On Point With Alex Pierson
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A new voice and a fresh perspective. Join the conversation, with ON Point with Alex Pierson on 640 Toronto.With 20 years in the field, and behind an anchor desk, Alex is known and respected for her tough reporting style and accountability. An in-depth, no-nonsense look at the stories making headlines.ON Point with Alex Pierson airs weeknights from 7 to 10 p.m. on 640 Toronto.
Episódios
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![Some people who were ineligable for CERB wont have to repay it, the 2nd impeachment trial for Donald Trump is underway, and how are some of the most successful clubs and hotels holding up during this pandemic]()
Some people who were ineligable for CERB won't have to repay it, the 2nd impeachment trial for Donald Trump is underway, and how are some of the most successful clubs and hotels holding up during this pandemic
10/02/2021 Duração: 44minAlex speaks with Charles Khabouth, Owner of Ink Entertainment about how his clubs, restaurants and hotels are holding up now that we are in a controlled & slow "return to normal "in the GTA. Then Aaron Wudrick, the Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation talks with Alex about Trudeau's announcement that would allow the people who did not qualify for CERB to not have to repay the benefit. Alex then speaks with Michael Taube, a Troy Media syndicated columnist about the start of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Is Canada ignoring its own Pandemic Playbooks? With Canada dipping into the COVAX fund, how will this affect 3rd World Nations, and why doesnt Canada produce its own vaccines?]()
Is Canada ignoring its own Pandemic Playbooks? With Canada dipping into the COVAX fund, how will this affect 3rd World Nations, and why doesn't Canada produce its own vaccines?
09/02/2021 Duração: 47minAlex speaks with former Lt. Col David Redman, the Former Head of Alberta's Emergency Management Agency about Canada's Pandemic Playbooks - and why the country seems to be avoiding using them. Then, Jason Nickerson the Humanitarian Affairs Advisor for Doctors Without Borders speaks with Alex about Canada dipping into the COVAX fund, and how it negatively affects 3rd world nations. Then Alex speaks with Richard Owens, Professor of Law at University of Toronto and Munk Sr. Fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute about Canada's lack of vaccine production in the country Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![You have to break the cycle of fear in the public: Redman]()
'You have to break the cycle of fear in the public': Redman
09/02/2021 Duração: 13minLt.-Col. David Redman, Former Head of Alberta's Emergency Management Agency is urging Premiers across Canada to walk away from lockdowns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![A new defemation lawsuit has been launched against Rudy Giuliani by a Canadian company, is the Trudeau government violating Charter Rights with the new Quarantine facilities, and parents are looking into independent schooling more than ever]()
A new defemation lawsuit has been launched against Rudy Giuliani by a Canadian company, is the Trudeau government violating Charter Rights with the new Quarantine facilities, and parents are looking into independent schooling more than ever
06/02/2021 Duração: 40minAlex speaks with Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio's legal expert about Dominion Voting system suing Rudy Giuliani for defamation for spreading disinformation about the voting system. John Carpay, the President of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom speaks with Alex about a building lawsuit against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's liberals over the unlawful confinement of returning Canadian travelers. And finally Alex speaks with Paige McPherson, an affiliate scholar with the Fraser Institute about how parents are re-examining public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Small businesses are planning to re-open regardless of what the provincial government says, more issues surrounding the dwindling vaccination supply, and the Prime Minister has decided to not weigh in on if Canada will participate in the 2022 Beijing Olym]()
Small businesses are planning to re-open regardless of what the provincial government says, more issues surrounding the dwindling vaccination supply, and the Prime Minister has decided to not weigh in on if Canada will participate in the 2022 Beijing Olym
05/02/2021 Duração: 36minAlex speaks with Vladislav Sobolev, founder of the We Are All Essential movement, and why over 400 small businesses have agreed to open up this coming Saturday. Then John Robson, Executive Director of Climate Change Nexus speaks on why every COVID-19 vaccine maker all said no to producing the Vaccine in Canada. And finally Alex speaks with Charles Lueprechet, an all around security and defense expert about the decision by the Trudeau liberals to stay out of the decision if Canada will participate in the 2022 Beijing Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![alex opener]()
alex opener
04/02/2021 Duração: 08minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Tom korski...ON Point with Alex Pierson]()
Tom korski...ON Point with Alex Pierson
04/02/2021 Duração: 09minAlex speaks with show regular Tom Korski, the editing manager at Blacklocks about the issues surrounding vaccine deliveries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Education Minister Lecce wants to re-open all schools in the GTA by February 16, and doctors agree. An inside look at Quarantine facilities used to hold Canadians landing at Pearson Airport, and the Proud Boys have officially been classified as a Terror]()
Education Minister Lecce wants to re-open all schools in the GTA by February 16, and doctors agree. An inside look at Quarantine facilities used to hold Canadians landing at Pearson Airport, and the "Proud Boys" have officially been classified as a Terror
04/02/2021 Duração: 38minAlex speaks with Michelle Sorenson, a clinical psychologist about the long-term ramifications of students not learning in class, and how parents are also dealing with it. Steven Duesing was returning home from a flight, and was forced into a quarantine facility. He tells Alex his first-hand experience of what happened, and what the facility was like from the inside. And finally Alex speaks with Mubin Sheikh, former sercurity intelligence and counter terrorism operative about the Proud Boys being officially classified as a terror organization within Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Working naked from home day is coming up, and its exactly what you think it is. A Canadian bio-manufacturing company was passed over when it comes to producing a Vaccine, but they say they can still produce it, why arent we? And Kamala Harris and Justin]()
Working naked from home day is coming up, and its exactly what you think it is. A Canadian bio-manufacturing company was passed over when it comes to producing a Vaccine, but they say they can still produce it, why aren't we? And Kamala Harris and Justin
03/02/2021 Duração: 39minAlex speaks with Stephane Deschanes, owner of Bare Oaks Family Naturists Park about National Working Naked From Home Day which is on Friday February 5th. Then Justin Ling, Freelance Journalist and author of Missing from the Village, speaks on a bio-manufacturing company that was passed over for producing the COVID-19 vaccine, and they are a Canadian company. Did Trudeau do the right thing? And finally Alex speaks with Charles Burton, former Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy to China about Trudeau and Kamala Harris' new pledge to have both Michael Korvig and Michael Spavor returned to Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Civil liberties are being sacrificed to help curb the spread of COVID-19, but to what end? And a new book by a former liberal MP that Trudeau might not want you to read.]()
Civil liberties are being sacrificed to help curb the spread of COVID-19, but to what end? And a new book by a former liberal MP that Trudeau might not want you to read.
02/02/2021 Duração: 36minAlex speaks with Anthony Furey, a columnist for the Toronto Sun about civil liberties that Canadians are sacrificing in order to fight off COVID-19 and if the trade is worth it. Then, Alex speaks with former MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes about her new book " Can You Hear Me Now" and why Prime Minister Trudeau may not want you to read it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![A teacher who supported lockdowns is now urging to get kids back in the class, is Canada’s economic growth stalling? And Canadians are starting to lose faith in the federal government over vaccines]()
A teacher who supported lockdowns is now urging to get kids back in the class, is Canada’s economic growth stalling? And Canadians are starting to lose faith in the federal government over vaccines
30/01/2021 Duração: 37minAlex speaks with Adam Sanderson, Vice-Principal at St. Julia Billiart Catholic Elementary School about why he changed his position on kids being in classrooms. Then, Jack Mintz from the University of Calgary joins to talk about why Canada’s per capita economic growth is stalling. Finally, Shachi Kurl, Angus Reid President explains why Canadians are losing faith in the federal government as vaccine roll-out slows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![What consequences should the Canadians who cheated indigenous folks out of vaccines? U.S. looks to shut down another cross-border pipeline, and what happened on Wall St today?]()
What consequences should the Canadians who cheated indigenous folks out of vaccines? U.S. looks to shut down another cross-border pipeline, and what happened on Wall St today?
29/01/2021 Duração: 38minAlex is joined by Janet Vander Meer, White River First Nation’s COVID-19 community lead to talk about the two Canadians who posed as hotel workers in a remote community to cheat their way to early vaccinations. She also speaks with economist Ross McKitrick about the Line 5 cross-border pipeline project the U.S. is cancelling, and business expert Ian Lee about the wild day on Wall St. that started with a Reddit post and led to hedge funds losing billions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![At what point is another school year lost? Canadian vaccine looking to Ottawa for support, and looking into Toronto’s underground banks]()
At what point is another school year lost? Canadian vaccine looking to Ottawa for support, and looking into Toronto’s underground banks
28/01/2021 Duração: 43minAlex is joined by Paul Bennett, the director of Schoolhouse Consulting to discuss the point where the school year will be lost, and how we will catch our kids up. Then, Brad Sorenson from Providence Therapeutics explains why the Canadian COVID-19 vaccine needs more support from the federal government, and Sam Cooper, Global News Investigative Reporter dives into the calls for crackdowns on Toronto’s underground banks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Ontario long-term care homes failing again, mental health experts give stark warning, Biden signs Buy American executive Order]()
Ontario long-term care homes failing again, mental health experts give stark warning, Biden signs Buy American executive Order
27/01/2021 Duração: 42minAlex speaks with CEO of CanAge, Laura Tamblyn-Watts about the continued failures of long-term care homes with the new variants. She also speaks with Dr. Mark Berber about mental health as lockdowns see no end, and international trade lawyer Mark Warner about how President Biden’s Buy American executive order will affect trade with Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Poll shows Canadians willing to give up personal freedoms to curb disinformation, will the UK variant change modelling predictions? An Putin’s biggest critic incites protests in Russia]()
Poll shows Canadians willing to give up personal freedoms to curb disinformation, will the UK variant change modelling predictions? An Putin’s biggest critic incites protests in Russia
26/01/2021 Duração: 41minAlex speaks with Jim Turk, Director of the Centre for Free Expression Faculty of Communications and Design at Ryerson University about what Canadians are willing to give up in order to stop misinformation from spreading online. She also speaks with a mathematical epidemiologist about how the more contagious UK COVID-19 variant will alter our current predictions for spread, and Marcus Kolga, an expert on Russian issues about protests in support of Putin’s critic, Alexei Navalny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Erin O’Toole on why he booted an MP, do we need a Governor General? And how VR is helping seniors]()
Erin O’Toole on why he booted an MP, do we need a Governor General? And how VR is helping seniors
22/01/2021 Duração: 44minAlex is joined by Erin O’Toole, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada to talk about why he expelled Derek Sloan from caucus. Former Lieutenant David Onley also joins to discuss if a Governor-General is needed in Canada as Julie Payette steps down. And, Dr. Ginah Kim, co-founder of Express Service Society explains how and why her non-profit is bringing VR to seniors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![The Governor-General resigns, President of SickKids says get kids back to school, and business struggling to see a future]()
The Governor-General resigns, President of SickKids says get kids back to school, and business struggling to see a future
22/01/2021 Duração: 43minAlex speaks with Jason Lietaer, the President of Enterprise Canada to talk about the sudden resignation of the Governor-General. She is also joined by the President of SickKids amid his calls to get kids back to school and Francesca Rocchetti to talk about her the future of her small business as lockdowns continue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![The 737 Max flies again but the scars of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash remain]()
The 737 Max flies again but the scars of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash remain
21/01/2021 Duração: 10minIt's been nearly two years since the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and with that, nearly two years since the grounding of all Boeing 737 Max aircraft. Now after all that time, the 737 Max will fly again with WestJet being one of the first Canadian airliners to use the aircraft since the fatal crashes that grounded them in the first place. For Chris Moore, this is a time where he remembers his daughter who was one of the 189 people who lost their lives on the Ethiopian Airlines flight when it crashed in March of 2019. With the 737 Max getting airborne again, he's not so confident that the planes are safe to use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![A doctor against the lockdowns, Boeing plane in Ethiopian crash back in the air, and what Pfizer wants from Canada]()
A doctor against the lockdowns, Boeing plane in Ethiopian crash back in the air, and what Pfizer wants from Canada
21/01/2021 Duração: 40minAlex speaks with an anti-lockdown doctor to explain his position. Then she speaks with a man who lost his child in the Ethiopian air crash about why he is upset the Boeing plane is back in the air. Also, Pfizer is pushing for tax-breaks in Canada, should they get it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Pfizer vaccine delay causing shortfalls, children’s art is showing signs of mental health struggles, and MP Derek Sloane to be booted from Conservative caucus]()
Pfizer vaccine delay causing shortfalls, children’s art is showing signs of mental health struggles, and MP Derek Sloane to be booted from Conservative caucus
20/01/2021 Duração: 43minAlex speaks with John Keough, Founder & Managing Principal and expert in global supply chains about how delays in the Pfizer vaccine is impacting Canada’s distribution, Dr. Nikki Martyn about how children’s art is highlighting the mental health struggles they face as a consequence of COVID-19, and Adrienne Batra about the politics behind the to-be-ousted Conservative MP after financial ties to neo-nazis were discovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
