The Alex Pierson Show

Alex is joined by Omar Khan, Vice President Public Affairs at Hill and Knowlton Strategies, Liberal Party Executive and Melissa Lantsman, Vice President Public Affairs at Hill and Knowlton Strategies, Conservative Strategist. Topics Include: Thirteen Canadians have been detained in China since the arrest of Huawei executive Mung Wanzhou, 25 women may have received faulty cancer treatment in a Hami...

Alex Pierson is joined by Dr. Brett Belchetz, Co-founder and CEO at Maple, to talk about a scenario that would give any woman nightmares. 25 women at a Hamilton hospital may have received faulty cancer treatment from a broken piece of equipment. Cervical cancer is one of the most deadly cancers a woman can get, so how did 25 people receive faulty radiation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Tonight's Top Talkers are: Craig Needles - Global News Radio London – 9am - Noon & Drex – Host of The Shift - Global News Radio Topics include: Should Parliament allow minors and the mentally ill to end their lives with the aid of a doctor and World Junior Team Canada Captain, Maxime Comtois, being harrassed online after loss to Finland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

Toronto councillor, Kristyn Wong-Tam, claimed she became the target of an alt-right slander campaign in the fall municipal election. No politician deserves the treatment that Tam received, but pointing a finger of blame at the right for creating behaviour that's been around for a long time isn't right. Both sides are guilty of bad behaviour, and in fact, feed off each other.   Learn more about you...

Alex is joined by Dave Perry, CEO Investigative Solutions Network Inc, 28-year decorated career with the Toronto Police Service to discuss Toronto;s homicide. Toronto homicide squad has had a difficult year – the team has had to investigate a record-breaking number of killings in Canada’s most populous city, grapple with a rise in deadly gang violence, address criticism about a perceived lack of a...

Alex is joined by John Mraz, Former liberal war room director and Bill Hutchison, Journalist/Broadcaster, professor at Seneca. Topics include: The New Years Carbon Tax Conference, Chamber of Commerce CEO apologizes for ‘one-percenter’ tweet, Feds should consider making some criminal pardons automatic, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Christina Blizzard, Former Queens Park journalist to discuss Premier Doug Ford’s disappointing first six months in power and how Conservatives are questioning the way they choose a leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monologue: You worry about you. I will worry about me. Why 2019 will be the year of pushback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Christian Leuprecht, Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada, for ON Point. The conversation is about Michael Kovrig, one of the Canadians who is being detained in China and being denied access to his lawyers. Canada is trying to figure out a plan of action. In Ottawa there was a high level call with top Canadian officials from national security, bu...

Alex Pierson is joined by Ann Cavoukian, Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence, Ryerson University, to discuss StatsCan’s planned pilot census. First StatsCan was taking people's banking information without their knowledge and now the new census would be mandatory for people to answer. As StatsCan asks for more and more of our personal information, the question...

Alex is joined by Bob Richardson, Senior Counsel at NATIONAL Public Relations, and Anthony Furey, Sun / Postmedia columnist & national comment editor. Topics include: Canadian who is detained in China is denied access to his lawyers, Conservative Leader Andew Scheer says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the most divisive Prime Minister in Canadian history, the federal Finance Department doesn't ex...

Tonight's top talkers are: Rick Zamperin - Assistant Program Director, Global News Radio Hamilton & Tasha Kheiriddin – Host, Global News Radio Toronto Topics include: Conservative Leader Andew Scheer says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the most divisive Prime Minister in Canadian history and the Finance Department doesn't expect to have a balamced budget until 2040.   Learn more about your ad ch...

If Spinal Tap could rate the volume of 2018, it would be one louder than any other year. This year's news cycle has been chaotic and relentless. It seemed like every day had a big news story that shocked everyone, then the next day, another shocking story surfaced that overshadowed the previous story. Let's all hope that in 2019 the volume goes down, at least back to 10. Learn more about your ad c...

Alex is joined by David Shipley, President/CEO of Beaucron Security and Global News Radio Cyber Security Expert, to discuss the alleged Chinese hacking campaign. Canada and several of our allies were targeted in an intrusive hacking attack on big corporations. How are we just learning about this two years after the fact? After all of these findings, how is China still in the running to be the back...

Alex Pierson is joined by Erzabet Almassy and Lorne Waldman for ON Point tonight. Erzabet is the mother of the Hamilton family who are facing deportation to Hungary after 7 years living in Canada, and she is with her immigration lawyer, Lorne Waldman of Waldman & Associates. Erzabet's family is the type that Canada wants, so why is she facing deportation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Alex Pierson is joined by Sterling Cripps, Founder and President of Canadian Unmanned Incorporated, a highly specialized UAV / drone training and support company, to talk about Gatwick airport closing. The airport closed due to drones. How can drones shut down an entire airport in 2018? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Kim Wright, Vice President Public Affairs at Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Melissa Lantsman, Vice President Public Affairs at Hill and Knowlton Strategies. Topics include: Report surfaces that Canada and several of our allies were targetted by China in an intrusive hacking attack back in 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won't say whether he thinks Western alienation is grow...

Alex Pierson is joined by David Perry, CEO of Investigative Solutions Network Inc. and a former member of the Toronto Police Service, to discuss the newly announced Toronto Community Healing Project. Bill Blair announced that 6.7 million dollars were given to the project, but is that enough money? What will the Healing Project do and what impact will it have on the violence in the city? Learn more...

Tonight's Top Talkers are: Bill Kelly - Global News Radio Hamilton & Mike Stubbs - Global News Radio London Topics include: President of the Unifor union, Jerry Dias, may be giving false hope to GM workers in the Oshawa plant and Canada and several of our allies were targetted in an intrusive hacking attack on big corporations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The activism that created the oil crisis definitely won't be fixing it. The oil crusaders who are campaigning for the oil to flow are the same people who have been anti-oil for years. Can we really believe them? Or is this just another political activism campaign designed to get votes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Radio Technology Expert to discuss how Facebook gave companies such as Apple, Amazon and Yahoo extensive access to users’ personal data, effectively exempting them from the company’s usual privacy rules, according to a New York Times report.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Ali Taghva Editor in Chief for The Post Millennial- to discuss how Charlie Angus sent shockwaves through Twitter by describing Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Premier as “White Trash.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Paul Davis, Educator on Social Media, Bullying, Sexting, Child pornograph to discuss the St. Michaels College School investigations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Bill Hutchison, and John Mraz. Topics include: Liberals looking national basic income as a way to help Canadians cope with job instability, Toronto police arrest another student, lay additional charges in St. Michael`s College School investigation, Quebecers prefer to import oil from Western Canada, according to Leger poll, and much.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Alex is joined by Joe Nebeurger to discuss how Toronto Police have arrested five students from St. Michael`s College School. Four of whom were already accused in a separate incident, in connection with another alleged sexual assault at the all-boys private school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices