The Alex Pierson Show

The Royal is the largest combined indoor agricultural fair and international equestrian competition in the world, but apparently that doesn't matter to unions. Teachers are being told not to take kids to the Royal Winter Fair in support of IATSE? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Mark Farrant, a juror who served as foreman during the trial of 31-year-old Farshad Badakhshan to talk about how that trial left him suffering from PTSD and how a new bill, set to be brought in front of Parliament Hill, could provide those who have shared that same experience with a means to properly discuss it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Donna Baldwin, the mother of the young boy, and Amy Fee, PC MPP for Kitchener South-Hespeler, and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, to discuss the situation as well as look at a new bill that could provide new light and better support for other families put into this position. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Alex talks with Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayer Association, to take a deeper look into the large sum billed by one of Canada's former viceregal representative's to Queen Elizabeth II as well as discussing what the proposed review by the Trudeau government, into that spending, could entail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton, Small Business Man, and Mike Van Soelen, Principal at Navigator Ltd. for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Health Canada gives the nod for supervised drug-use sites in London, a review shows that Canada's carbon tax could skyrocket in 2022, a mother petitions to get peanuts back into school, CNN anchor Don Lemon declares what the biggest terror threat in...

Alex is joined by Tim O'Neill, a retired RCMP officer, to take a closer look at the planned drug-use sites and what they can do to help struggling addicts. O'Neill shares a personal connection with this decision as his daughter died from opioid use. 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: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau verges on hypocrisy after telling a group of young students, all the opposition does is scream and yell, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is setting his sights on Welfare reform, and thousands of unhappy Ontario Cannabis Store customers are outraged af...

According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, there are good guys and bad guys in Canadian politics. Speaking to a group of young students, Trudeau would eloborate slightly professing that the Liberals are all that is right and the Conservatives just yell, shout and are wrong. It leaves you to wonder, what description would the Prime Minister give his own past episodes of temper tantrums and screami...

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. Peter is joined by Elissa Freeman (PR and Pop Culture Expert), as they try to figure out Kanye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. Peter is joined byJohn Mraz (former liberal war room director) and Bill Hutchison (television broadcaster and journalism professor at Seneca). Topics include: Critics calling for Steve Bannon debate to be cancelled Is it better to debate Steve Bannon or to ignore him? McClintic’s brother says ‘she’s no more Indigenous than I am green from the planet Mars’....

Peter Shurman guest hosts for Alex Pierson.  Peter has thoughts and notions about Stats Can probing our banking info. Spoiler Alert - He don't like it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman guest hosts for Alex Pierson.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman guest hosts for Alex Pierson.  Statistics Canada taking our banking info. Hallowe'en and cultural appropriation. Trump in Pittsburgh. Toronto transportation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Douglas Bevans joins Alex Pierson and says the drink is a commentary on product marketing, and that if product is packaged in a sleek bottle, and promises to solve all of your problems, you'll buy it.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Darryl Singer, Head of Commercial and Civil Litigation at Diamond and Diamond joins Alex to discuss how legalization may affect your insurance rates! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Toronto-based lawyer, Lorne Honickman for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: The family of Barry and Honey Sherman have announced a $10 million reward for information on the killings, a secret police report finds a new city courthouse will increase the risk of gang-related violence downtown and a European Court rules in a case that argues insulting the Prophet Mohamm...

Alex is joned by Carson Phillips, PhD, Managing Director of the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto, to take a closer look at a Toronto private school for girls who were shown a re-imagined performance of William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'. During the show, audience members were encouraged by the institution's principal to yell anti-semetic profanity and oth...

Alex is joined by Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer, broadcaster, and one-time President of the Liberal Party of Canada, and Jon Dwyer, Director at Aereus Technologies Inc. for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include - The family of Tori Stafford will head a protest on Parliament Hill against the move of Stafford's killer, Terri Lynn McClintic, more than 35 activists groups are calling for...

Alex is joined by Rodney Stafford, father of Tori Stafford, to discuss how the federal Conservatives are poised to thrust the transfer of convicted child killer Terri-Lynne McClintic from prison to a healing lodge back into the spotlight just days ahead of a Parliament Hill protest planned by Stafford and members of his family. 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 - A coalition of community groups are calling for the Toronto Munk Debate to drop guest speaker, Steve Bannon, Statistics Canada has been caught nabbing over a decade of personal financial information from the Canadian Credit Bureau, and after almost 30 years as a show f...

After 11 worshippers were gunned down in an act of hatred inside a Syngogue near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the defining thought amongst many is not on the victims. Rather, it is posed on a President, who's term in office has been critizied by many as a stand in office riddled with hate-speech, fear-mongering and degredation. So the question is, should a man known for those traits be welcomed to th...

Alex is joined by David Perry, CEO Investigative Solutions Network to discuss a news story about a mother who is reunited with her son after 31 years.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ALex Pierson is joined by Ann Cavoukian, Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence, Ryerson University and Former Privacy Commissioner to discuss Statistic Canada. Statistic Canada banks across the country for financial transaction data and personal information of 500,000 Canadians without their knowledge, Global News has learned. Learn more about your ad choices. V...

Alex is joined by Omar Khan, Vice President, Public Affairs Hill & Knowlton Strategies, Liberal Party Executive.  Topics discuss: Doug Ford's vow to reduce provinicial trade barriers, Stats Canada requesting banking information of 500,000 Canadians without thier knowledge, Toronto Sun nespaper pulls column skeptical of vaccines after backlash, mother reunited with son 31 years after alleged parent...

Alex Pierson is joined by Steve McDonald, Director of Policy and Strategic Communications CIJA to discuss how anti Semitism on the rise and how warning signs on this shooting have been waving for a while. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices