The Alex Pierson Show

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton, Small Business Man and Jamie Ellerton, Principal at Conaptus PR. Topics include: We have a deal on Nafta-- Is it a better deal? We are now a week into the debate over Tori Stafford’s killer. Her dad Rodney Stafford wrote a personal letter to the PM on friday. Asylum seekers lodged in hotels and motels across the Greater Toronto Area will be staying two to four weeks longer than expected, as federal and municipal officials scramble for a new plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Cyndee Todgham-Cherniak, Trade Lawyer with LexSage to discuss the new trade deal between Canada, Mexico and the United States. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, will replace NAFTA, which has been under renegotiation for more than a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks about how Jewish Groups want activist Linda Sarsour banned from Canadian Public Speaking Events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Mercedes Stephenson, Ottawa Bureau Chief and Host of The West Block, to talk about some of the most newsworthy topics to keep an eye on, including Corrections Canada's decision on Terri-Lynne McClintic and the New NAFTA talks between Canada, United States and Mexico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Sam Nunberg, former Trump campaign advisor, to talk about the Senate's vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. How will this decision change the judicial system in the United States? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Talli Osborne, an inspirational speaker who has presented at TedX Toronto. Osborne was recently hit by an SUV while she was riding her mobility scooter. After police were called, she had a confrontation with aggressive officers who blamed her for the crash. As a result, she has filed a formal complaint with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director. 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: Corrections Canada's decision to transfer Terri-Lynne McClintic to a minimum security healing lodge as well as the Senate's vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh after Trump ordered the FBI to conduct an investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Oren Amitay, Registered Psychologist and Media Commentator, to talk about Terri-Lynne McClintic and Corrections Canada's decision to transfer her to a minimum security healing lodge. Knowing her history of violence and manipulation, can she really be ready for this? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Top Talkers are: Mackay Taggart - News Director, Global News Toronto and Rick Zamperin - Assistant Program, News & Senior Sports Director, AM900 CHML. Topics include: How Corrections Canada decided to transfer Terri-Lynne McClintic to a minimum security healing lodge, and our cyber security after the latest Facebook breach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Alan Carter, Anchor at Global News Toronto, Host of Focus Ontario and Queen's Park Bureau Chief, to talk about the promises made by Doug Ford during his election campaign. Ford's promises of bettering the sales and distribution of cannabis, as well as the ending of the Drive Clean initiative are discussed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terri-Lynne McClintic was convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 and given 25 years without parole. She was reportedly transferred from a medium-security prison in Ontario to the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge run by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) in December. Corrections Canada is comfortable with their decision, so clearly it's time we look at these decsion makers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks with Jane Meadus, staff lawyer and Institutional Advocate at Advocacy Centre For The Elderly, about the inquiry into Elizabeth Wetlaufer and how she was able to take the lives of so many elderly people and get away with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Joseph Neuberger, Partner at Neuberger and Partners, Global News Radio legal analyst to discuss whether or not the federal government should intervene following Terri-Lynne McClintic's move from a maximum security prison to a minimum security, indigenious healing centre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dr Peta Nankivell to talk about how one hospital in Colorado has removed the "gender" catagory from the wristbands placed on newborn babies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's Top Talkers are: Mike Stubbs - Reporter, Global News Radio London. and Jason Chapman - Executive Producer, Global News Radio. Topics include: Testimonials from both Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are heard in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Is the 'Me Too Movement' being used as a political weapon and does all of this hinder Kavanaugh from gaining a seat in America's highest court? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, founding trade lawyer of LexSage, to discuss how the suttle jabbing between Canada and the United States is dividing the two countries from reaching an amicable agreement on NAFTA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Omar Khan, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Liberal Party executive and Melissa Lantsman, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill+Knowlton, Conservative Strategist for today's counterpoint. Topics include: A meeting between Canada and the U.S. could actually be in the works as NAFTA talks continue, politicizing the death of Tori Stafford, lighting up a joint in the same place as you would smoke a cigarette and police in Calgary won't be allowed to smoke marijuana after clocking out of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An alleged incident more than 35 years ago has halted the process of confirming U.S. judge Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court. Both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, have testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving their accounts of an incident that Ford alleges "changed her life forever". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Tony Clement to discuss cases such as the transfer of Tori Stafford's killer out of prison and into an aboriginal healing lodge risk eroding public faith in the justice system and may lead to people taking matters into their own hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Mark Laurence, former pilot Air force, canadian pilots association to discuss how officials in the U.S. blame two Air Canada pilots for coming within three to six metres of crashing their jetliner into a plane on the ground last year in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Bill Hutchinson and John Mraz. Topics include: Ontario's Progressive Conservative government said it will halt a planned increase to minimum wage, and a 3rd woman has now come foward accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Nekaneet First Nation's Band Council, Chief Alvin Francis regarding a review of why one of the people convicted in the murder of Tori Stafford was moved to an aboriginal healing lodge. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale made the announcement prior to question period on Wednesday, saying that while he does not have the authority to reverse the decision to move Terri-Lynne McClintic from a prison to an aboriginal healing lodge in Saskatchewan, the review will look into whether doing so is consistent with the facts of the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Offenders looking to get a transfer out of prison and into a healing lodge do not have to prove they are Aboriginal. Instead, they can self-identify. And while Global News has confirmed Terri-Lynne McClintic, a convicted murderer recently transferred from prison to one such lodge, is Aboriginal, it is not clear whether she used that option or proved membership in a First Nations, Metis or Inuit community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andrew Scheer, Federal leader of the Conservative party, who says if he were prime minister, he’d build the Trans Mountain pipeline by invoking constitutional powers and banning foreign funding from being used to oppose the project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Mike Van Soelen, Principal at Navigator, communications strategist, and commentator, and Kim Wright, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill+Knowlton for today's counterpoint. Topics include: The latest on child killer Terri-Lynne McClintic, A member of the New Democratic Party uses language not fit for parliament when talking about the Trans Mountain project, former Blue Jays pitcher, Roberto Osuna, appears in a Toronto courtroom, and U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh further denies the sexual assault allegations placed against him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Rodney Stafford, father of Tori Stafford, who was violently tortured and killed by Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty in April 2009. Since her initial sentencing, McClintic has been moved from a maximum security prison to a minimum security, indigenious healing centre, where she is afforded the luxuries similar to those of a one-bedroom apartment. Stafford's father shares his feelings on this decision as well as his upcoming trip to Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's Top Talkers are: Jason Chapman - Executive Producer, Global News Radio. Topics include: Former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, Roberto Osuna, breathes a heavy sigh as he re-appears in a Toronto courtroom. Meanwhile, in a U.S. courtroom, former television star and comedian, Bill Cosby, faces judgement of his own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does the country's system of law turn it's balanced shoulder away from those who are well-known within the public eye? From the kidnapping and killing of an innocent little girl to years of sexaul assualt on helpless victims, should the justice system "sentence" those "celebrities" any different than if a regular person committed those same crimes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News Radio Legal Expert Joseph Neuberger joins Alex to speak about a decision made by Ontario Superior Court Justice Shaun Nakatsuru to give a black man a lenient sentence due to racial and poverty issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Ann Brocklehurs to discuss the verdict of Dellen Millard who stood to inherit a multimillion-dollar aviation company. He was found guilty of first-degree murder in his father’s death Monday, a ruling that marked his third such conviction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counterpoint: Monday, September 24th, 2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Vic Fedeli, Minister of Finance to discuss how the Liberals' are to be held accountable for a $15-billion deficit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discussion regarding Julie Piatt and her qualifications as Canada's Governor General. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kaleb Houle is battling cancer for the third time in 4 years, and he's only 13 years old. Alex sits down with his mother Jennifer Houle to hear their story of strength, struggle, and community support. If you would like to support the family, visit: The Go Fund Me Page at Kalebs Kourage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ticket Master scalper conversation has gone around the world. Alex takes Alan Cross' responses and predictions on the developing conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Jenny Serwylo, the lady whose kitchen was held ransom by a hungry group of raccoons. One particularly pesky raccoon didn't back down from Jenny, even staring her down as it ate her food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Kristin Raworth, advocate for sexual violence survivors, to talk about how tough it is for the media in the #MeToo movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Stephen Metelsky, a criminology professor at Mohawk College, to talk about the recent arrest in Hamilton for the last year's murder of mobster, Angelo Musitano. They discuss the implications the arrest have on organized crime in Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Omar Khan, Vice President, Public Affairs Hill & Knowlton Strategies, Liberal Party Executive, and Melissa Lantsman, VP, Public Affairs Hill & Knowlton, Conservative Strategist for today's edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Danforth shooting details after police documents are released, carbon taxes and military veterans are being short-changed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Tom Quiggin, a former military intelligence officer, former intelligence contractor for the RCMP and a court appointed expert on jihadist terrorism, to talk about the Danforth shooting. Newly unsealed documents have been released that add more questions to this confusing case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight`s Top Talkers are: Bill Kelly – Global News Radio Hamilton and Mike Stubbs – Global News Radio London Topics include: The newly-unsealed documents from the Danforth Shooting case as well as the World Anti-Doping Agency’s decision to lift Russia’s three-year doping ban. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ON Point host, Alex Pierson, is joined by Executive Director of Canadians for Clean Prosperity, Mark Cameron, to talk about carbon taxes. A report from the independent group raised questions after it stated that carbon taxes could actually put more money in Canadian’s pockets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After Ian Buruma was ousted from New York Review of Books after publishing an essay by Jian Ghomeshi, it is clear that the rules of Me Too are being made up as we go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Arlene Bynon is joing with Marco Chown Oved, Toronto Star Investigative reporter to discuss ticket scalpers and how Ticketmaster offered to help them do business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Arlene Bynon is joing by David Butt, Barrister to discuss Donald Trump casting doubt on the allegation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Arlene Bynon is joined with Lawrence Martin, Public Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail to discuss Doug Ford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monologue: On Point guest host Arlene Bynon talks about a ``plowing`` match at Queen`s Park, the latest on the on-going NAFTA negotiations, tensions remain high between Canada`s Foreign Affairs MInister, Chrystia Freeland and U.S. president Donald Trump, and a big announcement for two of Sesame Street`s biggest names. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Point guest host Arlene Bynon talks with Jennifer Pagliaro, the Toronto Star`s city hall reporter about what the possible outcome of Wednesday`s ruling could be as well as the effects it will have both on the city and it`s council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight`s Top Talkers are: Craig Needles - Host, The Craig Needles Show, 980 CFPL. and Matt Gurney - Host, The Exchange with Matt Gurney, 640 Toronto. Topics include: The continued backlash from the Ford government`s threat of using the Notwithstanding Clause and Doug Ford heads to Washington D.C. to offer his two cents on the NAFTA negotiations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Point guest host Arlene Bynon talks with Shaun Proux, publisher of The Gay Guide Network dot com about the news that many fans of both Sesame Street and the two characters in question, have been debating for years. Now, it`s official. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices