The Alex Pierson Show

Christine Elliott--Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Deputy Premier joins ON Point to talk about today's announcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Don Drummond, Canadian economist, having served extensively in the federal Department of Finance Canada, and as a scholar at Queen's University and recognized for "the Drummond Report" which cautioned the McGuinty government against excessive spending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Haran Vijayanathan, Executive Director, Alliance for South Asain AIDS Prevention, to discuss how a community, who was shaken to it's core by serial killer Brce McArthur, is trying to lay it's dead to rest and attempt to heal itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio's Legal Expert, for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to 8 counts of first-degree-murder, a stay in proceedings is ordered in the case of a Lac Seul First Nation man who has spent almost 5 years in solitary confinement and a man escapes drug charges in B.C. thanks to a "partial" signal from a sniffer dog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Radio's Tech Expert, to talk about a new set of proposed taxes by the Canadian broadcasting regulator that would put a premium on Canadian programming and would also make potential investors pay more to fund Canadian content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jamie Ellerton, Principal, Conaptus PR, and Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders was nowhere to be seen today as Bruce McArthur pleads guilty, new tax proposals by the CRTC could have Canadians paying more to watch streaming sites, full-day kindergarten will be back in the fall but may not be around for much longer after that, A small-town Mantioba mayor is in hot water over comments made about Justin Trudeau and social media troubles are becoming a royal pain for some members of the British royal family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Perry, Global News Radio's Crime and Security Analyst, to take a closer look at serial killer Bruce McArthur, what possibly could have fed his desire to continue carrying out these heinous murders and how he used each of his victims as trophies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers: Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton & Craig Needles - Global News Radio London Topics include: The Ontario government is committing to full-day kindergarten this fall but won't make any promises on keeping it beyond the end of the school year and proposed taxes by the CRTC means Canadian Netflix and Amazon users could be shelling out more to watch their countries' own programming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite the next election being more than 3 years out, a recent poll shows the Ford government is headed in the same direction as the Liberals were, prior to their exit. At first glance, it's not good news for the Premier. Once you take closer at the numbers though, it shows that what people wanted, people are getting. Voters asked for Ford and they got him, along with his laundry list of changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson is Mercedes Stephenson, Global News Radio Ottawa Bureau Chief and host of The West Block. The main topic of conversation is the latest terrorist attack in Kingston, Ontario. The RCMP said that one youth has been charged in ‘attack plot’ with explosives and a second man was arrested, but not charged. The RCMP stated that the investigation remains ongoing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Vivian Krauss, researcher and writer @FairQuestions, to talk about her latest findings. Over the last decade Krauss has been investigating foreign-funded activism projects that are landlocking Canada's oil. These projects have helped put a stop to every pipeline project over the last decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Rubina Ahmed-Haq, Global News Radio Personal Finance Expert, to discuss Canada's newly-released food guide. The food guide said to eat less meat, so how will that affect Canada's economics. With beef being one of Canada's biggest exports, how will this food guide effect Canada's ranchers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Bob Richardson, Senior Counsel at NATIONAL Public Relations, and Anthony Furey, Sun / Postmedia columnist & national comment editor. Topics include: the RCMP being tight-lipped when it comes to the attack in Kingston, Ontario this week, Trudeau's comments saying Canadians will not tolerate hateful comments, John McCallum's comments on the extradition of Meng Wanzhou and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex for On Point is Tom Quiggin, former military intelligence officer, RCMP advisor and a court appointed expert on jihadist terrorism in the federal and criminal courts, to talk about the attack in Kingston this week. One Kingston, Ontario youth has been charge but the RCMP is very tight-lipped about the whole situation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If Canadian oil and gas can be saved it will be in large part thanks to Vivian Krause. She combed through thousands of secret foreign documents to expose the real imposters behind the campaign to landlock our oil. These campaigns have managed to successfully derail every pipeline project over the last decade, so it's about time the mainstream is catching on to Krause's decade of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Erin O'Toole, Conservative MP for Durham, Shadow Minister, Foreign Affairs and International Development to discuss where the Liberal government will take things from after Canadian Ambassador John McCallum make some eye-widening remarks over the on-going investigation involving Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Perry, Global News Radio's Crime and Security Analyst, to discuss how the cold weather has slowed down the city's ever-increasing gun crime and why the delays of Ontario's Special Investigation's Unit are simply unacceptable in 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio Legal Expert, to talk about a free Toronto-area newspaper and the two men behind it, who were found guilty of using the publication to promote hatred against women and Jews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dennis Matthews, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Enterprise Canada, and Omar Khan, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill + Knowlton Strategies for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: The Ontario government is looking to potentially remove the cap on class sizes in the province's grade schools, Justin Trudeau waves away calls to fire Canada's Ambassador to China, Patrick Brown left provincial politics one year ago today and Venezuela's new Interim leader responds to comments by Canadian and U.S. officials as the South American nation verges on collapse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Doretta Wilson, education policy consultant, former Executive Director, SQE-Canada, to talk about the recent announcement by Ontario Education Minister, Lisa Thompson. According to Thompson, consultations are underway to examine the province's classroom sizes and possibly removing caps on class sizes for kindergarten as well as in Grades 1 to 3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Mackay Taggart - News Director, Global News Toronto & Bill Kelly - Global News Radio Hamilton Topics include: Justin Trudeau will not denounce Canada's ambassador to China after comments made regarding Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, and it was one year ago today that Patrick Brown stood before the media and denied reports of sexual misconduct, effectively ending his Ontario Premier campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a face-palm moment, before an audience of Chinese media outlets, Canada's ambassador to China seemingly took charge and exclaimed that there is a good chance Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, will beat the extradition charges she currently faces from U.S. officials. That's interesting, when you consider the Liberal government has maintained, ever since Wanzhou's arrest, that there has been no political involvement or intervention in the case. So, why is a member of Justin Trudeau's cabinet saying otherwise? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Teodrose Fikre, Editor Ghion Journal to discuss why identity politics and sectional movements are destroying what we value in this country and why it will destroy pride if we let it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Matthew Fisher, former long time foreign correspondent and war correspondent. Now he is the Resident Visiting Scholar in defence and international affairs at the University of Toronto's Massey College. They discuss how CFO Meng Wanzhou made “strong arguments” about her arrest that has been politicized and that she should not be extradited to the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Radio Tech Expert to discuss driverless cars allowed on Ontario roads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Bill Hutchison and John Mraz for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Premier Doug Ford’s claim that Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax will cause a recession, Pride Toronto members won’t allow uniformed police to march in the parade, Canada's ambassador to China says Meng has strong defence to fight extradition, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jack Mintz to discuss how the Ontario premier Doug Ford said there were already warning signs of difficult economic times ahead and how a carbon tax would kill jobs and hurt productivity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pride Toronto member vote to keep uniformed police officers out of parade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Michael Taube, syndicated columnist, Troy Media, Contributor, Washington Times to talk about the upcoming federal election and how Justin Trudeau's char offensive may not be enough for him to be seen as the "beacon of hope" for the Canadian middle-class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio Legal Expert, for this edition of Case and Point. Topic's include: Serial killer Dellen Millard is appealing the conviction and sentence he faces in his father's murder, a group is challenging a court's ruling on requiring doctor referrals, a baby sitter who was charged as a teen for the alleged sexual assault of a child under 10 is now being tried as an adult and the media could be facing backlash following the coverage of the supposed confrontation between a group of teenagers and a native elder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jane Gerster, Global News' National Online Journalist - Features, to talk about the story of a 27-year member of the RCMP that took his own life back in 2013. The inquest into the officer's death lasted less than one week and proved very ltitle but it did raise another startling point. Over the past 20 years, over $220M has been spent by the country's national police force on everything from settling lawsuits, inquiries into Mountie mismanagement as well as examinations of the RCMP's use-of-force. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster, and Jamie Ellerton, Principal, Conaptus Ltd. for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: The federal Liberals are not answering questions when asked about the security costs of Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammad, as many as 18,000 illegal asylum seekers crossed the Quebec border last year, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says a carbon tax will cause an economic disaster, and a new Canada food guide encourages Canadian's to follow a diet that could lower your chloesterol while jacking up the totals at the check-outs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Phil Demers, a former Marineland trainer, to talk about how he is continuing a now 6-year long legal battle against amusement park and zoo Marineland after several cases of animal cruelty within the facility were leaked to the public and what the corporation is doing to try and silence him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talker's are: Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton & Craig Needles - Global News Radio London Topics include: A dog owner is left with questions after video was posted of a canine being left outside a London business in tempertures below minus 20 degrees, Health Canada has unvieled the country's next food guide, and the Liberal government won't say whether or not they'll pay for Rahaf Mohammad's security costs after granting her asylum from Saudi Arabia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As another federal election looms closer and closer, the narrative seems oddly familiar. Where you have the incumbent Liberals, who see themselves to be all that is right, you have the opposing Conservatives, a party those same Liberals will label all that is...not right. Yet, since assuming office in 2015, Canada's proposed "beacon of hope" has left a lot of us hoping for more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Anthony Furey, Sun / Postmedia columnist & national comment editor to discuss Canada's next-generation wireless networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Robby Soave, Reporter and Staff editor Reason, and author of upcoming book - Panic Attack ; Young Radicals in the age of Trump to discuss the viral video of students from a Catholic high school allegedly harassing a Native American veteran after the anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by J.J. McCullough, BC Based writer/columnist seen on National Post, Washington Post to discuss all the tuition changes annouced lask week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton, Small Business Man and Michael Diamond, campaign strategist and political commentator, UPSTREAM Strategy Group. Topics include: Ontario doctors will be in court to challenge a ruling that found physicians must give referrals for medical services that clash with their moral or religious beliefs, Doug Ford says Trudeau's carbon tax will cause recession, Chinese authorities mistreating Canadian detainees, 29 homicides in Ontario long-term care homes in past six years, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Yvonne Cunnington, Volunteer and donor, Dying with Dignity Hamilton to discuss assissted suicide. Arleen Reinsborough’s fear of nursing homes has her determined to seek assisted suicide due to many chronic health issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the Jewish community needs to be protected amid its concerns about anti-Semitism coming from the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex for On Point is Lyle Stein, Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager - VestCap Investment, to talk about the Canadian economy. A top U.S. hedge fund is shorting Canadian banks because of the slowing housing market. They believe that a major recession could be on the rise. Every economy works as a cycle, so is Canada just in a downturn or are there more underlying issues? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Rubina Ahmed-Haq, Global News Radio Personal Finance Expert, to discuss the financial implications of paying for university in Ontario. After Doug Ford announced cutbacks to OSAP programs, students are outraged. Should students be protesting or should they be reconsidering which post-secondary path they're choosing to take? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Anthony Furey, Sun / Postmedia columnist & national comment editor and Jon Dwyer, Director, Aereus Technologies Inc. Topics include: Doug Ford naming former Mississauga mayor, Hazel McCallion, as a special advisor to the premier and minister of municipal affairs and housing, students out protesting post-secondary education after Doug Ford announces cutbacks to OSAP programs, former Blue Jays player and sports broadcaster Greg Zaun is speaking out 14 months after getting caught up in 'me too' allegations and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Rick Zamperin – News and Sports Director, Global News Radio Hamilton – Noon – 3pm & Jason Chapman – Executive Producer, Global News Radio Toronto Topics include: Doug Ford appointing former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion as a special advisor to the premier and minister of municipal affairs and housing, 14 months after getting caught up in 'me too' allegations, former Blue Jays and sports broadcaster Greg Zaun is speaking out and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Identity politics is alive and well. Karen Wang was the liberal representitive for the Burnaby South by-election up until she was ousted for her comments online. In a riding with a large Chinese population, Wang made it clear that she was the only Chinese representitive, going against the "diversity is strength" liberal tagline that got Trudeau elected in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam Cooper National Online Journalist, Investigative, Global News joins Alex to discuss whether the money-laundering investigation in B.C. is connected at all to Ontario’s gaming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sr. David Jacobs is an MD. Radiologist and member of Coalition of Ontario Doctors joins ON Point to talk about the Ontario government's proposed cuts to the excessive healthcare bureaucracies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kieran Moloney, President, Carleton University Campus Conservatives joins ON Point to discuss the new ability to opt-out of non-tuition fees in the new post secondary education plan introduced by the PC government today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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