The Alex Pierson Show

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 Osca...

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 regulat...

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...

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 megap...

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 megapho...

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 abo...

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 m...

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/adc...

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 of...

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 RCM...

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...

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/...

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