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Category: Current Events

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

  • Current Events

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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  • 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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  • 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
  • Current Events

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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  • Current Events

The President Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 3, 2020July 2, 2021

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

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  • Current Events

Mediocrity and Managed Decline

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 28, 2019July 2, 2021

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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  • Current Events

The AMC and Indigenous Media

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 19, 2019July 2, 2021

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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  • Current Events

The Rot At The Top

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 8, 2019July 2, 2021

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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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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