Swapping Airports for Parks, Caught Cheating...Poorly, And The Fall of The "Bread Cartel"

On this episode of The Alex Pierson Podcast, our host Alex first starts off the conversation with some new and odd information out of Toronto's city council. Members of the council are attempting to proposed that after the lease ends for Billy Bishop Airport, we should raze the facility and replace it with a new park. Alex is joined by the CEO and President of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Daniel Tisch about why the business community is rising to fight this.

Next, Alex is joined by the Asst. Professor in Sports Management at Brock University, Taylor McKee. Taylor and Alex look into the shameful failure of Canada being caught spying on the New Zealand women's team before their preliminary match. Taylor suggests that this could taint our team and the country's reputation.

And finally, Sylvain Charlebois director of the agri-food analytics lab at Dalhousie University comes on to explain why Loblaws could FINALLY be facing a penalty for its bread price-fixing scheme 14 years ago...but why it's still far from over...or enough/

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