The Alex Pierson Show
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Canadian music icon Joni Mitchell to make Grammy Awards performance debut
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Eric Alper, music publicist and commentator, about Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell making her Grammy Awards performance debut February 4th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'We're definitely not ready for it': Psychiatrist calling for a pause, revisit of MAID policy
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Sonu Gaind, head of the psychiatry department at Sunnybrook Hospital, about the need for revisiting the expansion of medical assistance in dying to include mental illness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'We're asking for answers': GTA teacher's aide lost her job following sexual assault claims - judge found the allegations to be 'untrue'
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Ashley Jansen, a former teacher’s aide in the GTA, who was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old student - about having her life thrown upside down - even though the allegations weren't true. Alan Richter, lawyer representing Mrs. Jansen, also joins the conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Has the legal cannabis market reached its peak?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Bradley Poulos, Expert in cannabis business, lecturer in entrepreneurship at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University and author of the Small Business Operators Manual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What's driving the increase in cancer cases for those under 50?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Shady Ashamalla, surgical oncologist and colorectal surgeon at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, about an alarming trend in younger people getting diagnosed with cancer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
India now included in Canada's probe into election interference
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Phil Gurski, President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, former CSIS Analyst, about Canada including India in it's probe into election interference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ontario preparing ‘back to basics’ curriculum for kindergarten - including coding
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Charlotte Nurse, Director of Programs at the not-for-profit, Canada Learning Code, about the province extending their “back to basics” curriculum push to kindergarten. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Korski - Blacklock's Reporter Check-in - Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Federal auditors are summoned today to a hearing of the Commons public accounts committee regarding the costly ArriveCan program. MPs by a 173 to 149 vote ordered a special audit of ArriveCan after learning sweetheart contracts paid millions to sole-sourced suppliers. Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter joins guest host Anthony Furey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Deadline for expanding medical assistance in dying to include mental illness approaching - but who's behind MAiD?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Shawn Whatley, practicing physician and past President of the Ontario Medical Association and author of “When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing", about whether Canada is ready to expand medical assistance in dying (MAiD), despite a looming deadline. The federal government is weighing whether to expand MAiD to people whose sole reason for seeking the procedure is a mental disorder. But who makes up the group lobbying for the expansion? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
London police will address media Feb. 5th regarding five 2018 World Juniors connected to alleged sexual assault - why the wait?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Hank Idsinga, 640 Toronto Crime Specialist and Former Toronto Police Inspector, about the five members of Canada’s 2018 World Juniors hockey team that have been told to surrender to police and are set to face charges in relation to an alleged group sexual assault in London, Ont. Police say they'll address the media about the investigation on February 5th - why does the public have to wait that long for answers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is a 'forever mortgage' and how can you avoid getting stuck with one?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Ron Butler, Mortgage Broker with Butler Mortgage, about Canada's financial regulator warning that fixed-payment variable mortgages could leave homeowners with a 'forever mortgage'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Numerous freaky airline headlines lately, including missing bolts from wings, nose wheels falling off - what's going on?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Duncan Dee, former Chief Operating Officer for Air Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Use of Emergencies Act during Freedom Convoy protest violated Charter rights - what happens next?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Christine van Geyn, Litigation Director at The Canadian Constitution Foundation. The case was brought forward by the Canadian Constitution Foundation along with other groups and individuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How safe are our schools? North York parents raise concerns
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Weidong Pei, TDSB Trustee for Ward 12, Willowdale, about safety concerns he's hearing from parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dry January is drawing to a close but wait, just as you return to drinking you learn the price of beer is set to rise!
The problem is there may be a lot of extra tax coming in the spring. A federal beer tax hike kicks in April 1. This is a Canadian catastrophe. CJ Hélie, President of Beer Canada joins guest host Anthony Furey to explain what would this mean to those that are craving that first beer after a dry month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canada Post selling off parts of its business - is it enough to save it?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, who’s been researching Canada Post’s decline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is it time the province created regulatory framework for short-term rentals?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Shelby Ch'ng, Thunder Bay city councillor, about the need for more regulatory framework around short-term rentals. Councillor Ch'ng has been lobbying the province to do so to help municipalities get a better handle on short-term rentals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Korski - Blacklock's Reporter Check-in - Tuesday, January 23th, 2024
Canadians are resigned to unhappy experiences with their internet service provider, says in-house CRTC research. Relatively few switched companies since they considered all services to be equally mediocre, wrote researchers. Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter joins guest host Anthony Furey to explain why internet users are hopeless and more stories from Canada's current affairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Playing chicken with the taxpayer's money': Torontonians speak out against proposed city budget
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dana McKiel of The Downtown Concerned Citizens Organization, about city budget consultations and why residents don't want to see cuts to the police budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Controversial drug site opens its doors to concerned neighbours - is this just to revamp their image?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Derek Finkle, journalist who lives across the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, a supervised consumption site that's been plagued with issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TTC board can stop the renaming of Dundas stations - but will they?
Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Jennifer Dundas, former reporter on a mission to set the record straight regarding her distant relative, Henry Dundas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Netanyahu rejects US, Canada push for Palestinian state after Gaza conflict
Alex Pierson speaks with Vivian Bercovici, Former Ambassador of Canada to Israel, about why a two-state solution is a non-starter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Toronto man who dedicated his life to helping homeless killed in rooming house fire
Alex Pierson speaks with Mark Richardson, pro-bono technical lead for data-visualization and analytics on for HousingNowTO.com, a civic tech project where volunteers work to develop robust tools to improve citizen engagement around civic challenges like affordable-housing development and rapid housing solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Report from U.S. think tank finds Canada a 'safe haven' for transnational crime including money laundering
Alex Pierson speaks with Dr. Christian Leuprecht, Professor at Royal Military College of Canada, expert on security & defence and author of 'Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tim Horton's location in Oshawa closes for in-person dining due to safety concerns - what's going on?
Alex Pierson speaks with John Gray, Oshawa City Councillor for Ward 5, about a Tim Horton's in his ward that has closed to in-person dining due to ongoing safety concerns with drug use and violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check: A federal consultant who boasted to clients that he had a secret contact in Chrystia Freeland’s office yesterday testified he made it all up
Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss, 1) The Commons ethics committee yesterday by a 7 to 3 vote rejected Opposition requests for internal emails regarding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest 84 k sun holiday 2)A federal consultant who boasted to clients that he had a secret contact in Chrystia Freeland’s office yesterday testified he made it all up. 3) The husband of Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner (Hamilton Mountain, Ont.) must repay pandemic relief cheques improperly claimed under the CERB program. \ 4) A Canadian Armed Forces program to recruit immigrants has seen only 77 applicants successfully enlist to date, says a briefing note for Defence Minister Bill Blair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
CEBA repayment deadline is here: Will this Toronto business bounce back?
Alex Pierson speaks with Krishna Gaudel, owner of The Namaste Brewery and Masala Guys, about having to repay his CEBA loan (an interest-free loan given out by the federal government during the pandemic) and how it'll impact his business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why naturopaths in B.C. are lobbying the government for the right to prescribe 'safer supply'
Alex Pierson speaks with Adam Zivo, columnist with National Post, about naturopaths in British Columbia lobbying the government for the right to prescribe 'safer supply' drugs along with traditional addiction medications such as methadone and Suboxone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'We're going to bring fun back': How Toronto's trying to make nightlife cool again
Alex Pierson speaks with Paul Ainslie, Toronto Councillor for Scarborough Guildwood and the city’s official ‘night economy champion’, about the city hosting a first-of-its-kind townhall meeting for residents and businesses to weigh in on new rules surrounding late-night establishments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ford government failed to meet its own housing targets in 2023 - What's the holdup?
Alex Pierson speaks with Ron Butler, Mortgage Broker with Butler Mortgage, about how the Ontario government failed to meet its own housing target in 2023, putting the province further behind in its goal of building 1.5 million homes by 2031. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check; Human rights atrocities in the green supply chain
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the Prime Minister's vacation and why it wasn't ethical, the controversy about the ArriveCan app and their contracts, and why all the cries for Yemen? And what's going on with climate change? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grocery giant Loblaws pushing Ford government to change cannabis retail rules
Alex Pierson speaks with Brad Poulos, Expert in cannabis business, lecturer in entrepreneurship at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University and author of 'The Small Business Operators Manual'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'This can't be a shakedown': Liberal MP speaks out against Mayor Chow blaming feds for budget shortfalls
Alex Pierson speaks with Yvan Baker, Liberal MP for Etobicoke Centre, about his concerns with Toronto mayor Olivia Chow blaming the federal government for its budget shortfalls. Mayor Chow and Toronto's budget chief warned that if the Trudeau government doesn’t cough up an extra $250 million to help the city with housing, homelessness and refugees by Jan. 26, that residents will face an additional 6% tax hike on their property taxes, totaling 16.5 per cent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'We're going very strong': Why the DVD market is here to stay
Alex Pierson speaks with Brendan Whelton, film producer and manager at Bay Street Video at Bay and Bloor in Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wake Up, You Could Lose Your Teen to Suicide: New book explores hardship, the path forward for parents dealing with teens with mental health struggles
Alex Pierson speaks with Chris Coulter, senior advisor with the ‘How Are You Feeling’ program and author of his recently published book, ‘Wake Up, You Could Lose Your Teen to Suicide’. Chris lost his 14-year-old daughter Maddie to suicide in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One on one with Toronto's Police Chief: demonstrations on Avenue Road bridge are no more
Alex Pierson speaks with Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw about the growing tensions in the city over a pro-Palestinian demonstration held several times on the Avenue Road bridge over Highway 401. The police force said Thursday that demonstrations would no longer be allowed on the bridge and people would be “arrested if necessary.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check; Biggest telecom takeover
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about Cabinet's ''safe supply'' drug policy has had minimal impacts despite costing more than $820 million, says a health development report, a majority of Canadians, 81 percent nationwide, had some type of prescription drug insurance typically through work, new Statistics Canada shows, and groceries are so expensive Canada's poverty rate is expected to rise this spring. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
B.C. parents won't be notified if their kids prescribed 'safe' supply
Alex Pierson speaks with National Post columnist Adam Zivo about his latest research into safe supply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Officers are frustrated': Police needed more support following coffee delivery to protesters
Alex Pierson speaks with Jon Reid, President of the Toronto Police Association, about the blowback officers faced for delivering coffee to pro-Palestinian protesters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Here we go again': United finds loose bolts on Boeing 737 Max 9s after Alaska Airlines incident
Alex Pierson speaks with Bob Clifford, lawyer and partner at Clifford law offices - Mr. Clifford represents the families killed on Boeing Max flights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check; Giving the benefit of the doubt into foreign interference
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East) will be a target of Communist Chinese agents ''for her entire life,'' the CRTC yesterday dismissed a request from MP's that it ban state-run Chinese propaganda from its approved distribution list of cable and satellite programming in Canada, the Bank of Canada has quietly taken steps to control a ''digital Canadian dollar'' despite public claims it has no interest of cable and satellite programming in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'We're not going to relent': Lawyer on Canadian universities facing class action lawsuits for failing to protect Jewish students
Alex Pierson speaks with Sandra Zisckind, managing partner at Diamond and Diamond, about McMaster University and its student union facing a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit over alleged antisemitism on campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check; ''Ask ourselves what we did to fight climate change''
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about Finance Minister Chystia Freeland billed thousands for limousines and taxis in Toronto despite claims she relied on her climate-friendly bicycle and public transit, Canada continues to pay million in foreign aid to China records show, Canadians don't need cabinet's help in safely using the internet, says in-house Privy Council research. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who's signing up to be a mall cop given the increase in theft & armed robberies?
Alex Pierson speaks with Nayomie Spence-Lees, National Client Services Manager for Blackbird Security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Guelph reporter allegedly detained, camera seized while on scene of fatal collision
Alex Pierson speaks with Richard Vivian, Senior Reporter and Assistant Editor at Guelph Today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Would you open up your home to a total stranger?
Alex Pierson speaks with Dean DiPietro, London, Ontario man who opened up his family's home to a man experiencing homelessness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check; 2023 year end wrap up!
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about a Toronto developer Toni Varone, a longtime Liberal Donor and organizer with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 2013 leadership campaign, yesterday was named a senator, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault used misleading data and inaccurate generalizations in defending cabinet's electric car mandate. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This 80-year-old is still working and doesn't know when he'll be able to retire - and he's not alone
Alex Pierson speaks with Bill VanGorder, chief education and advocacy officer at the Canadian Association of Retired Persons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why is the Canadian government handing over money to China for Chinese-made EVs?
Alex Pierson speaks with Flavio Volpe, president of the Auto Parts Manufacturers’ Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Is the the Christmas fruit cake still a thing? This baker says traditional dessert is thriving
Alex Pierson speaks with John Stam, co-owner of Nick the Dutch baker in Notre-Dame, New Brunswick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices