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- Andrew Krystal is a Canadian radio talk show host on the Rogers Communications news talk network in the Canadian Maritimes. Originating from News 95.7 FM in Halifax, Nova Scotia, his program Maritime Morning is simulcast on co-owned stations in Moncton, New Brunswick and Saint John, New Brunswick. Krystal is also a writer and occasional TV current affairs panelist. Following his studies at the University of Toronto where he read English and international relations, he began is career in radio syndication 1986-1991 with Sonic Workshop owned by the late David Pritchard and Alan Lysaght where he co-produced, wrote, voiced, and sold, the Entertainment Tonight-style series "Entertainment Week" and "Entertainment Today", which aired in 60 Canadian markets -- a noteworthy accomplishment for independent syndication at the time. Following syndicated radio, he hosted and wrote independent TV series and travel guide programs. He became a national media figure in January 2006 when headlines described a heated exchange between Nova Scotia Members of Parliament Peter MacKay of the Conservative Party and Alexa McDonough of the New Democratic Party that took place on his show, where MacKay told McDonough the following: "I think you better stick to your knitting". Krystal garnered further national attention on January 23, 2006 for comments made during a brief appearance on CTV News Channel, when he told fellow election panelist Charles Adler, who is the grandson of Auschwitz victims, that Adler would have voted for Adolf Hitler if Hitler were running as a Conservative. Krystal's comments sparked outrage in the Canadian conservative blogosphere and were branded as "sick" and "despicable" by the popular Bourque Newswatch website. Krystal later clarified his comments in an email to a Canadian political, as follows: "I said that Adler would vote for Satan or Hitler as long as he was a Conservative. Blind in other words.... I wouldn't vote for Mussolini or Hitler either. I might try Satan. He's the devil I know. " Krystal began hosting Maritime Morning in October 2005. He previously hosted The Andrew Krystal Show on Sunday nights on Toronto's CFRB. He has also hosted talk radio programs on CFMJ in Toronto and on CKTB in St. Catharines, Ontario. On July 12, 2006, Andrew Krystal become a source of blogsphere controversy again. Caveat blog page Krystal's comments on his views on pit-bull terriers were the latest comments by the Rogers Media talk show host. Andrew Krystal made newspaper headlines and TV news cycles, yet again, on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 when the Premier of Nova Scotia, Rodney Macdonald, consented to go on air in an exclusive interview to discuss the controversy surrounding his personal life: after running a campaign on "family values", Macdonald recently split up with his wife. The Premier addressed his determination to fight on politically and maintained there is not an inconsistency with what he ran on and who he is privately; Macdoanald also declared that he still loved his wife and openly dared his constituents to "define a family". In May 2009, Andrew Krystal received honorary mention at the Radio Television News Director's Association (RTNDA) for his editorial broadcast of "The Wizard of Ottawa", which satirized the political impasse in Ottawa during the Parlimentary porogue wherein the awkward antics of government leaders was compared to "Wizard of Oz" characters.
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