The Alex Pierson Show

Justin Trudeau says he won't quit Alberta...but Alberta sure has quit him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: Bob Richardson, Senior Counsel at National Public Relations & Peter Shurman, Broadcaster, Business Man & Former Conservative M.P.P Topics Include: The Liberals are maintaining a lead in their ''Fortress Toronto'' and how Forum Research found the 46 per cent intend to vote liberal and 26 per cent are Conservatives, the dry spell in getting booze onto shelves has been blamed on a new distribution management system, a 3rd horse has been killed in connection to the chuck wagon races and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Joseph Brown. He has decades in the food and fitness industry, food bizz entrepreneur and self-declared food aware dad. They discuss food trends, what is most healthy, and the truth behind the beyond meat burger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Brad Poulus, pot expert and professor at Ryerson's Ted Rogers School of Business. Since the legal growers can't follow the rules, then how are they any better than the Black Market? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when the legal growers start pulling black market tricks? An Ontario pot grower has been caught growing pot in up to five unlicensed rooms tucked away out of the sights of Health Canada inspectors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

His name is Steve Goldner and he's the man credited with developing liquid methadone in the 1970's. Now he's the CEO of Pure Green and the mind behind a pill called Parachute. He talks with Alex about how this pill can rescue people who've gotten themselves way, way, way too stoned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: Liana KerznerYouTuber as well as videogame and tech advocate@redlianak Jason LaChapellePress Secretary for the Green Party of Ontario@OntarioGreens Topics Include: If the Liberals find conversion therapy to be an issue so important that they're attacking the Conservatives over it, then why did not do anything about it during the last four years? We're learning that the Toronto was the victim of two incidents in which city services were compromised by ransomware. Does Canada need a National Cycling Strategy? And more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Liberals don't really care about conversion therapy. They're just using it as a wedge issue during an election year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catherine Swift is the former CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business as well as the current spokesperson for Working Canadians. She joins Alex to talk about the subsidies that governments give to companies like Bombardier without asking much in return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Ortel is a financial and geopolitical analyst, whistle-blower, and host of the podcast "Sunday With Charles." He joins Alex to describe the political web in which accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is seemingly inextricably connected Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: John MrazFormer Liberal war room director Bill HutchisonFormer broadcaster, longtime journalist, and currently a professor at Seneca Topics IncludeThousands of Bombardier workers are about to lose their jobs. Cue the finger pointing. Tensions are worsening between Canada and the former ambassador to China has decided that now would be a good time to open his big mouth and tell the Chinese that any further damage to trade relations might result in a change in Canadian federal government that China may find unfavourable. The country's second highest rank in command of Canada's military, Lt.-Gen. Paul Wynnyk, is resigning abruptly after he said Chief of the Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance told him he was being replaced by Vice-Admiral Mark Norman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tensions are worsening between Canada and the former ambassador to China has decided that now would be a good time to open his big mouth and tell the Chinese that any further damage to trade relations might result in a change in Canadian federal government that China may find unfavourable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: Stephen LeDrew Lawyer, broadcaster and formerly the President of the Liberal Party of Canada and Jamie Ellerton - Principal at Conaptus P-R and Conservative Strategist Topics include: Learning tonight that Bombardier has announced it will lay off 500 employees from their Thunder Bay plant. This is a company that has hoovered $4 billion in corporate welfare from the public trough. Will this Quebec company be getting yet another bail out? There is a fuel fight gearing up! Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says if he wins the election he will scrap what he has dubbed a "secret fuel tax" — a plan by the Liberal government to improve fuel standards through regulatory changes. The shelves at some GTA LCBO stores are a little bare these days, leading to concerns about inventory shortage. Not to worry, say those in charge - the LCBO says deliveries are behind schedule because they have “recently implemented a new Warehouse Management System (WMS), an updated technology for handling product intake and outbound orders. How does a liquor store run out of booze when that’s all they do? Last week Catherine McKenna tweeted out a photo praising Ottawa’s clean drinking water - and showed her filling her water bottle. Well, that prompted an angry response from those living on Attawapiskat. On news that Quebec is now adding its name to the fight against the Federal Liberals carbon tax, the liberals are now urging premiers gathering this week to abandon any legal challenges against Ottawa. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he would continue Canada’s campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council if he becomes Prime Minister. Scheer said he would not “sell out” Canadian principles, including democracy, the rule of law and fundamental human rights, in an effort to secure votes from other countries for a seat on the UN’s most powerful branch. WHY???? Elections Canada has announced that they will not reschedule the October 21st election which happens to fall on a Jewish holiday. The high holiday when observant Jews aren’t allowed to work - let alone vote. And the three of four days of advance polling - also happen to fall on the holiday. Jewish groups have been requesting a date change for months - and Elections Canada hasn’t budged. So it’s now heading to court. Should there be a religious accommodation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Norman Levine, Managing Director at Portfolio Management Corp, to discuss the recent words of caution from Financial Accountability Officer Peter Weltman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Frankie Lowe, with Betrothed and Company Wedding Photo and Video, to discuss the not-so-great deal the business was recently offered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Sam Cooper, Global News National Investigative Journalist, to discuss the enormous amounts of Chinese drug money that has...and still is...being laundered throughout Canada, and what's being done about it...or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by John Robson, contributor to the National Post and the Executive Director at the Climate Discussion Nexus, to discuss the recent protests in Hong Kong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quebec has delivered Justin Trudeau a very inconvenient truth and that is...his federal carbon tax is dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by: Andy Stinton - The Small Business Man and Michael Diamond - With Upstream Strategy Group Topics include: The anti-abortion film Unplanned has Liberals all hot and bothered calling it a sign of hidden agenda by the Conservatives to back door abortion rights in this country. Theatre owners who are playing the film say they are facing threats, protests and calls to shut it down. The Justice Department had to clarify a weekend tweet reminding people that they can be charged two hours AFTER driving and arriving at your destination. It caused all sorts of confusion as folks wake up to the reality that this law is so badly written the onus is on YOU to prove you didn’t drink and drive two hours after the fact. An Ottawa professor finds himself under attack for a weekend tweet that called Conservatives “ the party of the uneducated” It was a “ basket of deplorables” moment. Amir Attaran stated “ Conservatives have a strong lead among those who have not attended college or university while the Liberals have a lead among those with university education.” Quebec Education Minister Jean-Francois Roberge is under fire after tweeting a picture of himself with Nobel Prize-winning human rights activist Malala Yousafzai. Michael De Adder, the cartoonist who claims to have been fired because of his cartoon on Donald Trump? Well, now he’s under fire for a cartoon he did of Lisa MacLeod. Quebec, namely Premier Francois LeGault seems to have had a change of mind about supporting the Federal Carbon tax. Quebec will intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada as part of Saskatchewan's appeal against the federal government regarding the constitutional validity of the Canadian carbon tax. Starbucks is apologizing after an employee reportedly asked six police officers to leave or change their location in one of the company’s shops in a Phoenix suburb because another customer reported feeling unsafe. the officers had just bought their drinks and were standing together before their shift started when a barista made the request for a customer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Abby Johnson, Anti-abortion Activist and Former Clinic Director for Planned Parenthood, to discuss her 2010 memoir which has just been adapted into a new film...'Unplanned'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Calvin Helin, President of Eagle Spirit Energy and best-selling author, to discuss the perplexing pipeline problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio Legal Expert, to discuss the new - and very confusing - impaired driving laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From sunny ways to fear and division...the Trudeau government are whipping out the corrosive rhetoric they promised they'd rise above, and a new U.S. anti-abortion film is their newest weapon of choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: KIM WRIGHT Principal at Wright Strategies & ANTHONY FUREY Sun/Postmedia Columnist & National Comment Editor Topics Include: Canada's approach to dealing with China during the food exports being blocked and the two Canadians that are being tortured, Lisa MacLeod under fire again after unleashing a profanity attack on the owner of the Ottawa Senators during the Rolling Stones show, the fallout continues for Doug Ford on the French Patronage appointments and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by John Koegh, founding and managing principal global supply management. They discuss the ban China placed on Canadian meat products and John describes what ''Food Terrorism'' is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Joe Nicchi, owner and operator of C-V-T Soft Serve in Los Angeles. They discuss how influencers should pay double. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Duff Conacher, with democracy watch and they are asking this to be investigated based on the fact that it looks very much like it could be a conflict of interest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you don't want to fight, don't pick one. The last thing Doug Ford needs is a top MPP acting like a goon and not a politician. Apparently, this is what happened with Lisa MacLeod during a recent Rolling Stones concert. The Toronto Sun reporting that the owner of the Ottawa Senators, Eugene Melnyk, was subjective to a bunch of trash talk from the Minister who he claims burst through the crowds and unleashed a tirade of verbal abuse at him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: Zane Caplansky Broadcaster and owner of Caplansky's Deli and Lorne Honickman Former broadcaster, currently a lawyer and Global News Radio Legal Expert Topics include: Justin Trudeau was asked today about 5 judicial appointments made in New Brunswick...and those appointments are all linked personally to his top cabinet minister Domenic Leblanc. Ontario firefighter Adam Knauff has launched a human rights complaint against his employer, alleging he was not provided with adequate vegan food while fighting a forest fire in B.C. two years ago. The iconic Rogers Centre, formally known as the SkyDome, turned 30 one month ago and there is talk of replacing it. Toronto Mayor John Tory said it is up to Rogers on what to do with the building and the area. The city of Denver apparently has a new motto: Geese are not friends. They're food. Fed up with its growing goose problem, the city has implemented an initiative to round up its Canada geese and process them into food for "needy families," There are an estimated 5,000 geese living in the city, which has been trying to manage its goose population for more than 15 years and they are aggressive, dirty and taking over. So they started rounding them up on Canada day and processing them for the poor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Joyce Arthur, Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, to discuss the controversy surrounding this American anti-abortion film that will be hitting Canadian theatres shortly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by George Quarcoo, the event coordinator for a youth program at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, to discuss how, as a blind DJ he taught himself to produce music and now is helping youths to so the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Naomi Sayers, indigenous lawyer and feminist with past experience in the sex trade, to discuss a recent ruling, wherein a judge found Anibal Rivera’s actions amounted to fraud and caused a significant risk of serious bodily harm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being the Prime Minister is swell, when all you do is cut ribbons, kiss babies and cut cheques. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: John Mraz Former liberal war room director with several dozen elections worth of experience and Bill Hutchison Former broadcaster...longtime journalist...professor at Seneca Topics include: Does Toronto have anything unique that it can offer Kawhi Leonard? CSIS has identified foreign actors attempting to directly influence the upcoming federal election campaign, a Toronto Star and BuzzFeed News investigation has learned. CBC has been doing pre-election polling on a wide array of voter issues... and immigration is the latest poll which reveals Canadians are divided on immigration, with clear limits on the kind of migration they find acceptable. China has escalated its abuse against the two Canadians they have kidnapped and jailed. They’ve confiscated the glasses of Michael Kovrig. Yet another abuse in retaliation over Huawei exec Mung Wazou. China is openly mocking Justin Trudeau over his comments that he has lots of global support. He can’t say for sure President Trump talked to China.. Then, we see a tweet from Liberal MP of small business and export. Mary Ng writes. “When in Beijing, you dropped by @COWSICECREAM – a true Cdn #smallbiz success story from #PrinceEdwardIsland!" Governor General Julie Payette won't be moving into Rideau Hall, the home and workplace of every viceregal going back to Confederation, because it’s not private enough. Over the weekend in Portland there was yet another bloody confrontation between neo-nazi groups and antifa. This has been a pretty regular feature in the city in the last couple of years. But this weekend a Conservative reporter, Andy Ngo, whose beat is to cover these protests, was attacked and left with a brain bleed, ripped ear and burns from milkshakes thrown at him which were actually quick dry cement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Andy Stinton, The Small Business Man as well as a concert and event promoter, to discuss the controversy surrounding the cancellation of the Roxodus music festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Education Minister Stephen Lecce, to discuss his plan to get a deal with the teachers hammered out before the August 31st deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to the Trudeau government, it clearly pays to have friends in ALL the right places. Literally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex Pierson is joined by: Craig Needles - Nine until noon at Global News London and Tasha Kheiriddin Global News Contributor and Founder and CEO of Ellipsum Communications Topics include: New polling done for the Toronto sun with Dart polling reveals that Justin Trudeau is getting a bounce off of the angst created by the Ford government. For all this outrage over Doug Ford’s patronage appointments, the silence is absolutely deafening on news that it really pays to be friends with Dominic Leblanc, currently minister of intergovernmental affairs, Northern affairs and internal trade. A new CBC poll suggests nearly 80 per cent of Canadians either strongly or somewhat agree with the statement: "My country is divided between ordinary people and elites." But what exactly does it mean? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by J.J. McCulloch, columnist for the Washington Post and a political cartoonist, to discuss the controversy surrounding a recent work by cartoonist Michael de Adder...and its perceived repercussions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Brian Lilley, journalist with the Toronto Sun, to discuss the latest numbers from the DART/MARU Voice of Canada poll, regarding the upcoming federal election. You can read Brian's article on the poll here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you want a real vacation, turn yourself off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're learning that a Canadian vessel in the Taiwan Strait has been the subject of harassment by Chinese fighter jets. Longtime foreign correspondent and resident visiting scholar for over at Massey College, University of Toronto, Matthew Fisher is not only an expert on Canadian relations with China . . . He was also on the ship when it happened. He tells guest host Tasha Kheiriddin was prompted this, and what happens next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST HOST TASHA KHEIRIDDIN IS JOINED BY . . . ANTHONY FUREY SUN / POSTMEDIA COLUMNIST & NATIONAL COMMENT EDITOR BOB RICHARDSON SENIOR COUNSEL AT NATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS Topics Include: Doug Ford is having a tough week Two provincial courts rule that the federal government's carbon tax is indeed constitutional Canada Day Parade in New Brunswick cancelled due to a lack of interest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News Radio Tech Expert Adam Oldfield joins guest host Peter Shurman to explain what the a heck a "DeepNude" is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST HOST PETER SHURMAN IS JOINED BY : KIM WRIGHT PRINCIPAL AT WRIGHT STRATEGIES ZANE CAPLANSKYOWNER OF CAPLANSKY’S DELI Topics Include: The unions for emergency response personnel say that the severe crowding at the Raptors parade impeded their ability to reach a baby who suffered a fatal medical episode. A top issue in the upcoming election may be the ethics of the candidates themselves. Turbulence lead the Mayor of Hamilton to shut down a city council meeting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leaders of first responder unions in Toronto are expressing concern with the lack of crowd management during the Raptors victory parade may have played a role in the death of a child. Chair the TCEU Local 416 Toronto Paramedics Mike Merriman tells guest host Peter Shurman that an inadequate amount of time was given to the planning of this event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National Post columnist and executive director at the Climate Discussion Nexus joins guest host Peter Shurman to elucidate China's seemingly capricious decision to halt the import of meat from Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman is joined by John Robson, National Post Columnist and Executive Director of The Climate Discussion Nexus, to discuss the concerns and realities of the Chinese ban on Canadian meat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman is joined by: John Mraz - Former liberal war room director with several dozen elections worth of experience and David Tarrant - Vice President of National Strategic Communications with Enterprise Canada Topics include: Liberals add far-right extremist groups to list of outlawed terror networks...are we seeing a Liberal amp-up of the white supremacy and hate criticism as a pre-election move to conflate Conservatism with hatred? Twitter bans political ads during pre-campaign period ahead of federal vote. A Chinese ban on Canadian meat could hit over 20% of pork exports...data shows. Wayfair is supplying beds to Texas detention centers for children — and its employees are protesting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman is joined by David Rayside, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto and former Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, to discuss a recent survey that found young people in the United States are feeling less comfortable around LGBTQ2 people than they were last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices