The Alex Pierson Show

If the Toronto District School Board can't find anything to trim, then maybe it's time for  them to go the way of the dodo bird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counterpoint - Monday May 13th, 2019 Alex is joined by: ANDY STINTON - THE SMALL BUSINESS MANMICHAEL DIAMOND - WITH UPSTREAM STRATEGY GROUP Topics Include:Opposition MP’s are calling on the Trudeau government to have an emergency defence committee investigate the Vice Admiral Mark Norman issue. The Toronto district school board needs to cut $56 million while the OPP is cuts $46 million. Nearly two-thirds of Canadians oppose the ford government spending taxpayers’ dollars to battle the federal carbon tax, says a new poll released on the same day that the Ontario government launched a new television ad slamming it. The Auditor general scolds the government for using tax dollars to make partisan ads. A gun buyback program that has resulted in the collection of more than 1,200 firearms with one week to go will cost Toronto taxpayers up to $750,000. Actress Alyssa Milano is calling for "sex-strike" to protest stringent anti-abortion legislation in Georgia. Combat sport laws in Ontario are set to be overhauled in what the government says is an effort to draw more high profile events to the province and bolster athlete safety. Jobandeep Sandhu is an international student from India who worked as a truck driver while going to school. He was arrested and could soon be deported for “working too hard,” his lawyers claim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ford government is overhauling the laws in Ontario that govern combat sports. In theory this would open the door to increased business from the combat sport industry. As of now the laws are strict, but the government is trying to change that. Alex talks to UFC Senior Vice President of International and Content about what this could means for sports-fans in this province. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We learned on Friday that Canada's economy created over 100,00 jobs - 10 times more than predicted by analysts. That should be great news. It should mean that the economy is strengthening and heading on the right track... but it's not. It's a little suspicious that a flat-lined economy suddenly comes to life like a roaring dragon. All of this seems too convenient considering the election that's only a few months away.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by: PETER SHURMAN  BROADCASTER … BUSINESSMAN …. FORMER CONSERVATIVE M-P-P BOB RICHARDSON   SENIOR COUNSEL AT NATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS Topics include: Canada’s economy posted record job gains in April that, along with a pick-up in wages, analysts suggest it’s the strongest signal  the country is coming out of a six-month stint of weakness. Employment rose by 106,500 in April, blowing WAAAY past the prediction of 12 thousand jobs. It contradicts everything we are being told about a slowing economy. But if all is so great why are we seeing record use of food banks.. Increased bankruptcies. People are barely paying the bills. And why Justin Trudeau’s numbers are tanking. Well, according to this chief economist-- the numbers don't add up. Three top, former Conservative Cabinet members, one of them Alberta Premier Jason Kenny have come forward to provide information and to testify for the defense in the breach-of-trust case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. And yet none were called by the RCMP. The Crown didn’t seem to see the need to find out what they had-- heads should roll. Will they?   Former Peterborough Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, who spent one months behind bars for electoral offences, is accusing Canada’s elections authority of having a personal vendetta against him. He’s calling for a parliamentary investigation. Del Mastro is coming forward at a time of renewed public discussion about the elections commissioner’s decision to strike a compliance agreement in 2016 with SNC-Lavalin. SNC was caught giving illegal donations to the Liberals and was never punished. Veterans Affairs Canada quickly deleted an online video it posted — on Wednesday, to celebrate the 74th anniversary of VE-Day — upon realizing it showed images of the German Wehrmacht, the unified Nazi forces in the Second World War.On Twitter, the message said: "74 years ago, crowds celebrated Victory in Europe (V-E) Day across the Allied nations. Today, we remember the service and sacrifice of those who fought for peace and freedom during the Second World War." An Ontario man is “fuming” after losing hundreds of thousands of Aeroplan miles that he was saving for his retirement. Chris French logged about one million miles on Air Canada flights during his career, which had him flying all over the world on a regular basis.When he retired, he had about 370,000 Aeroplan miles in his account. French booked a trip earlier this year, but when he checked his Aeroplan account, the miles were gone. He had missed the company’s deadline to use the miles by two weeks. The company says it send out warnings. The day after March for life protests are held across the country, and where a handful of Conservative Mpp’s, And Mp’s went out to support the march, twitter is ablaze today with the new line of attack both Federally and here in Ontario--- is this insinuation of a hidden agenda and we must protect our rights. This is a very small fraction of the party. And frankly-- while i am pro-choice, i find the attacks on those who are against it to be troubling. Are those with opposing views not allowed to hold them?? The Union for the beer store employees have launched an aggressive blitz to attack the Ford government over the proposal to break up the beer oligarchy and fear monger the loss of 7 thousand jobs and one billion dollars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Snead, President and CEO of the Hanlan-Hyden Society, to discuss the matter of the 'WOW Boy'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Grant Dingwall, founder of Free-My-Booze, to discuss the matter of thousands of unionized employees at the Beer Store urging Premier Doug Ford not to squash the private retailers by expanding brew sales to corner stores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are not serious about justice in this country, so why even pretend? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Richard Warman - human rights lawyer and member of the Canadian Anti-hate Network - to discuss how the City of Hamilton is now investigating how a former leader of one of Canada's most infamous neo-Nazi groups was hired, and has been employed in the IT dept for more than a decade. A basic google check would have revealed his ties to the heritage front. Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. And still has a hate blog operating that once got him hauled in front of the human rights tribunal. And yet-- he has access to some of the most sensitive and private info of city officials and business.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Ian Lee - Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University - to discuss the U.S., China, and a jittery stock market.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices