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Hidden Camera in Nursing Home

Posted By: The Jerry Agar Show · 5/21/2013 10:34:00 AM

A Peterborough man followed his gut and installed a hidden camera in his  mothers nursing home room when he didn't understand how she was getting bruises. Click here to watch the video.

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A small piece on minimum wage

Posted By: Jerry Agar · 5/19/2013 9:02:00 AM

Comments on this blog site have championed higher minimum wage and asserted that the workers at the LCBO deserve a raise. They seem not to have studied economics.

Just as we, as consumers, pay what we think a product or service is worth - shopping for price - employers do the same.

Raises are provided when the value of the work is improved through increased production. That could be because a person has more experience and therefore gets the job done more efficiently. 

If fewer workers could provide the same amount of sales, then those workers would be due a raise. But more pay for the same work is inefficient, and damages not only the LCBO, but the economy. That money has to come from somewhere, and it would result in less money spent on other, perhaps better things.

The LCBO employees are already paid above the standard for retail ...

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Jerry Agar Podcast May 21, 2013

What's next for Oklahoma- GUEST: Peter Lamb, Professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. GUEST: Michael Ratliff, storm chaser 2 miles north of Moore; We wait for Rob Ford to say something… but in the mean time is it even legal to purchase the video?- GUEST: Steve Skurka, Newstalk1010 Legal analyst; Big shocker, NDP Andrea Horwath supports the budget - GUEST: Peter Shurman, PC Finance Critic; Elder abuse story: how do you choose where to put your parents- GUEST: Candice Chartier, CEO of Ontario Long Term Care Association; Dropping like flies at Parliament Hill- GUEST: Megan Harris; The Closing AGARment.

Posted 5/21/2013 2:00:00 PM

About Jerry

Jerry Agar is the conservative host of the Jerry Agar Show which launched in 2010 and airs on NEWSTALK 1010 weekdays 9am to noon. He grew up in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba and started his radio career as an all-night DJ in Dauphin, Manitoba. He married an American and moved to the United States where he started his talk radio career in 2000 with a show in Raleigh, North Carolina.

From there he went to KMBZ in Kansas City and then to Chicago, where he worked on WLS in the morning, while doing an evening show for WABC in New York from studios in Chicago.

He was a writer for a think tank, The Illinois Policy Institute. He now does a weekly column for the Toronto Sun and occasionally appears as a commentator on Sun TV.