The Alex Pierson Show

Alex is joined by: ANTHONY FUREY SUN/POST MEDIA COLUMNIST & NATIONAL COMMENT EDITOR & BOB RICHARDSON SENIOR COUNSEL AT NATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS Topics include: The Toronto Raptors winning the 1st game of the NBA finals and all the love they are getting from all across the board, Al quds rally will take to the streets of Toronto which is the annual anti-semetic hate fest, Doug ford is responding to the Beeropoly comment that the Premier is just bluffing, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Imam Mohammed Tawhidi, religious leader and self declared Islamic reformer.  They speak about the Al quds day march that will take place in Toronto, targeting Jews and Israelis.  Imam is here this weekend to get the march shut down and to stop hate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Sean Fitzgerald, managing editor with The Athletic.  They discuss the dawning of the new age for the Raptors, expanding into a new business and how everything will change moving forward.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by: Tasha Kheiriddin  Global News Contributor and Founder and CEO of Ellipsum Communications and Joe Mihevic Former Toronto City Councillor Topics include: VP Pence came to talk trade--- and he and our PM exchanged celebratory jabs, but while Pence is behind the Warriors, there is one trade he wants more than any other….. SB: Are the Raptors now Canada’s team? The NBA announced today that multi-platinum selling recording artists The Tenors will perform the Canadian national anthem tonight ahead of Game 1 of the 2019 NBA Finals. Seriously, couldn’t we do better than this??? The Tenors??!! Bill 66 passed in April. This is a piece of legislation that allows municipalities and school boards etc to break the decades long practice of giving the same construction companies being awarded big contracts because of their affiliation with certain trade unions. In Toronto alone--allowing competition would free up to 400 million in one year. Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will not commit to legislating an end to the -doing-nothing-will-they controversial Hwy. 407 lease, despite defending that tactic to break a contract with The Beer Store. Fedeli was asked if his government would be prepared to use legislation to back out of the 407 contract which sold the highway in 1999 for $3.1 billion. Doug Ford hates this deal. It is an awful deal--Should they look at getting out of it?  Despite the Liberal government's vow to crack down on ultra wealthy tax cheats, the CBC learns that the CRA has been making deals with a number of tax dodgers who used the now-infamous Isle of Man scheme to hide their money.. The scheme enabled clients to dodge tens of millions of dollars in taxes in Canada by making it look as if multimillionaires had given away their fortunes to anonymous overseas shell companies and get their investment income back as tax-free gifts.  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosted VP Pence today and raised concerns about what he called a “backsliding” on women’s rights in the United States. Pence is one of the most prominent American abortion opponents. And when the question about abortion was asked it was 50 shades of awkward. This was nothing more than a stunt to play politics to his base? But embarrassing Pence isn’t in our best interest? Meanwhile, Disney is weighing in… is this something a private company should concern itself with? Disney likely to stop filming in Georgia if abortion law takes effect. We learn that the Privy Council Office disclosed it conducted confidential polling related to an out-of-court settlement with SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. months before Liberal aides sought a deal with the company. Ipsos washired to do the polling for one million dollars...and the issue polled very badly--- most participants felt like corporate criminals could buy their way out of prosecution, that it was an issue fairness of the justice system when dealing with the rich and powerful. And yet,the Trudeau gov tried to quietly ram it through anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Catherine Swift, former Chair of the Board of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and current spokeswoman for Working Canadians, to discuss Bill 66. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, founding lawyer of boutique international trade law and sales tax firm LexSage, to discuss the meeting of PM Justin Trudeau and U.S. VP Mike Pence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Royce Lando, who really does look like Leonard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If Toronto wants to save 100’s of millions all they have to do is nothing.   What is Bill 66 and why the labour unions don’t want officials to stay silent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by: John Mraz - Former liberal war room director with several dozen elections worth of experience Bill Hutchison - Former broadcaster...longtime journalist...professor at Seneca Topics include: Andrea Horwath is blaming the Ford government for scrapping a section of the Ticket Sales Actin April, which capped resale prices at 50 per cent of original face value. Raptor tickets are going for thousands of dollars. Sure it’s not fair-- but are professional sporting events now supposed to be fair? As NBA Finals tickets surpass $60k, Ontario consumer services minister rejects implementing price caps As a panel of international politicians grilled two Facebook executives in Ottawa, representatives for the social media giant said it won’t remove misleading content from the platform during Canada’s upcoming federal election campaign. Robert Mueller made it very clear today that there were multiple systematic attempts to interfere in the US election. A Quebec Judge has ruled there’s enough evidence against SNC-Lavalin for the engineering corporation to be tried on fraud and bribery charges. This not only validates Jodi Wilson-Raybould, but the Liberal gov can still issue a DPA right up until a verdict comes out. Can they? Will they? New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says vaccination "can't be optional" and that more public education about immunization is needed.His comments come amid a measles outbreak in the Saint John area, a whooping cough outbreak in the Fredericton area and a province-wide gonorrhea outbreak.Does the NB Premier have it right? Vaccination 'can't be optional,' Higgs says amid measles outbreak. The family of a Hamilton girl who lost her leg when a train rolled over it last year is suing Canadian Pacific Railway and the owners of a piece of land that allowed easy access to the tracks. Khelyse Crowe-Kasule and some friends were playing on a section of rail near Cumberland and Gage avenues when the stopped CP train rolled forward. But isn’t it up to the parents to say stay away? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Shipley, CEO of Beauceron Security and Global News Radio 640 Toronto's Technology Analyst, to discuss the Facebook fiasco facing our federal election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices