The Alex Pierson Show

Tonight's Top Talkers are: Bill Kelly - Global News Radio Hamilton & Mike Stubbs - Global News Radio London Topics include: Moodys' rating agency has downgraded Ontario's credit rating, one of Canada's best lawyers is calling sour grapes on the Ron Taverner appointment, and it seems the sunny ways of Justin Trudeau could be setting rather than shining, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lyle Stein, Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, to take a closer look at why bond rating agency Moody’s has downgraded the province of Ontario’s credit rating. The agency announced the downgrade from Aa3 to Aa2, citing the province’s $14.5-billion deficit in 2018-2019 and projections that it will continue to post deficits in the coming years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A multi-million dollar check, signed by the Canadian government, and an apology to boot. On top of being transferred out of one of the world's most infamous military prisons, this is what convicted terrorist, Omar Khadr, has received from the federal government. Despite all of this, Khadr was back in front of a judge recently, asking for changes to his bail conditions that include a Canadian passport as well as permission to speak to his sister. It seems freedom and financial security isn't enough and knowing our Prime Minister, he will likely see it the exact same way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dan McTeague, Senior Petroleum Analyst, GasBuddy.com, consumer advocate, and former Member of Parliament to discuss Indigenous communities and how they feel about Trudeau’s tanker ban. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Cyndee Cherniak, Trade Lawyer with LexSage to discuss growing tensions between Canada and China over the detention of a high-profile business executive in Vancouver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Captain Sean Bruyea, served as an Intelligence Officer in the Canadian Air Force for 14 years to discuss how Conservatives have increases their attack on Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O'Regan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by John Mraz and Bill Hutchison. Topics include: The Ford govenment, OPS staff buyouts,Huawei CFO case strains relationship between Canada and China, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dennis Matthews, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Enterprise Canada to discuss the Ford government and the growing pressure to delay the appointment of his family friend, Ron Taverner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Air Force Capt. Kimberly Fawcett served her country, deploying twice to Afghanistan as a part of Canada’s war effort. Now Fawcett is fighting her own government, asking the military to pay for a prosthetic limb, after she lost her leg in an accident that wounded her critically and killed her nine-month-old son, Keiran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Matthew Fisher, Resident Visiting Scholar, Foreign & Military Policy at Massey College/Bill Graham Centre, U of T, to talk about why Chinese officials have detained a former Canadian diplomat in Hong Kong. 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: Tori Stafford's family is outraged over the transfer of Michael Rafferty, Omar Khadr is seeking a Canadian passport as well as permission to speak to his sister, and the argument is being made that embattled Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou, is a potential flight risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Mercedes Stephenson, Global New's Ottawa Bureau Chief, to talk about how the federal government is refusing to pay for the prosthetic leg of an Canadian Armed Forces Captain who lost both her son and one leg, in a car accident that, according to the Captian herself, happened while she was on-duty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Stephen Ledrew, broadcaster, political commentator, homemaker, and Jamie Ellerton, Prinicpal, Conaptus PR, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: O.P.P's deputy commissioner is calling for an investigation into the hiring of his superior, a former Canadian diplomat has been detained by Chinese officials in Hong Kong, Ralph Goodale gives an eyebrow-raising response to the prison transfer of Michael Rafferty, the federal government is toying with the idea of putting climate targets into law, Sheamus O'Regan compares leaving journalism to leaving the military, and Time Magazine has picked its Person of the Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Henry Tso, Vice President of Investigative Services, Insurance Bureau of Canada, to take a closer look at how a sharp increase in vehicle thefts and auto insurance fraud could be the part of the bread-crumb trail left by those involved in organized crime. 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: Canada's Public Safety Minister, Ralph Goodale, answers to comments he made on the recent prison transfer of Michael Rafferty, and a former Canadian diplomat has been detained by Chinese officials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With thousands of migrants illegally funneling their way into the country and a federal government who seems fixated on projecting their global image, it makes you wonder, does the Trudeau government have any clue what they are doing when it comes to migration and it's proper process? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Rodney Stafford to discuss how Michael Rafferty who along withTerri-Lynne McClintic, murdered eight-year-old Tori Stafford in 2009, has been moved out of maximum security prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton, Small Business man and Michael Diamond, Campaign MAnager at Upstream Strategy Group Inc. Topics inclue: Ontario Deficet expected to ride to 12.3B, Michael Rafferty is in a medium security facility and out of maximum security, Black People grossly overrepresented in cases where Toronto police use force, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayers Association to discuss Ontario’s deficit will rise to $12.3 billion this fiscal year, half a billion more than he predicted before the spring election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Rafferty, who along with Terri-Lynne McClintic murdered eight-year-old Tori Stafford in 2009, has been moved out of maximum security prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by David Shipley, Global News Radio Security Expert, to talk about the arrest of Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou. Although this arrest happened in Canada, it has international implications. What does this mean for the ongoing trade negotioations with China? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson for ON Point today is Walter Edward Williams, an American economist, commentator and academic. Williams authored a report questioning whether Americans are miseducated, or just stupid. What Williams found is that young people have some troubling views on socialism and communism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Sean O’Shea, Global News Consumer Reporter, to talk about a Woodbridge couple in their 90’s who were pressured to sell their family home. The Henriques family said a real estate agent showed up at their home in 2012 with an offer to buy the family's house. The offer was ignored, but days later the father was pressured into selling the house. 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 first Ministers meeting having no major walk-outs, but issues arising, Quebec Premier, Legault, refuses to allow any discussion on Energy East, Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou, wanted for fraud in U.S., court hears and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A parents worst nightmare: someone you don't know driving away with your child. That nightmare was reality for one Ottawa mother. Alex Pierson is joined by Erika Godin, the mother whose Uber drove away with her three-year-old son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Rick Zamperin - Assistant Program Director, Global News Radio Hamilton & Jason Chapman - Executive Producer, Global News Radio Toronto Topics include: Bill 66, the legislation that has some people in hysterics because it means opening some parts of the Green Belt, Ford government defending changes to child care rules under new bill and Kevin Hart saays he won`t host Oscars after backlash from homophobic tweets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Economist, Walter Williams, posed the question: are Americans miseducated or just stupid? His report revealed that 51% of American millenials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist one. Does that scare you? Well it should. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Marc Gordon, Marketing Guru and Customer Experience Expert, to talk about how Tim Horton's are facing backlash from customers after a new coffee-cup-lid concept, aimed to stop leaks, is actually causing more than usual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Gordon Chang, American columnist, blogger, television pundit, author and lawyer, to discuss why Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s chief financial officer was arrested as part of a U.S. investigation of an alleged scheme to use the global banking system to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Alise Mills, Strategic Communications, Media Relations Professional and a Political Analyst, to talk about a rally in central Alberta that saw hundreds turn up to demand the construction of a new pipeline as the on-going oil crisis puts an alarming vice around the small western community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Steve Buist, Reporter, Hamilton Spectator, to take a closer look into a shocking incident at a French Catholic elementary school that was reportedly centred around a small group bullying a fellow classmate. The student's mother has since pulled him out of the school and is now demanding answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Omar Khan, Vice President, Public Relations, Hill + Knowlton and Melissa Lantsman, Vice President, Public Relations, Hill + Knowlton, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he ready to walk away from the upcoming First Minister's meeting, Trudeau's Liberal's drop an anti-abortion test for summer job funding following backlash, U.S regulators have rejected Hydro One's planned take over of Avista Corp, and the #MeToo movement may be closing doors for women in the workplace instead of opening them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Akin, Global New's Chief Political Correspondent, to talk about what could possibly happen when the nation's Premier's sit down with the Prime Minister in Montreal, this Friday. From the on-going issues with Alberta's oil industry, to a potential recession on the horizon for the Canadian economy, this meeting is setting up to be one of the most tense in recent years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Mike Stubbs - Global News Radio London & Drex - Heard nightly across Global News Radio Topics include: Doug Ford is ready to walk away from the upcoming First Minister's meeting, the #MeToo movement could actually be doing more harm than good for women in the workplace, and an old, familiar problem re-appears at Tim Horton's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a meeting between the countries Premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau draws nearer, it has to be asked, "does Trudeau have his priorities in order?". Among the expected topics of discussion will be items such as climate change and inter-provincial trade but nowhere does it mention dialogue on the Alberta oil problem or the countries' economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Ian Lee, Associate Professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carlton University to discuss the Canadian economy. The Bank of Canada keep rate on hold at 1.75%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Tom Quiggin, former military intelligence officer, RCMP advisor, and a court appointed expert on jihadist terrorism in both the Federal and criminal courts of Canada to discuss The head of Canada’s intelligence service warning business leaders Tuesday that foreign states are using a variety of clandestine methods to steal their secrets, putting the economy at risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Anthony Furey, Sun / Postmedia columnist & national comment editor to discuss Federal Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer demanded that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau not sign a UN pact on migration, saying Canada’s immigration policies should not be dictated by an international agreement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Mike Van Soelen, Managing Prinicpal at the navigator and John Mraz, former Liberal War Room Director for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Hamilton mother angry after a sexual incendent that occured and the response she got from the school, OSPCA to stop euthanizing dogs who have attacked people, Civil rights advocates question Canada's new imapired driving law, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

According to media reports a new study finds teachers are taking more sick days now that they can’t bank them and cash them out when they retire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Doctor Alain Ptito, Brain Trauma Expert, McGill University, to talk about the real effects that are caused by repeated blows to the head. Following Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Gvozdyk's eleventh round knockout of Stevenson in their recent WBC Light Heavyweight title bout, some medical experts cannot justify boxing as a sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Antonio Nicaso, award winning journalist, author , organized crime expert, to take a closer look at the guilty plea that echoed through a Hamilton courtroom this past Monday and what an international investigation has revealed about the Hamilton-Toronto crime underworld. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Legal Expert, for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: A trial date has been set for the man accused in the Toronto Van Attack that left 10 people dead, York Regional Police will now release the names of those accused of drunk driving, and Niagara Region's Police Chief says he's anxious to get answers on the recent shooting involving two officers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jon Dwyer, Director, Aereus Technologies, and Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: A family friend of Ontario Premier Doug Ford is now OPP Commissioner, Catherine McKenna is asked if the new incoming Green taxes will encite the same style of riots here as there were recently in Paris, Justin Trudeau throws the RCMP, CSIS and other intelligence agencies under the bus, and the average Canadian family is projected to spend over $400 more next year on groceries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Adrienne Batra, Editor-In-Chief, Toronto Star, to take a closer look into the hiring process and qualifications required for such a position. As well, the man hired to take on the role, Toronto Police Superintendent Ron Taverner, just so happens to be a family friend of Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Devon Peacock - Global News Radio London & Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton Topics include: Toronto Police Service Superintendent Ron Taverner has been selected to become the next comissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, rising food prices means Canadians will be shelling out more at the checkouts and Catherine McKenna, federal minister of the envionment and climate change, is asked if we could see similar riots here as Paris experienced regarding the incoming Green taxes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ill-timed or tone deaf? Those seem to be the general reactions to a recent tweet by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in which he flaunts a $50M donation to support education for woman and girls around the globe. The tweet comes just days after General Motors announced the closure of their Oshawa plant, leavibg nearly 2,500 Canadians out of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and two international colleagues joined the crew at the International Space Station after a successful launch aboard a Soyuz rocket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Chris Alexander, Canadian politician and former diplomat to discuss immigration. He served as Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration from 2013 to 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Brett Wilson, Chairman, Prairie Merchant to discuss Alberta's oil production plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices