On Point With Alex Pierson

Guest host Peter Sherman is joined by Jon Dwyer, Director, Aereus Technologies, and Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Canada has laid sanctions against 17 Saudi nationals in connection with killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an ad by the Canadian Oil Advocacy campaign has been deemed 'discriminatory", a federal budget watchdog says irregular asylum-seekers could cost Canada upwards of $400 million in 2019, and Netflix Canada is set for its biggest price increase yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Peter Sherman is joined by Ontario MPP Peter Tabuns to talk about the province's new plan to combat climate change. Titled the "Preserving and Protecting our Environment for Future Generations: A Made-In-Ontario Environment Plan", it includes a four-year financial commitment of $400 million that is meant to entice big polluters to develop clean technologies and reduce emissions overall.  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: Ontario MPP Amanda Simard resigns from the PC party following cuts to francophone services, Ontario reveals it's plan to battle climate change and the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States gather in Buenos Aires on Friday to sign the United States Mexico Canada Trade Agreement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by David Shipley, CEO of Beauceron Security / Global News Radio Cybersecurity and Technology Expert.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by Brian Patterson, President and CEO Ontario Safety League. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by Dr. Oren Amitay - Registered Psychologist - DocAmitay.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by John Mraz - Former liberal war room director and Bill Hutchison - Journalist/Broadcaster, professor at Seneca. Topics include: Humboldt Broncos GoFundMe payments approved by Saskatoon judge - Less to the living who may have more expenses? Or the other way… the loss of life was only worth an extra 50K? Do you think this split was fair? School buses are reasonably safe… do you think seat belts will help or hinder?Kathleen Wynne to call for mandatory seatbelts on school buses following a Fifth Estate investigation Doug Ford: If I had been Premier for past five years, GM wouldn’t have left Oshawa. Ford says that the plant is done. Jerry Dias says that he and politicians will fight for jobs. Do you think there is a chance to save this plant from closing and on Ford’s point, would things have been different under a ‘Ford” government for the last 5 years? Mom battles school board, saying yoga is against her family’s religion - Is she trying too hard to ma

Peter Shurman fills in for Alex Pierson. He is joined by Maddie DiMuccio, CEO of Society for Quality Education, President of the York Region Taxpayers Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Meghan Murphy, writer and journalist, to talk about the social media giant's updated "hateful conduct policy" that now prohibits rhetoric that can be labelled as "misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, toronto-based lawyer and journalist, for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: The mastermind behind the Stefanie Rengel killing, Melissa Todorovic, has been granted day parole, a Quebec domestic violence victim is awarded over $300K in a civil suit and a Quebec evironmental group is suing the federal government over climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Anil Verma, Professor of Industrial Relations and HR Management at the University of Toronto, to talk about what options are available for those now out of a job thanks to this latest auto-industry closure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Michael Diamond, Principal, Upstream Strategy Group and Myriam Denis, Consultant, Daisy Group, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Maple Leaf Foods sets its sights on London for it's new food-processing plant, Unifor president warns of a steep price after GM announces Oshawa plant closure, RCMP provide an update into their investigation on besieged Liberal MP Raj Grewal, day parole has been granted to the mastermind behind the killing of Stefanie Rengel, Google and Twitter have began using an A.I tool that blocks gendered pronouns and Bill & Hilary Clinton take over Toronto's Scotiabank Centre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayer Federation to take a closer look at the newly announced Maple Leaf Foods processing plant in London. With an estimated $62 million in both federal and provincial money being sunk into the plan, what does this "investiment" mean for the taxpayer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton & Craig Needles - Global News Radio London Topics include: Unifor President Jerry Dias warns there will be a price to pay after GM announces the closure of their Oshawa facility and London is getting a new poultry-processing plant and about 1500 new jobs but, it comes with a $62 million Ontario tax-payer bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maple Leaf Foods announced plans to shutter plants in St. Mary's, Toronto and Brampton. This move, will pave the way for the country's largest poultry-processing plant to be built in London throughout the next 4 years. With both federal and provincial goverments chipping in upwards of $60 million towards the project, are we as taxpayers funding un-neccessary layoffs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ales is joined by Catherine Swift, Former Pres/CEO of Canadian Federation of Independent Business, current spokesperson for Working Canadians to discuss the closure of GM.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Ian Lee, Business Professor at Carleton University to discuss the plant closing. More than 2,500 employees will be out of work, but the blow to the Canadian auto-sector workforce is far larger.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton and Jamie Ellerton. Topics include: The closure of GM and how its Union and Justin Trudeau is vowing to help GM workers, and how government bailouts dont work.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ales is joined by Erin O'toole, Conservative MP for Durham, Shadow Minister on Foreign Affairs and International Development to discuss the closure of the GM plant in Oshawa.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GM is shutting down the plant in 2019, putting more than 2,500 employees out of work, as the automobile giant forges ahead with its global restructuring plan.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices