The Alex Pierson Show

Brand Specialist Mike Leon joins Alex to discuss how Covid-19 is forcing brands to step back and slow down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, March 4th 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Monday, March 2nd 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News Radio's Mike Major recounts a harrowing experience driving on the 401. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, February 12th 2020 In memory of Christie Blatchford 1951-2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Monday, February 10th 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, February 6th 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My Point on Point - Tuesday, February 4th 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Monday, January 3rd 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, January 29th 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Tuesday, January 21st 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Monday, January 20th 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After being rescued from a dog-fighting ring in Ontario, a pit bull by the name of Hansel is making history as he becomes the first K9 arson investigator in New Jersey, and perhaps even the entire United States. Carol Skaziak is the founder of an organization known as the Throw Away Dogs Project. Tyler Van Leer is a firefighter with the Millville Fire Department in New Jersey. Together, they join Alex to explain Hansel's unique journey from victim to hero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, January 16th 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, January 15th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Untold scores of wildlife have been displaced and orphaned by the wildfires in Australia. Shielah Lee Restall is the founder of the Winnipeg Animal Rescue Craft Group. She tells Alex about how you can help provide home crafted items to help these animals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan McTeague is a former Liberal M-P and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs tasked with protecting Canadians abroad. He tells Alex about the logistical fiasco in repatriating the bodies of Canadian plane crash victims from a country like Iran, with whom we do not currently have an embassy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - January 6th, 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ann Cavoukian is the former privacy commissioner for Ontario and executive director and founder of Privacy by Design, and she talks to Alex about how the data leak by Lifelabs that could impact roughly fifteen million Canadians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Tuesday, December 17th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Fighter pilot Jock Williams weighs in on a recent report that states a possible high risk for Boeing 737 Max crashes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here is Ottawa Bureau Chief, Mercedes Stephenson in conversation with Alex Pierson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Was justice served for the victims of Christopher Husband's 2012 shooting spree? Did the courts get it right? Joseph Neuberger, 640 Toronto Criminal Law Expert joins to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A 19-year Brock University student was found not guilty in the murder of Yosif Al-Hasnawi, and some are claiming it has to do with his aboriginal background. Alex speaks with 640 Toronto's criminal law expert Joseph Neuberger to get some clarity on the ruling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Tuesday, November 26th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Maginnis says the search is over for 'Bunny' – a sentimental stuffed toy bunny that flew out of a Second World War-era Lancaster bomber over Burlington in early November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Friday, November 22nd 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, November 21st 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, November 20th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Somewhere in Southern Ontario there's a missing stuffed animal that means the world to one family. Jim Maginnis joins Alex to share the story of why this bunny is different from the rest, and why they're praying for its safe return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, November 14th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Tuesday, November 12th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avi Benlolo is the President of the Friend of Simon Wiesenthal Centre. He joins Alex to talk about the rise of anti-antisemitism the dangers posed by a society forgetting the lessons of the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been nearly 27 years since Calvin Hawley came home one day only to discover his curb obliterated by St. Vital town snowplows. Ever since that day, he's been petitioning the town to fix what they broke. He talks to Alex Pierson about the town's pledge to repair his curb by 2037. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob McGall is a history teacher with Hillfield Strathallan College and he tells Alex about the annual exercise of bringing students out to a farm field to dig trenches to demonstrate what it was like for young soldiers who fought on the battlefields of Europe in the early twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Friday, November 8th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Milke is the author of "The Victim Cult: How the Culture of Blame Hurts Everyone and Wrecks Civilizations." He joins Alex to explain how the growing trend of lionizing one's own misfortunes and misidentifying oneself as a victim is having a deleterious effect on society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, November 7th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teddy Smith spent more than twenty years as a worker on an oil-rig in Alberta before moving to London, Ontario. Smith tells Alex that he cannot believe the lack of sympathy by Ontarians toward Albertans and the economic hardship they presently face. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, November 6th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Tuesday, November 5th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Fogg is with the Montreal Holocaust Museum and she tells Alex the extraordinary story of the Jewish musicians doomed in the holocaust and how their legacy has been preserved through the instruments they left behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Of the 39 bodies found in a truck in the UK, it is believed that 24 of them are Vietnamese. John Keogh is the founder & managing principal with Shantalla. He's also spent the past six years living in Vietnam. He tells Alex about the grave alignment of circumstances that exert economic pressure on young people in Vietnam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Monday, October 28th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vivan Krause is the author of the Fair Questions Blog; Following the Money Behind Environmental and Political Activism. Her new documentary, Over a Barrel seeks to expose a network of foreign influence systemically maim the Albertan economy. She joins Alex to talk about the new film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, October 24th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eighteen year old Maddison Yetman says that despite having only days left to live, she found time to cast a ballot in the federal election. Her uncle and Global News Winnipeg news director and station manager Brent Williamson tells Alex about her niece's life and message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point On Point - Wednesday, October 16th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices