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Category: Canada

Posts about the politics, people and news events of Canada.

  • 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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  • Canada

Jagmeet Singh’s Charm Offensive

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 5, 2017July 2, 2021

Gone are the days when a political party might actually have something to fight for or about, such as proletariat revolution or tooth-and-claw capitalism. It’s three parties for the middle class, comrade. So who do you think has the nicest suit?

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  • Canada

Romeo Dallaire and the 80/20 Rule

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 29, 2014January 3, 2015

THE DATE WAS Thursday February 15, 2007, and I was on my way to a…

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  • Canada

Justin Trudeau: the unserious person’s unserious candidate

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 22, 2014January 3, 2015

THERE WERE ALREADY a lot of reasons I found Justin Trudeau untakeable when he recently…

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  • Canada

What Did the Prime Minister Really Know About Bruce Carson’s Past?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 13, 2014January 3, 2015

MEET BRUCE CARSON, as early as the 1970s a compulsive thief and fraudster and, in…

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  • Canada

Another Way of Looking at Minister Flaherty

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 17, 2014January 4, 2015

THE CURRENCY of the word outpouring was notable this week: over at the National Post,…

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  • Canada

Notes Toward a Candid Conversation About Genocide in Canada

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 27, 2014May 29, 2015

AS THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION Commission of Canada hosts its national event this week, in…

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  • Canada

The Sixties Scoop

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 26, 2014January 4, 2015

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS reported this week that Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson will host…

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  • Canada

Julian Fantino’s blundering career is past its best before date

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 29, 2014January 5, 2015

IT CAN BE no mere coincidence that Julian Fantino’s 2007 hardboiled memoir, Duty: The Life…

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  • Canada

Chuck Strahl, Stephen Harper and the Oily Politics of Contempt

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 6, 2014January 4, 2015

FOR FAR LONGER than it was defensible to do so, the rabble and occupy elements…

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  • Canada

Stephen Harper’s Throne Speech: just a little like Jell-O

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 16, 2013January 4, 2015

ROUGHLY THREE YEARS ago, on a visit to the office of then Senator Consiglio Di…

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  • Canada

The Demise of Chatter

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 18, 2013October 21, 2015

IT WAS separation from his wife which in 1974 brought the Welsh political columnist Alan…

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  • Canada

How Mike Duffy Huffed and Puffed and Blew the House Down

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 31, 2013January 12, 2015

Mike Duffy proved himself to be effective on the after-dinner speech-and-shakedown circuit, and in exchange…

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  • Canada

How Thought Crime Came to Canada

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 1, 2013January 5, 2015

WITH THOMAS FLANAGAN and William Whatcott so heavily in the news, section 2(b) of the…

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  • Canada

Stephen Harper has good reason to be skeptical of the United Nations

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 1, 2012January 5, 2015

RISING BY NECESSITY from the ash of its discredited predecessor, the United Nations on the…

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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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