The Alex Pierson Show

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$220M and counting: The cost of the RCMP’s ‘culture of dysfunction’ Jan 23, 2019

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Alex is joined by Jane Gerster, Global News' National Online Journalist - Features, to talk about the story of a 27-year member of the RCMP that took his own life back in 2013. The inquest into the officer's death lasted less than one week and proved very ltitle but it did raise another startling point. Over the past 20 years, over $220M has been spent by the country's national police force on everything from settling lawsuits, inquiries into Mountie mismanagement as well as examinations of the RCMP's use-of-force.

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Counterpoint - Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 Jan 23, 2019

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Alex is joined by Stephen Ledrew, Toronto-based lawyer and broadcaster, and Jamie Ellerton, Principal, Conaptus Ltd. for this edition of Counterpoint.

Topics include: The federal Liberals are not answering questions when asked about the security costs of Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammad, as many as 18,000 illegal asylum seekers crossed the Quebec border last year, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says a carbon tax will cause an economic disaster, and a new Canada food guide encourages Canadian's to follow a diet that could lower your chloesterol while jacking up the totals at the check-outs.

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Trying to silence Marineland whistle-blowing with insurmountable legal costs Jan 23, 2019

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Alex is joined by Phil Demers, a former Marineland trainer, to talk about how he is continuing a now 6-year long legal battle against amusement park and zoo Marineland after several cases of animal cruelty within the facility were leaked to the public and what the corporation is doing to try and silence him.

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Global Top Talkers - Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 Jan 23, 2019

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Tonight's top talker's are:

Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton

Craig Needles - Global News Radio London

Topics include: A dog owner is left with questions after video was posted of a canine being left outside a London business in tempertures below minus 20 degrees, Health Canada has unvieled the country's next food guide, and the Liberal government won't say whether or not they'll pay for Rahaf Mohammad's security costs after granting her asylum from Saudi Arabia.

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The Point: Justin Trudeau is our beacon of hope in a world of upheaval...and if you believe that... Jan 23, 2019

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As another federal election looms closer and closer, the narrative seems oddly familiar. Where you have the incumbent Liberals, who see themselves to be all that is right, you have the opposing Conservatives, a party those same Liberals will label all that is...not right. Yet, since assuming office in 2015, Canada's proposed "beacon of hope" has left a lot of us hoping for more.

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Huawei not only firm that could build Canada’s eventual 5G networks Jan 22, 2019

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Alex is joined by Anthony Furey, Sun / Postmedia columnist & national comment editor to discuss Canada's next-generation wireless networks.

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The Media Wildly Mischaracterized Video of Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran Jan 22, 2019

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Alex is joined by Robby Soave, Reporter and Staff editor Reason, and author of upcoming book - Panic Attack ; Young Radicals in the age of Trump to discuss the viral video of students from a Catholic high school allegedly harassing a Native American veteran after the anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington.

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University faculty association concerned about tuition changes Jan 22, 2019

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Alex is joined by J.J. McCullough, BC Based writer/columnist seen on National Post, Washington Post to discuss all the tuition changes annouced lask week.

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Counterpoint: Monday, January 21st, 2019 Jan 22, 2019

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Alex is joined by Andy Stinton, Small Business Man and Michael Diamond, campaign strategist and political commentator, UPSTREAM Strategy Group.

Topics include: Ontario doctors will be in court to challenge a ruling that found physicians must give referrals for medical services that clash with their moral or religious beliefs, Doug Ford says Trudeau's carbon tax will cause recession, Chinese authorities mistreating Canadian detainees, 29 homicides in Ontario long-term care homes in past six years, and much more.

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Hamilton Senior is Seeking Assisted Suicide instead of going into a Nursing Home Jan 22, 2019

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Alex is joined by Yvonne Cunnington, Volunteer and donor, Dying with Dignity Hamilton to discuss assissted suicide. Arleen Reinsborough’s fear of nursing homes has her determined to seek assisted suicide due to many chronic health issues.

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