Feb 16 2018 — Rex Murphy — National Post — The appetite of the Ontario PCs for chaos, and their fertility in supplying it, is matchless. Only two weeks ago I mused that they had outdone themselves, that as the Scottish lord in the play put it: “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.” How else to describe a party leader doomed under the cloud of […]
Jul 7 2017 — Rex Murphy — National Post — How and when Canadians were let in on the Trudeau government’s lavish settlement and accompanying official apology to Omar Khadr are its most curious and telling elements. No cabinet minister, and certainly not Justin Trudeau, stepped before a bank of microphones and cameras to bring the good news to Canadians before it was a done […]
Mar 17 2017 — Rex Murphy — National Post — It is a great wide world in which the strangest things bring people together. Two prominent feminists, from different political parties, one of whom is already a leader, the other seeking that status, have found themselves in the judgement court of the inquisitional Black Lives Matter branch plant in Canada. Just over a month ago, […]
Feb 18 2017 — Rex Murphy — National Post — On one not-so tangential aspect of the hot and largely empty debate on M-103, the anti-Islamophobia motion that’s grinding the ceaseless gears of Twitter and edifying the House of Commons I’d like to lodge a caution. It comes with the very term at the centre of the squall: Islamophobia. As a suffix, phobia has been […]
Jan 27 2017 — Rex Murphy — National Post — Was Jane Fonda, who achieved worldly fame in the 1980s doing aerobic step routines in phosphorescent spandex suits, at the ill-named Women’s March on Washington last Saturday? Ill-named, well, yes. It was the Some Women’s March on Washington. The idea that the parade was a grand convocation speaking with the voice of universal Womanhood staring […]
Jan 7 2017 — Rex Murphy — National Post — It cannot have escaped the attention of many that Ontario is most unsettled these days. That its industries are anxious, its debt colossal, its citizens not in a pleasant mood. Ontario is in a lot of pain. But let me assure readers outside Ontario that it has not all been for nothing. There are rewards. […]
Dec 30 2016 — Rex Murphy — National Post — The first (foreign policy) question Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be asked in this New Year is whether he approves of the Obama administration organized, New Zealand-Venezuela mediated, UN resolution against Israel? Does he approve of the UN Security Council’s vote of censure against Israel? That’s a question on the substance of the resolution. There […]
Dec 23 2016 — Rex Murphy — CBC — Rex Murphy thinks it 2016 belongs to Justin Trudeau. But next year will be far less of an easy ride for Canada’s Prime Minister.
Nov 19 2016 — Rex Murphy — National Post — At the critical moment of every second-rate movie ever made, when the town is under siege from the bandits, or the maiden is tied to the railway tracks and the hero is lost on what must be done, there will come a voice from the crowd: “What we need now is action!” With that insight, […]
Sep 9 2016 — Rex Murphy — National Post — Where, oh where, has the NDP gone? Not so long ago, they were the official Opposition. And in the run-up to the last election, they appeared for a moment to have a real chance of unseating Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and forming the next government. Alas, for the NDP, that was but a glimmer of hope, […]
Aug 26 2016 — Rex Murphy — National Post — The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the drab, nondescript name given to the massive annual huddles, held in some of the world’s great cities — Rio, Beijing, Paris — by the doomsayers at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The panel modestly described the COP as the “supreme body of the United Nations […]
Aug 6 2016 — Rex Murphy — National Post — I think Hollywood could have saved itself some turmoil this year, and made a few bucks in the process, if it had held off on the new Ghostbusters movie and gone for something a little more current. There’s a great story sitting on the scriptwriting tarmac, just waiting for the proper writers to put a […]
Jul 23 2016 — Rex Murphy — National Post — In the days of the greatest turmoil for the late and much-lamented Toronto mayor Rob Ford, when his presence in office was seen as offensive to all right-thinking people, there remained a mystery at the heart of what was rightly called the “Ford phenomenon.” Ford was under a massive and continuous avalanche of scorn, mockery […]
Jul 1 2016 — Rex Murphy — National Post — You have to consult the Lamentations of Jeremiah to find a grim parallel to the wailing and gnashing of Europhile teeth after the Brexit side won the recent referendum in the U.K. The Remain crowd have proved to be sore losers, with their flood of excoriation, mockery, denigration and raw anger directed at those who […]
Jun 30 2016 — Rex Murphy — CBC — Point of View: Are referendums a really good thing? Rex Murphy says, “yes”.