On Point With Alex Pierson

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  • Duração: 937:55:40
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A new voice and a fresh perspective. Join the conversation, with ON Point with Alex Pierson on 640 Toronto.With 20 years in the field, and behind an anchor desk, Alex is known and respected for her tough reporting style and accountability. An in-depth, no-nonsense look at the stories making headlines.ON Point with Alex Pierson airs weeknights from 7 to 10 p.m. on 640 Toronto.

Episódios

  • This Yellowknife-based tour company just started to rebuild post COVID-19 lockdowns, now wildfires have halted business

    23/08/2023 Duração: 10min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Joe Bailey, founder and owner of Indigenous tour company North Star Adventures, a Yellowknife based company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Bell to end TIFF sponsorship - what does it mean for the festival?

    23/08/2023 Duração: 09min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Peter Howell, a Film Critic for the Toronto Star. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Chief of staff AG report put at centre of Greenbelt controversy resigns

    23/08/2023 Duração: 08min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jamie Ellerton, Strategist and Founding Partner of Conaptus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Trudeau; holding up the Chinese Interference Inquiry

    22/08/2023 Duração: 10min

    Justin Trudeau is keeping the inquiry of Chinese Interference at a slow pace. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Sam Cooper, The Bureau and Author of ''Wilful Blindness.'' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Blacklocks Check-In: Mortgage holders are going deeper into debt

    22/08/2023 Duração: 10min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about Justin Trudeau's divorce, nearly half of mortgage holders are going deeper into debt to keep up with home loan payments, recovering nearly $2 billion from job quitters who cheated the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, Liberal MP George Chahal isn't commenting after the Election Commissioner confirmed voting irregularities in his riding in the 2021 campaign. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Toronto Greektown business forced to close up shop after 44 years due to Ontario Line construction

    22/08/2023 Duração: 09min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Bill Gekas, president of Akropolis Pastries On Danforth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Why doesn't Canada lean on Indigenous fire knowledge keepers on their expertise to help with wildfires?

    22/08/2023 Duração: 08min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Mike Anderson, the adviser and negotiator for the Skeetchestn Natural Resources Corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Law Society Tribunal rules man who abused children can practice law

    22/08/2023 Duração: 09min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with criminal defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Three former Toronto mayors want city staff to reconsidering renaming Dundas St.

    21/08/2023 Duração: 09min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with John Sewell, Former Mayor of Toronto, served as the 58th mayor of Toronto from 1978 to 1980. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Canadian government calls on Meta to lift ban on news in hopes wildfire info can be shared

    21/08/2023 Duração: 09min

    Alex Pierson speaks with Dr. Brett Caraway, Associate Professor with the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology  at the University of Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Wildfires happen frequently in Canada - so why are we never prepared for them?

    21/08/2023 Duração: 08min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Robert Gray, an AFE-certified wildland fire ecologist and President of R.W. Gray Consulting, about how Canada's never prepared wildfires we know are going to happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield brought to you by Vacuman

    18/08/2023 Duração: 16min

    This is Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield brought to you by Vacuman. On today's episode, learn about AI when it comes to recycling, MIT'S liquid metal batteries, and cool paint from Stanford; you can energy save in style. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Human rights groups are frustrated that there's been no response to Chinese Interference

    18/08/2023 Duração: 10min

    There's growing frustration. Pro democracy groups and Chinese Diaspora groups are getting together because nothing has been done to push back against Chinese Interference. They are launching a petition to push the inquiry through. Alex Pierson speaks with Chuek Kwan, Co Chair of Toronto Association for Democracy in China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Satirical outlet back on Meta's Facebook, Instagram after getting booted for its 'news' content

    18/08/2023 Duração: 08min

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • 'No sleep and a lot of panic': Yellowknife evacuation ordered due to wildfires

    18/08/2023 Duração: 11min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Ollie Williams, Editor of news coverage for Cabin Radio in Northwest Territories, for the latest on evacuation orders for Yellowknife due to wildfires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • The two year anniversary of Afghanistan's fall

    17/08/2023 Duração: 07min

    It is the two year anniversary of Afghanistan's fall which happened to be the same day Justin Trudeau announced the election is on. Taliban fighters were closing in on Kabul and Western countries did not react. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Chris Eckland, Canadian Philanthropist and Founder of Canadian Heroes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Blacklocks Check-In: Feds are shot gunning money; we have a crisis!

    17/08/2023 Duração: 08min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the covid contracts approved by the Department of Health shows more than a tenth failed to follow the rules, Cabinet has donated a small portion of its mammoth pandemic ventilator stockpile to Ukranian War victims, and only 40 percent of homeless people provided federal aid successfully became home owners, say auditors. All this and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Mayor Chow meets with Toronto Police Association after wave of violence against officers

    17/08/2023 Duração: 10min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Jon Reid, President of the Toronto Police Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Trudeau government calls intimate partner violence an 'epidemic' following inquest

    17/08/2023 Duração: 10min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with Kirsten Mercer, lawyer who represented the End Violence Against Women group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Hamilton city councilor support tiny cabin pilot project in response to homelessness crisis

    16/08/2023 Duração: 08min

    Host Alex Pierson speaks with John-Paul Danko, Hamilton City Councillor for Ward 8 - West Central Mountain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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