Jerry Agar is a conservative talk radio personality. Since 2010, he has been host of the ''Jerry Agar Show'' on

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Life and career

Agar was born in

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. After years of working as a

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in Canada he moved to the United States and became a talk radio host at

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in 2000. He subsequently moved to KMBZ in

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and

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and

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.Jerry Agar
, WLS-AM He was a substitute host on

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show and

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's show. In February 2010, Agar joined CFRB in

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as host of ''The Jerry Agar Show'' on weekday mornings. He hosted a program on the

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from 3 to 5 pm Eastern weekdays, until the station's demise in 2015, and is a regular Tuesday columnist for the

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. Agar has published op-ed pieces in various American newspapers and was a featured columnist for the ''Kansas City Business Magazine''. He was also a multimedia fellow with the

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Beliefs

Agar has shown skepticism about the effects of man-made global warming on polar bears and has written many blog entries critical of the scientific consensus on global warming. Agar is a strong advocate for the War on Drugs when it comes to hard drugs like crack and heroin and has been very critical of the safe injection site

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, the only legal supervised injection site in North America. This position has been the source of criticism. Agar has also been critical of the Province of Ontario's decision to disallow Catholic school boards' banning of Gay Straight Alliances.

References

Living people Canadian talk radio hosts Conservatism in Canada People from Parkland Region, Manitoba Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-radio-bio-stub