So up until a few weeks ago I read Rex Murphy sporadically at best. Then the other week he published this questionable piece on climate change (in short: regionalism should trump action) which was neither inspired or thoughtful.
Wondering if the previous week had been an outlier I read him again this weekend and was even [...]
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Let’s Turn up the heat on Rex Murphy’s flawed logic
In his regular column the other week Rex Murphy published a piece entitled Don’t turn up the heat on the West, which also had the great sub title: By making Western provinces pay for adventures in global warming policy we will be playing with Confederation.
For a man that regularly rails against the lack of political [...]