Essays on topical issues in the news, from around the world, by Wayne K. Spear
Show a Millennial a 20-D printer that can make a functioning human liver out of silicone pellets, and they’ll say “That’s awesome”— which is what they say about a new craft beer or the latest Drake song. What does blow the minds of Millennials is when you tell them that you saw the Rolling Stones in the 1970s for five dollars.
IN AN OCTOBER 30, Ottawa Citizen column (“Terrorism vs. Mental Illness: a Totally Bogus Debate”),…
EARLIER IN THE week I’d only just walked into my apartment when I was asked…
YES, IT’S TRUE that Rob Ford was elected to the Toronto municipal council in his…
THE RON GIESBRECHT story is an everyone-saw-it-coming affair, and that’s among the reasons why the…
THE ASSEMBLY of First Nations 35th Annual General Assembly, held last week in Halifax, was…
THE WEBSITE of the Xeni Gwet’in (pronounced Honey Gwi-deen) reads like a manifesto: In a…
HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS commit themselves to the business of random mass killing? It’s a small…
I‘M GOING TO begin by admitting my heart’s not in this post. That’s because it’s…
THE PROPOSITION THAT human activities are drawing the Earth to its climate-derived apocalypse was already…
OIL: it’s an imposing and multi-faceted topic, into whose orbit come geopolitical intrigue, war and…
WHEN IN THE final days of his anti-climactic election campaign Vladimir Putin sought the blessing…
