The Alex Pierson Show

Alex talks with the Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter Tom Korski. They break from their usual weekly discussions to talk about why the Privy Council tried to hide almost 1 milliion records on pandemic mismanagement. The good folks at Blacklocks have got their hands on about 8,000 of them, and Tom and Alex look into them.  Let's get talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Alex talks with Sam Cooper, National investigative reporter for Global News, and author of the new book Willful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons, and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West. Alex and Sam discuss the book, and how the criminal underworld has manifested itself in the Canadian west.  Let's get talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks with the Director of Schoolhouse Consulting, Paul Bennett in another installment of their Education Watch series. In this interview, Alex and Paul discuss the serious concerns of "learning loss" that are surfacing, particularly in Ontario and other provinces where schools were disrupted for stretches of online and hybrid learning. Let's get talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

Alex talks with Dr. Jane Liddle, Lecturer for Department of Pediatrics at Ottawa University and Community Pediatrician about the new awareness campaign #codepink, and why children's hospitals across Canada are coming together to raise awareness to the disturbingly huge surge in mental health issues in children and youth. Let's get talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

Its that time of the week where Alex talks with Tom Korski, the Managing Editor at Blacklocks Reporter about the stories taking place in Ottawa that don't get the attention they need. Let's get talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex brings on Bill C-10 expert Michael Geist, Canada Research Cair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. They talk about the legality and possible charter violations of the Bill, and if it will be pushed forward into law.  Let's get talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex talks with Joanna Baron, the Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation about the proposed changes to the constitution that Quebec wants, why the Prime Minister would even say its a possibility, and why no province is allowed to just change the constitution when it wants.  Let's get talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson spoke with Shai DeLuca, A retired IDF Sergent and TV and Media Personality about the disturbing rise of antisemitism around the world, especially within Canada over the past few years. They talk about how it relates to the growing conflict between Israel and Hamas, and how propaganda is playing a big part in this conflict. Let's get talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

It's that time of the week where Alex speaks with Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, Mr. Tom Korski. They go behind the scenes in Ottawa and shine a light on the stories that don't get the attention they deserve.  Let's get talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex talks again with Chris Moore, and they discuss how his battle for justice has progressed. Let's get talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks with Terry Glavin, Columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, National Post, Maclean's Magazine and Sr. Fellow at the Raul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. They talk about the escalating conflict in Israel, and how Hamas is monopolizing in the chaos to sow dissent and further divide the two people.  Let's get talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks with Bacchus Barua, the associate director at the Centre for Health Policy Studies at the Fraser Institute. They talk about why Canada is so woefully lagging in the manufacturing of life-saving and essential drugs that people desperately need.  Let's get talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson talks with Michelle Rempel Garner, Conservative MP and the Shadow Minister for Health. They discuss what the next steps for Canadians should be now that AstraZeneca is being paused in more and more provinces, and there is only a limited supply left. Let's get talking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex talks with Dr. Byram Bridle, an associate professor of Viral Immunology at the University of Guelph about the provincial government pausing the first shot of AstraZeneca. But what about those who already got the shot? There are not enough doses left to give them all their second shot, how will they decide? Will a mixing of vaccines be the only option? Alex and Dr. Bridle tackle these topics a...

Jack Goodman is the owner and director of Camp New Moon.  He talks to Alex about plans to reopen summer camps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks with Francesca Grosso, Principal at Grosso McCarthy Inc about the Auditor Generals damning report on the handling of LTCs during the pandemic...and how the province let down some of its most vulnerable. Let's Get Talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter about why the Department of Health rated a failed Spartan Bioscience Inc. as "solid", how Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna will do better explaining where billions in public spending went, and why YouTube has been voter to be regulated by The Department of Heritage. Let's Get Talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Alex Pierson talks with Dr. Jane Liddle, Lecturer for Department of Pediatrics at Ottawa University and a community Pediatrician about the disturbing rise of young children suffering from mental health issues during this pandemic, and what needs to be done in order to save our truly most vulnerable. Let's get talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Mitchell joins Alex Pierson to talk about news the start of the CFL season is being delayed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reporter Sloane Martin joins Alex from the streets of Minneapolis in the wake of a jury finding Derek Chauvin guilty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brodie O'Hare talks to Alex Pierson about a video captured in a skateboard park in Gravenhurst.  In the video a police officer is seen aggressively shoving a young person.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest Host Arlene Bynon speaks with Frank Seglenieks, Canadian Secretary for the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board. They talk about why the water levels are so low in Lake Ontario this year, and if this will last all year. Let's Get Talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest Host Arlene Bynon speaks with Roger McIntyre, Prof. of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and UofT. Head of Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at the University Health Network. They talk about the becoming more commonplace term "Brain Fog." What it really means, who it affects, and how to clear the fog.  Let's Get Talking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Arlene Bynon speaks with Dr. Kirk Atkinson, Director of the Centre for Small Modular Reactors, Associate Professor and Industrial Research Chair in Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science at Ontario Tech University. They talk about what Small Modular Reactors are, and why 4 provinces that opposed the carbon tax are looking to utilize them in the near future.  Let's Get Talking Lea...

Guest Host Arlene Bynon speaks with Sarah Bontrager, Housing and Public Services Manager for the City of Elk Grove. Sarah helped to design a way to pay the homeless to clean up their camps within the city, and how effective it has been. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices