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The Next Four Years of Donald J. Trump

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

We should expect the man who has so much dominated the news for the past four years to continue doing so over the next four.

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  • Current Events

When it comes to racism, the RCMP may be bad-apple friendly

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 18, 2020June 20, 2020

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki has affirmed that the problems within the RCMP are bigger than “a single individual or the actions of one person.“ She’s right.

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Standing In for the Wet’suwet’en People

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 26, 2020June 20, 2020

As Robert Jago has written, “we don’t know how many chiefs are opposed to the pipeline, we don’t know for certain what percentage of people in the Wet’suwet’en country support or oppose the pipeline and we don’t know if the pipeline was approved by a referendum, a town hall or a simple vote in council.”

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  • Personal Essay

When Christie Blatchford Came Calling

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 15, 2020March 13, 2020

Christie Blatchford made it very clear to me that she was interested in law and order, and only in law and order. That was both her strength and her limitation.

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  • Obituary

Terry Jones, 1942–2020

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 22, 2020June 18, 2020

Those of us who delighted in the intelligent absurdity of Python will remember Terry Jones foremost as a Pepperpot, or perhaps as the bowler-topped City Gent.

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Neil Peart, 1952–2020

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 11, 2020February 15, 2020

Neil Peart yielded an army of air drummers, and at one time or another many of us were the Jason Segel character from Freaks and Geeks, playing along to Tom Sawyer in our parents’ basement.

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  • Current Events

The President Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 3, 2020January 22, 2020

Soleimani deserved what he got but this doesn’t redeem the clueless incompetence of the President.

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  • Podcasts

Podcast 102: Senator Yvonne Boyer

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 28, 2019January 2, 2020

Warning: this podcast discusses coerced sterilization of Indigenous women. Visit Senator Boyer’s website senatorboyer.ca for healing and counselling resources.

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  • Podcasts

Podcast 101: Journalist and Former APTN Executive Director of News Karyn Pugliese

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 21, 2019January 2, 2020

On this episode we discuss APTN, Indigenous media, and the 2019 election.

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  • Current Events

Mediocrity and Managed Decline

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 28, 2019March 2, 2020

All we can know as certain is that Prime Minister Johnson will persist at the throwing of dead cats on dining-room tables.

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The AMC and Indigenous Media

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 19, 2019March 2, 2020

For days now this matter has been covered by CBC, CTV News, Global News, and the Winnipeg Free Press. But it was the reporting of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network that triggered an unspoken community rule not to air the dirty laundry where outsiders can see it.

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  • Politics

The Weaponization of Anti-Racism

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 16, 2019March 2, 2020

Somewhere along the way the work of confronting the rot of racism took a turn. The understanding that racism is a universal toxin, mediated through social systems, gave way to a vigilance for the individual offender.

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Nancy Pelosi
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2020 Vision

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 12, 2019March 2, 2020

Nancy Pelosi has a long history of knowing when to play it safe and when to rock the boat. She’s among the smartest politicians out there, until she isn’t.

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  • Current Events

The Rot At The Top

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 8, 2019March 2, 2020

It’s not as if Epstein hasn’t all along believed in his own version of a Fifth Avenue shooting, that he can do what he wants in broad daylight and get away with it. So far he has, thanks to rich and powerful acquaintances.

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  • Politics

Doug Ford and the Communication Wizards

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 21, 2019January 2, 2020

From time to time a pig needs lipstick. Don’t expect the style or the substance of Mr Ford to change: this shuffle is about optics

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Wayne K. Spear has been a writer for over thirty years. His work has appeared in the National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He was a weekly CTV News panelist and currently hosts The Roundtable Podcast.

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Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and finalist of the 2015 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

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