On Point With Alex Pierson

Pandemic Schooling May Hurt Future Economy, Hypersonic Nuclear Missile Launch & Compelled Speech

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Missed the show? No worries! We've got you covered with the ON Point podcast. ON this episode, Alex starts off talking with Bruce Hein, a franchise owner of Express Employment Professionals located in Sarnia. They discuss how the constant disruption Ontario students are facing with school closures due to the pandemic are going to hurt their chances at gainful employment in the future. Alex and Bruce talk about what this could mean for future generations, what can be done to avert this, and how this could effect the long-term economy of the province.Next, Alex talks with Marcus Kolga, a Sr. Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a journalist for DisInfo. They discuss the Chinese government secretly testing a nuclear hypersonic missile that flew around the world and missed its target by less than 20 km. They talk about why China would say it was a space vehicle and not a missile launch, what this could mean for the West, and why the U.S. and Canada are especially worried about this type of missile. And f