The Alex Pierson Show

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the Department of Finance saying ''should not be viewed as a prediction of the future'' according to a letter to the Parliamentary Budget Office, three times as many Department of Employment staff were investigated as were reported fired for defrauding pandemic relief programs, 2021 heat wave that broke an all-...

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Melissa Bourgeois, Family Lawyer, One Family Law in Edmonton, Alberta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Richard Shimooka, Defence Expert and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Derek Finkle, who lives beside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC). Derek and fellow community members have been raising concerns with the SRCHC's safe injection site prior the Friday's shooting that tragically resulted in the death of a 44-year-old mother of two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Trudeau is off to NATO meetings just after Britian says ''Pay up, will ya?'' Host Alex Pierson speaks with Christian Luprecht, Military College and Senior fellow at the McDonald Laurier Institute, about understanding security relationships. Trudeau is playing ''catch up'' with NATO and now we are short on equipment that is necessary. The Government needs to double down. Learn more about you...

Another day, another crime. Are we beginning to normalize this behaviour? Host Alex Pierson speaks with David Perry, Former Toronto Police Officer & 640 Toronto's Security Analyst, about a mom who was killed in Leslieville. Safe supply is destroying Toronto. It's unfortunate these shootings are happening all over the GTA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Moshe Lander, Economist with Concordia University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with community worker Diana Chan McNally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about talks on launching a public inquiry into foreign interference dragging along, higher prices for basic groceries like cabbage and spaghetti are running at three and four times the rate of general inflation, the Office of Elections Commissioner Caroline Simard dismissed 116 complaints of alleged forign interferen...

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jon Reid, President of The Toronto Police Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Dr. Julian Somers, clinical psychologist and distinguished professor at Simon Fraser University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Greg Layson, Digital and Mobile Editor of Automotive News Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Ben Eisen, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute and the study's author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first large scale nuclear plant that the Ford government will build to prepare for electricity demands. Host, Alex Pierson speaks with Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy, about the idea of the Bruce Power will be built to increase electricity supply to service 4.8 million homes. Is it a done deal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jason Tetro, Known as ‘The Germ Guy’ and Host of the Super Awesome Science Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Flavio Volpe, Head of The Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Dr. Karen Chapple, Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto Dr. Karen Chapple, Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, about reimaging downtown Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Paul Davis, Online Safety and Social Media Educator, about online shopping platform Temu - and why you shouldn't use their app to make purchases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about how Revenue Commissioner Bob Hamilton misled MPs in under-reporting the number of Canada Revenue Agency employees implicated in fraudulent claims for pandemic benefits. Hamilton claimed there were “not very many, obviously,” though the Agency now confirms hundreds are under investigation. Learn more about your...

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about Michael Wernick, former chief clerk of the federal public service, has joined a Liberal-affiliated think tank. Wernick abruptly resigned in 2019 following disclosures of the cabinet's failed attempt to quash a criminal prosecution of the SNC-Lavalin Group Inc, a senator who threatened to sue Canadian media over...

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jon Reid, President of the Toronto Police Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Less news, less reporters. This means less accountability. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jeffrey Dvorkin, former director of the journalism program at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and Author of ''Trusting The News In The Digital Age', about why we should be worried. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new report came out on Tuesday about opioid related deaths. Overdoses have tripled since 2021 in young teens. Host Alex Pierson speaks with, Alex Caudarella, CEO of the Canadian Centre Substance Use and Addiction, about the tragedy of over doses in young people. How much did the pandemic play into this and what do we need to do to help prevent overdoses from spiking again? Learn more about your...

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Matt Bradley, Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program coordinator for the Toronto District School Board, about the benefits of allowing grade 11 students enter full-time apprenticeship programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with  Karen Wirsig, senior program manager for plastics at Environmental Defence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices