelph woman, who filled her car up at a Guelph gas station only to find out the gas had been diluted with water. A class action lawsuit could be in the works. How prevalent is this? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check: Sweetheart agreements with Arrivecan
Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss Arrivecan. MP's will issue subpoenas compelling committee from reluctant Arrivecan witness, the commons yesterday by a 173 to 150 vote demanded cabinet revise current record immigration quotas within 100 days, Catherine Tait, $497,000-a year CEO of the CBC, ran up more than $119,000 in expenses at the same time the network complained of ''immense pressure'' on its finances. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why this doctor says Alberta's right to prohibit transgender procedures for children
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with endocrinologist Dr. Roy Eappen about Alberta moving to prohibit transgender procedures for children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is Taylor Swift behind the boost in NFL viewership?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Eric Smallwood, President of Apex Marketing Group, Inc., about the 'Taylor Swift Effect' on NFL ratings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'I'm in the dark': antisemitic graffiti found in TDSB school, parents not notified
Alex Pierson speaks with Carly Cohen, a Toronto parent whose daughter discovered antisemitic graffiti in her school's bathroom in December. Cohen's concerned with the rise in hate in TDSB schools and the school board's new policy that doesn't notify parents when hate happens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Government records show ArriveCAN execs got $340,000 in bonuses
Alex Pierson speaks with Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) about how federal health executives responsible for the ArriveCAN app received $340,000 in bonuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check: ''Scary secret report,'' Arrive can controversy
Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to speak about only a third of Canadians rate news media trustworthy and balanced, says in-house CRTC research, federal program to let hundreds of Gazans into Canada has no expanded to thousands, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told reporters yesterday, Cabinet should suspend the carbon tax on farmers, food processors and retailers, the Commons agriculture committee was told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'It's getting worse': Former Belleville mayor on drug crisis after rash of overdoses
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Mitch Panciuk, former mayor of Belleville, Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gina Carano sues Disney over ‘Mandalorian’ firing, with Elon Musk’s help
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with lawyer Lorne Honickman about actor and former MMA fighter Gina Carano suing the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm over her 2021 firing from The Mandalorian with support from Elon Musk and the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Conservative Leader Poilievre wants X-rays to curb auto theft
Alex Pierson speaks with Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check: Mediocre & an expensive Government
Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss a federal homeless relief program that paid millions to consultants, documents show, the Department of Foreign Affairs reprimanded 56 employees for wrongdoing last year, according to new records, Cabinet is rejecting an all-party demand for more public accounting of Governor General Mary Simon's expenses, and China inquiry documents confirm by ex-Conservative MP Kenny Chiu (Steveston-Richmond East, B.C) that he was likely targeted by Communist Party agents in the 2021 campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'It's a sellers market': Greater Toronto housing market tightens as home sales surge 37% in January
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Frank Leo, Broker, Frank Leo and Associates, about how Greater Toronto home sales soared 37 per cent last month compared with the same month a year ago as lower borrowing costs associated with fixed-rate mortgages lured some buyers back to the market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
StatCan report finds more than 15% of immigrants have left Canada within 20 years - but why?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Cassandra Fultz, Founder and Senior Consultant at Doherty-Fultz Immigration, about more than 15 per cent of immigrants who came to Canada from 1982 to 2017 ended up leaving the country within 20 years of their admission, according to a new study from Statistics Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018 World Junior investigation: Why charges of sexual assault can no longer be swept under the rug
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Jennifer Walinga, Rower, Olympian, Researcher on Culture and Leadership Through Sport and Professor at Royal Roads University, about the culture change needed at Hockey Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Hard to get out': Parts of Cape Breton under state of emergency, 100+ cm of snow possible
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Monika Dutt, a family physician and Cape Breton resident, about having to hunker down as a powerful winter storm covers Nova Scotia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Toronto police to make “very difficult choices” following city budget reveal
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw following the unveiling of Mayor Chow's version of the 2024 city budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jurors in coroner’s inquest into death of Sammy Yatim issue 63 recommendations
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Hank Idsinga, 640 Toronto Crime Specialist and Former Toronto Police Inspector, about how jurors in a coroner’s inquest into the death of a teen shot by a Toronto police officer more than a decade ago issued dozens of recommendations in an effort to prevent similar deaths in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'I'll be fighting all the way': Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow unveils budget and city tax increase
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Stephen Holyday, City Councillor for Ward 2 - Etobicoke Centre, about Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow unveiling her version of the city’s 2024 budget, shaving one per cent off the proposed tax increase and appearing to end speculation she could forge ahead with blaming further tax increases on the federal government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What you need to know about 'riskier mortgages' being offered by the major banks
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with mortgage broker Ron Butler about concerns with fixed-payment variable mortgages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Toronto District School Board votes to cancel classes on day of solar eclipse
Guest host Anthony speaks with Dr. Elaina Hyde, Physics and Astronomy Professor at York University and director of the Allan Eye Carswell Observatory, about the TDSB approving a staff recommendation of changing the date of an upcoming PA day to coincide with a rare solar eclipse set to rise above parts of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Head of CBC tells committee executives doesn't get “so-called bonuses” but isn’t ruling out “incentive pay
Guest hosts Anthony Furey and Ana Bailao speak with Jeffrey Dvorkin, Author, "Trusting the News in a Digital Age" former head of the journalism program at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and former CBC Radio executive, about the head of CBC not ruling out executive bonuses - despite announcing 800 job cuts to address financial strains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feds invest $121M to combat auto theft and gun violence in Ontario - will money solve the issue?
Guest hosts Anthony Furey and Ana Bailao speak with Patrick Brown, Mayor of Brampton, about how cracking down on auto theft starts performing more screenings on shopping containers at Canadian ports of entry, where stolen cars are often transported from to be sold in other countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Korski - Blacklock's Reporter Check-in - Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
The Department of Foreign Affairs says it suspected Chinese agents used WeChat to meddle in the 2021 federal campaign but didn’t act since the media platform wouldn’t take questions. WeChat is owned by a Shenzhen conglomerate. Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter joins guest host Anthony Furey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canada "not ready" to expand MAiD for mental health: minister
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Alistair MacGregor, B.C. NDP MP and one of the vice-chairs of the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, about the expected expansion of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to people whose sole condition is mental illness has been put on hold, following a joint parliamentary committee report found fundamental issues have not been resolved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Minister to make announcement amidst Pickering Nuclear Power Station future questions
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy, about the province's plans for refurbishing the Pickering nuclear plant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Six ServiceOntario outlets to move into Staples on Feb. 1, three more later this year
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Todd McCarthy, Ontario’s Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery, about the province announcing that six ServiceOntario locations will be moving into Staples Canada retail stores starting Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices