On Point With Alex Pierson

Alex is joined by Gillian Smith, Associate of Hill + Knowlton Strategies and former Chief Marketing Officer for the Toronto Region Board of Trade and Bob Richardson, Senior Counsel at NATIONAL Public Relations. Topics include: Very different response times north and south of the border with Honey and Barry Sherman and Cesar Havoc cases, Doug Ford says Ontario is open for business, drinking and driving needing more attention and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joining Alex Pierson is David Perry, CEO Investigative Solutions Network Inc, to talk about the murders of Honey and Barry Sherman. The lawyer of the family, Brian Greenspan said Friday a team of private investigators had uncovered fingerprint and DNA evidence not yet identified by police. David Perry speaks about the investigation with great knowledge from his decorated, 28-year career with the Toronto Police Service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Top Talkers are: Rick Zamperin - Anchor, Global News Radio 900 Hamilton & MacKay Taggart - News Director, Global News Toronto Topics include: Private investigation team updated murder case involving Honey and Barry Sherman undermining confidence in Toronto Police? And drunk driving in the forefront of news again after a woman was arrested for impaired driving after fatal, 2-vehicle crash on Hwy. 404. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terry Glavin is an Author, journalist. Ottawa Citizen & National Post columnist. Contributing editor, Maclean's magazine. He joins Alex to talk about the killing of a Saudi Journalist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Parliament this week, Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, said Netherlands are 'forever grateful' to Canada for their help in WWII. Rutte gave special thanks to Canadian veteran, 94-year-old Don White, and the ensuing applause showed you just how important this moment was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The private investigation team hired by the family of murdered billionaires Honey and Barry Sherman will be giving an update into their case this Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Ontario.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by John Mraz and Jon Dwyer.  Topics include: In what looks like a case of domestic terror. 9 Pipe bombs were sent to the Obamas, Clintons, CNN and George Soros, Senate passes bill that would ban whale, dolphinb captivity in Canada, gun crime, and stategy on returning ISIS members.      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vandals in Lindsay ransacked the constituency office of Laurie Scott, Ontario’s Minister of Labour overnight Tuesday, hours after the provincial government rolled back labour reforms passed by the previous Liberal government. In a tweet, Premier Doug Ford said someone broke into the office on Lindsay Street North and vandalized it. Scott is the MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock. The front door and windows were smashed and furniture overturned. A wall was spray painted “Attack Workers We Fight Back $15.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vandals in Lindsay ransacked the constituency office of Laurie Scott, Ontario’s Minister of Labour overnight Tuesday, hours after the provincial government rolled back labour reforms passed by the previous Liberal government.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Chris Alexander, Canadian politican, former diplomat, and former Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to talk about the continuing fallout surrounding the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Toronto-based lawyer, Lorne Honickman for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: A pair of human traffickers are calling their jail sentence of 4 years 'creul and unusual punishment', two Ontario journalists have been acquitted in a case of police obstruction, and an alleged Frederiction gunman cites 'temporary insanity' and claims to be innocent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Stephen Lecce, Conservatice MPP for King-Vaughan, and parliamentary assistant to Ontario Premier Doug Ford to discuss what the meaning was behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiling the federal government's new carbon tax right in the heart of Ford's own riding of Etobicoke North. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Michael Diamond, Principal at Upstream Strategy Group and Andy Stinton, Small business man, for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: The Trudeau government aims to get Canada in line with a climate plan by way of a carbon tax, bad shipments and reports of slow deliveries headlines Ontario Cannabis Store's first week, the PM says it would cost the country over $1B to cancel arms deals with Saudi Arabia, bagel makers in Montreal may be the hardest hit by the government's latest carbon tax, and a village in New Brunswick faces backlash after raising a 'straight pride' flag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Dan McTeague, Senior Petroleum Analyst for GasBuddy to talk about the plan proposed by the federal government that will tax polluters by the tonne while costing the public more at the pumps. Just how much will consumers be affected by this new carbon tax? 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: The Ford government is cancelling funding for planned partnership campuses for three colleges in the G.T.A. & less than one week after marijuana becomes legal, Ontario's Cannabis Store can't keep up with the demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got to kill two birds with one stone. He go to announce a new carbon tax and did so in the heart of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's own riding of Etobicoke North. Ford has been a strong opponent of the federal government's tax plans. The plan will push the price of gas up by a few cents, but the government says the public will see that money returned to them via a tax rebate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monday is voting day for the municipal election and while Toronto’s election campaign has been uneventful, the races in other municipalities have been full of excitement. Alex talks to John Best, President and Chief Editor, Bay Observer, and Jim Van Horne, Coordinator, Broadcast Journalism / TV News, School of Contemporary Media, Fanshawe College, to talk about the biggest issues for the elections in Hamilton and London respectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Anthony Furey from the Toronto Sun to talk about a breaking news story coming from Queen's Park via The Sun. Furey tells Alex that the Ontario provincial government is set to table a new bill that would strip returning terrorists of their provincial rights. Would this help you feel safer in your own country? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices