ONE DECADE AGO, the French distaste for war against Saddam Hussein inspired Freedom Fries, the…
Category: History
Essays on historical events by Wayne K. Spear
I‘LL FOREVER BE SURPRISED by current day apologists of Richard Nixon, who are able…
IMAGINE IT, if you can. The date is November 1945, and you are about to…
JAMIE DOWARD’S April 24, 2005 Guardian column, “The Pope, the letter and the child sex…
MOST OF WHAT is today recorded of Richard of Gloucester was first compiled under the…
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.
FORMER US PRESIDENT Jimmy Carter, in a New York Times editorial “Two-State Solution on the…
THE KENYA MAU MAU uprising, whose 60th anniversary arrives on October 7, has a legacy…
ALMOST PRECISELY seventy years ago, in March of 1942, Winston Churchill dispatched his Marxist-leaning cabinet…
IN RECENT MONTHS, there has been debate over the federal government’s decision to spend a…
ONE MIGHT HAVE anticipated, with all the recent talk of conscience rights, that J.S. Woodsworth…
I neither have a horse in, nor would desire to enter one into, the race…
WHEN IN THE final days of his anti-climactic election campaign Vladimir Putin sought the blessing…
Y OU DOUBTLESS have come upon the Associated Press headline of a Julie Watson article informing…
THE DECEMBER 7, 1941 Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbour swiftly entered the realm of national…
WAYNE K. SPEAR 