{"id":88945,"date":"2024-05-11T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88945"},"modified":"2024-05-10T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T21:13:49","slug":"rex-murphy-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/11\/rex-murphy-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex Murphy, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian political commentator Rex Murphy<\/a> has died at 77:<\/p>\n

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Tributes and remembrances from across the political spectrum have poured in for Rex Murphy, who died aged 77.<\/p>\n

Mark Critch, a fellow Newfoundlander who parodied Murphy on the CBC program This Hour Has 22 Minutes<\/em>, recalled that Murphy had worked with his father at VOCM radio in St. John’s, N.L. “You might not always agree with what he had to say but oh, could he say it”, Critch wrote on X, formerly Twitter<\/a>. “I hope he makes it home to Gooseberry Cove.”<\/p>\n

That theme \u2014 of not always agreeing with Murphy, but admiring his style \u2014 has been frequent in remembrances of his life.<\/p>\n

Bob Rae, a long-time Liberal member of Parliament, former premier of Ontario and now Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, wrote of meeting Murphy on television in 1978: “He stole the show”.<\/p>\n

“We disagreed about many things, but I never lost my affection and admiration for him,” Rae wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a video posted Thursday evening, which had been recorded for an award Murphy received prior to his death, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre praised Murphy’s “verbal ninja moves”.<\/p>\n

“You are a national treasure. You are a voice of reason. You are a champion of all things that are great in our country,” Poilievre said.<\/p>\n