The National: Rex Murphy Audio Podcast: Recent Episodes
The National - Rex Murphy
Rex Murphy gives the Liberals high marks for making a fast fix on a scandal... but a "F" for making the gaffe in the first place.
In this Point of View, Rex Murphy wonders why "American leadership has shrunk to two black holes of ego and incompetence."
Point of View: Rex Murphy shares his take on the deadly attack on an Orlando nightclub.
Veterans Affairs has rejected a 94-year-old war hero's request for care. Rex shares his point of view on the situation.
"There is a lot of misery in Fort McMurray and Alberta today," says Rex. "But there is a great counterweight too, the consideration of Canadians for each other in times of challenge is our greatest bond."
Rex Murphy says Albertans define the meaning of true neighbour: When people are hurting, all are welcome
'Public sentiment should never drive criminal cases' — Rex Murphy's Point of View on Mike Duffy's acquittal
Point of view: Rex shares his thoughts on what effect the Leap Manifesto has had on the NDP.
Point of View: "Did defence counsel Marie Henein 'owe' women anything in the Ghomeshi case? No. Not a thing." says Rex.
Point of View: "Mr. Ford was one of the most remarkable ordinary people Toronto has ever produced."
Point of View: "Statements made in a campaign, by any politician, should come with a health warning."
Point of View: Rex shares his thoughts on the war of words between Donald Trump and the Pope.
Rex thinks that the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders proves that Americans are really fed up with things as they are.
Point of View: When it comes to pipeline politics, "Mr. Trudeau wishes to hover as a disinterested referee. A referee is by definition NOT a player," says Rex.
Point of View: Rex is in awe of how Justin Trudeau's Liberals stand to gain credit if they break key pledges of the platform they ran and won on.
Point of View: Rex Murphy takes a look at Donald Trump and the role reality TV has played
Point of View: "This should be not an election issue, but the election issue," says Rex.
Point of View: How good manners could have helped the FHRITP heckler and Elizabeth May.
Point of View: "In the context of the Senate – where is Character and where is Conscience?" Rex asks.
Point of View: "The only way what's going on in Ottawa can be called the "Trial of the Century", is that after only a week it's beginning to feel like a hundred years."
Point of view: Rex has a warning for Canada's senators, "Breakfast is fatal to your political health."
Point of View: Rex wonders why the politicians aren't talking about what he thinks really matters.
Point of View: Rex discusses Barack Obama's decision to veto a bill that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Point of View: Rex weighs in on MP Eve Adams' decision to leave the Conservative Party and join the Liberals.
Point of View: "Thanks to Mr.Vickers, our hero, the relationship to the country of Burke, Swift and Yeats is in a rare stratosphere."
Point of View: The world rallied for Paris following the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Why isn't it rallying against Boko Haram?
Rex Murphy says there is no need for panic. But public confidence "is being undermined by blunders, sometimes by what looks like unfathomable carelessness."
Rex Murphy talks about today's bleak international headlines, which are happening around the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
Analysis: Rex Murphy says that rocker Neil Young has been "unfathomably irresponsible" in his criticism of Alberta's oilsands. Young made headlines this week for his comments on the environmental impact of the oilsands.