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Category: Current Events

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

  • Current Events

Colten Boushie’s Death Must Have a Purpose

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 30, 2018January 5, 2020

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.

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  • Current Events

The Debate About Indian Residential Schools Misses the Point

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 25, 2018January 24, 2018

The Indian residential school debate is and has always been about the right of one ethnic or cultural group to dominate and absorb another.

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  • Current Events

An Interview with Garnet Angeconeb

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 5, 2018January 22, 2020

Last Summer, Garnet Angeconeb met with Senator Lynn Beyak to reconcile. Now he says she should resign.

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  • Current Events

NatChief PB is Doing Very Good Great Things at the AFN

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 7, 2017December 6, 2017

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

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  • Current Events

Trump is Today But The Mess Will Stay

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 5, 2017November 2, 2020

It’s Time To Think About The Post-Trump Future ✎  Wayne K. Spear | December 4,…

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  • Current Events

Building a Foundation for the Sixties Scoop Survivors

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 30, 2017November 30, 2017

My personal thoughts on how it should be done ✎  Wayne K. Spear | November…

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  • Current Events

Martyrs and Millionaires

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 23, 2017December 20, 2017

Why I defend free speech rights ✎  Wayne K. Spear | November 23, 2017 • Current…

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  • Current Events

Gord Downie will not make things better

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 16, 2017November 16, 2017

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.

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  • Current Events

Jordan Peterson’s Battle for Western Civilization

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 14, 2017May 19, 2020

Here we are in a world of particle accelerators and nanorobotics, with our reptilian brains primed for a flight or a fight.

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  • Current Events

An honest telling of Canada’s story will make Canadians uncomfortable

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 9, 2017November 8, 2017

An honest telling of Canada’s story will make Canadians uncomfortable, but in the long-run Canada will be better for it.

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  • Current Events

The Reconciliation Scam

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 24, 2017October 30, 2017

A lot of people fell for the Trudeau pitch, but the shrink wrap has been off a while now and buyers’ remorse has set in.

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  • Current Events

There’s Plenty More Where Harvey Weinstein Came From

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 12, 2017October 13, 2017

Liberal Hollywood? Nothing is more conservative than an industry built by powerful old men to…

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Jagmeet Singh’s Charm Offensive

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 5, 2017January 2, 2020

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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  • Current Events

One Nation Under Theocrats

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 28, 2017September 29, 2017

In Trump’s America everything depends on the manner in which Republican factionalism is resolved. In…

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  • Current Events

Fake News, Real Money

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 26, 2017September 26, 2017

We have all heard the President say that the news is fake, and we have…

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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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