The Alex Pierson Show
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Mayoral candidate reacts to debate cancelled due to death threats
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Mark Saunders, mayoral candidate and former Toronto Police Chief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How has policing changed in covering big events like Pride?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jon Reid, President of the Toronto Police Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Federal Court of Appeal overturns order to help return men in Syrian camps
Host Alex Pierson speaks with immigration lawyer Guidy Mamann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will We Get A Deal? Stellantis To Receive More Subsidies For Canadian EV Battery Plant
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Aaron Wudrick, Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check-In: An Exchange of Unreported Campaign Contributions
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the Commons voting 174-150 to fire David Johnsonas cabniet's ''special rapporteur'' on Chinese subterfuge, the Freedom Convoy being a ''far-right extremist movement'' that ''terroized'' Ottawa, a Liberal appointed senator said yesterday, and the Federal Court rejected a claim that Crown prosecutors have a right to run for public office. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
AI; Out with the old & in with the new. Strange times.
AI is quickly taking over and we can be extinct soon. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Mark Daley, Professor of Computer Science at Western University, about the danger of AI. Artificial Intelligence is threatening our existence when it comes to AI Chatbots, like ChatGPT. This is turning into a Global priority. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
LEARNING THE CANDIDATES: Ana Bailao & Mark Saunders
Host Alex Pierson sits down with former police chief Mark Saunders and former city councillor and deputy mayor ahead of the June 26 byelection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
NDP’s Jenny Kwan says CSIS revealed China is targeting her
Alex Pierson speaks with Jenny Kwan, MP for Vancouver East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Each day our patio isn't open, we're losing': Bar owner on CafeTO delays
Alex Pierson speaks with Tom who owns and operates a bar in downtown Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check-In: Breach In The Trudeau Foundation
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about David Johnston and the involvement in the Trudeau Foundation, Cabinet is set to reintroduce an internet censorship bill by the end of the year, the department of Public Works will uphold human rights in federal contracting, and the Cabinet seeks to break a month-long filibuster that has tied up Finance minister Chrystia Freeland's omnibus budget bill in the Commons finance committee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Clock Ticking To Get Stellantis Deal Signed
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Greg Layson, Digital and Mobile Editor of Automotive News Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Is a 'City-Cession'? And How Will Low Spending Impact Canada's Biggest City?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with John Kiru, executive director of the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Johnston; An apology to Canada's spies
An apology is in order for David Johnston. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Phil Gurski, President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Former CSIS Analyst, about David Johnston blaming the media and CSIS saying it was ''inaccurate'' and now is required to apologies. CSIS are great patriotic Canadians and they want to do their best to help the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mayoral Candidate Says He'll Keep Our Parks Encampment-Free
Alex Pierson speaks with mayoral candidate Anthony Furey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Toronto Check-In: Olivia Chow Leading the Polls, Mayoral Debates & Policy Flip-Flops
Alex Pierson speaks with Ben Spurr, City Hall Reporter for the Toronto Star. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Chinese Government; Does It Get More Aggressive?
What's the price of doing nothing when it comes Chinese Interference? Host Alex Pierson speaks with Mehmet Tohti, prominent Uyghur Canadian Activist - Executive Director of the Canada-based Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, about the latest development in Chinese Interference earlier this week and whether or not the government is doing enough for communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'They're decreasing opportunity': Parents frustrated with new specialty school lottery system
Alex Pierson speaks with Bethany Bergman, mother with a daughter in one of the TDSB specialty arts schools Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check-In: No One Is Buying What The Rapporteur Is Selling
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the advisor who helped Johnson put his report together and luckily for Trudeau, the ethics officer has no commissioner in place to deal with the complaints filed, MP Han Dong is ''continuing to maintain close relationships'' with China's Consulate in Toronto. We know Dong has close relations with the Toronto consulate in question-can he maybe go back to caucus? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Violent Crime Is Up In Canada and There's A Shortage of Judges - What Needs to Happen?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jon Reid, President of the Toronto Police Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former CSIS Manager 'Surprised' By No Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Dan Stanton, Former manager of operations at CSIS, now the Director of the National Security Program at the University of Ottawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Can TO's Next Mayor Deliver Affordable Housing With a Giant Budget Deficit?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Eric Lombardi, Founder of More Neighbours Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Advocates Demand Justice; Barrie City Council Imposes Ban on Donations
Barrie city staff are empowered to explore solutions for homelessness. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Alex Nuttall, Mayor of Barrie, about Barrie's crackdown on controversial policies that criminalize compassion. Staff were asked to think of new ways that will ban handing out money to panhandlers on streets, intersections...ect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learning The Candidates:Anthony Perruzza and Celina Caesar Chavannes
Host, Alex Pierson speaks with two Mayoral Candidates; Anthony Perruzza and Celina Caesar Chavannes, about how to make Toronto a safer city, the city's finances, and what they'll do about gridlock and what takes priority. Transit? Roads? How will you pay for your solutions? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Conservative Leader Calls Out PM Trudeau's 'Ski Buddy' David Johnston On No Foreign Interference Inquiry
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canada doesn’t need foreign interference inquiry, but public hearings warranted: Johnston
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a former senior government official who worked on China issues and now Senior Fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who's Running Tomken Road Middle School? Students or Staff?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Michael Teper, community education critic, involved in analyzing recent school-trustee misconduct, appeared frequently as a delegate at school board meetings in Toronto, Waterloo and Ottawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Advocates Raise Their Voices: Ban on Donations to Homeless Sparks Outrage
The City of Barrie is taking a stand against homelessness. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Keenan Aylwin, former Barrie City Councillor and current service worker, about City Council's controversial crackdown on homelessness, which consists of banning tents, tarps and a ton of compassion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check-In: Election Fraud, Allegations, Public Inquiry; Oh My!
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about David Johnston ''rapporteur'' inquiry and what he thinks about election fraud and allegations in the 2021 votes, Liberal-appointed Senator, Yuen Pao Woo published more than a week after the expulsion of a Chinese spy complained of “extreme anti-China sentiment” in Canada, Attorney David Lametti says he will review changes in federal law to allow postal inspectors to open suspicious letters. The Canada Post Corporation Act states inspectors may only open larger packages suspected of carrying contraband. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Just show up and vote': Why tenants need to have their say in the TO election
Alex Pierson speaks with Chiara Padovani, a York South—Weston tenant union leader who ran for Toronto city council last fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Organized Crime Suspected in Woman's Fatal Encounter
Organized crime violates its own rules by targeting women. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Stephen Metelsky, criminal psychology professor at Mohawk College, lectures about organized crime at Queen's University and author of 'Undercover: stories from the underworld of law enforcement, about the suspected organized crime-linked shooting that makes this the first targeting of a woman in Montreal's history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check-In: Taxpayers & Fear Mongering
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the connections between Winnipeg and China, China Central Television removal of the CRTC's approved list of programs, Department of Health and how it'll affect private employers who are currently providing dental coverage for most Canadians nationwide, and Chystia Freeland who said yesterday that federal debt charges are ''absolutely handleable'' but would not discuss any further. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We get promises from the mayoral candidates - but can we afford them?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jay Goldberg, Ontario Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, about the cost of those lovely campaign promises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's the little things that help keep riders safe on the TTC
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Anne Marie Aikins, who was the chief spokesperson and head of media and public relations at Metrolinx, the regional transit agency, for 11 years until earlier this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who has to pay up to keep Stellantis from pulling the plug on Windsor battery plant?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Flavio Volpe, President of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Smartphones: A Childhood Curse Leading to Mental Health Problems in Adulthood
Parents should be very concerned about their children when it comes to smartphones. Host, Alex Pierson speaks with Todd Cunningham, clinical and school psychologist and Program Chair of the School and Clinical Child Psychology Program at the Ontario Institute for studies in education at the University of Toronto, about a study revealing Smartphone exposure impacting mental health in adulthood; especially in girls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learning The Candidates: Mitzie Hunter & Brad Bradford
Host, Alex Pierson speaks with two Mayoral Candidates; Mitzie Hunter & Bradford about what their plans are in regards to getting around Toronto, how to get projects done in a timely manner, fixing Toronto's finances and how they'll make Toronto a safer city to live in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Unhinged On Safe Supply
The safe supply side has said they will stay on course. Host, Alex Pierson speaks with Jeremy Eckert Devine, Psychiatry Resident at the McMaster University, about the phasing out of safe injection sites. Safe supply is being exploited and is now in the black market. Why aren't we looking in that direction? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Former MP who lost seat due to Chinese interference calls for public inquiry
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Kenny Chui, Former Conservative MP for Steveston-Richmond East, B.C., about how his 2021 election loss was due to Communist Chinese agents. The Ex-MP testified the very nature of election interference made it difficult to document: “In your particular riding the NDP vote actually went up.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check-In: All Ethics Probes Now Stalled
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the Office of the Ethics Commissioner confirming it is unable to investigate any misconduct until a new appointee is named by Parliament, a process that could take months. The post has been vacant since April 19. Martine Richard stepped aside April 19 after legislators complained she was sister-in-law to Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc... and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Trudeau and Ford Under Pressure; Stellantis Threatens Windsor EV Battery Plant Withdrawal
Stellantis is calling a renegotiation as threat clouds over EV Battery Plant, urging the Government to match Volkswagen's subsidies or face potential scrapping. Host, Alex Pierson speaks with Catherine Swift, President of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada and former CEO of the CFIB, about Ottawa being put under pressure as Stellantis threatens withdrawal and demanding a subsidy parity with Volkswagen, or worse; scrapping the Windsor project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Olivia Chow Sparks Controversy With Meeting Aligned With China
As Olivia Chow faces critism over meeting with China-aligned group, her supporter defends it as a 'necessary evil' for engaging Chinese immigrants, while others urge caution before jumping to conclusions. Host, Alex Pierson speaks with Cheuk Kwan, Co-Chair of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China, about Chow accepting a gift from an organization that's known for its alignment within the Chinese Government, leaving many eyebrows raised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TTC's Sneaky Move: Rogers' Cellphone Contract in Subway Extended
Rogers steals company and scores 10-year extension on subway contract. Host, Alex Pierson speaks with Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun Columnist, about Rogers securing a secret deal with an Australian firm, which extended the contract until 2042, adding a decade under their belts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Do You Think The Public Education System Has Gone In The Right Direction?
According to a poll, 51% of Canadians' believe that the Public Education System is going the wrong direction. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Colin Craig, President of SecondStreet.org about a recent poll that saw the level of dissatisfaction with the public school system jump significantly within 3 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sirens In Israel: A Multi-Front War Can Emerge
Conflict is a daily reality for people living in Israel and now the country is bracing for a full multi-front war. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Vivian Bercovici, the former Canadian Ambassador to Israel, about the current precautions Israel is taking on the ground and the geo-political affairs that surround the ensuing conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check-In: The House of Commons Vote For An Investigation Into Chinese Subterfuge
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter about the recent House of Commons vote that will spark an investigation into Chinese subterfuge against parliamentarians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 years since abduction and murder of Toronto's Holly Jones
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Dave Perry, former Toronto police officer & homicide detective who worked on Holly Jones' case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Housing Is Doable It Just Never Gets Done
Olivia chow is promising 25k houses despite no affordable houses being built in this city for over a decade. Meanwhile– at the federal level, Cabinet’s National Housing Strategy Act, which enshrines a "right to adequate housing" by 2030, reveals that only 106,000 homes have been financed since 2019. On top of this, demand for housing was pegged at over 3.5 million last June and in order to meet that demand, at least 440k homes need to be built per year until 2030. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Eric Lombardi, Founder of More Neighbors Toronto, to speak about how and when the city will catch up to its housing promises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canadian wrongly detained in China says Canada need to do 'much more' to combat foreign interference
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Kevin Garratt. Kevin and his wife Julia were arrested by Chinese security officials in 2014 and accused of stealing military secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Are drugs handed out via safe supply outlets fueling Canada's opioid crisis?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Adam Zivo, Columnist with National Post, about his report that details how safe supply drugs are being sold on the black market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blacklocks Check-In: The Expulsion Of The Chinese Diplomat Leaves No More Speculation
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter about the expulsion of the Chinese Diplomat amid speculation of Chinese Interference, the apology from the Chief of The Human Rights Commission to their black employees, and the pending loss of a federal riding in northern Ontario which comes at a "very fragile time for democracy,” says NDP MP Charlie Angus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices