The Alex Pierson Show

Charles Lewis writes for the Catholic Register and joins guest host Arlene Bynon to talk about the allegations of abuse surfacing within the Church in Pennsylvania and how the Vatican is responding to them.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maxime Bernier's controversial comments have divided parliament and the conservative party itself. Alex speaks to senior consultant and political commentator Alise Mills about how this situation is going to unfold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks to National Access Cannabis CEO Mark Goliger about Second Cup's plan to convert some outlets to dispensaries about the path ahead.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by music correspondent, blogger, radio host and former director of media relations at eOne Music Eric Alper to talk about the death of the Queen of Soul and her legacy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Mina Cohn, the director of the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship at Carleton University’s Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, to talk about why a fashion shoot held at the National Holocaust Monument was incredibly offensive and whether or not taking pictures at such historic places is ever appropriate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Joining Alex for this night's edition of CounterPoint are: Kim Wright, VP at Hill and Knowlton and Melissa Lantsman Vice President, Public Affairs Hill+Knowlton and Conservative Party Strategist Tonight's topics include Ottawa playing politics with NAFTA, Tesla suing the government over the rebate cancellation, and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tom Quiggin is a former military intelligence officer, a former intelligence contractor for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a court appointed expert on jihadist terrorism in both the Federal and criminal courts of Canada. He joins Alex to speak about the Danforth shooting and all the unanswered questions surrounding the incident.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

Yet another woman has climbed a construction crane in Toronto. Alex speaks to Captain Geoff Boisseau of Toronto Fire about the situation and what the repercussions are when it comes to these stunts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three weeks later and the city of Toronto still doesn't have any solid answers about the Danforth shooter's motives. This story has been largely forgotten after that initial tidy narrative the day after. Will we ever find out more?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready for the Yukon Striker! It will be the tallest, fastest, and longest dive coaster in the world and Alex speaks to its architect Peter Switzer to see how it came about.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Richmond Hill Mayor Dave Barrow to speak about his municipality's decision to opt out of selling legal marijuana.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News Radio Legal Expert Lorne Honickman joins Alex to talk about some of the week's top law stories, including the Humboldt Broncos GoFundMe litigation, Jacob Hoggard's case being put over, and others.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former PC candidate in Mississauga Centre and PC Leadership candidate Tanya Granic-Allen joins Alex to speak about her findings about what parents are really expecting from Ontario's sex-ed curriculum.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex on this night's edition of CounterPoint are:  John Mraz – Former liberal war room director and  Dennis Matthews - Vice President at Enterprise Canada and former advertising advisor to PM Stephen Harper Topics include: safe injection sites, illegal border crossings, and the removal of historical statues.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A national holiday to remember residential schools will be little more than a symbolic gesture to show that the federal government is doing something to help indigenous people.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Hal Gunn, co-founder and CEO of Qu Biologics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legal pot will only be available online in Ontario until at least April 1st, 2019. Alex talks to pot activist Jodie Emery about this new development in the process of legalizing recreational marijuana.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex and Toronto Sun columnist Anthony Furey discuss Maxime Bernier's controversial comments about "too much diversity" and take calls on the issue.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian and author of #Antifa:The Anti-Fascist Handbook joins Alex to give a basic rundown on who Antifa are and their goals.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shaun Proulx is publisher at Canada’s first LGBTQ digital magazine GayGuideNetwork.com and joins Alex to speak about the casting of a straight man in a gay role in Disney's upcoming movie Jungle Cruise. Do gay characters now HAVE to be played by gay actors?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex for this night's edition of Counterpoint are:  Michael Diamond, campaign strategist and political commentator with UPSTREAM Strategy Group and Patrick Gossage, founding chairman of Media Profile, former press secretary to Pierre Trudeau and author of Close to the Charisma. Topics include teachers going rogue in regards to the new sex-ed curriculum guidelines and Maxime Bernier's contr...

Will Ontario teachers be punished for refusing to teach the new curriculum? Former Executive Director of SQECanada, education policy consultant, and passionate education reformer Doretta Wilson joins Alex to speak about what's going to happen when the school year begins in September.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's Top Talkers are: Scott Thompson from AM900 CHML Hamilton and Craig Needles from 980 News London Topics include the assault against a Toronto Sun photographer at an Antifa rally and the backlash against actor Jack Whitehall for playing a gay man in Disney's upcoming movie Jungle Cruise.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The battle over the sex-ed curriculum is further proof the unions are running the show in Ontario.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices