The Alex Pierson Show
640 Toronto / Curiouscast
The Alex Pierson show is an in-depth, no-nonsense look at the stories making headlines. Alex has more than 20 years in the field and behind an anchor desk, and is known and respected for her tough reporting style and accountability. Join the daily conversation with the Alex Pierson Show, and never miss an important story again.
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May 25, 2023 • 10min
Can TO's Next Mayor Deliver Affordable Housing With a Giant Budget Deficit?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Eric Lombardi, Founder of More Neighbours Toronto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 24, 2023 • 10min
Advocates Demand Justice; Barrie City Council Imposes Ban on Donations
Barrie city staff are empowered to explore solutions for homelessness. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Alex Nuttall, Mayor of Barrie, about Barrie's crackdown on controversial policies that criminalize compassion. Staff were asked to think of new ways that will ban handing out money to panhandlers on streets, intersections...ect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 24, 2023 • 21min
Learning The Candidates:Anthony Perruzza and Celina Caesar Chavannes
Host, Alex Pierson speaks with two Mayoral Candidates; Anthony Perruzza and Celina Caesar Chavannes, about how to make Toronto a safer city, the city's finances, and what they'll do about gridlock and what takes priority. Transit? Roads? How will you pay for your solutions? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 24, 2023 • 11min
Conservative Leader Calls Out PM Trudeau's 'Ski Buddy' David Johnston On No Foreign Interference Inquiry
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 24, 2023 • 10min
Canada doesn’t need foreign interference inquiry, but public hearings warranted: Johnston
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a former senior government official who worked on China issues and now Senior Fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 23, 2023 • 10min
Who's Running Tomken Road Middle School? Students or Staff?
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Michael Teper, community education critic, involved in analyzing recent school-trustee misconduct, appeared frequently as a delegate at school board meetings in Toronto, Waterloo and Ottawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 23, 2023 • 9min
Advocates Raise Their Voices: Ban on Donations to Homeless Sparks Outrage
The City of Barrie is taking a stand against homelessness. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Keenan Aylwin, former Barrie City Councillor and current service worker, about City Council's controversial crackdown on homelessness, which consists of banning tents, tarps and a ton of compassion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 23, 2023 • 9min
Blacklocks Check-In: Election Fraud, Allegations, Public Inquiry; Oh My!
Host Alex Pierson speaks with Tom Korski, Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter, about David Johnston ''rapporteur'' inquiry and what he thinks about election fraud and allegations in the 2021 votes, Liberal-appointed Senator, Yuen Pao Woo published more than a week after the expulsion of a Chinese spy complained of “extreme anti-China sentiment” in Canada, Attorney David Lametti says he will review changes in federal law to allow postal inspectors to open suspicious letters. The Canada Post Corporation Act states inspectors may only open larger packages suspected of carrying contraband. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 23, 2023 • 11min
'Just show up and vote': Why tenants need to have their say in the TO election
Alex Pierson speaks with Chiara Padovani, a York South—Weston tenant union leader who ran for Toronto city council last fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 18, 2023 • 7min
Organized Crime Suspected in Woman's Fatal Encounter
Organized crime violates its own rules by targeting women. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Stephen Metelsky, criminal psychology professor at Mohawk College, lectures about organized crime at Queen's University and author of 'Undercover: stories from the underworld of law enforcement, about the suspected organized crime-linked shooting that makes this the first targeting of a woman in Montreal's history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
