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Rex Murphy

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Name: Rex Murphy

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Stephen Harper

Rex Murphy: The hidden agenda, revealed

It was what Sherlock Holmes would have called a four-pipe problem. Whenever faced with a real puzzler, Sherlock would take the pipe from the mantelpiece, stuff it with shag tobacco, furrow that mighty brow, and smoke his way, all night if need be, to ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 18 2013]

Entities: Mike Duffy, Rex Murphy, Stephen Harper

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Al Gore

Today’s letters: Vince Li should be in jail, not at the beach

Re: Bus beheader Vince Li should be allowed to go to the beach : doctor, May 13. So Vince Li is about to be allowed out whereas his own mother says he is unpredictable? That is an understatement, of course, for someone who chopped off a man’s head ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 15 2013]

Entities: Al Gore, Robert Fulford, Stephen Hawking, Rex Murphy

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

John Baird

Paul Russell: Readers ‘abhorred’ by our lousy grammar

We often get notes from readers about word usage. Here is a selection from letters that arrived just this week. The first claims that our columnists take too many liberties with the language. Rod Packwood wrote: “In [last] Saturday’s Post, I noticed ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 11 2013]

Entities: Kathleen Wynne, John Baird, Andrea Horwath

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Rex Murphy: Remember Al Gore? At the Globe & Mail, he’s still a big star

Because this column is written on Friday, I have no idea what luminary graces the front page of today’s weekend edition of the Globe & Mail newspaper. But I am still recovering from their choice for the marquee spot last Saturday, when I saw, gleaming ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 11 2013]

Entities: Al Gore, Rex Murphy, Fort McMurray, Global Warming/Climate Change, Qatar

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Rex Murphy: The root causes of root causes

It is not every day that Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre and U.S. President Barack Obama have something of a mind meld, and offer remarkably similar expositions on a very contentious subject. However, it has happened. The convergence of the two intellects ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 04 2013]

Entities: Pierre Poilievre, Rex Murphy, Terrorism, Terrorists, Barack Obama

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Premier Redford, Rex Murphy and Amanda Lindhout among speakers at upcoming industry conference

/CNW/ - Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute (CPBI) Alberta Regional conference attendees next week at the Rimrock Hotel in Banff will be able to enjoy an impressive speaker line-up. Speakers include Alberta's Premier Alison Redford, CBC personality ... [Published Canada NewsWire - May 02 2013]

Entities: Amanda Lindhout, Rex Murphy, Alison Redford

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Today’s letters: Poorly paid garment workers deserve better

Re: Don’t Blame The Sweatshops , Jesse Kline; Where Are Your Clothes Made?, both April 30. Jesse Kline revisits arguments that Charles Dickens would have been very familiar. In the same edition, letter-writer Morris Charney slips in the phrase “a fair ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - May 02 2013]

Entities: Ed Broadbent, Lester B Pearson, Canada

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Today’s letters: Relax, there is no evidence of Canadian radicalization

Re: Not The Time To ‘Commit Sociology’ : PM, April 26. It is rare that the word “sociology” is part of public discourse and debate, and it is even rarer that a prime minister uses it in public. It is refreshing to hear about sociology, but Stephen ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Christine Russell, Radicalization, Maurice Richard, Christie Blatchford

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Rex Murphy: What happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas

Do you know why “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?” Because, even in this Kim Kardashian/Paris Hilton world, what’s done there is usually too vulgar, stupid and shameful to be acknowledged anywhere else. Drunk, broke and compromised is how many ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Gambling, Toronto, Casino, Rex Murphy, Halifax (Canada)

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Today’s letters: Wise words from Jean Chrétien worth framing

Re: You Want An ‘Attack Ad’? I’ll Show You One , Rex Murphy, April 20. Is there any way some teachers could frame the quote from Jean Chrétien continued in this column, and hang it on their bulletin boards or put it on You Tube? The quote I am referring ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Justin Trudeau, David Frum, Andrew Coyne, Jean Chretien

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

Rex Murphy: The Conservative ‘attack’ ads against Justin Trudeau are anything but

The most vicious political advertisement I can recall, the only one really deserving of being called an attack ad, the Conservatives launched against Jean Chrétien during Kim Campbell’s brief and hapless campaign 20 years ago. The ad was sour and mean. ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Justin Trudeau, Jean Chretien, Rex Murphy

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

Elizabeth May: Greens do politics differently (But not in the way that Rex Murphy thinks)

In his Saturday National Post column , Rex Murphy claimed that Canada’s Green party has no goal other than to get me elected as an MP — and that this has been the case for “two or three general elections.” In fact, I have led the party into only two ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Rex Murphy, Elizabeth May, Democracy, Green Party of Canada (CA)

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Today’s letters: As Stephen Harper knows, only ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - 13 hours ago]
Rex Murphy: The hidden agenda, revealed [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 18 2013]
George Jonas: Sympathy for the terrorist [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 18 2013]
Today’s letters: Vince Li should be in jail, no... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 15 2013]
Paul Russell: Readers ‘abhorred’ by our lousy g... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 11 2013]
Rex Murphy: Remember Al Gore? At the Globe & Ma... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 11 2013]
Watching the Watchdog: Bill C-60 Does Canadians... [Published Huffington Post Canada - May 10 2013]
Today’s letters: How much will you give me for ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 07 2013]
Rex Murphy: The root causes of root causes [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 04 2013]
Premier Redford, Rex Murphy and Amanda Lindhout... [Published Canada NewsWire - May 02 2013]
Today’s letters: Poorly paid garment workers de... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 02 2013]
Won’t sell ‘Canada’s principled foreign policy’... [Published National Post - Top Stories - May 01 2013]
Today’s letters: Relax, there is no evidence of... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 30 2013]
Rex Murphy: What happens in Vegas should stay i... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 27 2013]
David Frum: It’s Trudeau who should be attackin... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 27 2013]
Robyn Urback: Trudeau ad is very nice — and ent... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 25 2013]
‘Canadians deserve better’: Justin Trudeau laun... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 24 2013]
Today’s letters: Wise words from Jean Chrétien ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 23 2013]
Full Pundit: Have we learned the right lessons ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 22 2013]
Justin Trudeau raised over $2-million in donati... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 21 2013]
Rex Murphy: The Conservative ‘attack’ ads again... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 20 2013]
Student group launches appeal after university ... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 17 2013]
Harper and Mulroney part of Canadian contingent... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 17 2013]
Britain’s Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, laid to... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 17 2013]
Today’s letters: For teens today, what does ‘mo... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 17 2013]
Mary Archer on Margaret Thatcher: She had the m... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 16 2013]
John Moore: Thatcher was tough enough to take i... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 16 2013]
Rex Murphy: British civility disappears in a fl... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 13 2013]
‘Who can fight motherhood?’: Charlottetown cons... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 11 2013]
Half of Canadians think Stephen Harper has a ‘h... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 07 2013]

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Today’s letters: As Stephen Harper knows, only ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - 13 hours ago] Re: Missed Chance For Harper To Make Right, John Ivison, May 22. Contrary to what John Ivison and the rest of the media might think, Stephen Harper does not need to say he is sorry to anyone. Saying you’re sorry in politics demonstrates that a leader ...
Rex Murphy: The hidden agenda, revealed [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 18 2013] It was what Sherlock Holmes would have called a four-pipe problem. Whenever faced with a real puzzler, Sherlock would take the pipe from the mantelpiece, stuff it with shag tobacco, furrow that mighty brow, and smoke his way, all night if need be, to ...
George Jonas: Sympathy for the terrorist [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 18 2013] A footnote to terror, whether successful (Boston) or apprehended (Toronto.) Why does it work? Wait a minute, someone might ask, who said it worked? Sadly, there’s little doubt that it does. In most historic examples terror brings about at least some, ...
Today’s letters: Vince Li should be in jail, no... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 15 2013] Re: Bus beheader Vince Li should be allowed to go to the beach : doctor, May 13. So Vince Li is about to be allowed out whereas his own mother says he is unpredictable? That is an understatement, of course, for someone who chopped off a man’s head ...
Paul Russell: Readers ‘abhorred’ by our lousy g... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 11 2013] We often get notes from readers about word usage. Here is a selection from letters that arrived just this week. The first claims that our columnists take too many liberties with the language. Rod Packwood wrote: “In [last] Saturday’s Post, I noticed ...