On Point With Alex Pierson

Gerald Butts is back. Brett James, Partner & Principal of Sussex Strategy Group, believes that the Liberals perceive Butts as the party's best hope in the upcoming election, and they're counting not only on the public to not recall who he is or why he resigned in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gerald Butts, the Svengali of the Prime Minister's Office is back. Did he ever leave, in the first place? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: BOB RICHARDSON - Senior Counsel at National Public Relations and ANTHONY FUREY - Sun/Postmedia Columnist and National Comment Editor Topics include: LCBO? More like LCB-NO! There is a human rights tribunal under way in BC. involving a transgender complainant who is well known for her activism. This is her 12th complaint against a woman's salon, this one is against a home-based salon she accuses of discriminating against her by denying her a Brazilian wax.  The day before he resigned as Premier Doug Ford’s chief of staff amid a cronyism scandal, Dean French orchestrated the dismissal of the chair of a $60-billion public pension's board and appointed three new members.  Justin Trudeau has sharpened his criticism of Donald Trump. Over those “send her back” chants at a rally. And yet, he hasn’t said a peep about a Quebec upper court upholding the Religious symbol ban. Toronto cops have moved in to shut down some of the bigger and more established illeg

Alex Pierson is joined by Dr. Peta Nankivell to discuss the controversy surrounding Jessica Yaniv, a transgender woman who has lodged several complaints that home-based salons discriminated against her by denying her a Brazilian wax. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Michael Bryant, Executive Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to discuss the controversy surrounding Bill 21. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Jodie Emery, cannabis rights activist and politician, to discuss the seemingly backwards and upside-down way in which the government has chosen to blaze the trail of legal weed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's about time those in charge are called out for the empty spin they think they can get away with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special edition of Counterpoint, guest host Ed Keenan is joined by: ELISSA FREEMAN - Public Relations and Pop Culture Expert and LIANA KERZNER - YouTuber as well as Video Game and Tech Advocate and MADDIE DI MUCCIO - CEO of Society for Quality Education and President of the York Region Taxpayers Association Topics include: A possible limited series about Paul Bernardo, the Very Big Kaboom heard in the city, the SEND HER BACK scandal, CAMH and a killer on the loose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Ed Keenan is joined by Leanne Yagrines, to discuss her desperate search for a live liver donor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Ed Keenan is joined by Dave Perry, CEO of Investigative Solutions Network and Global News Radio Crime Expert, to discuss the massive bust of an alleged traditional organized crime network, known as the Figliomeni Crime Family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Ed Keenan is joined by John Muise, retired Detective Sergeant who spent 30 years with the Toronto Police Service, Board Member to the Parole Board of Canada from 2009 to 2014 and volunteer Director of Public Safety for Abuse Hurts, to discuss the controversy around fugitive killer Zhebin Cong's escape to China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Ed Keenan is joined by Carmine Perrelli, Deputy Mayor of the City of Richmond Hill, to discuss the city's trailblazing move to accept Bitcoin currency for property tax payments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: John Mraz - Former liberal war room director with several dozen elections worth of experience and Bill Hutchison - Former broadcaster...longtime journalist...professor at Seneca Topics include: For a guy who loves to be the centre of attention, apparently Mayor Tory doesn’t have much to say about the high risk 'Cleaver Killer' who waltzed out of a downtown hospital and jumped on a plane. But neither do the Toronto Police nor those at the CAMH. How far should taxpayer-funded first-responder organizations such as police, fire services and paramedics go when it comes to trying to protect staff from witnessing trauma? Doug Ford cancels cellphone after too many calls from 'special interest groups' Andrew Scheer says U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent tweets about how certain Democratic congresswomen should “go back” to their home countries are “offensive,” but the Conservative Party of Canada Leader stopped short of condemning the comments as racist. S

Alex is joined by Aline Vlasceanu, interim Executive Director of the Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime, to discuss CAMH's lack of action when extremely violent patients are on the loose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did we mention the tool he used to kill was a meat cleaver? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: Stephen LeDrew Lawyer - Broadcaster - formerly the President of the Liberal Party of Canada and Steven Kerzner Award winning writer and producer and best known as the creator of Canadian icon Ed the Sock Topics include: Residents sound alarm after CAMH patients with criminal backgrounds go missing. Apparently loud vehicles is now a massive issue for the City of Toronto...never mind the shootings in the streets.  Like her or loathe her, free speech activist Lindsay Shepherd has been banned from Twitter. She is one of a number of outspoken free speech advocates to be silenced. The Federal Liberals aren’t even pretending not to buy the next election. They are handing Davie Shipping 100’s of million in new contracts mere weeks before the writ drops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Dave Perry, Global News' Crime and Security Analyst, to discuss the shocking news that CAMH patients with criminal backgrounds go missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, founding lawyer of LexSage, a boutique international trade law and sales tax firm, to discuss the concerns surrounding Donald Trump's signing of an executive order Monday, requiring federal agencies to purchase products using more American components. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If it's not how we do things in Canada...then how do you explain the blatant racism unfolding in Quebec? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by: Andy Stinton - The Small Business Man and Michael Diamond - With Upstream Strategy Group Topics include: Ontario's top court has upheld a decision allowing a man found not criminally responsible in a knife attack at a Toronto military recruitment centre to take college classes on his own. Ayanle Hassan Ali can now attend Mohawk College unaccompanied while he continues to be held at a secure Hamilton psychiatric hospital across the street. Justin Trudeau was asked to respond to a series of tweets that Donald Trump put out over the weekend attacking four congress women. Trump to end asylum protections for migrants passing through other countries... how should this policy change affect Canada’s relationship with the United States?  If Trudeau is a feminist Prime Minister, shouldn’t he come out stronger against the Trump Tweets? Up to 21% of Toronto’s Catholic and 15% of public elementary teachers were off sick the last few Fridays before school ended l