The Alex Pierson Show

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A new hacking method called Social Engineering is being used Feb 12, 2019

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Alex is joined by Adam Oldfield,Global News Radio Tech Expert to discuss a new hacking method. Social engineering fraud typically happens through email, phone, or text or through online chat windows. Hackers use charm and persuasion to convince a customer service representative they are actually the account holder.

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Counterpoint - Monday, February 11th, 2019 Feb 12, 2019

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Alex is joinedAndy Stinton, small business man and Michael Diamond campaign strategist and political commentator, UPSTREAM Strategy Group.

Topics include: The ethics commissioner has launched an investigation saying there are sufficient grounds to investigate this SNC, Cirque du Soleil has unveiled plans to take over part of Ontario Place as they bring their show Alegria to Toronto on Sept. 12, Four months after recreational cannabis sales became legal in Canada, stores are running out of the product, a woman throws chair from off the balcony from a condo that is beside the QEW, Lindsay Shepard, the Wilfrid Laurier student professor, fired for showing a Steve Paikin video with a clip of Jordan Peterson to her class, an Ohio teen – frustrated by years of arguing with his anti vaxxing moms stance on inoculation used his 18th birthday as the opportunity to finally decide he wanted to get vaccinated, but didn’t know how, and much more.

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Justin Trudeau could clear up this whole mess-- and simply let JRW talk-- but he won’t as long as he can hide behind it Feb 12, 2019

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Justin Trudeau could clear up this whole mess-- and simply let JRW talk-- but he won’t as long as he can hide behind it.

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Toronto real estate board calls on Ottawa to revisit mortgage stress test Feb 07, 2019

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Alex is joined by Rubina Ahmed-Haq, Global News Radio Personal Finance Expert to discuss Canada’s largest real estate board is calling on Ottawa to revisit whether a stricter mortgage stress test introduced last year is still needed, arguing that the policy has negatively impacted the economy and Toronto’s once red-hot housing market.

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Counterpoint - Wednesday February 6th, 2019 Feb 07, 2019

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Alex is joined byJohn Mraz and Bill Hutchison.

Topics include: Ford government announces long overdue changes to autism funding. Mayor John Tory wants a review of snow removal operations following last week’s storm. B’nai Brith issuing a tweet saying; Our investigation has revealed that Martin Masse, a senior advisor to PPC leader @MaximeBernier, defended Nazi sympathizers, made misogynistic statements about “femi-fascists” and said #Zionism is a “fancy justification for killing Palestinians.”. Come hell or high water, Omar Khadr is going to get his freedom. Nathalie Lemieux applauded Quebec Premier François Legault’s opposition to designating an anti-Islamophobia day in Quebec, and said fear of Islam is a problem invented by Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberals.

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Ontario government overhauls autism program to attempt to eliminate wait list Feb 07, 2019

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Alex is joined by PC MPP Amy Fee, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Children, Community and Social Services to discuss how Ontario is overhauling its autism program in an attempt to clear a waiting list of 23,000 children, but families and advocates say that backlog will be eliminated at the expense of the amount and quality of treatment.

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Case and Point with Lorne Honickman Feb 06, 2019

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Alex is joined by Lorne Honickman, Global News Radio Legal Expert, for this edition of Case and Point.

Topics include: Crown prosecutors are calling for consecutive life sentences in the case of serial killer Bruce McArthur and the mother of Kaden Young, the child who was swept away during a 2018 flood in Orangeville, has her request denied for her trial to be put over to March 23rd.

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How crypto exchange QuadrigaCX lost access to $190 million of customers’ money Feb 06, 2019

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Alex is joined by Adam Oldfield, Global News Radio`s Tech Expert, to discuss court documents that says one of Canada’s best-known cryptocurrency exchanges, does not have access to $190-million worth of customers’ funds and is seeking creditor protection.

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Counterpoint - Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 Feb 06, 2019

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Alex is joined by Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster, and Michael Taube, Troy Media syndicated columnist and Washington Times contributor, for this edition of Counterpoint.

Topics include: The United States is calling on other countries to repatriate ISIS fighters for prosecution, Ontario Provincial Police are mulling over whether or not to investigate the recent document leak from the province`s government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says low-income Canadians don't pay taxes and Dalton McGuinty will soon receive the key to the city of Ottawa.

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The United States calls on governments to repatriate ISIS fighters for prosecution Feb 06, 2019

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Alex is joined by Stewart Bell, Global News Investigative Reporter, to talk about a statement from the U.S. State Department that calls upon several countries, including Canada, to repatriate and prosecute their citizens who left their home countries to fight alongside ISIS.

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