On Point With Alex Pierson

Avi Benlolo is the President of the Friend of Simon Wiesenthal Centre. He joins Alex to talk about the rise of anti-antisemitism the dangers posed by a society forgetting the lessons of the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been nearly 27 years since Calvin Hawley came home one day only to discover his curb obliterated by St. Vital town snowplows. Ever since that day, he's been petitioning the town to fix what they broke. He talks to Alex Pierson about the town's pledge to repair his curb by 2037. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob McGall is a history teacher with Hillfield Strathallan College and he tells Alex about the annual exercise of bringing students out to a farm field to dig trenches to demonstrate what it was like for young soldiers who fought on the battlefields of Europe in the early twentieth century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Friday, November 8th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Milke is the author of "The Victim Cult: How the Culture of Blame Hurts Everyone and Wrecks Civilizations." He joins Alex to explain how the growing trend of lionizing one's own misfortunes and misidentifying oneself as a victim is having a deleterious effect on society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, November 7th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teddy Smith spent more than twenty years as a worker on an oil-rig in Alberta before moving to London, Ontario. Smith tells Alex that he cannot believe the lack of sympathy by Ontarians toward Albertans and the economic hardship they presently face. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, November 6th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Tuesday, November 5th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Fogg is with the Montreal Holocaust Museum and she tells Alex the extraordinary story of the Jewish musicians doomed in the holocaust and how their legacy has been preserved through the instruments they left behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Of the 39 bodies found in a truck in the UK, it is believed that 24 of them are Vietnamese. John Keogh is the founder & managing principal with Shantalla. He's also spent the past six years living in Vietnam. He tells Alex about the grave alignment of circumstances that exert economic pressure on young people in Vietnam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Monday, October 28th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vivan Krause is the author of the Fair Questions Blog; Following the Money Behind Environmental and Political Activism. Her new documentary, Over a Barrel seeks to expose a network of foreign influence systemically maim the Albertan economy. She joins Alex to talk about the new film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, October 24th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eighteen year old Maddison Yetman says that despite having only days left to live, she found time to cast a ballot in the federal election. Her uncle and Global News Winnipeg news director and station manager Brent Williamson tells Alex about her niece's life and message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point On Point - Wednesday, October 16th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Friday, October 11th, 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Point on Point - Thursday, October 10th 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's a robot tax? Seth Benzell is postdoctoral associate with the M.I.T. initiative on the digital economy. He explains what this would like like if it were made into law. Originally aired on October 1st 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices