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Category: Current Events

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

  • Current Events

Gord Downie will not make things better

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 16, 2017July 2, 2021

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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Heroes, Saviours, and Jordan Peterson

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 14, 2017July 2, 2021

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, 2017July 2, 2021

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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The Reconciliation Scam

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 24, 2017July 2, 2021

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, 2017July 2, 2021

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, 2017July 2, 2021

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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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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  • Current Events

Twelve things Millennials have amazingly never experienced

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 3, 2015January 3, 2020

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.

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  • Current Events

Terrorism vs. Mental Illness: I Say Bring on the Debates

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 1, 2014January 3, 2015

IN AN OCTOBER 30, Ottawa Citizen column (“Terrorism vs. Mental Illness: a Totally Bogus Debate”),…

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  • Current Events

Jian Ghomeshi and the Court of Public Opinion

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 30, 2014January 3, 2015

EARLIER IN THE week I’d only just walked into my apartment when I was asked…

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  • Current Events

Life After the Fords

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 28, 2014January 3, 2015

YES, IT’S TRUE that Rob Ford was elected to the Toronto municipal council in his…

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  • Current Events

The First Nations Financial Transparency Act and Business as Usual in Ottawa

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 5, 2014January 3, 2015

THE RON GIESBRECHT story is an everyone-saw-it-coming affair, and that’s among the reasons why the…

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  • Current Events

Why Would Anyone Want to Be the National Chief of the AFN?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on July 21, 2014January 7, 2015

THE ASSEMBLY of First Nations 35th Annual General Assembly, held last week in Halifax, was…

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  • Current Events

The Long Tsilhqot’in Journey to Aboriginal Title

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 28, 2014January 3, 2015

THE WEBSITE of the Xeni Gwet’in (pronounced Honey Gwi-deen) reads like a manifesto: In a…

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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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