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Category: History

Essays on historical events by Wayne K. Spear

  • History

Kerry channels shame of Munich in bid for strike against Syria

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 8, 2013January 5, 2015

ONE DECADE AGO, the French distaste for war against Saddam Hussein inspired Freedom Fries, the…

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  • History

Richard Nixon’s failed attempt to bankrupt the American political system

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 21, 2013January 17, 2019

  I‘LL FOREVER BE SURPRISED by current day apologists of Richard Nixon, who are able…

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  • History

Jackie Robinson and the Business of Black Baseball

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 10, 2013January 5, 2015

IMAGINE IT, if you can. The date is November 1945, and you are about to…

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  • History

Joseph Ratzinger Should Be Remembered for His Crimes

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 11, 2013July 18, 2019

J AMIE DOWARD’S April 24, 2005 Guardian column, “The Pope, the letter and the child…

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  • History

The story of Richard III proves history is written by the victors

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 6, 2013January 5, 2015

MOST OF WHAT is today recorded of Richard of Gloucester was first compiled under the…

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  • History

The McLaughlin Buick, a King, and the Great American Novel

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 25, 2013January 5, 2020

Enniskillen blacksmith Robert McLaughlin entered the manufacturing industry in 1876. Eventually he would co-found “General Motors of Canada Limited and McLaughlin,” later known simply as General Motors.

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  • History

A Two-State Solution Without Statesmen

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 4, 2012January 5, 2015

FORMER US PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter, in a New York Times editorial “Two-State Solution on the…

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  • History

Looking Back at the Mau Mau Uprising

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

THE KENYA MAU MAU uprising, whose 60th anniversary arrives on October 7, has a legacy…

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  • History

A Clothing Store, Hitler, Gandhi and Indian Independence

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 4, 2012January 5, 2015

ALMOST PRECISELY seventy years ago, in March of 1942, Winston Churchill dispatched his Marxist-leaning cabinet…

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  • Canada

Ripples from the War of 1812 are still being felt

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 11, 2012January 5, 2015

IN RECENT MONTHS, there has been debate over the federal government’s decision to spend a…

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  • Canada

How J.S. Woodsworth opposed the war and saved capitalism

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 29, 2012January 5, 2015

ONE MIGHT HAVE anticipated, with all the recent talk of conscience rights, that J.S. Woodsworth…

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  • Canada

The great achievement of the Charter

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on April 16, 2012January 5, 2015

I neither have a horse in, nor would desire to enter one into, the race…

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  • Current Events

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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  • History

Were the Nazis atheists?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on February 9, 2012January 6, 2015

Y OU DOUBTLESS have come upon the Associated Press headline of a Julie Watson article informing…

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  • History

Looking Back at Pearl Harbour

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on December 7, 2011January 6, 2015

THE DECEMBER 7, 1941 Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbour swiftly entered the realm of national…

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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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Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and finalist of the 2015 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

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