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Category: Current Events

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We Simply Can’t Explain Mass Murderers

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on May 27, 2014January 3, 2015

HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS commit themselves to the business of random mass killing? It’s a small…

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Racism? How About Donald Sterling’s Moneyism

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 29, 2014January 3, 2015

I‘M GOING TO begin by admitting my heart’s not in this post. That’s because it’s…

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How the Cold War Became the Climate Warming War

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 7, 2014January 4, 2015

THE PROPOSITION THAT human activities are drawing the Earth to its climate-derived apocalypse was already…

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Ottawa’s policy vacuum undermines its oil sands rhetoric

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 6, 2012January 5, 2015

OIL: it’s an imposing and multi-faceted topic, into whose orbit come geopolitical intrigue, war and…

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Russia’s War with the West is Not Over

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 3, 2012March 3, 2020

WHEN IN THE final days of his anti-climactic election campaign Vladimir Putin sought the blessing…

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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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