On Point With Alex Pierson

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about how Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s “strong middle class” budget followed internal polling that warned of widespread grumbling by middle class voters. “Most were of the view the country was currently headed in the wrong direction,” said a Privy Council report: “There should be a greater emphasis on increasing benefits and financial supports for middle income Canadians.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation & Alok Mukherjee, Former Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board. Alex and Franco discuss ''savings.'' Spending is going up by 85 billion dollars. Government services have not been the greatest and they consistently fail to meet half of their targets. Alex and Alok discuss why a rapist cop cannot be fired. How is this cop still collecting a pay check? The Ford Government promised to changed this and in 2019, a law was passed that makes it easier to fire/suspend bad cops. Why is this happening four years later? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Neil Heatherington, CEO of the Daily Bread Food Bank & Yanick Labrie, Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute, health economist and public-policy consultant. Alex and Neil discuss how the Toronto Daily Food Bank is seeing the highest demand ever. Toronto is right in the middle of a food crisis. Alex and Yanick discuss surgical health times. There's been a huge demand for health care prior and during Covid. Why are we still stuck in the same position? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about how McKinsey & Company was never considered for federal blacklisting as an unethical supplier, even after facing legal troubles abroad, records show. The Department of Public Works said court settlements and corruption charges “had no impact” on its work with the company: “I wake up every day knowing it’s an ethical company.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're walking towards a mayoral election nobody asked for or really wants. However, this campaign matters. On April 3rd, 640 Toronto broadcast live from Nathan Phillips Square as candidates began to file their paperwork with the clerk's office. Listen as Alex Pierson talks to some of the women and men vying to be Toronto's next mayor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a very busy day but that doesn't mean that we don't get out some of the big stories. Today we talk all about the scathing report into one of the worst mass killings in Canadian history and the way it paints the RCMP in a very bad light. We also talk about Bill C-11 and the further information that comes up about that. That and more on today's episode of the Alex Pierson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk about Chinese interference, but it's not just China we need to worry about... it's Russia. They have also been playing games trying to undermine our democracy and they also love specific weapons like the internet where they can put disinformation that targets both left and right. Now they're using it with Ukraine to undermine support. Alex talks about this and much more on today's episode of the Alex Pierson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The House of Commons erupted on Wednesday after Conservative MP Michael Barrett asked the Liberals if the new Interim Ethics Commissioner, Martine Richard – who was appointed on Tuesday is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc. Well—he too has broken ethics- so he can make sure his sister knows her job. Who do we bring on to talk about this? None other than Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

It may not have happened in Toronto, but in Vancouver, there was a stabbing outside of a Starbucks and instead of helping the man in distress, bystanders decided to whip out their phones and record everything instead. Now in some cases, this is useful in a court case, but there should also be duty of care to someone in distress. The worst culprit of this, though, is a man who made a mockery of it just to get his five seconds of fame. So where is the line being drawn, and are the younger generations just desensitized to this senseless violence? That and more on today's episode of the Alex Pierson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about MP Han Dong (Don Valley North, Ont.), now threatening to sue media for libel, eight years ago as a Liberal member of the Ontario legislature helped pass a law restricting libel suits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You have to ask, when is enough actually enough? When will someone in charge take charge of a crisis they allowed to happen? This latest headline of violence on our TTC should be the final straw, but how many times have we said that? As former Toronto Police Chief (and now hopeful mayoral candidate), Mark Saunders, says... we're normalizing it. But can we stop with the stale idea of thoughts and prayers and actually get to work on the root problem? We dive into that and much more on today's episode of the Alex Pierson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson comments on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's appointment of David Johnston, former governor general from the Stephen Harper era, as the special rapporteur to probe foreign interference claims.. As well, Abdalla Barqawi, lawyer with Conway Litigation on Gen. Maj Dany Fortin suing the Prime Minister, Chief of Defence staff and others.. And Eric Lombardi, housing advocate with More Neighbours Toronto, about Toronto's housing crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Terry Glavin, Author, journalist and Columnist for the Ottawa Citizen & National Post. Formerly with Maclean's magazine. And Senior Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, managing editor of Blacklocks Reporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we selective with our outrage? Politicians use race, religion, sexism to score points– and then are the first to lecture us on what is and isn’t acceptable. If it’s an issue for three Conservative MPs sitting with a far-right German politician. Are there two sets of rules when it comes to outrage? Alex goes through the controversy surrounding NDP politician Sarah Jama and her sticky past of anti-Semitism, as well as the other big topics of the day on today's episode of the Alex Pierson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trade Minister Mary Ng won’t comment on her association with a parliamentary witness named as a Communist Party front. Ng is one of four Liberal MPs to publicly endorse the Confederation of Toronto Chinese Canadian Organizations. Han Dong is another. We turn to Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklock's Reporter, to dig through the details on this and everything else Ottawa, on today's Blacklock's Check In. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who's charter rights matter more in this country? In the case of Dellen Millard and Mark Snitch, it's going to be in the news all week and if you listen to the parents... if people like that have no hope, why should their daughter's killers have hope? The courts tell us they must have hope, which is why in part the killers are appealing their case this week to get their convictions tossed out, as well as their stacked sentences. Alex touches on this, as well as other topics of the day, on today's episode of the Alex Pierson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If the federal government's Online News Act passes, then don't count on reading news articles from Facebook or Instagram. In an email written by Meta (the parent company of the popular social media sites), they say that the decision would place the company in an untenable position, given that it would have to pay for news content to appear on their platforms. Is this the way to go? Alex speaks to an expert on this, as well as all the other day's topics on today's episode of the Alex Pierson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the Senate adopted an amendment in Bill C-11 to protect digital creators and user-generated content, the government has decided to once again disregard the concerns of thousands of digital creators across the country. Now, Canadian creators are taking a stand to urge MP's to save the Senate amendment, and protect their online businesses. Alex is joined by a content creator to talk about it, as well as other important topics of the day on today's episode of the Alex Pierson Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices