Under Doug Ford, Ontario politics will likely be organized around an enemies list of cultural foes and special interests. We’ve been there before.
Category: Current Events
Essays on topical issues in the news, from around the world, by Wayne K. Spear
And it’s not just about free speech, either ✎ Wayne K. Spear | March 8,…
America has had its magical thinking celebrity billionaires-funded President. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time for something different.
From Helen Betty Osborne to Tina Fontaine, Canada has been a deadly place for Indigenous…
Because the bastards are winning, and we must never make peace with it. ✎ Wayne…
Indigenous people have had to fight for recognition of every right we have. And we…
We don’t need, and we don’t want, a devil’s advocate to set us right about…
The two solitudes of Saskatchewan, the reserve and the farm, remain as estranged as ever, and Indigenous people everywhere hold their breath in anticipation of a trial they don’t dare allow themselves to believe will be fair and impartial.
The Indian residential school debate is and has always been about the right of one ethnic or cultural group to dominate and absorb another.
Last Summer, Garnet Angeconeb met with Senator Lynn Beyak to reconcile. Now he says she should resign.
For the first time in Canada’s history, a federal government has a plan for Indigenous people that is going to be great for them
Everyone should understand that Trump has opened a Pandora’s box
My personal thoughts on how it should be done ✎ Wayne K. Spear | November…
Why I defend free speech rights ✎ Wayne K. Spear | November 23, 2017 • Current…
Is the Indian Affairs education system and philosophy right? Do the deaths of Indigenous children justify a change in the policy of this Department? As the years go on, it seems more and more likely that Duncan Campbell Scott spoke for Canada and Canadians.
