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Canadian political commentator (1947–2024)

Robert Rex Rafael Murphy^[1] (March 1947 – 9 May 2024) was a Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters.

He was the regular host of CBC Radio One's Cross Country Checkup, a nationwide call-in show, for 21 years before stepping down in September 2015. He wrote for the National Post and had a YouTube channel called RexTV.

Early life and education

Murphy was born in March 1947 in Carbonear, in the Dominion of Newfoundland.^[2] Like all British subjects born in Newfoundland prior to its union with Canada in 1949, Murphy became a natural-born Canadian citizen under the Newfoundland Terms of Union^[3] and an amendment to the Canadian Citizenship Act, passed in 1949.^[4] Murphy grew up in Placentia, 105 kilometres west of St.

John's, and is the second of five children of Harry and Marie Murphy. He graduated from Memorial University of Newfo