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Category: Canada

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

  • Canada

If it’s 1938 in Iran, what year is it in Ottawa?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 24, 2012January 5, 2015

AS THIS WEEK’S United Nations General Assembly advanced, faithful to the template, nothing could have…

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  • Canada

Ottawa’s Indian policies stick with tried and tested failure

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 8, 2012January 11, 2020

WHEN THE politician and aspiring poet Nicholas Flood Davin visited Captain Richard H. Pratt’s Carlisle…

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  • Canada

Brazeau’s latest outburst shines a harsh light on the Senate

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 27, 2012January 5, 2015

SENATOR PATRICK BRAZEAU was again in the news this week and, as is so often…

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  • Canada

One last chance to do the right thing on Omar Khadr

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 21, 2012January 5, 2015

The case of Omar Ahmed Khadr has long divided Canadians into two respective camps, Bring…

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  • Canada

Good fortune and Bob Rae weren’t always on the best of terms

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 13, 2012January 5, 2015

FEDERAL LIBERAL LEADER Bob Rae’s citation of William Shakespeare was an indirect invocation also of…

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  • Canada

Ripples from the War of 1812 are still being felt

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 11, 2012January 5, 2015

IN RECENT MONTHS, there has been debate over the federal government’s decision to spend a…

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  • Canada

Abortion, Augie and the March for Life

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 10, 2012January 5, 2015

SUBMITTING MYSELF TO the Ottawa weather, which today possessed all the charm of wet underpants,…

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  • Canada

Ottawa mixes platitudes with parsimony for Canada’s veterans

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 4, 2012January 5, 2015

AT FIRST GLANCE the federal government’s proposed changes to the Department of National Defence’s soldier…

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  • Canada

How J.S. Woodsworth opposed the war and saved capitalism

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 29, 2012January 5, 2015

ONE MIGHT HAVE anticipated, with all the recent talk of conscience rights, that J.S. Woodsworth…

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  • Canada

What difference does it make what Michael Ignatieff says?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 25, 2012January 5, 2015

In his essay “Notes on Nationalism,” George Orwell observed that “if one harbours anywhere in…

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  • Canada

Belhassen Trabelsi — a criminal, not a refugee

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 23, 2012January 5, 2015

THE RIVALRY BETWEEN Alberta’s Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties at several points alluded to another…

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  • Canada

Wildrose adds to politics’ rich history of gaffedom

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 19, 2012January 5, 2015

The Alberta race, within view of the ribbon, is yielding the gaffes which invariably issue…

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  • Canada

The great achievement of the Charter

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 16, 2012January 5, 2015

I neither have a horse in, nor would desire to enter one into, the race…

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  • Canada

How gaudy baubles and military Keynesiasm gave birth to the F-35

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 6, 2012January 5, 2015

A STRAIGHT-SHOOTING bureaucrat will admit that procurement processes are often initiated with the final selection…

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  • Canada

If Mulcair can’t hold the NDP’s gains, the merger whispers will begin

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 25, 2012January 5, 2015

The rise of Thomas Mulcair brings Canada one step closer to a settling of its…

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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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