On Point With Alex Pierson

Safe injection sites are fueling crime in communities. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada , about the murder of Karolina Huebner-Makurat in Leslieville last Friday. The cry for help to get the drug use problem under control is failing. The Federal Government needs to put a stop to crime and chaos on our streets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with David Anstey, Father of 9-year-old Grace who's waiting on knee surgery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Host Alex Pierson speaks with John Henry, the regional chair and CEO for Durham Region, about the region needing more resources for their shelter systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Premier Doug Ford. The two tackle issues with bail reform, safety concerns around safe injection sites and Toronto's refugee crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A family is Hamilton's east end have had a huge part of their driveway and property cut off. Their neighbour's home was deemed unsafe. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Katy Belaire, East end of Hamiton resident, about what this has been like after her family is unable to use their property. If a home isn't being cared for, it becomes everyone else's problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the Bank of Canada nearly paying out $27 million in raises and bonuses last year even as it admitted bungling forecasts, high interest rates, the highest in 22 years will continue into 2024, Bank of Canada Govenor Tiff Macklem said yesterday, Cabinet must address ''housing injustice'' with new laws and policies, says the Federal Housing Advocate. Human right to affordable housing, a national moratorium on evictions, and a ban on tent cities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Eric Lombardi, Founder of More Neighbours Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Habib Battah, Air France passenger who had to clean up someone else’s bodily fluids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Katrina Miller, executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raise them he did! Tiff Macklem didn't hold back. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Ron Butler, Mortage Broker of Butler Mortgage, about what will happen to individuals who did not get a fixed rate when buying their home. This may be the last straw for many people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the 11th day the BC Port has been on strike and the Government has done nothing. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Christina Santini, director of National Affairs at CFIB, about where the urgency is to do something about the strike. Millions of businesses are short because they can't get their products through. Revenues are being destroyed. Something needs to be done soon and fast. For each day the strike goes on; 1 week of back log for many people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The everyday Canadian is now paying another interest rate. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Ian Lee, Sprout School of Business, about how this interest rate hike will poorly affect the lives of Canadians. If hurt is what they wanted to cause, hurt is what the Bank of Canada delievered. This is the 10th interest rate hike. 25 points and a 20 year high. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Olivia Chow officially begins her mayoral duties today. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Adrienne Batra, former communications of Rob Ford and editor of Chief at the Toronto Star about Olivia's first day in office and what she'll implement to make Toronto a ''safer place.'' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leslieville residents are very concerned about the safe injection sites in following to the murder of Caroline Huebner-Makurat. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Paula Fletcher, City Councilor for Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth about the criminal activity that is happening in the neighbourhood. Stop passing the buck and do something about the safe injection sites. All they bring is crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about the Department of Finance saying ''should not be viewed as a prediction of the future'' according to a letter to the Parliamentary Budget Office, three times as many Department of Employment staff were investigated as were reported fired for defrauding pandemic relief programs, 2021 heat wave that broke an all-Canadian temperature record was the result of a high pressure system, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society confirms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Melissa Bourgeois, Family Lawyer, One Family Law in Edmonton, Alberta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Richard Shimooka, Defence Expert and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Derek Finkle, who lives beside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC). Derek and fellow community members have been raising concerns with the SRCHC's safe injection site prior the Friday's shooting that tragically resulted in the death of a 44-year-old mother of two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Trudeau is off to NATO meetings just after Britian says ''Pay up, will ya?'' Host Alex Pierson speaks with Christian Luprecht, Military College and Senior fellow at the McDonald Laurier Institute, about understanding security relationships. Trudeau is playing ''catch up'' with NATO and now we are short on equipment that is necessary. The Government needs to double down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices