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Murphy: Thou must not question Big Environment

The environmental movement has enjoyed smooth, mostly untroubled progress since its beginnings in the 1960s, when its activists romped around the northern sea floes off the coast of Labrador. The enviros migrated with almost the same punctuality as the seals: … Continue reading

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Murphy: Some criminals are more equal than others

Justice is not, as the maxim has it, blind. Not in Canada, at least. Lady Justice very definitely peeps out from under the blindfold when it comes to certain groups. Choices of when to enforce the law, and when not … Continue reading

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Murphy: Can Obama get his mojo back?

As 2011 makes it pivot into 2012, the United States is well into that strange, protracted and — to most outside the U.S. — arcane ritual, where it chooses its next leader. The Republican roadshow, so far, has had many … Continue reading

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Murphy: Removing Julian Assange’s halo (2)

We have not heard too much about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of late. This is quite a change from the volleys of support and praise that he received from various quarters when his website was regularly publishing classified diplomatic cables. … Continue reading

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Murphy: For Dalton McGuinty, it’s too easy, being a greenie

Earlier this week the National Post published a merciless editorial on Ontario’s energy policies under Premier Dalton McGuinty. The editorial came on the heels of an Auditor-General’s report described by the editorial board as one of the “most scathing indictments of government mismanagement we … Continue reading

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Murphy: Give us money or Santa gets it

Santa Claus and his company are no longer at the North Pole! There’s something of an all-points bulletin – or whatever is the polar equivalent – out on the famous Claus household. The whole batch of them, consisting of the … Continue reading

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Murphy: Capitalism’s spoiled children

The Occupy movement does not represent “the 99%,” as its defenders like to claim. They are not a cadre speaking up for the vast proportion of the population against the tyranny or greed of an imagined “1%.” Judging from the … Continue reading

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Murphy: The poet and the pity of war

It is but three years from a hundred since the start of the First World War – a conflict that even now staggers in the scale of its slaughter – millions dead – and the unspeakable  conditions under which it … Continue reading

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Murphy: Ontario gets four more years of Father-Knows-Best (1)

The Ontario Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties just put on quite possibly the most boring election campaign in the history of the genre. To follow it with any extended attention was to risk floating into some limbo of unmixed tedium … Continue reading

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