The Alex Pierson Show

Jaspal Atwal was among hundreds of last-minute invitations to events with Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau in Mumbai on February 20 and Delhi two days later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton, Small Business man and Denis Mathews, Vice President, Marketing and Communications for Enterprise Canada. Topics inlclude: Yorl Regional police to post names of those who were charged this weekend with impaired driving, Trudeau critized for tweet to Trevor Noah pledging $50M charity gift, and Amid Raj Grewal gambling furor, Liberal organized crime deputy admits no ‘clear answer’ to questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monologue: Jerry Dias plays the blame game - so what part of the blame does he deserve? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Rebecca Tomasic, Owner, Bitten Cupcakes, Butter Tarts and Whoopie Pies to discuss the sentencing handed down as well as how her business has rebounded since the incident occured. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Tech Expert, to discuss the Starwood Hotel database hack that exposed the private information over up to 500 million guests that have stayed under the hotel chain over the past 4 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Bob Richardson, Senior Counsel, National Public Relations, and Anthony Furey, Toronto Sun journalist, columnist and national comment editor, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: A photo op and comments highlight Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent trip to Buenos Aires, Liberal MP Raj Grewal remains in the Liberal caucus, despite being under investigation by the RCMP and the departure of MPP Amanda Simard from the Ontario PC Party has landed her on the front page of a Montreal-based tabloid newspaper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Cyndee Todgeham - Cherniak, trade lawyer, Lexsage, to break down the in's-and-out's of the newly signed United States Mexico Canada Trade Agreement. Despite being a touted as "a great step for our economy and middle class", the latest rendition of NAFTA faces challenging first days following the closure of GM's production plant in Oshawa as well as on-going talks regarding steel and aluminum tarrifs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Tasha Kheiriddin - Global News Radio Toronto & Devon Peacock - Global News Radio London Topics include: A Vice Media reporter hands over recorded conversations with an alleged ISIS member following a Supreme Court decision, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces questions following comments made during a recent G20 speech and talks on Canadian steel and aluminum tarrifs continue to dominate conversations between Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the saying goes, "one man's bad luck, is another's good fortune". While Ontario Premier Doug Ford faces backlash following cuts made to francophone services within the province, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau uses that same backlash as fuel for his upcoming 2019 federal election campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Peter Sherman is joined by Brent Kopperson, Founder and Executive Director, Windfall Ecology Centre, to discuss Windfall's in-depth study into electric vehicle production in Ontario and the potential multi-billion dollar economic increase it could bring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Peter Sherman is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Radio Tech Expert, to talk about how Netflx Canada is set to increase it's subscription fee for the first time in almost two years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Peter Sherman is joined by Reggie Cecchini, Global News National Washington Bureau, to take a closer look at U.S President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Earlier today, Cohen plead guilty to charges of knowingly misleading two congressional commitees that were investigating possible acts of collusion between Russia and the campaign of then-candidate Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Peter Sherman is joined by Jon Dwyer, Director, Aereus Technologies, and Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Canada has laid sanctions against 17 Saudi nationals in connection with killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an ad by the Canadian Oil Advocacy campaign has been deemed 'discriminatory", a federal budget watchdog says irregular asylum-seekers could cost Canada upwards of $400 million in 2019, and Netflix Canada is set for its biggest price increase yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Peter Sherman is joined by Ontario MPP Peter Tabuns to talk about the province's new plan to combat climate change. Titled the "Preserving and Protecting our Environment for Future Generations: A Made-In-Ontario Environment Plan", it includes a four-year financial commitment of $400 million that is meant to entice big polluters to develop clean technologies and reduce emissions overall. 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: Ontario MPP Amanda Simard resigns from the PC party following cuts to francophone services, Ontario reveals it's plan to battle climate change and the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States gather in Buenos Aires on Friday to sign the United States Mexico Canada Trade Agreement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by David Shipley, CEO of Beauceron Security / Global News Radio Cybersecurity and Technology Expert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by Brian Patterson, President and CEO Ontario Safety League. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by Dr. Oren Amitay - Registered Psychologist - DocAmitay.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by John Mraz - Former liberal war room director and Bill Hutchison - Journalist/Broadcaster, professor at Seneca. Topics include: Humboldt Broncos GoFundMe payments approved by Saskatoon judge - Less to the living who may have more expenses? Or the other way… the loss of life was only worth an extra 50K? Do you think this split was fair? School buses are reasonably safe… do you think seat belts will help or hinder?Kathleen Wynne to call for mandatory seatbelts on school buses following a Fifth Estate investigation Doug Ford: If I had been Premier for past five years, GM wouldn’t have left Oshawa. Ford says that the plant is done. Jerry Dias says that he and politicians will fight for jobs. Do you think there is a chance to save this plant from closing and on Ford’s point, would things have been different under a ‘Ford” government for the last 5 years? Mom battles school board, saying yoga is against her family’s religion - Is she trying too hard to make a point about religious freedoms/rights? None of the Catholics we have spoken to have ever had to confess for their sin of Yoga. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by Maddie DiMuccio, CEO of Society for Quality Education, President of the York Region Taxpayers Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Meghan Murphy, writer and journalist, to talk about the social media giant's updated "hateful conduct policy" that now prohibits rhetoric that can be labelled as "misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, toronto-based lawyer and journalist, for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: The mastermind behind the Stefanie Rengel killing, Melissa Todorovic, has been granted day parole, a Quebec domestic violence victim is awarded over $300K in a civil suit and a Quebec evironmental group is suing the federal government over climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Anil Verma, Professor of Industrial Relations and HR Management at the University of Toronto, to talk about what options are available for those now out of a job thanks to this latest auto-industry closure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Michael Diamond, Principal, Upstream Strategy Group and Myriam Denis, Consultant, Daisy Group, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Maple Leaf Foods sets its sights on London for it's new food-processing plant, Unifor president warns of a steep price after GM announces Oshawa plant closure, RCMP provide an update into their investigation on besieged Liberal MP Raj Grewal, day parole has been granted to the mastermind behind the killing of Stefanie Rengel, Google and Twitter have began using an A.I tool that blocks gendered pronouns and Bill & Hilary Clinton take over Toronto's Scotiabank Centre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayer Federation to take a closer look at the newly announced Maple Leaf Foods processing plant in London. With an estimated $62 million in both federal and provincial money being sunk into the plan, what does this "investiment" mean for the taxpayer? 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: Unifor President Jerry Dias warns there will be a price to pay after GM announces the closure of their Oshawa facility and London is getting a new poultry-processing plant and about 1500 new jobs but, it comes with a $62 million Ontario tax-payer bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maple Leaf Foods announced plans to shutter plants in St. Mary's, Toronto and Brampton. This move, will pave the way for the country's largest poultry-processing plant to be built in London throughout the next 4 years. With both federal and provincial goverments chipping in upwards of $60 million towards the project, are we as taxpayers funding un-neccessary layoffs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ales is joined by Catherine Swift, Former Pres/CEO of Canadian Federation of Independent Business, current spokesperson for Working Canadians to discuss the closure of GM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Ian Lee, Business Professor at Carleton University to discuss the plant closing. More than 2,500 employees will be out of work, but the blow to the Canadian auto-sector workforce is far larger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton and Jamie Ellerton. Topics include: The closure of GM and how its Union and Justin Trudeau is vowing to help GM workers, and how government bailouts dont work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ales is joined by Erin O'toole, Conservative MP for Durham, Shadow Minister on Foreign Affairs and International Development to discuss the closure of the GM plant in Oshawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GM is shutting down the plant in 2019, putting more than 2,500 employees out of work, as the automobile giant forges ahead with its global restructuring plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Rubina Ahmed Haq, Global News Radio Finance Expert, to talk about the financial implications of the holiday season. With Black Friday and the emerging Single's Day extending the length of sales, are you really saving any money? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Radio Technology Expert, to talk about Sweden's decision to implant microchips for payment instead of cash. The country is fazing hard cash out by 2025, instead using microchips for payment and identification. Seems like the future is catching up to the present pretty quickly. 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: New story suggests that as many as seven disgruntled Conservative MPP's are set to cross the floor to join the Liberals, Ford Government announced Caroline Mulroney as Minister of Francophone Affairs, Justin Trudeau met by hundreds of protesters when he lands in Calgary and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Victor Willis, Executive Director, PARC - Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, to discuss the Ontario Government's overhaul to the social assistance program. Is the current system helping people or trapping people in a cycle of dependancy? Pierson and Willis discuss the implications of the reform and the best practices to decrease poverty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Top Talkers are: Tasha Kheiriddin - Anchor, Global News Toronto & Devon Peacock - Executive Producer, Global News Radio London Topics Include: The Liberal MP of Brampton East under an ethics investigation after stepping down for medical reasons when in fact he resigned because of a gambling addiction, Ford Government under fire for making cuts to French Language Service Commissioner and scrapping the construction of a French University and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The President and Principal of St. Mikes College both resigned this week amid the sexual assault scandal. While the resignations were a welcome first step, they cannot be the only one. Many more people must be pushed out in order for any real piece of justice to happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Paul Davis, Educator on social media. bullying, sexting and child pornography to discuss how much of an impact a cell phone has on a child's life as well as when is the proper time for a child to be given a cell phone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jesse Hirsh, futurist, researcher, public speaker, to talk about how Facebook’s outgoing head of communications is taking the blame for hiring Definers, the public relations firm doing opposition research on the company’s critics, including billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dr. David Lewis, Assistant Professor, Ted Rogers School of Retail to talk about how recent downward trends in clothing-mega Gap's shopping mall sales, the fashion outlet is looking to close up hundreds of it's stores in a way it describes as "quickly and aggressively". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Melissa Lantsman, Vice President, Public Affairs at Hill & Knowlton and Kim Wright, Vice President, Public Affairs at Hill & Knowlton for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: St. Mike's College School announces the President and Principal have both resigned, the Ford government is overhauling Ontario's social assistance program, a dilemma stands in front of the future of 24 Sussex Drive, the federal government aims to push postal workers back to work and proposed tax incentives for greenhouse-gas emitters raises a lot of eyebrows and questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Rob Breakenridge, Global News Radio Calgary, to talk about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent event in Calgary in which he addresses the on-going saga that is the Trans-Mountain pipeline as well as the ever-widening price gap oil prices are having on the Canadian economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If the past few years have shown us anything, it's that the public's view of the media has been shifted from okay to questionable. Be it politically-driven rhetoric or the notion of needing someone to blame, the media almost always seem to be the first in the line of fire. But, if not for a free, balanced press, who would fact-check the decision-makers and call into question the decisions that are morally wrong and unjust? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Gary Mar, Former Alberta Minister to discuss the fall fiscal update. 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 Canada's national homicide rate. Last year was the highest it's been in a decade says Statistic Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by John Mraz and Bill Hutchison. Topics lnclude: Tax credits, Ford's unelected cheif of staff wants officials to raid pot store, St. Michael's College School parents demand resignations, CRA not treating all taxpayers equally, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent with Global News to discuss fall economic update that will seek to close the loop on some of its outstanding mandate commitments, leaving the door open for the Liberals to use next year’s budget as their 2019 election platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill Blair is slamming a Conservative MP for hosting a “Guns and Guinness” fundraiser last weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Steven Mastoras, Gordian Hospitality Corp, to take a closer look at a recent publication by the Montreal Economic Institute that says the recent spike in Ontario's minimum wage has led a significant loss in job numbers while driving up the prices on restaurant meals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices