

The Alex Pierson Show
640 Toronto / Curiouscast
The Alex Pierson show is an in-depth, no-nonsense look at the stories making headlines. Alex has more than 20 years in the field and behind an anchor desk, and is known and respected for her tough reporting style and accountability. Join the daily conversation with the Alex Pierson Show, and never miss an important story again.
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Sep 30, 2024 • 13min
Foreign Interference; How Are We Supposed to Vote in Any Election?
There are as many as 50 elected officials and staff that have unwillingly or willingly infiltrated our Federal Government to work against our interests. How are we supposed to vote in any election? Host Alex Pierson speaks with Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch & Democracy Education Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 30, 2024 • 8min
Rinse, Recycle and Repeat; Another Port Strike in Montreal
Montreal dockworkers have walked off the job for a 3 day strike. It comes just hours before tens of thousands of US longshoreman walk off the job crippling 36 port along the east coast from Texas to Maine. Host, Alex Pierson speaks with Marvin Ryder, Associate Professor, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at McMaster University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 26, 2024 • 10min
Could Lawsuits Be Coming For The TDSB?
Days after an ill-advised fieldtrip, the Toronto District School Board is still dealing with growing fallout from the public. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Joseph Neuberger, a Criminal Justice Attorney with Neuberger & Partners LLP. Joseph tells Alex just what kind of lawsuits members of the TDSB COULD see in the coming weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 26, 2024 • 11min
Blacklock's Check-In: Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, the Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter about emails obtained from Minister Guilbeault's department reveals discussions to ''cancel planned burns in Western Canada,' months before the devastating wildfire in Jasper, Cabinet yesterday survived a non-confidence vote by a margin of 211 to 120 on a warning it may be a short reprieve. All this and more!GUEST: Tom Korski - Managing Editor of Blacklock's ReporterX(formerly Twitter): @mindingottawa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 25, 2024 • 6min
Tunnels Under The Highway
President and CEO of the Toronto Region Board of Trade Giles Gherson joins Alex Pierson to talk about Premier Ford's announcement to explore digging a tunnel underneath one of the busiest highways in the entire world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 23, 2024 • 13min
A Parents Concern: The TDSB Took My Child To A Protest
Host Alex Pierson speaks with "Sarah", a mother of a student who was one of the many who the TDSB took on a field trip that quickly turned into a protest. "Sarah" tells Alex just how this has damaged her trust in the school board and why the board not only failed the students but the community as a whole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 23, 2024 • 12min
Trudeau on Late Night & Hateful Rhetoric in Campaigns
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Warren Kinsella, the President of Daisy Group and former political strategist for Jean Chretien about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joining Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show". Warren and Alex discuss why the PM would choose to go on this show, and also touch on the former Premier of Ontario accusing Don Valley West by-election candidate Anthony Furey a "bigot". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 19, 2024 • 13min
What is the Mossad?
Host Alex Pierson asks the question on many people's minds in light of the pager and walkie-talkie explosions...just what is the Mossad? To answer that Alex speaks with Dr. Eyal Pinko, a former senior intelligence officer and professor at Bar-Ilan University who breaks down the origins of the organization, and how it compares to other global intelligence agencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 19, 2024 • 33min
Further Cuts to International Students, What is the Mossad, & Improve Policing in Hospitals
On this episode of The Alex Pierson Podcast, we'll start off talking about the feds change of direction for international students, exploring just what the Mossad is and why they are considered so dangerous to some. Alex Speaks With: Guidy Mamann, an immigration lawyer with Mamann, Sandaluk & Kingwell LLP about the federal government extending cuts to international students and work permits.Eyal Pinko, a Sr research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies who helps explain just what Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, are all about. Peter Shirer the Vice Chair Toronto Paramedic Services Unit Local TCEU Local 416 on a new pilot program that will see police officer stationed in select ER's to help expedite safe patient transfers under the mental health act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 19, 2024 • 9min
Blacklock's Check-In: ''We have become a foreign interference playground, 'testified Conservative MP Michael Chong
Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, the Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabniet knowingly misdirected investigations of foriegn interference under a ''mountain of process,'' Cabinet confirms hundreds of church burnings nationwide with a sharp rise in arson attacks following claims that skeletal remains were discovered at and Indian Residential School. All this and more!GUEST: Tom Korski - Managing Editor of Blacklock's ReporterX(formerly Twitter): @mindingottawa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices