The Alex Pierson Show

Peter Sherman is joined by Dave Perry, Global News Radio Crime and Security AnalystIn to discuss a report relaeased Wednesday. The Ontario Special Investigations Unit said the gunman who opened fire in Toronto’s Greektown last July, killing two and injuring 13, had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sherman is joined by Tom Quiggin, former military intelligence officer, RCMP advisor, and a court appointed expert on jihadist terrorism discuss' a person of "national security concern" was granted permanent residency "due to a series of failures" by the Canadian border agency and immigration department. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Sherman is joined by Steve Clark, MPP Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes and the Minister of Municipal Affairs to discuss Ontario's proposal to change the Greater Golden Horseshoe's growth plan. The government says it would make it easier and faster to build housing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Marvin Junkin, Mayor of Pelham, Ontario, to talk about some of the issues that his constituents have brought forward in regards to the bright lights and overwhelming odours that are stemming from the many cannabis production sites, that have sprouted up in the region. 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 & Point. Topics include: Unsealed documents from the Danforth shooting reveal some scary new details about the gunman responsible, a former Liberal Premier's chief of staff has been sentenced to four months in prison, Bruce McArthur is scheduled to appear in court this week and two Toronto cops caught partying could be in big trouble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Sean Bruyea, served as an Intelligence Officer in the Canadian Air Force for 14 years, to talk about the latest federal Liberal cabinet shuffle that see's the current Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, being re-assigned as the new Veteran Affairs Minister. Many are calling the move a demotion for Wilson-Raybould, while most veterans see the move as yet another placeholder taking the mantle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jon Dwyer, Director, Aereus Technologies Inc. and Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: China blasts Canada for "irresponsible remarks" made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, should a Canadian boycott on Huawei products be used as a response, A U.S/Saudi Arabian lobby group warns Canada's relations with Arab-Muslim countries may be dwindling, police documents reveal the Danforth shooter had a stocked weapons cache inside his own home, a top aide to former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, is behind bars and the Ford government has unveiled a plan to review all 82 provincial municipalities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Erin O'Toole, Conservative MP for Durham Region, Shadow Minister, Foreign Affairs and International Development to discuss the on-going situation between Canadian and Chinese officials that is now getting out-of-hand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton & Craig Needles - Global News Radio London Topics include: The fallout from the political back-and-fourth between Canadian and Chinese officials spills over as each government issues travel advisories and the Ontario government is going to review all 82 Ontario municipalities, with the possibility of amalgamation not entirely ruled out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite being below the retail industry standard for revenue lost due to theft, the number of brazen robberies inside Ontario's liqour stores have steadily increased year over year. The problem, is that employees are being told to essentially look the other way when it comes to theft. Kind of defeats the purpose of having "control" in your masthead, doesn't it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by John Kamm of the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation to discuss Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberd was sentenced to death on Monday for drug smuggling charges. Schellenberg was detained four years ago for smuggling “an enormous amount of drugs” into China, according to Dalian.runsky.com, a news portal operated by Dalian authoritie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Catherine Swift, Former Pres/CEO of Canadian Federation of Independent Business, current spokesperson for Working Canadians to discuss Ontario Premier Doug Ford. He is taking his open-for-business message to Detroit this week as he meets with auto executives at a key trade show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton and Michael Diamond. Topics include: Canada should not turn Saudi teen into a 'political football,', Ford woos auto company execs in Detroit. Jane Philpott takes over Treasury Board, Jody Wilson-Raybould to oversee veterans in cabinet shuffle, Toronto cops under review after videos at downtown bar posted online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada granted asylum to Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun but should take steps to ensure that the case doesn’t cause irreversible damage to relations with Saudi Arabia, says Canada’s former ambassador to Riyadh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada did the right thing by granting asylum to Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun but should take steps to ensure that the case doesn’t cause irreversible damage to relations with Saudi Arabia, says Canada’s former ambassador to Riyadh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex is Raheel Raza, a Pakistani-Canadian journalist, public speaker, media consultant, anti-racism activist and author of "Their Jihad... Not My Jihad!", to talk about Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun. Al-Qunun fled her country to seek asylum after abuse from her brother and father for rejecting her faith. Canada granted Al-Qunun asylum, which could be a huge step to inspire other oppressed women worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Rubina Ahmed-Haq, Global News Radio Personal Finance Expert, to talk about why so many Canadians can't pay their bills. Reports out this week say that 53% of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque, meaning if something went wrong they have no savings to draw from. The Bank of Canada didn't hike interest rates this week and that could be hinting towards a problem on the horizon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton – Noon – 3pm & Jason Chapman – Global News Radio Toronto Executive Producer Topics include: Jerry Diaz reacts days after General Motors rejects Unifor's proposals to keep its plant in Oshawa, Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that voting restrictions on expatriate citizens is unconstitutional 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 Supreme Court ruling that expatriate citizens are allowed to vote in elections, Prime Minister Trudeau avoids question on his comments about construction workers at town hall meeting, a Toronto man loses his driver's licence after telling his doctor he smokes pot for medical purposes, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch and Adjunct Professor of Law and Politics at the University of Ottawa, to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling. They discuss the implications of the Supreme Court ruling that the voting restrictions on expatriate citizens is unconstitutional. Conacher talks about his issues with Bill-76, the bill to amend the Canadians Election Act, and what the government could do to remedy it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex for ON Point is Christopher Whan, Global News Ottawa online journalist, to give an update on the fatal bus crash in Ottawa. A double-decker bus crashed into the bus platform at an Ottawa transit station killing three people and sending twenty-three others to the hospital. Christopher Wahn was at the station and describes the horrific scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by John Mraz, Former liberal war room director and Bill Hutchison, Journalism professor at Seneca. Former broadcaster CTV. Topics include: Court hearing underway to challenge repeal of Ontario sex-ed curriculum, increase private health care, Vic Fedeli serves libel notice on Patrick Brown over book allegations,Toronto cops residing outside the city, Ontario Cannabis Store warehouse revealed to be in Oakville, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Craig Clydesdale, Founder and CEO.OOM Energy to discuss Wave Twin Rinks in Burlington, Ontario, is the first arena facility in North America to adopt a new energy platform that takes it off the public utility grid and significantly reduces its costs for electric power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dave Sanderson who remembers his landing on the Hudson River which happened 10 yrs ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People can't pay their bills and that's a problem. There's a reason the Bank of Canada didn't hike interest rates this week and that's because Canadians wouldn't be able to cope. Debt is rising, interest rates are creeping up and so are bankruptcy rates. With so many Canadians struggling to keep afloat in the sea of debt, how can the government sincerely say that they're making it easier on the middle class? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Shriharsh Tendulkar, McGill Space Institute, team member, Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) to talk about his team's discovery of mysterious radio bursts from some 1.5 billion light years away, that have been heard for only the second time in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dr. Oren Amitay, Registered Psychologist, DocAmitay.com to talk about a recent journal published by the American Psychological Association that sets out guidelines to help experts work with men and boys. It also states that over 40 years of research has lead to the conclusion that "traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dennis Matthews, former aid in the PMO under Stephen Harper, Vice President, Communications, Enterprise PR, to talk about Trans Canada Corp's name change to TC Energy. Some are suggesting the change is to reflect the companies growth outside the country while it has others saying the pipeline operator removed Canada from it's title because of the nation's stumbling on some recent energy projects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jon Dwyer, Director, Aereus Technologies and Melissa Lantsman, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill + Knowlton, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: New country-wide police powers are leaving some people wide-eyed, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces tough critisim at a Kamloops town hall meeting, Trans Canada has removed the countries name from it's title, One of the most senior members of the Prime Minister's cabinet has suddenly resigned and former PM Stepen Harper says Canada must get along with the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Abby Deshman, Director, Criminal Justice Program at Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to discuss Canada’s revised laws on impaired driving that would see police demand breath samples from people in bars, restaurants, or even at home. And if you say no, you could be arrested, face a criminal record, ordered to pay a fine, and subjected to a driving suspension. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Bill Kelly - Global News Radio Hamilton & Mike Stubbs - Global News Radio London Topics include: New police powers now grant officers across the country, tthe ability to conduct breathalyzer tests anywhere, anytime and despite having two-way, all-day service, heavy strains are being placed on Kitchener's Go Train station as overcrowded platforms have now reached a tipping point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The saying of "boys will be boys" has been around forever. Up until recently, wrong-doings of some well-known male figures has highlighted the unseen power that men in general seem to hold over women. Now, while that spotlight moment was generations overdue, it seems that the growing status-quo is that men, and young boys, are to act and behave differently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lisa Thompson, Ontario Minister of Education to discuss how a Toronto court is hearing a legal challenge from both the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association over the Progressive Conservative government’s repeal of an updated sex-ed curriculum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid rising tensions in northern B.C. – where Indigenous protesters are preventing a pipeline company from accessing an area in which it plans to work- dozens of people showed up at rallies in downtown Calgary and downtown Edmonton on Tuesday afternoon to show solidarity with members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. The pipeline would carry natural gas from B.C.’s Peace River region to the northern Pacific coast. In addition to those who turned up in Calgary to show solidarity with protesters behind the blockade in B.C., about the same number of people turned up to voice support for pipelines. According to the Canadian Press, the pro-pipeline crowd was encouraged to come out by Canada Action, a Calgary-based lobbying group. 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. Topics include: The truck driver charged in the Humboldt Bronco's bus crash has pleaded guilty voluntarily, a legal challenge on the repeal of the province's sex-ed curriculum awaits the Ford government and a U.S. citizen has been caught after using a NEXUS pass to smuggle 67 guns into Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Sterling Cripps, founder and president of Canadian Unmanned, to discuss a new set of rules for both commercial and personal drones. The stricter set of regulations comes following yet another disturbance at London's Heathrow airport where more drones disrupted outbound flights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer, broadcaster, and Gillian Smith, senior advisor and consultant for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Startling new details into the indigenious healing centre's across the country and their population, the fate of Oshawa's GM facilitiy has been decicded, Canada could be in for a long wait when it comes to stocking up on pot, a new board chair for Ontario Place claims the theme park is in "complete disrepair", the RCMP is investigating potential death threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and actor Bryan Cranston is being vilified for his role in an upcoming movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a Global News exclusive, Alex is joined by Abigail Bimman, award-winning journalist and Ottawa-based Global National Correspondent, to talk about why just under nine per cent of the 147 offenders in federally run healing lodges last year self-identified as “White” rather than North American Indian, Metis or Inuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Regardless of the context, there is no right way to unspin hate speech. Hate is driven by emotion and when you add the element of religion into that, nothing good comes from it. So, when a Muslim Cleric preaches to group of youngsters that wishing someone a "merry christmas" is equal to or worse than killing someone, you'd think that would garner some kind of attention.....right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton and Jamie Ellerton. Topics include: Golden Globes, Former PM Kim Campbell calls Donald Trump a “Mo Fo”, Go Transit begins its new weekday service between Niagara falls and Toronto, and a video of Drake kissing and fondling a 17-year-old female has surfaced on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Port Alberni couple and another man have been charged after the trio filmed the takedown of a 28-year-old man they say arrived to have sex with their 13-year-old daughter. The incident is alleged to have happened at a Port Alberni home on April 12, 2018. Hog-tied and face down on the ground, the man’s image was streamed on Facebook Live for the world to see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex dicusses how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really feels about Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Shae Invidiata, founder and executive director of Free Them, an organization that focuses on ending slavery and human trafficking. Tinder has become a new tool for sex trafficking after reports say that three people are facing charges for using the app to lure unsuspecting victims. The two men and woman used Tinder to lure people in hopes of recruiting them for the sex trade. In the scary world of social media, people need to start exercising more caution. 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: Long-term care homes wanting to end mandatory annual inspections, will the government listen after an Ontario judge says that carding doesn’t work, Kevin Hart potentially hosting Oscars after twitter controversy and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex for ON Point is Jane Meadus, Staff Lawyer and Institutional Advocate at Advocacy Centre for the Elderly. It’s obvious that the Ford government needs to cut costs and their focus is on health care. Groups that represent the province’s long-term care homes have been asking to end annual inspections altogether. Considering there are already issues of elder abuse and neglect, ending annual inspections wouldn’t be cutting costs, it would be cutting the last shred of oversight we have left in place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton – Noon – 3pm & Jason Chapman – Global News Radio Toronto Executive Producer Topics include: After being dumped from the Oscars for tweets from years ago, Kevin Hart may still host the award show and Seinfeld is now falling foul amongst Millenials after online commentators criticize the comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Vaughan worries that the provincial government is going to use data governance and privacy concerns as a cover to cancel Sidewalk Labs’ smart city project on Toronto’s waterfront. His hatred for Ford is blinding him from the very real concerns about this project. The smart city is supposed to be a step into the future, but without more transparency the project will be stuck in the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Camille Labchuk, Animal Lawyer and Executive Director of Animal Justice, to discuss a Judge ruling the enforcement powers of the Ontario Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals as unconstitutional. The ruling says that the province must re-write laws governing the organization to remedy the situation. The OSPCA could still appeal the ruling, but that has not happened yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson for ON Point is joined by Paul Davis, Eductaor on Social Media, Bullying and Sexting, to talk about the latest news coming out of New Brunswick. In recent months, the RCMP's Internet Child Exploitation Unit identified four children between the ages of eight and twelve in New Brunswick who voluntarily shared nude pictures or videos of themselves. Children don't have the maturity to realize the ramifacations of these decisions, and parents need to do something about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Tech Expert, to talk about Apple's diminishing stock value. Apple blames the reduced revenue forecast on the trade war Donald Trump initiated with China, but there may be other reasons. Even with Apple's stock falling, their future looks bright. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices