On Point With Alex Pierson

Alex is joined by Craig Clydesdale, Founder and CEO.OOM Energy to discuss  Wave Twin Rinks in Burlington, Ontario, is the first arena facility in North America to adopt a new energy platform that takes it off the public utility grid and significantly reduces its costs for electric power.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dave Sanderson who remembers his landing on the Hudson River which happened 10 yrs ago.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People can't pay their bills and that's a problem. There's a reason the Bank of Canada didn't hike interest rates this week and that's because Canadians wouldn't be able to cope. Debt is rising, interest rates are creeping up and so are bankruptcy rates. With so many Canadians struggling to keep afloat in the sea of debt, how can the government sincerely say that they're making it easier on the middle class? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Shriharsh Tendulkar, McGill Space Institute, team member, Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) to talk about his team's discovery of mysterious radio bursts from some 1.5 billion light years away, that have been heard for only the second time in history.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dr. Oren Amitay, Registered Psychologist, DocAmitay.com to talk about a recent journal published by the American Psychological Association that sets out guidelines to help experts work with men and boys. It also states that over 40 years of research has lead to the conclusion that "traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dennis Matthews, former aid in the PMO under Stephen Harper, Vice President, Communications, Enterprise PR, to talk about Trans Canada Corp's name change to TC Energy. Some are suggesting the change is to reflect the companies growth outside the country while it has others saying the pipeline operator removed Canada from it's title because of the nation's stumbling on some recent energy projects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Jon Dwyer, Director, Aereus Technologies and Melissa Lantsman, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill + Knowlton, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: New country-wide police powers are leaving some people wide-eyed, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces tough critisim at a Kamloops town hall meeting, Trans Canada has removed the countries name from it's title, One of the most senior members of the Prime Minister's cabinet has suddenly resigned and former PM Stepen Harper says Canada must get along with the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Abby Deshman, Director, Criminal Justice Program at Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to discuss Canada’s revised laws on impaired driving that would see police demand breath samples from people in bars, restaurants, or even at home. And if you say no, you could be arrested, face a criminal record, ordered to pay a fine, and subjected to a driving suspension. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Bill Kelly - Global News Radio Hamilton & Mike Stubbs - Global News Radio London Topics include: New police powers now grant officers across the country, tthe ability to conduct breathalyzer tests anywhere, anytime and despite having two-way, all-day service, heavy strains are being placed on Kitchener's Go Train station as overcrowded platforms have now reached a tipping point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The saying of "boys will be boys" has been around forever. Up until recently, wrong-doings of some well-known male figures has highlighted the unseen power that men in general seem to hold over women. Now, while that spotlight moment was generations overdue, it seems that the growing status-quo is that men, and young boys, are to act and behave differently.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lisa Thompson, Ontario Minister of Education to discuss how a Toronto court is hearing a legal challenge from both the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association over the Progressive Conservative government’s repeal of an updated sex-ed curriculum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid rising tensions in northern B.C. – where Indigenous protesters are preventing a pipeline company from accessing an area in which it plans to work- dozens of people showed up at rallies in downtown Calgary and downtown Edmonton on Tuesday afternoon to show solidarity with members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. The pipeline would carry natural gas from B.C.’s Peace River region to the northern Pacific coast. In addition to those who turned up in Calgary to show solidarity with protesters behind the blockade in B.C., about the same number of people turned up to voice support for pipelines. According to the Canadian Press, the pro-pipeline crowd was encouraged to come out by Canada Action, a Calgary-based lobbying group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio Legal Expert, for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: The truck driver charged in the Humboldt Bronco's bus crash has pleaded guilty voluntarily, a legal challenge on the repeal of the province's sex-ed curriculum awaits the Ford government and a U.S. citizen has been caught after using a NEXUS pass to smuggle 67 guns into Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Sterling Cripps, founder and president of Canadian Unmanned, to discuss a new set of rules for both commercial and personal drones. The stricter set of regulations comes following yet another disturbance at London's Heathrow airport where more drones disrupted outbound flights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer, broadcaster, and Gillian Smith, senior advisor and consultant for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Startling new details into the indigenious healing centre's across the country and their population, the fate of Oshawa's GM facilitiy has been decicded, Canada could be in for a long wait when it comes to stocking up on pot, a new board chair for Ontario Place claims the theme park is in "complete disrepair", the RCMP is investigating potential death threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and actor Bryan Cranston is being vilified for his role in an upcoming movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a Global News exclusive, Alex is joined by Abigail Bimman, award-winning journalist and Ottawa-based Global National Correspondent, to talk about why just under nine per cent of the 147 offenders in federally run healing lodges last year self-identified as “White” rather than North American Indian, Metis or Inuit.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Regardless of the context, there is no right way to unspin hate speech. Hate is driven by emotion and when you add the element of religion into that, nothing good comes from it. So, when a Muslim Cleric preaches to group of youngsters that wishing someone a "merry christmas" is equal to or worse than killing someone, you'd think that would garner some kind of attention.....right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton and Jamie Ellerton.  Topics include: Golden Globes, Former PM Kim Campbell calls Donald Trump a “Mo Fo”, Go Transit begins its new weekday service between Niagara falls and Toronto, and a video of Drake kissing and fondling a 17-year-old female has surfaced on Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Port Alberni couple and another man have been charged after the trio filmed the takedown of a 28-year-old man they say arrived to have sex with their 13-year-old daughter. The incident is alleged to have happened at a Port Alberni home on April 12, 2018. Hog-tied and face down on the ground, the man’s image was streamed on Facebook Live for the world to see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex dicusses how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really feels about Israel.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices