The Alex Pierson Show

Alex is joined by Bob Richardson, Senior Counsel at NATIONAL Public Relations, and Anthony Furey, Sun / Postmedia columnist & national comment editor. Topics include: Canadian who is detained in China is denied access to his lawyers, Conservative Leader Andew Scheer says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the most divisive Prime Minister in Canadian history, the federal Finance Department doesn't expect to balance budgets until 2040 and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's top talkers are: Rick Zamperin - Assistant Program Director, Global News Radio Hamilton & Tasha Kheiriddin – Host, Global News Radio Toronto Topics include: Conservative Leader Andew Scheer says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the most divisive Prime Minister in Canadian history and the Finance Department doesn't expect to have a balamced budget until 2040.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If Spinal Tap could rate the volume of 2018, it would be one louder than any other year. This year's news cycle has been chaotic and relentless. It seemed like every day had a big news story that shocked everyone, then the next day, another shocking story surfaced that overshadowed the previous story. Let's all hope that in 2019 the volume goes down, at least back to 10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by David Shipley, President/CEO of Beaucron Security and Global News Radio Cyber Security Expert, to discuss the alleged Chinese hacking campaign. Canada and several of our allies were targeted in an intrusive hacking attack on big corporations. How are we just learning about this two years after the fact? After all of these findings, how is China still in the running to be the backbone of Canada's 5G network? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Erzabet Almassy and Lorne Waldman for ON Point tonight. Erzabet is the mother of the Hamilton family who are facing deportation to Hungary after 7 years living in Canada, and she is with her immigration lawyer, Lorne Waldman of Waldman & Associates. Erzabet's family is the type that Canada wants, so why is she facing deportation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by Sterling Cripps, Founder and President of Canadian Unmanned Incorporated, a highly specialized UAV / drone training and support company, to talk about Gatwick airport closing. The airport closed due to drones. How can drones shut down an entire airport in 2018? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex is joined by Kim Wright, Vice President Public Affairs at Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Melissa Lantsman, Vice President Public Affairs at Hill and Knowlton Strategies. Topics include: Report surfaces that Canada and several of our allies were targetted by China in an intrusive hacking attack back in 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won't say whether he thinks Western alienation is growing, new rules are out on edibles, which are legal next October 17th and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Pierson is joined by David Perry, CEO of Investigative Solutions Network Inc. and a former member of the Toronto Police Service, to discuss the newly announced Toronto Community Healing Project. Bill Blair announced that 6.7 million dollars were given to the project, but is that enough money? What will the Healing Project do and what impact will it have on the violence in the city? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's Top Talkers are: Bill Kelly - Global News Radio Hamilton & Mike Stubbs - Global News Radio London Topics include: President of the Unifor union, Jerry Dias, may be giving false hope to GM workers in the Oshawa plant and Canada and several of our allies were targetted in an intrusive hacking attack on big corporations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The activism that created the oil crisis definitely won't be fixing it. The oil crusaders who are campaigning for the oil to flow are the same people who have been anti-oil for years. Can we really believe them? Or is this just another political activism campaign designed to get votes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices