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Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

By Rex Murphy

By Rex Murphy

By Rex Murphy

By Rex Murphy

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Category: World Politics

Category: World Politics

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Sep 07, 2010 | ISBN 9780385667272

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Oct 06, 2009 | ISBN 9780307372482

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    About Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

    A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.

    Canada’s most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson’s greatness to Bono’s gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter belief in Don Cherry, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s outstanding oeuvre to — well, Pamela Anderson.

    The topics are as eclectic and wide ranging as the intelligence that put them together. The perspective is thoroughly Canadian, and so are many of the recurring topics and themes: of our domestic politics and our military involvements abroad, of our national identity, of human rights and human decency. You’ll find assessments of the reputations of Paul Martin, Conrad Black, Adrienne Clarkson, and Tim Hortons; tough but affectionate views of Newfoundland — of course — but also from Rex Murphy’s constant travels across Canada.

    But all the world is here, in all its glory and folly. The hard-hitting attacks on politicians, celebrities, those who would ban smoking, and anyone who uses the expression “global warming denial” will have you cheering or tearing your hair out, depending. You will be informed, infuriated perhaps, but always fascinated.

    About Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

    A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.

    Canada’s most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson’s greatness to Bono’s gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter belief in Don Cherry, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s outstanding oeuvre to — well, Pamela Anderson.

    The topics are as eclectic and wide ranging as the intelligence that put them together. The perspective is thoroughly Canadian, and so are many of the recurring topics and themes: of our domestic politics and our military involvements abroad, of our national identity, of human rights and human decency. You’ll find assessments of the reputations of Paul Martin, Conrad Black, Adrienne Clarkson, and Tim Hortons; tough but affectionate views of Newfoundland — of course — but also from Rex Murphy’s constant travels across Canada.

    But all the world is here, in all its glory and folly. The hard-hitting attacks on politicians, celebrities, those who would ban smoking, and anyone who uses the expression “global warming denial” will have you cheering or tearing your hair out, depending. You will be informed, infuriated perhaps, but always fascinated.

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    About Rex Murphy

    Rex Murphy, who needs no introduction, left his outpost home in Newfoundland to attend university at the age of fifteen. Since that time, which includes a spell at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he has been writing and talking. His… More about Rex Murphy

    About Rex Murphy

    Rex Murphy, who needs no introduction, left his outpost home in Newfoundland to attend university at the age of fifteen. Since that time, which includes a spell at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he has been writing and talking. His… More about Rex Murphy

    Product Details

    Category: World Politics

    Paperback | $19.50
    Published by Anchor Canada
    Sep 07, 2010 | 368 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780385667272

    Category: World Politics

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Doubleday Canada
    Oct 06, 2009 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780307372482

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    Praise

    “Wit, sarcasm, humour, verbal gymnastics . . . are here, together with some surprising post-scripts added with the benefit of hindsight. . . . Murphy begs — eloquently, of course — to be read.”
    — The London Free Press

    Author Essay

    So, it is good to hear that Keith Richards is still falling out of trees. He may be the only one in the whole parade of what we deliriously call rock icons who still keeps some honest sense of abandon — which is the heart of music, rock and roll or otherwise — and who doesn’t worship his own battered image. The rest of them are plutocrats and poseurs. But Keith Richards is in a palm tree all by himself (or, as the case may be, just beneath one).

    Ah, Keith! the only real god in the whole vanity-sodden pantheon. Up another tree, Keith, smoke another cigarette, and fall as often as you damn well please. A hundred Madonnas doesn’t add up to one-tenth of a Keith Richards.

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction: Inclusive Me Out

    EMINENT CANADIANS
    Don Cherry: The People’s GG
    A Boswell’s Life
    Michaëlle Shines by Default
    The Complete Soldier

    CELEBRITY
    Let Us Excori8 Live 8
    A Saint Sorely Taxed
    Ego Warriors
    There’s Something About Cassandra

    CARTOON CRISIS
    Under the Cover of Faith
    The Case of Salman Rushdie Is Fresh Again
    Coming to a Human Rights Commission Near You

    OBAMA RISING
    Power of Speech
    Only Words
    Canada Could Learn from Obama
    She Came to Praise Him
    A Dream Divided
    He’s Not God, But He Is America
    Barackwatch
    A Clichéd Dud

    BAD ENGLISH
    Nothing Is Sacred
    Silly Bitching

    THE EVIL THAT MEN DO
    Saudi Hospitality
    Because They Were Jews
    Castro’s Useful Idiots
    Eichmann in Tehran
    A Ferocious Parable

    LITERATURE
    Image of a Poet
    Pamela Anderson’s Outstanding Oeuvre
    Sanity Takes a Holiday
    Climb Every Mount Doom
    This Is the Life
    Doggerel of War

    WAR ON TERROR
    They Kill Because They Can
    Fanatical Minds Defy Logic
    What We Are Fighting For
    The Real Truth

    GREAT AND GOOD
    Power Based on Faith, Not Arms
    Solzhenitsyn’s Stature
    Out of His Tree

    THE PLEASURES OF SMOKING
    Money to Burn
    A Joint Is a Smoke
    Great News out of Vancouver

    REPUTATIONS
    The Bush Paradox
    From Brian’s Lips to Peter’s Microphone
    Adrienne Clarkson Presents
    Paul Martin Fights On

    ART
    Eros by Any Other Name
    Mediocrity and Mischief

    THE ENVIRONMENT
    A Caring Heart
    Al Gore, Recycled
    Cars Are Smokers, Too
    Numbers Game
    Despicable Mask for a Weak Argument
    The New Inquisition

    CANADIAN IDENTITY
    Without Hockey
    One Nation
    I’m with the Brand
    Hands Off Hortons

    SCANDAL
    Completely Foxed
    Bernier’s Girlfriend

    CANADA AND THE U.S.
    How We Flagged the American Bull
    Home Truths for Both Countries
    Our Camp Coffee

    HUMAN RIGHTS
    Saudi Justice
    Flagrantly Islamophobic
    Real Rights and Rights Commissions
    A Blot on Democracy

    CATASTROPHE
    Spirit Behind the Giving
    On Our Blindness to Disaster
    The Bleakest Day

    NEWFOUNDLAND
    Last Dice Game
    Victims of Stereotyping
    The Peace of Twillingate
    Meteorological Madness
    One Voice that Counts
    The Elusive Flavour of Our Politics
    Danny Williams Has Gone Too Far

    FAITH
    Play Mystic for Me
    Tolerance Must Flow Two Ways
    The James Cameron Code

    THE PATH TO POWER
    Dion Buried Alive
    Coalition for a Day
    Grit Miracle
    Coalition of Unintended Consequences
    It Might Have Been

    Acknowledgements

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