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Rex Murphy: Canada’s new two-party system

Rex Murphy wrote 38 minutes ago: It was not that long ago that no less a political totem than Jean Chrétien was urging the blending o … more →

Tags: Canada, Full Comment, Bob Rae, Canadian politicians, Canadian Politics, Conservatives, Jean Chretien, Justin Trudeau, Liberals

Rex Murphy: Mulcair is too loud on Alberta, too mute on Quebec

Rex Murphy wrote 1 week ago: For over 100 days now, Montreal has been the scene of protests, civil disorder and a couple of truly … more →

Tags: Canada, Full Comment, Alberta, oilsands, Québec, thomas mulcair, tuition protests

Audio: Cross Country Check-Up

caregiveup wrote 1 week ago: After five years in the making, the Mental Health Commission of Canada released its plan for a natio … more →

Tags: media, Mental Health, Policy, Canada, Public Health, cbc radio, radio one, Mental Health Commission of Canada, cross country check up

Rex Murphy on Thomas Mulcair: How recklessly unCanadian

Rex Murphy wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s one of the unglamorous but efficient virtues of our federation that — usually — we manage to ke … more →

Tags: Canada, Full Comment, Alberta, Alison Redford, b c, brad wall, Canadian History, Canadian Politics, christy clark

Rex Murphy on affirmative action: The shame of Fauxcohontas

Rex Murphy wrote 3 weeks ago: When is a politician toast — done-on-both-sides, pass-the-butter-and-jam toast? Well, one hint might … more →

Tags: Full Comment, U S Politics, Affirmative Action, Elizabeth Warren

Rex Murphy: How Obama cheapened a great victory in the war on terror

Rex Murphy wrote 4 weeks ago: How do you make something smaller than it is or should be? How do you shrink an event? One way is to … more →

Tags: Full Comment, U S Politics, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, War-on-terror

031 - the (conservative) english canadian media and the strike, part one

Sam wrote 1 month ago: Canada’s pre-eminent conservative newspaper, the National Post, has been increasingly active i … more →

Tags: posts that count, Andrew Coyne, Canada, Conservatives, Discourse, Editorial, Graeme Hamilton, Judgment, media

"To the Barricades Everyone. And bring me a latte.”

The Wittenberg Door wrote 1 month ago: http://www.nationalpost.com/m/news/blog.html?b=fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/04/28/rex-murphy-qu … more →

Tags: Canada, 2012 Quebec student strike, Québec, Quebec student protest, Quebec student protests, quebec student strike, Quebec students

Mob rule or student strike?1 comment

dcmontreal wrote 1 month ago: Two great columns on the current student “strike” in Quebec. Rex Murphy in The National Post starts … more →

Tags: quebec student strike, Don Macpherson, National Post, The Gazette

Rex Murphy: Quebec student protests are nothing but a parody

Rex Murphy wrote 1 month ago: Whatever justification the foolishly called student “strike” in Montreal may have had — and I’m incl … more →

Tags: Canada, Full Comment, 2012 Quebec student strike, Québec, Quebec student protest, Quebec student protests, quebec student strike, Quebec students

Rex Murphy: A dog and president show, starring Romney and Obama

Rex Murphy wrote 1 month ago: Dogs carry a lot of weight (they may even add some) in U.S. elections. The Dog Whisperer, cheerful C … more →

Tags: Full Comment, U S Politics, 2012 Presidential Election, 2012 presidential race, Barack Obama, checkers, Dogs, Mitt Romney, Richard Nixon

Rex Murphy: Harper is charming abroad, and grumpy at home

Rex Murphy wrote 1 month ago: The wave of controversy over the F-35 cost projections has crested, eroding yet further a relatively … more →

Tags: Canada, Full Comment, World Politics, Conservatives, F-35, Stephen Harper

CBC's Rex Murphy offers scathing response to Leafs' apology7 comments

Ryan Dadoun wrote 1 month ago: As we previously reported, Leafs minority owner Lawrence M. Tanenbaum apologized to the team’s fans … more →

Tags: Toronto Maple Leafs, Brian Burke

Why do Toronto Maple Leafs fans keep cheering for their team?2 comments

Jesse Ferreras wrote 1 month ago: Last night’s biggest hockey rant didn’t come courtesy of Don Cherry. No, this time that … more →

Tags: Sports, Hockey, Playoffs, Toronto, Vancouver Canucks, NHL, Don Cherry, CBC, Toronto Maple Leafs

Sometimes you just have to kiss Rex Murphy's feet

Phyl wrote 1 month ago: Before posting this, I should explain my own position on things. I moved to Toronto from Calgary, ea … more →

Tags: Ethnic Culture, Toronto Maple Leafs

Rex Murphy: This is Mulcair’s moment

Rex Murphy wrote 1 month ago: Those vastly premature and gluttonously unnecessary TV ads the always aggressive Tories have run aga … more →

Tags: Canada, Full Comment, Attack Ads, Bob Rae, Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Stéphane Dion, Stephen Harper

Mother Corp. issues

Kudos and Kvetches wrote 1 month ago: As the federal government follows through with its sad promise to clamp down on funding to Canada’s … more →

Tags: Vancourier_Opinion, Budget, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada, kk, kudos and kvetches, Apple, vancouver courier, CBC

Rex Murphy: The tale of Trayvon Martin is a tragedy turned into a race parable

Rex Murphy wrote 2 months ago: Orange County Sheriff's Office A sorry situation is underway in the United States, in the unfolding … more →

Tags: Full Comment, U S Politics, George Zimmerman, Race, Race Relations, Trayvon Martin

Rex Murphy: It's not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist

Rex Murphy wrote 2 months ago: It is far too late to protest what I see as the false coinage of “phobia” words — not that I will le … more →

Tags: Full Comment, social issues, World Politics, France, France shooter, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Jihadists, muslimphobia


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