The Alex Pierson Show

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Counterpoint: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 Oct 25, 2018

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Alex is joined by John Mraz and Jon Dwyer.

Topics include: In what looks like a case of domestic terror. 9 Pipe bombs were sent to the Obamas, Clintons, CNN and George Soros, Senate passes bill that would ban whale, dolphinb captivity in Canada, gun crime, and stategy on returning ISIS members.

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Ontario Minister of Labour’s Constituency Office in Lindsay Vandalized Overnight Oct 25, 2018

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Vandals in Lindsay ransacked the constituency office of Laurie Scott, Ontario’s Minister of Labour overnight Tuesday, hours after the provincial government rolled back labour reforms passed by the previous Liberal government.

In a tweet, Premier Doug Ford said someone broke into the office on Lindsay Street North and vandalized it. Scott is the MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock. The front door and windows were smashed and furniture overturned. A wall was spray painted “Attack Workers We Fight Back $15.”

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Monologue: When the left doesn’t get its way they threaten death? Oct 25, 2018

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Why has it taken Western governments this long to react to Saudi Arabia? Oct 24, 2018

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Alex is joined by Chris Alexander, Canadian politican, former diplomat, and former Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to talk about the continuing fallout surrounding the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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CASE AND POINT with Lorne Honickman Oct 24, 2018

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Alex is joined by Toronto-based lawyer, Lorne Honickman for this edition of Case and Point.

Topics include: A pair of human traffickers are calling their jail sentence of 4 years 'creul and unusual punishment', two Ontario journalists have been acquitted in a case of police obstruction, and an alleged Frederiction gunman cites 'temporary insanity' and claims to be innocent.

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Trudeau takes aim at Canada's greenhouse emissions and Doug Ford Oct 24, 2018

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Alex is joined by Stephen Lecce, Conservatice MPP for King-Vaughan, and parliamentary assistant to Ontario Premier Doug Ford to discuss what the meaning was behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiling the federal government's new carbon tax right in the heart of Ford's own riding of Etobicoke North.

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Counterpoint: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 Oct 24, 2018

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Alex is joined by Michael Diamond, Principal at Upstream Strategy Group and Andy Stinton, Small business man, for this edition of Counterpoint.

Topics include: The Trudeau government aims to get Canada in line with a climate plan by way of a carbon tax, bad shipments and reports of slow deliveries headlines Ontario Cannabis Store's first week, the PM says it would cost the country over $1B to cancel arms deals with Saudi Arabia, bagel makers in Montreal may be the hardest hit by the government's latest carbon tax, and a village in New Brunswick faces backlash after raising a 'straight pride' flag.

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Trudeau's new carbon tax sets the stage for spiking gas prices Oct 24, 2018

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Alex is joined by Dan McTeague, Senior Petroleum Analyst for GasBuddy to talk about the plan proposed by the federal government that will tax polluters by the tonne while costing the public more at the pumps. Just how much will consumers be affected by this new carbon tax?

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Global Top Talkers - Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

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Tonight's Top Talkers are:

Scott Thompson - Global News Radio Hamilton

Craig Needles - Global News Radio London

Topics include: The Ford government is cancelling funding for planned partnership campuses for three colleges in the G.T.A. & less than one week after marijuana becomes legal, Ontario's Cannabis Store can't keep up with the demand.

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Monologue: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 Oct 23, 2018

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On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got to kill two birds with one stone. He go to announce a new carbon tax and did so in the heart of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's own riding of Etobicoke North. Ford has been a strong opponent of the federal government's tax plans. The plan will push the price of gas up by a few cents, but the government says the public will see that money returned to them via a tax rebate.

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