When I first came to Canada as an international student in 1998, I religiously watched the CBC’s 10 o’clock news on my grainy, third-hand television set. But it was the commentary segment afterward that I looked forward to, because it helped me make sense of my adopted country. It was called Point of View, and it was delivered by Rex Murphy—who died las…
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Rex Murphy, 1947–2024. (ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo)
So many of Canada’s commentators are cowards—but Rex Murphy was never afraid to call it as it is.
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