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Category: Current Events

Essays on topical issues in the news, from around the world, by Wayne K. Spear

  • Current Events

The Next Four Years of Donald J. Trump

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 2, 2020April 3, 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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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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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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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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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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The Arc of The Deal

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 18, 2019January 2, 2020

Trump is no good for democracy and America but American voters (on a diet of reality television) aren’t much good for these either.

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Populism and the Elites

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 13, 2018January 2, 2020

Under Doug Ford, Ontario politics will likely be organized around an enemies list of cultural foes and special interests. We’ve been there before.

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The Free Speech Debate Isn’t Really a Debate

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 8, 2018March 9, 2018

And it’s not just about free speech, either ✎  Wayne K. Spear | March 8,…

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God Save America From Oprah Winfrey

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 1, 2018March 1, 2018

America has had its magical thinking celebrity billionaires-funded President. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time for something different.

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Racism, sexism, and indifference

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 22, 2018February 23, 2018

From Helen Betty Osborne to Tina Fontaine, Canada has been a deadly place for Indigenous…

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We Need a Hunter S. Thompson

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 20, 2018February 20, 2018

Because the bastards are winning, and we must never make peace with it. ✎  Wayne…

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The Prime Minister’s Indigenous Rights Framework Changes Nothing

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 15, 2018February 15, 2018

Indigenous people have had to fight for recognition of every right we have. And we…

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We’re in no mood for explaining ourselves to Canada

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 11, 2018January 5, 2020

We don’t need, and we don’t want, a devil’s advocate to set us right about…

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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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