As he battled cancer, Murphy continued to file, writing about Hamas and Christmas and interviewing Pierre Poilievre with his usual panache

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    3 months ago

    If you’re not from Canada and you see this, understand that the National Post is a right-wing paper that Rex had written for.

    Rex loved the fossil fuel corporations and used “woke” as an insult. A lot of Canadians are not going to miss him.

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        From his Wikipedia:

        "Murphy won a Progressive Conservative nomination in 1975. However, he abandoned it due to lack of funds. Instead, Murphy went to work as special assistant to PC leader and Premier Frank Moores.[4]

        He then switched parties in the 1980s and served two years as chief researcher for the provincial Liberal caucus before running for provincial office twice, as a Liberal."

        Sucks to suck.

        “Murphy argued that climate change is “a sub-branch of climate politics”. He criticized former American Vice President Al Gore’s opposition to the Alberta oil sands and in a 2013 column, called the industry “a dazzling and profitable engineering endeavor of which all Canadians should be proud”.”

        Rex can absolutely get fucked, what a sellout shitbag.

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            I work in oil and gas and I understand that it’s detrimental to the future of our children and grand children. I don’t hate oil specifically, I hate pollution and industries that purposefully drive humanity to the brink of extinction for profit.

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              Oil is literally the biggest polluter on the planet, you basically just said “I don’t hate murders specifically, I hate killings and people that purposefully kill others”

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                And I would work in solar or wind if my province wasn’t actively in the pocket of energy companies and purposefully dissuading renewable projects.