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Agar: Demanding Fiscal Responsibility Doesn’t Make You Evil

Agar: Demanding Fiscal Responsibility Doesn’t Make You Evil

CFRB host Jerry Agar takes issue with those who look down on voters fed up with the status quo at City Hall: “Those people who are warning the city will be a ruined, hollowed out hell-hole under Ford teach us that the way to prosperity is ever-increasing taxes and fees. That is fiscal responsibility. Smart [...]

Agar: One-Note Ford Playing T.O.’s Tune

Agar: One-Note Ford Playing T.O.’s Tune

Sun guest columnist and CFRB host Jerry Agar thinks Rob Ford is singing the song that Toronto voters want to hear: “Ford’s slogan is “Respect for Taxpayers,” and his “one-note” song of fury is, “the gravy train will end,” when he becomes mayor. The song’s a hit. The public understands it. Candidates, apparently, not so [...]

Agar: Why Smitherman And Ford Deserve Some Time Alone

Agar: Why Smitherman And Ford Deserve Some Time Alone

Serving as a guest columnist for the Toronto Sun, CRFB host Jerry Agar defends his offer to moderate a private debate between mayoral candidates George Smitherman and Rob Ford: “Multi-person debates are often short on substance. Candidates get little time to expand on ideas and solutions; to kick issues back and forth and really show [...]

Furious George vs. Runaway Ford

Furious George vs. Runaway Ford

On the Jerry Agar show yesterday, mayoral candidate George Smitherman challeneged opponent Rob Ford to a one-on-one debate on CFRB 1010.  On the Jim Richards show later that day, Ford accepted: “He spends money right, left and centre by way of promises and he gives revenue away right, left and centre by way of promises,” [...]