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2006
A foolish exchange elevated to a point of privilege Oct. 25, 2006
Lecture us no more, Mr. Bono. Oct. 17, 2006
Loyalty is a numbers game. Oct. 3, 2006
Modern flight is a miracle drained of every delight. Sept. 26, 2006
Conspiracy mongering is a vicious instrument Sept. 12, 2006
Why are we in Afghanistan? Sept. 7, 2006
Sparing a nation grief and sorrow June 7, 2006
A piddling $100,000 fine is not going to do it. June 1, 2006
We are at war May 23, 2006
Yoking wishfulness to vast expenditure May 16, 2006
A trifecta of chastisement, apology, and resignation May 11, 2006
The Harper steamroller May 5, 2006
No screen or separation of distance from the hardest facts Apr. 26, 2006
A general who is allergic to B.S. Apr. 20, 2006
Saving the art and practice of politics Apr. 12, 2006
Hanging people for what they believe Mar. 22, 2006
A question of honour. Mar.13, 2006
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Feb.27, 2006
A refusal to communicate Feb.22, 2006
Respect for Gretzky Feb. 15, 2006
What does a party label mean? Feb. 7, 2006
The Liberal B team Feb. 1, 2006
A classic Canadian scruple Jan. 25, 2006
Voting for the one because you can't stand the other Jan. 3, 2006
2005
The signature events of 2005 Dec. 29, 2005
A hot election in a cold month Dec. 22, 2005
Perhaps Kyoto is Japanese for hypocrisy Dec. 6, 2005
The price being paid for this charade Nov. 21, 2005
Election now or in April, it's no difference Nov. 21, 2005
Sell the Peace Tower to Wal-Mart? Nov. 2, 2005
The wheel turns and the other crowd gets in Oct. 27, 2005
Shouldn't he first get diplomatic immunity? Oct. 20, 2005
One great pool for their partisan whims and fancies Oct. 12, 2005
The sacred Charter cat is among the holy health care pigeons June 9, 2005
Hurly burly June 1, 2005
Belinda doesn't climb mountains May 26, 2005
A peacock among the vultures May 18, 2005
The Gomery Parliament has never been a real Parliament May 11, 2005
On politics and remembrance May 3, 2005
A great stew of opportunism and desperation April 28, 2005
Hold the writ and keep on truckin' April 18, 2005
A new life to Canada's national nightmare April 6, 2005
John Paul II:One of the very last truly great ones April 1, 2005
Michael Jackson, Prince Charles and Gomery March 29, 2005
Air India: a vast anguish-producing process March 23, 2005
A hard and bitter day March 4, 2005
The precision of a bowl of spaghetti caught by a hurricane Feb. 28, 2005
Rideau Hall is more subtle than Gary Bettman Feb. 17, 2005
A piece of vaudeville scorn Feb. 9, 2005
Church, state, and the same-sex debate Feb. 1, 2005
The bitterest message we can know Jan. 26, 2005
Flying once again Jan. 12, 2005
2004
Goodbye to 2004 Dec. 31, 2004
The worst things happen in the poorest places to people in the weakest circumstances Dec. 28, 2004
Canada has its view of the world and the Americans have theirs Dec. 1, 2004
Mr. Klein is frequently "misunderestimated" by his opponents Nov. 23, 2004
People who think George Bush is the stupid party ought to visit a mirror Nov. 17, 2004
It is not the veterans' problem that the Bloc is a political oxymoron Nov. 9, 2004
A house divided against itself cannot stand Nov. 3, 2004
Parliament Hill is up, but is it running? Oct.22, 2004
The Beatles had a better submarine Oct. 6, 2004
A two H country Sept. 21, 2004
The garbage equivalent of second-hand smoke Sept. 10, 2004
Crosbie has an appetite for the sport of politics of a 20-year-old. May 27, 2004
The wrath that comes from a million interrupted barbecues... May 17, 2004
Credibility at the cost of scandal May 11, 2004
Saints and dragons; Sheila Fraser and Don Cherry May 4, 2004
Time to make the choice Apr. 20, 2004
The most toxic political virus in the world Apr. 6, 2004
Rex Murphy's bottom line Mar. 23, 2004
An awkward innocence from a former finance minister Feb. 11, 2004
The best thing about Belinda Stronach Jan. 30, 2004
The downside of being wealthy Jan. 22, 2004
The standoff at Kanesatake Jan. 16, 2004
The gun registry: A billion dollar bag of perfect uselessness Jan. 7, 2004
2003
Miserable, brutal and grandiose leaders: The capture of Saddam Hussein Dec. 14, 2003
The rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship Dec. 3, 2003
The rights of all of us Nov. 25, 2003
Shawinigan 1, Crossharbour 0 Nov. 21, 2003
Hook, line and sinker Oct. 28, 2003
An alternative in the wings? Oct. 23, 2003
William Sampson Oct. 2, 2003
The Liberal succession Sept. 22, 2003
Jean Paul Martin Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada Sept. 16, 2003
Give Saudi Arabia the diplomatic boot Sept. 10, 2003
Harper's same–sex theory Sept. 5, 2003
Shakespeare or a fake? (video only): Part one; part two Sept. 3, 2003
The Tory leadership: Free trade or no? June 3, 2003
Not in the news: The Tory leadership race May 28, 2003
The Prime Minister's long good-bye May 19, 2003
Newfoundland calls to amend Constitution May 8, 2003
The East Coast fishery May 6, 2003
SARS Apr. 23, 2003
Jean Charest Apr. 16, 2003
The removal of a tyrant: George Bush got it right Apr. 10, 2003
Canada's wavering war stance Apr. 7, 2003
The real cost of war in Iraq Mar. 25, 2003
To war or not to war: Canada faces a morality test Mar. 11, 2003
Doughnut diplomacy in the Liberal leadership race Feb. 25, 2003
Air India plea bargain Feb. 11, 2003
We are a health care nation Feb. 4, 2003
Bush's state of the union address Jan. 29, 2003
The Liberal leadership race Jan. 15, 2003
Ice Hockey Jan. 10, 2003
2002 Review Jan. 1, 2003
2002
Ice Hockey Jan. 10, 2003
2002 Review Jan. 1, 2003
David Ahenakew Dec. 17, 2002
Merry Christmas Dec. 11, 2002
A Billion and Gun Control Dec. 4, 2002
The Romanow report Nov. 29, 2002
The Miss World Contest Nov. 25, 2002
Michel Jalbert Nov. 14, 2002
Procedural Revolt Nov. 6, 2002
Why people get fat Oct. 30, 2002
Why did we sign on to Kyoto? Oct. 22, 2002
Manley and the monarchy Oct. 7, 2002
Speech from the throne Sept. 30, 2002
Glenn Gould Sept. 27, 2002
A war with Iraq Sept. 18, 2002
Chrétien's Sept. 11 comments Sept. 13, 2002
Kyoto and Alberta Sept. 3, 2002
Jean Chrétien to step down in 2004 August 21, 2002
Pope John Paul II July 26, 2002
Newfoundland's cod fishery July 2, 2002
G-8 protesters June 26, 2002
Russell Mills and the Aspers June 18, 2002
Ms. Ji Wong Park June 11, 2002
Paul Martin – Leader of the Opposition June 3, 2002
The cabinet shuffle May 27, 2002
The new Opposition leader May 21, 2002
The federal byelections May 14, 2002
Support the Canadian Forces April 29, 2002
Canadian casualties and the United States April 22, 2002
Harper and Clark: The Opposition April 8, 2002
The Middle East April 3, 2002
The Queen Mother March 31, 2002
Sept. 11 – Six months later March 12, 2002
Don Cherry for Governor General February 21, 2002
Olympic figuring skating February 12, 2002
Herb Gray February 6, 2002
The loonie January 22, 2002
Brian Tobin's resignation January 15, 2002
Stockwell Day... the Rerun January 7, 2002
Happy new year? January 2, 2002
2001
Canadian Alliance Leadership December 4, 2001
The Need for a Federal Budget October 23, 2001
National Anxiety October 19, 2001
The Osama Tapes October 9, 2001
The Air Canada Bail Out October 2, 2001
Chrétien's Liberal fundraiser speech September 25, 2001
Bush @ Congress September 21, 2001
A Day for Mourning September 14, 2001
U.S. Under Attack September 11, 2001
UN Conference on Racism September 4, 2001
Mordecai Richler July 3, 2001
Timothy McVeigh's Execution June 13, 2001
MP Raises June 5, 2001
Manley vs The Monarchy May 21, 2001
Tom Wappel May 10, 2001
Stockwell Day's Plan May 2, 2001
Stockwell Day April 26, 2001
Rockem Sockem Summit April 16, 2001
Shawini-gate April 5, 2001
The Hedy Fry Files March 27, 2001
Farm Subsidies March 19, 2001
Ralph Klein March 15, 2001
Bernard Landry March 9, 2001
Stockwell Day February 21, 2001
Human Rights February 13, 2001
Throne Speech January 30, 2001
Cell phones January 19, 2001
Lucien Bouchard January 11, 2001
The Year 2000 January 1, 2001
2000
It's Christmas – Be cheerful December 22, 2000
Demand a recount December 13, 2000
We have a winner December 1, 2000
Quick Winners: election night ruins the suspense. November 30, 2000
Elections are or should be about nerve. October 26, 2000
Note this essay appears on our election site.
Mt. Tobin October 17, 2000
Saying farewell to Pierre Trudeau October 4, 2000
Pierre Trudeau: He has gone to his grace, and that leaves so much less of ours. Sept. 28, 2000
Election: The terms of the engagement are set Sept. 27, 2000
Avoidance of a policy at Burnt Church Sept. 19, 2000
Taking the gloss off the Karate Kid Sept. 12, 2000
Pierre Trudeau Sept. 8, 2000
Burnt Church Sept. 4, 2000
Politics: the same old play? July 13, 2000
Migrants:Poor pawns in limbo July 7, 2000
The Walkerton ceasefire June 26, 2000
How a new party came to seem so old June 23, 2000
The Little Sitcom on the Prairies June 8, 2000
Grizzly, loud, lewd and stupid June 2, 2000
D-minus for the Conservatives May 16, 2000
Just what is riding the Rock? May 11, 2000
Joe's woes May 4, 2000
School is not a rave April 27, 2000
Dot-com looniness, phantoms of avarice and appetite. April 17, 2000
Tampering with the Tree of Knowledge April 14, 2000
Who's Tory now? April 4, 2000
The Bernardo nightmare returns March 29, 2000
The trashiest spectacle on the planet March 24, 2000
Festivals of the overexcited brain March 7, 2000
Paul Martin and Oliver Twist March 2, 2000
Marty McSorley's Oprah moment February 25, 2000
Canada must be made safe from live-in nannies February 15, 2000
The Boondoggle: Who Wants To Be A Billionaire? February 9, 2000
Police-ocracy February 2, 2000
Reform: A bridge too far? January 27, 2000
Patronage on ice, icing on patronage January 19, 2000
Opposition auto destruct January 12, 2000
Waiting for a bug January 6, 2000
1999
Referendum.com, Clarity.com December 23, 1999
The Lion of Shawinigan December 10, 1999
Sleepless in Seattle December 1, 1999
The Province of Toronto November 24, 1999
Medicare Magna Carta November 17, 1999
How art thou fallen, Oh Microsoft November 8, 1999
Crop cycle versus the spin cycle November 2, 1999
Ceremonial Ventriloquism Oct. 14, 1999
Rex Murphy columns prior to October 14, 1999 no longer available. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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