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Pope Francis’s apology needs to come with accountability from the Catholic church

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 30, 2021November 3, 2021

When the Catholic entities commit to meaningful reparations and make genuine efforts that help to restore Indigenous land, cultures, languages, ceremonies and governance, the need for yet further apologies will end.

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  • Humor

A Land Acknowledgement, But About a Stolen Bike

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 16, 2021October 16, 2021

“Give me my fucking bike back,” he yelled. And I totally get it. That’s why I want us to be friends again, like we were before I stole his bike.

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  • Current Events

The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement allowed the Catholic Church to escape justice

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement failed residential school survivors, and it failed the many Catholics of goodwill who expected better of their spiritual leaders

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  • Current Events

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation will help ensure Canadians never forget the past

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 30, 2021September 30, 2021

The worst thing that could happen would be for the Canadian public to forget this…

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  • Current Events

Some Indigenous Athletes Who Soared

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 31, 2021November 3, 2021

Stories of Indigenous sporting success are more plentiful than Canadians likely realize.

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  • Current Events

A Governor General Worthy of the Post

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 7, 2021October 23, 2021

The new governor general will have her critics, but know that she is a serious and effective person.

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  • Canada

Controversy over Canada Day is nothing new

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 1, 2021October 6, 2021

There is nothing new under the sun — and certainly not disagreement over a holiday that already in the 1860s had its champions and detractors.

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  • Current Events

The Ryerson Method

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 9, 2021October 1, 2021

The details of Egerton Ryerson’s 1847 plan suggest that Industrial Schools were to be about manual labour and indoctrination, yet another Ryerson fusion of concerns both holy and profane.

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Kamloops Indian Residential School
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Time to Pay For The Missing Children and Unmarked Burials Mandate

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 2, 2021August 4, 2021

All Canada, and the churches who ran the schools, can do now is support the work of communities like Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc.

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  • Current Events

Profits in a Time of Pandemic

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 7, 2021August 4, 2021

The Ford government doesn’t care about your health, especially if protecting it cuts into their donors’ bottom line

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  • Current Events

The Next Four Years of Donald J. Trump

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 2, 2020July 2, 2021

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, 2020July 2, 2021

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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  • Current Events

Standing In for the Wet’suwet’en People

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 26, 2020July 2, 2021

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, 2020July 2, 2021

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, 2020July 2, 2021

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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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.

✍ wayne.k.spear@gmail.com

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Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, A National History — winner of the Golden Oak Award and finalist of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Rated 4.25/5 on Goodreads!

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