Jerry Agar

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AGAR: What leadership needs to looks like

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore led troops at the Battle of Ia Drang, during the Vietnam War. The battle was detailed in the 1992 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, co-authored by Moore and made into the film We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson.

October 5, 2020 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a speech in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa September 24, 2020.

AGAR: A world gone nuts

Can you make sense out of what is going on in the world today? If so, congratulations, but a lot of things make no sense to me.

September 28, 2020 Columnists

AGAR: SCOTUS debate's bitter politics makes its way up to Canada

Why are so many Canadians exercised over the issue of whether U.S. President Trump replaces Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court?

September 21, 2020 Columnists

US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 21, 2020.

AGAR: There was nothing wrong with Canada's J.K. Rowling billboard

When censorship and hate are supported by politicians and members of the media, censorship and hate threaten to become mainstream.

September 14, 2020 Columnists

Chris Elston posted on Twitter that an "I (heart) J.K. Rowling" sign was posted on Hastings Street at Glen Drive in Vancouver last Friday.

AGAR: Humans are social animals - and we need our lives back

As much as we need the economy back and to win the physical fight against the virus ravaging our lives and communities, we also need each other, unmasked and fully engaged.

September 7, 2020 Columnists

COVID-19 has robbed us of our social gatherings.

AGAR: The concerns of independent landlords have been forgotten

There is one group left out of recovery efforts in Ontario; a group receiving neither help nor sympathy. They are bleeding money and few people care. They are the landlords who own one or two residential rental units. They are often not wealthy people. They are folks who count on rent payments to cover the mortgage on the property and to perhaps earn a few dollars to contribute to their own income. In March Ontario Premier Ford said he doesn’t want Ontario residents to worry about how they’re going to make rent, announcing the suspension of all evictions until further notice. On Aug. 18, activists and protesters gathered outside a Toronto courthouse to physically block the city’s rental enforcement units from conducting evictions.

August 31, 2020 Columnists