Jerry Agar

Who is Jerry Agar?

Jerry Agar is a conservative talk radio personality. In February 2010 he joined CFRB in Toronto as host of The Jerry Agar Show Monday to Friday from 9 am to noon. Agar was born in Manitoba but has spent much of his career on the US talk radio circuit. After years of working as a disc jockey in Canada he moved to the United States and became a talk radio host at WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2000. He subsequently moved to KMBZ in Kansas City, WABC-AM in New York City and WLS-AM and WGN-AM in Chicago. He was a substitute host on G. Gordon Liddy's satellite radio show and Mark Levin's show. He is a host on Sun News television from 3 to 5 pm Eastern weekdays.

Jerry Agar has also 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 Illinois Policy Institute. He is a regular Tuesday columnist for the Toronto Sun.

Jerry Agar is also has views about the effects of global warming on polar bears and, despite harsh criticism, has written many blog entries critical of the current scientific consensus on global warming.

Jerry Agar is a strong advocate for the War on Drugs and has been very critical of the safe injection site Insite, the only legal supervised injection site in North America. This position has been the source of criticism.