The Alex Pierson Show

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Monologue: Corrections Canada is Comfortable With Their Decision Sep 29, 2018

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Terri-Lynne McClintic was convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 and given 25 years without parole. She was reportedly transferred from a medium-security prison in Ontario to the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge run by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) in December. Corrections Canada is comfortable with their decision, so clearly it's time we look at these decsion makers.

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A closer look at how a St. Thomas nurse took the lives of Canada's elderly Sep 28, 2018

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Alex speaks with Jane Meadus, staff lawyer and Institutional Advocate at Advocacy Centre For The Elderly, about the inquiry into Elizabeth Wetlaufer and how she was able to take the lives of so many elderly people and get away with it.

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The political fallout following a convicted murderer's move out of maximum security Sep 28, 2018

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Alex is joined by Joseph Neuberger, Partner at Neuberger and Partners, Global News Radio legal analyst to discuss whether or not the federal government should intervene following Terri-Lynne McClintic's move from a maximum security prison to a minimum security, indigenious healing centre.

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Dropping gender from baby wristbands in hospitals Sep 28, 2018

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Alex is joined by Dr Peta Nankivell to talk about how one hospital in Colorado has removed the "gender" catagory from the wristbands placed on newborn babies.

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Global Top Talkers - Thursday, September 27th, 2018 Sep 28, 2018

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Tonight's Top Talkers are:

Mike Stubbs - Reporter, Global News Radio London.

and

Jason Chapman - Executive Producer, Global News Radio.

Topics include: Testimonials from both Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are heard in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Is the 'Me Too Movement' being used as a political weapon and does all of this hinder Kavanaugh from gaining a seat in America's highest court?

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Is NAFTA creating a divide between Canada and the United States? Sep 28, 2018

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Alex is joined by Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, founding trade lawyer of LexSage, to discuss how the suttle jabbing between Canada and the United States is dividing the two countries from reaching an amicable agreement on NAFTA.

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Counterpoint: Thursday, September 27th, 2018 Sep 28, 2018

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Alex is joined by Omar Khan, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Liberal Party executive and Melissa Lantsman, Vice President, Public Affairs, Hill+Knowlton, Conservative Strategist for today's counterpoint.

Topics include:

A meeting between Canada and the U.S. could actually be in the works as NAFTA talks continue, politicizing the death of Tori Stafford, lighting up a joint in the same place as you would smoke a cigarette and police in Calgary won't be allowed to smoke marijuana after clocking out of work.

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Monologue: The implications of Kavanaugh Sep 28, 2018

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An alleged incident more than 35 years ago has halted the process of confirming U.S. judge Brett Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court. Both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, have testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving their accounts of an incident that Ford alleges "changed her life forever".

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Tony Clement says cases like transfer of Tori Stafford’s killer to healing lodge may lead to vigilantism Sep 27, 2018

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Alex is joined by Tony Clement to discuss cases such as the transfer of Tori Stafford's killer out of prison and into an aboriginal healing lodge risk eroding public faith in the justice system and may lead to people taking matters into their own hands.

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Mark Laurence responds to Air Canada pilots for last year's near disaster Sep 27, 2018

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Alex is joined by Mark Laurence, former pilot Air force, canadian pilots association to discuss how officials in the U.S. blame two Air Canada pilots for coming within three to six metres of crashing their jetliner into a plane on the ground last year in San Francisco.

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