On Point With Alex Pierson

Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss Arrivecan. MP's will issue subpoenas compelling committee from reluctant Arrivecan witness, the commons yesterday by a 173 to 150 vote demanded cabinet revise current record immigration quotas within 100 days, Catherine Tait, $497,000-a year CEO of the CBC, ran up more than $119,000 in expenses at the same time the network complained of ''immense pressure'' on its finances. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with endocrinologist Dr. Roy Eappen about Alberta moving to prohibit transgender procedures for children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Eric Smallwood, President of Apex Marketing Group, Inc., about the 'Taylor Swift Effect' on NFL ratings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson speaks with Carly Cohen, a Toronto parent whose daughter discovered antisemitic graffiti in her school's bathroom in December. Cohen's concerned with the rise in hate in TDSB schools and the school board's new policy that doesn't notify parents when hate happens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson speaks with Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) about how federal health executives responsible for the ArriveCAN app received $340,000 in bonuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to speak about only a third of Canadians rate news media trustworthy and balanced, says in-house CRTC research, federal program to let hundreds of Gazans into Canada has no expanded to thousands, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told reporters yesterday, Cabinet should suspend the carbon tax on farmers, food processors and retailers, the Commons agriculture committee was told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Mitch Panciuk, former mayor of Belleville, Ontario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with lawyer Lorne Honickman about actor and former MMA fighter Gina Carano suing the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm over her 2021 firing from The Mandalorian with support from Elon Musk and the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson speaks with Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter joined Alex Pierson to discuss a federal homeless relief program that paid millions to consultants, documents show, the Department of Foreign Affairs reprimanded 56 employees for wrongdoing last year, according to new records, Cabinet is rejecting an all-party demand for more public accounting of Governor General Mary Simon's expenses, and China inquiry documents confirm by ex-Conservative MP Kenny Chiu (Steveston-Richmond East, B.C) that he was likely targeted by Communist Party agents in the 2021 campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Frank Leo, Broker, Frank Leo and Associates, about how Greater Toronto home sales soared 37 per cent last month compared with the same month a year ago as lower borrowing costs associated with fixed-rate mortgages lured some buyers back to the market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Cassandra Fultz, Founder and Senior Consultant at Doherty-Fultz Immigration, about more than 15 per cent of immigrants who came to Canada from 1982 to 2017 ended up leaving the country within 20 years of their admission, according to a new study from Statistics Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Jennifer Walinga, Rower, Olympian, Researcher on Culture and Leadership Through Sport and Professor at Royal Roads University, about the culture change needed at Hockey Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Monika Dutt, a family physician and Cape Breton resident, about having to hunker down as a powerful winter storm covers Nova Scotia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw following the unveiling of Mayor Chow's version of the 2024 city budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Hank Idsinga, 640 Toronto Crime Specialist and Former Toronto Police Inspector, about how jurors in a coroner’s inquest into the death of a teen shot by a Toronto police officer more than a decade ago issued dozens of recommendations in an effort to prevent similar deaths in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Stephen Holyday, City Councillor for Ward 2 - Etobicoke Centre, about Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow unveiling her version of the city’s 2024 budget, shaving one per cent off the proposed tax increase and appearing to end speculation she could forge ahead with blaming further tax increases on the federal government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with mortgage broker Ron Butler about concerns with fixed-payment variable mortgages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Anthony speaks with Dr. Elaina Hyde, Physics and Astronomy Professor at York University and director of the Allan Eye Carswell Observatory, about the TDSB approving a staff recommendation of changing the date of an upcoming PA day to coincide with a rare solar eclipse set to rise above parts of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest hosts Anthony Furey and Ana Bailao speak with Jeffrey Dvorkin, Author, "Trusting the News in a Digital Age" former head of the journalism program at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and former CBC Radio executive, about the head of CBC not ruling out executive bonuses - despite announcing 800 job cuts to address financial strains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices