On Point With Alex Pierson

Using the 2016 United States presidential election as an example, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government want to ensure Canadian voters that that sort of meddling will not happen in our next federal election, To do so, an internal team will monitor, flag and announce any possible meddling attempts. While it all sounds well and good, Elections Canada, the nation's independent and non-partisan group, who has oversaw the Canadian voting process for almost 100 years, doesn't have a seat at the table. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ON Point is joined by retired Justice Russell Otter to discuss why we have a process for victim impact statements. This comes in the wake of the Humboldt/Sidhu case and the upcoming Bruce McArthur sentencing after both men plead guilty to charges against them. Justice Otter became a provincial court judge in July 1993.  He was elected president of the Ontario Conference of Judges in 1999.  From 2002-2015, he served as executive director of the Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christine Elliott--Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Deputy Premier joins ON Point to talk about today's announcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Don Drummond, Canadian economist, having served extensively in the federal Department of Finance Canada, and as a scholar at Queen's University and recognized  for "the Drummond Report" which cautioned the McGuinty government against excessive spending.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Haran Vijayanathan, Executive Director, Alliance for South Asain AIDS Prevention, to discuss how a community, who was shaken to it's core by serial killer Brce McArthur, is trying to lay it's dead to rest and attempt to heal itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio's Legal Expert, for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to 8 counts of first-degree-murder, a stay in proceedings is ordered in the case of a Lac Seul First Nation man who has spent almost 5 years in solitary confinement and a man escapes drug charges in B.C. thanks to a "partial" signal from a sniffer dog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Radio's Tech Expert, to talk about a new set of proposed taxes by the Canadian broadcasting regulator that would put a premium on Canadian programming and would also make potential investors pay more to fund Canadian content.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jamie Ellerton, Principal, Conaptus PR, and Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders was nowhere to be seen today as Bruce McArthur pleads guilty, new tax proposals by the CRTC could have Canadians paying more to watch streaming sites, full-day kindergarten will be back in the fall but may not be around for much longer after that, A small-town Mantioba mayor is in hot water over comments made about Justin Trudeau and social media troubles are becoming a royal pain for some members of the British royal family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Perry, Global News Radio's Crime and Security Analyst, to take a closer look at serial killer Bruce McArthur, what possibly could have fed his desire to continue carrying out these heinous murders and how he used each of his victims as trophies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers: Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton & Craig Needles - Global News Radio London Topics include: The Ontario government is committing to full-day kindergarten this fall but won't make any promises on keeping it beyond the end of the school year and proposed taxes by the CRTC means Canadian Netflix and Amazon users could be shelling out more to watch their countries' own programming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite the next election being more than 3 years out, a recent poll shows the Ford government is headed in the same direction as the Liberals were, prior to their exit. At first glance, it's not good news for the Premier. Once you take closer at the numbers though, it shows that what people wanted, people are getting. Voters asked for Ford and they got him, along with his laundry list of changes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson is Mercedes Stephenson, Global News Radio Ottawa Bureau Chief and host of The West Block. The main topic of conversation is the latest terrorist attack in Kingston, Ontario. The RCMP said that one youth has been charged in ‘attack plot’ with explosives and a second man was arrested, but not charged. The RCMP stated that the investigation remains ongoing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Vivian Krauss, researcher and writer @FairQuestions, to talk about her latest findings. Over the last decade Krauss has been investigating foreign-funded activism projects that are landlocking Canada's oil. These projects have helped put a stop to every pipeline project over the last decade.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Rubina Ahmed-Haq, Global News Radio Personal Finance Expert, to discuss Canada's newly-released food guide. The food guide said to eat less meat, so how will that affect Canada's economics. With beef being one of Canada's biggest exports, how will this food guide effect Canada's ranchers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Bob Richardson, Senior Counsel at NATIONAL Public Relations, and Anthony Furey, Sun / Postmedia columnist & national comment editor. Topics include: the RCMP being tight-lipped when it comes to the attack in Kingston, Ontario this week, Trudeau's comments saying Canadians will not tolerate hateful comments, John McCallum's comments on the extradition of Meng Wanzhou and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex for On Point is Tom Quiggin, former military intelligence officer, RCMP advisor and a court appointed expert on jihadist terrorism in the federal and criminal courts, to talk about the attack in Kingston this week. One Kingston, Ontario youth has been charge but the RCMP is very tight-lipped about the whole situation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If Canadian oil and gas can be saved it will be in large part thanks to Vivian Krause. She combed through thousands of secret foreign documents to expose the real imposters behind the campaign to landlock our oil. These campaigns have managed to successfully derail every pipeline project over the last decade, so it's about time the mainstream is catching on to Krause's decade of work.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Erin O'Toole, Conservative MP for Durham, Shadow Minister, Foreign Affairs and International Development to discuss where the Liberal government will take things from after Canadian Ambassador John McCallum make some eye-widening remarks over the on-going investigation involving Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Perry, Global News Radio's Crime and Security Analyst, to discuss how the cold weather has slowed down the city's ever-increasing gun crime and why the delays of Ontario's Special Investigation's Unit are simply unacceptable in 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio Legal Expert, to talk about a free Toronto-area newspaper and the two men behind it, who were found guilty of using the publication to promote hatred against women and Jews.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices