The Alex Pierson Show

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Mar 7, 2024 • 12min

Blacklocks Check: ''Arrive-scam'' promotes public cynicism

Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss Liberal MP Iqra Khalid (Mississauga-Erin Mills, Ont.) yesterday told the Commons public accounts committee, Interest rates are high enough, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said yesterday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's current deficit will be 16 percent higher than forecast, the Budget Office says. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 7, 2024 • 14min

'What happened?': Nashville plane crash kills 5 Canadians

Alex Pierson speaks with Mike Doiron, pilot and president of Doiron Aviation Consulting, about the single-engine plane that crashed alongside a highway west of downtown Nashville on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 6, 2024 • 10min

Toronto removing pre-amalgamation symbols, honouring city's commitment to 'truth, justice and reconciliation'

Alex Pierson speaks with James Cowan, life-long Toronto resident with a passion for history, and volunteer with the Canadian Institute for Historical Education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 6, 2024 • 11min

Luka Magnotta transfer was flagged twice to then-minister’s office: CSC

Alex Pierson speaks with Frank Caputo, MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo. Associate Shadow Minister of Justice & Attorney General. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 5, 2024 • 12min

Blacklocks Check: ''Made rent more expensive.'' Government stopped the first time home buyers program

Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss the Liberal and New Democrat MP's yesterday by a 6 to 4 vote blocked and ethics committee probe of why cabinet concealed a report into Chinese securty breaches at the National Microbiology Laboratory, Corporate landlords have ''made rent more expensive,'' a federal auditors are investigating millions in payments through a Crown bank, Export Development Canada, to manage a pandemic relief program. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 4, 2024 • 11min

One of the biggest lies out there, ''Israeli Women were not the victims of rapes & violence

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Professor and distinguished global advocate for women's rights, and she can speak to the horrific acts of sexual and gender-based violence inflicted by Hamas on October 7th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 4, 2024 • 8min

Body Shop Canada files for bankruptcy protection, plans restructuring

Alex Pierson speaks with Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst and author ‘RETAIL Before, During & After COVID-19’, about the Body Shop Canada closing 33 of its stores and halting its e-commerce operations as it seeks to restructure under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 4, 2024 • 11min

'Doomed from the start': First-time homebuyer incentive program ending

Alex Pierson speaks with mortgage broker Run Butler about Canada’s housing agency ending the first-time homebuyer incentive program. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the deadline for new or updated submissions to the program is midnight eastern time on March 21. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 1, 2024 • 11min

Toronto city councillors to study Hamilton's anti-renoviction bylaw

Alex Pierson speaks with Varun Sriskanda, Member of the board of directors for the small ownership landlords of Ontario and Real Estate law expert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 1, 2024 • 11min

Toronto artist, community come together to make boring street pole into LEGO masterpiece

Alex Pierson speaks with Martin Reis, a Toronto-based multi-media artist behind the LEGO-pole project in Harbord Village. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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