The Alex Pierson Show

Tonight's top talkers are: Bill Kelly - Global News Radio Hamilton & Mike Stubbs - Global News Radio London Topics include: New police powers now grant officers across the country, tthe ability to conduct breathalyzer tests anywhere, anytime and despite having two-way, all-day service, heavy strains are being placed on Kitchener's Go Train station as overcrowded platforms have now reached a tipping point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The saying of "boys will be boys" has been around forever. Up until recently, wrong-doings of some well-known male figures has highlighted the unseen power that men in general seem to hold over women. Now, while that spotlight moment was generations overdue, it seems that the growing status-quo is that men, and young boys, are to act and behave differently.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lisa Thompson, Ontario Minister of Education to discuss how a Toronto court is hearing a legal challenge from both the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association over the Progressive Conservative government’s repeal of an updated sex-ed curriculum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid rising tensions in northern B.C. – where Indigenous protesters are preventing a pipeline company from accessing an area in which it plans to work- dozens of people showed up at rallies in downtown Calgary and downtown Edmonton on Tuesday afternoon to show solidarity with members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. The pipeline would carry natural gas from B.C.’s Peace River region to the northern Pacific coast. In addition to those who turned up in Calgary to show solidarity with protesters behind the blockade in B.C., about the same number of people turned up to voice support for pipelines. According to the Canadian Press, the pro-pipeline crowd was encouraged to come out by Canada Action, a Calgary-based lobbying group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio Legal Expert, for this edition of Case and Point. Topics include: The truck driver charged in the Humboldt Bronco's bus crash has pleaded guilty voluntarily, a legal challenge on the repeal of the province's sex-ed curriculum awaits the Ford government and a U.S. citizen has been caught after using a NEXUS pass to smuggle 67 guns into Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Sterling Cripps, founder and president of Canadian Unmanned, to discuss a new set of rules for both commercial and personal drones. The stricter set of regulations comes following yet another disturbance at London's Heathrow airport where more drones disrupted outbound flights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer, broadcaster, and Gillian Smith, senior advisor and consultant for this edition of Counterpoint. Topics include: Startling new details into the indigenious healing centre's across the country and their population, the fate of Oshawa's GM facilitiy has been decicded, Canada could be in for a long wait when it comes to stocking up on pot, a new board chair for Ontario Place claims the theme park is in "complete disrepair", the RCMP is investigating potential death threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and actor Bryan Cranston is being vilified for his role in an upcoming movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a Global News exclusive, Alex is joined by Abigail Bimman, award-winning journalist and Ottawa-based Global National Correspondent, to talk about why just under nine per cent of the 147 offenders in federally run healing lodges last year self-identified as “White” rather than North American Indian, Metis or Inuit.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Regardless of the context, there is no right way to unspin hate speech. Hate is driven by emotion and when you add the element of religion into that, nothing good comes from it. So, when a Muslim Cleric preaches to group of youngsters that wishing someone a "merry christmas" is equal to or worse than killing someone, you'd think that would garner some kind of attention.....right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Andy Stinton and Jamie Ellerton.  Topics include: Golden Globes, Former PM Kim Campbell calls Donald Trump a “Mo Fo”, Go Transit begins its new weekday service between Niagara falls and Toronto, and a video of Drake kissing and fondling a 17-year-old female has surfaced on Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices