The Alex Pierson Show
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Artists create sobering, emotional tributes to Humboldt Broncos
Toronto-born, Silvia Pecota, is an award-winning artist and photographer whose work covers the four corners of the world. She has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Germany, Italy, the former Soviet Union, and Afghanistan. Since 1985, her photographs have appeared internationally in several top publications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"I don’t know what I was thinking, I pulled out all of your teeth"
Lee Schwaderer can't hold back his cries as he tells ON Point about the mistake Newmarket dental surgeon Dr. Ford Moore made when he performed the operation to remove some of his teeth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dealing with the emotional and mental stress of the Humboldt tragedy
Dr. Nicholas Carleton Professor Psychology, PhD, University of Regina joins ON Point to discuss how people close to the Humboldt crash are coping with what has happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Monologue: Free pharma not free and not everyone needs the opportunity
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Olympic hockey star helps after the Humbolt Broncos crash
Olympic hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser talks about the Humbolt Broncos crash and how she's helped the community and families affected Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What first responders in Humboldt may experience
What did first responders experience in Humbolt? Vincent Savoia, M.S.M.. Founder and Executive Director. As the Founder and Executive Director of The Tema Conter Memorial Trust, give us some insight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Monologue: Humboldt Crash - A Canadian Tragedy
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Why legalize pot if people can't use it anywhere
Brad Poulos is a professor at Ryerson's Ted Rogers School of Business Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jay Wilson remembers Jonathan Pitre for his "tenacity, bravery and courage"
Jay Wilson is chair on the board of DEBRACanada.ORG. He joined ON Point to discuss the "tenacity, bravery and courage" of Jonathan Pitre who suffered with a rare skin disease called epidermolysis bullosa. Pitre, 17, passed away Wednesday evening in a Minnesota hospital, according to the Ottawa Citizen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Monologue: Remembering Jonathan Pitre
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The Gazelle Rally is the toughest off-road race you've never heard of
Lorraine Sommerfeld is a Drive columnist with Postmedia and the host of the Lemon Aid Car Show that appears on CHCH. She joins ON Point to talk her participation in the race through the sahara desert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ajax Mayor will fight to keep Ajax Downs
While Pickering was awarded a casino, Ajax Mayor Steve Parish vows the fight to keep Ajax Downs isn’t over Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Doug Ford says he will not provide a media bus for the campaign
Dennis Matthews, is a political commentator and Vice President of marketing and communications, Enterprise Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lack of media bus is not an affront to democracy
Alex talks about PC election candidate's decision to not provide a media bus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Counterpoint - Wednesday April 4
John Mraz – Former liberal war room directorBill Hutchison - Journalism professor at Seneca. Former broadcaster CTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Monologue: Care not Cuts... take care of our healthcare workers!
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PART 2: Matthew Schrier was kidnapped by al-Qaida in Syria. He believes Canadians were involved
Part 2 of Alex Pierson's interview with Matthew Schrier - A U.S. photojournalist kidnapped and tortured by al-Qaida in Syria in 2012 laments in a new book that the RCMP has still not arrested any of the Canadians who were allegedly involved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PART 1: Matthew Schrier was kidnapped by al-Qaida in Syria. He believes Canadians were involved
Part 1 of Alex Pierson's interview with Matthew Schrier - A U.S. photojournalist kidnapped and tortured by al-Qaida in Syria in 2012 laments in a new book that the RCMP has still not arrested any of the Canadians who were allegedly involved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Journalist Kelly Grant speaks about the elderly couple that died together with a medically assisted death.
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Lawyer John Struthers discusses the Liberals new legislation aimed at overhauling the justice system.
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Monologue -- Merlin the Cat: Bob Delaney is proud that the Ontario Liberals have tripled the debt.
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Global News' Sean O'Shea not allowed to interview Rogers Centre patrons
Sean O'Shea, Global News consumer reporter went down to Rogers Centre to ask patrons and passersby to ask about the StubHub deal... and was asked to leave the "public" space outside the stadium by security. He joins #ONPoint and discusses the experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Counterpoint - Thursday March 29, 2018
Vice President of the Liberal Party, Omar Khan and conservative strategist Jacqueline Dobson joins Counterpoint to talk Ontario budget and Blue Jays tickets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oshawa city council urged to demolish house where teen’s remains were found
A house in the downtown core of Oshawa, is a haunting reminder of the death of 18-year-old Rori Hache, the victim's godmother, Krysia Meeldyk, is calling for the demolition of the “house of horrors”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chinese space station tumbling to earth on April 1. Michigan Residents on Alert!
Michigan State Police Captain Chris Kelenski Deputy State Director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security joins Alex Pierson to discuss preparations in case the state gets hit with space junk that does not end up burning up on entry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kathleen Wynne is going to make us all rich; right after you give her all your money
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Not many people observed the recent to Earth Hour
Tom Harris Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) joins ON Point to discuss why people are no longer paying attention to initiatives such as Earth Hour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ford could bring change to both provincial and national climate change policy
Ross McKitrick - is a Canadian economist specializing in environmental economics and policy analysis. He is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Toronto restaurant owner cuts animal leg at front window while vegan protest occurs outside: activists
Marnie Ugar is an activist and was protesting in front of Antler Kitchen and Bar. She joins Alex Pierson to discuss why the group was protesting and their reaction to the owner preparing and eating a large animal leg in their view. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Doug Ford reacts to Ontario Liberal Budget announcement
Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Doug Ford joins Alex Pierson to discuss his thoughts on the budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ontario Liberals wait 15 years to help the province's most vulnerable
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NDP Office employee says she was pressured to accuse co-worker of sexual harassment
Alex speaks with Bay Observer journalist John Best about the mounting allegations of bullying and harassment at NDP constiuency offices in Hamilton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ontario government to pony up $105M a year to horse racing industry
Alex speaks with President of StandardBred Breeders Association and Assistant Farm Manager of Seelster Farms Walter Parkinson about the Liberals cancelling funding to the horse racing industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Counterpoint - March 26th, 2018
Vincent Gasparro and Jenni Byrne join Alex Pierson to talk some of the day's top headlines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canadian daughter of NRA member marches for gun reforms in Washington
Alex speaks with Kat Schamel, a young activist who holds dual Canadian-American citizenship and recently marched in the US in support of tighter gun control laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Monologue: Looking a gift horse in the mouth - Ontario Liberals promise millions for horse racing
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A different kind of Second City story
Kevin Frank is the Artistic director for the Second City Training Center and he joins ON Point to talk about some very groundbreaking and unique classes. SC is offering Improv for Anxiety as well as Improv for Autism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Canadian students heading to Washington gun rally
Kat Schamel is travelling to join a rally in Washington to demand tighter gun controls. Schamel is a Toronto high school student with dual Canada-U.S. citizenship whose father is a member of the NRA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sunshine List: Number of public sector employees earning over $100k tops 130,000
Christine Van Geyn is the Ontario Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Morally superior Liberals get politically incorrect
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Facebook under pressure over data mining scandal
Stephen Murdoch - Vice President, Public Relations Enterprise Canada joins ON Point to discuss whether this scandal will have a detrimental impact on facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Counterpoint - Thursday March 22
Discussing the stories of the day: Verbal faux pas by a few liberal politicians Marijuana bill C-45 passes Joining counterpoint today: Jamie Ellerton - Principal at @Conaptus and political pundit; Tom Parkin, Postmedia national politics columnist with a bluntly social democratic point of view Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Conservative Senators voted against marijuana bill
Senator Leo Housakos - Conservative (Quebec Wellington) joins ON Point to discuss why conservative senators voted against the marijuana Bill C-45 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Global News Top Talkers - Thursday March 22
Bill Kelly - weekdays 9am – 12pm – AM900 CHML Andrew Lawton - 12 – 3pm – AM980 CFPL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Trudeau and Facebook: The Platform. The campaign. The propaganda.
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Suspect throws rocks, smashes Thornhill synagogue’s front doors in broad daylight
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan - Chabad Flamingo Synagogue joins Alex Pierson, ON Point to discuss the attack on his Shul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Just Imagine: What if the Ontario Liberals had paid attention to the Drummond Report
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Ontario Liberals propose $2.1B to ‘rebuild’ mental health system
Francesca Grosso Health policy consultant who helped develop healthcare platform for People’s Guarantee joins ON Point to discuss whether this plan will actually help people in need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Counterpoint - Tuesday March 20, 2018
Small business man Andy Stinton, and political policy wonk Dennis Matthews debate everything including how 14 year old girls can afford fashionable purses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Officials investigating Texas parcel bombs
Dr. Gavin Cameron - University of Calgary Centre of Military and Strategic Studies is a domestic terror expert and discusses the bombings in texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices